UKers picket mfgr. of torture items for Gitmo

[donsu]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1565811,00.html

UK firm picketed over Guantánamo 'torture' shackles

Handcuffs bearing the words 'Made in England' used to restrain Britons at Camp X-Ray prompt protest by human rights activists


In the late 18th century the company made "Nigger collars" for restraining slaves in America. Today, it makes the shackles that hold the inmates of Guantánamo Bay.

Yesterday, the Birmingham handcuff and baton manufacturer Hiatt & Company was picketed by human rights activists wearing orange jumpsuits in protest at its continued export to the US of handcuffs and other products used to hold prisoners at Camp X-Ray on the US naval base at Guantánamo, Cuba.

In a letter published today in the Guardian, local Birmingham MPs Clare Short and Lynne Jones, and a former Guantánamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, explain that they are asking Hiatt to "commit to voluntarily and permanently all further exports to the US military, and hence to Guantánamo Bay, given the notorious abuses practised there".

Yesterday, Hiatt refused to take calls from the Guardian.
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criminals are a tight bunch - see how they keep the money in the family: nigger collars to terrorist shackles

the shackles cause bleeding

more power to the UKers

why aren't we picketing?

[Catrina]

1. Evil war profiteers know no bounds

pun not intended ~ good for them, and yes, why are we not protesting companies that trade in human torture? Good for them for bringing this to public attention. It's hard to maintain the state of outrage that is justified by these criminals ~ but we must!

[NVMojo]

2. good point, we should have thought of it first!

but we didn't so let's find a way to back them up