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- nahsrocketeer75, on 04/19/2008, -1/+189Good for them.
- ArandiaT, on 04/19/2008, -10/+115Wow, there goes any illusion of China being a beneficial force in the world...
At least they've been delayed in this case - but it's no big secret that the Chinese have been supplying many brutal dictatorships with arms.
Comparatively, the US looks clean. At least the US don't support repressive governments like Saudi Arabia or arm fanatics like the Taliban... oh wait... - a6n28f, on 04/19/2008, -2/+67We're number 1! We're number 1!
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/ ... - TrevaLVF, on 04/19/2008, -1/+53So far, those dock workers have a lot more backbone and dedication to what they believe in (at least on this issue) than most people I personally know and encounter.
- soulkitchen, on 04/19/2008, -2/+49Way to go! Thats good khakis.
- ABadPerson, on 04/19/2008, -2/+37Lets just hope there wont be any reprisal against the South Africans.
This is like stopping a dogfight. - borez, on 04/19/2008, -9/+41How about a world wide boycott, the military industrial complex has been out of control for far too long now.
- BloodyHell, on 04/19/2008, -2/+34As a South African I am glad they refuse to unload the shipment, at least our people show more backbone than our government, who are too scared to be seen as “taking sides”.
As for the affordability of the weapons, it’s really quite simple. China has been providing a huge amount of aid to Zimbabwe in return for access to its mineral wealth. It would not surprise me if the weapons are a “gift” to the Zimbabwean government form China. - herecomes, on 04/19/2008, -3/+33There is the real reason why people are starving in Africa. We might as well be selling crack to school children. It would be just as moral.
- erik22h, on 04/19/2008, -0/+26Nicholas Cage is going to be pissed.
- louiebaur, on 04/19/2008, -8/+33Thats crazy just shipping guns around everywhere
- cambob76, on 04/19/2008, -5/+29See America? This is what true activism looks like. Stop the war already.
- soomprimal, on 04/19/2008, -1/+23The more subtle part of this story is the fact that a trade union is standing up for principle and refusing to partake in what could possibly be a mass purging by Mugabe. They deserve credit for this.
- logiktrip, on 04/19/2008, -1/+21And the dogs aren't dogs at all; they're people.
- Elderon, on 04/19/2008, -8/+27Good for those workers. So they managed to stall one shipment from the Chinese, how many of ours from the U.S got through? I'm sure we got our finger in that weapon pie somehow.
- Gabberwok, on 04/19/2008, -1/+19They have resisted the stains of the weapons trade...
- Saffa, on 04/19/2008, -1/+18Just to add to the next installment of the story - the court case to block the ship was successful, it's fled Durban
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,, ... - herecomes, on 04/19/2008, -3/+20Like stopping a dogfight where we sold weapons to both dogs.
- avengingturnip, on 04/19/2008, -3/+17What do comfortable, casual pants have to do with Chinese arms?
- carpespasm, on 04/19/2008, -4/+17Is that you Mr O'Reily?
- jmpeagle, on 04/19/2008, -0/+12they mine "coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores" which are sold in dollars and therefore usable as a means of purchase from a country that defines the value of its currency via a slowly moving peg to the dollar
- fkr3, on 04/19/2008, -0/+11Yeah.... except they've probably already been 'aquired' by someone and are listed on the arms-equivelent of eBay.
How is Zimbabwe able to afford any of this stuff with their economy in such a horrible mess? - epmc, on 04/19/2008, -0/+11How many developing countries buy fighter jets?
- natchiketa, on 04/19/2008, -0/+9yeah, pants aren't even supposed to go on your arms! what a waste of time.
- neozeed, on 04/19/2008, -2/+11Wow someone stood up to China! What a surprise! I wonder how this will pan out.... Invasion of .ZA anytime soon? by proxy, of course....
- ABadPerson, on 04/19/2008, -6/+15yeah like since the dawn of men.
- nospinhere, on 04/19/2008, -3/+11I thought they meant Docker's pants when I read the title. I was about to say good on them and go out and buy some slacks.
- Saffa, on 04/19/2008, -0/+7Yup I'm South African too and pretty proud of what they did, pretty ballsy really. I hate our governments approach to Zim, it gives the rest of the world the impression that your average South African is OK with the situation there, but we're not, nearly everyone is 100% anti Mugabe.
- rahamm, on 04/19/2008, -0/+6Harry Bridge's longshoremen did the same thing when America was still buddy buddy with Nazi Germany
- JasonCox, on 04/19/2008, -4/+10Excuse me, but if you can reroute those weapons to Cleveland, I'll take them off your hands for you.
- BloodyHell, on 04/19/2008, -3/+9Although I agree with you stating that smacksaw is naive, I can proudly say that they would lose their jobs, but sure as hell would not be beaten, tortured or killed. South Africa is NOT Zimbabwe or China or America. Here we still have habeas corpus.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5"South Africa is NOT Zimbabwe or China or America. Here we still have habeas corpus."
Ouch. I would argue if I could. - inactive, on 04/19/2008, -2/+7Then means don't buy Apple products.
- superkendall, on 04/19/2008, -0/+5Costco? No wonder the arms were so cheap. And that also explains the three million rounds - it was the smallest box they had.
- Observer001, on 04/19/2008, -1/+6Three million 7.62x39mm M43 rounds, eh? That's a lot of murdered partisans. I wonder if the AU will do anything. I wonder if they have the power to do anything.
- diggrim, on 04/19/2008, -2/+6Comparing arms sales by money is worthless. US arms always cost more. One F-16 costs $20million the F-22 is going to cost $140mil each: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22
- sleepingcitizen, on 04/19/2008, -3/+7im finding more and more digg readers are idiots. read the full article (not just the title ) before snapping judgement. wouldnt hurt to read more than one take on it as welll.... gasppp.
- ennTOXX, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4I agree with you alllllll the way. I am a longshoreman (dock union worker) here in the Los Angeles / Long Beach port and that's exactly what we would do. We were just talking about it at work last night. Sometimes it's up to the people to decide, I mean, WE THE PEOPLE is what this country was founded on... :||
- djm101, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4*****.
I don't care if it was a joke. - PurpleDingo, on 04/19/2008, -1/+5Good job on the South Africans' parts. Considering that Chinese machetes were the primary weapons in the Rwandan genocide, they may have just saved a bunch of people from who knows what.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -1/+5"You really think it will get better over there if we just left at this point?"
Is this still a question? OF COURSE IT WOULD BE BETTER!!!! Yes, taking a foreign army out of Iraq would be better than having a foreign army in Iraq. How in the hell does that even require a thought? It was wrong to put the US military there in the first place. It's still wrong every day the military stays. It will continue to be wrong until they are gone.
Do what's right and get OUR military out of THEIR nation. ***** duh. - aliengoods, on 04/19/2008, -0/+4Not to enrage the issue, but China is considered a developing country. And they buy fighter jets.
- snoox, on 04/19/2008, -1/+4i do think so actually
- renison, on 04/19/2008, -2/+5Yea, that's all the US needs, more guns.
- zephyr42, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3All the developing countries that have air strips and pilots in place for them...
- saikyan, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3In other news, the Chinese legs shipment made it without issue.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3The point is what? We should ignore the Iraqis' wishes and stay to "fix" the problems our military is causing?
It's wrong for the US military to be inside Iraq. Nothing else matters. The "best of the situation?" No amount of US troops killing more Iraqi civilians is going to make the illegal invasion right. You speak of "abandoning" the Iraqis as if they invited the US to invade. As if they wanted the US military to "free" them. That underlying assumption is simply wrong. No amount of time will make it right.
Arabs don't hate us because we haven't done enough to them. They hate us because of our assumption that we have the right to invade their countries in the first place. We don't. We have to get out of their lands. That is the only solution. - Professr, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3Well, it'd be a start?
- Dobby156, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3how do you think guns get to countries?
- kublerross, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3yes, lets destroy the environment while were at it
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