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Space Hijackers Arms Dealers

Bristly Pioneer | 06.09.2007 19:45 | DSEi 2007 | Anti-militarism | London

Information from today's Space Hijackers press conference

Artists Anonymous & Space Hijackers
Artists Anonymous & Space Hijackers


The Space Hijackers Arms Dealing at DSEi Arms Fair

Press Release

Every two years DSEi (Defence Systems & Equipment International), the worlds largest Arms fair, happens at the ExCeL centre in east London. Selling everything from up close torture weapons to long distance civilian maiming bombs, the fair offers a wide range of choice to the 20,000 delegates traveling to the fair from an assortment of corrupt regimes and often from countries at war with each other!

Previously the Space Hijackers have attempted to disrupt the fair, disguising themselves as arms dealers, boarding trains to the fair with the dealers and then attempting to sell them prosthetic limbs (arms!) and later sex toys (we figured they were a bit too obsessed with phallic objects and were perhaps compensating for a lack of weapons capabilities elsewhere).

On all previous occasions we have been escorted out of the area by the £4million worth of police who are called in to protect the delicate souls selling the weapons in the fair. This year we have decided to learn from the arms dealers themselves and take a leaf out of their book.

After several months of fundraising and receiving investment from Artists Anonymous, The Space Hijackers are now proud owners of a Saracen Mk1 tank, which we intend to drive to the arms fair, right into the mix of protesters and police. As the protesters line up against the heavily armed police, we intend to roll up and auction our tank to the highest bidder. If this so happens to be an angry teenager in a balaclava, then so be it. We don’t see how destruction caused with our tank can possibly be our responsibility.

Several people have got in touch with us claiming that this kind of behavior is slightly reckless “what if someone drives over a police car in your tank?” Our response is simple: we are simply looking to make a profit, it’s just business transaction. As with the arms dealers and their weapons, once the goods are out of our hands, how can we be held accountable for how they are used?

So ladies and gentlemen, roll up to the arms fair this September 11th and join in the bidding. We will have a promotions team on hand to make the event memorable, dancing girls and boys, music and of course a 10 tonne armored vehicle ready to be driven away!

For more information please visit:

 http://www.spacehijackers.org
 http://www.dsei.org

Bristly Pioneer
- Homepage: http://www.spacehijackers.org/tank

Comments

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oiyoi

07.09.2007 12:11

What about selling weapons to democratically elected governments to protect human rights? This arms fair protest all seems to stem from a very narrow minded view point.

oiyoi


yes what about the good weapons

07.09.2007 14:18

Here at guns4good we only sell multi-million dollar packages of death weaponry to nice governments who haven't done anything naughty, ever, and who are guaranteed directly accountable to their grateful citizens by the "WHICH" democratic government report!!! For example governments worldwide who are threatened by small, backward, oil-rich states full of bearded types. Please not to be driving on us with narrow-minded think-tank!! We have evaluated every one of our potential military hardware investments against a number of "soft" alternative uses of the money such as investing it in healthcare, spending it all on football stickers and trading them with foreign children at huge economies of scale, or just stuffing Bono with it, and we can guarantee you that buying this shit is your best option for making the world a Better Place (tm).

cheers,
G4G

GUNS4GOOD
mail e-mail: troll@underneaththebridge.net
- Homepage: http://WWW.GUNSNOTBUTTER.COM


to oiyoi

07.09.2007 15:11


unless you were being sarcastic; REAL democratic etc govts don't NEED that sorta kit to uphold human rights!
spacehijackers - nice one. you appear to be getting a good eye for a gimmick!

jc


Middle class Arty wankers!

07.09.2007 17:34

Self promoting Arty wankers hijacking another situation (as with many demos before).
But hey this is London and that is the state of affairs!


Nevertheless lets try Shut DSEI by any means possible but please leave your CV's and ego's at home!

@narchist


who let the puritans in?

10.09.2007 12:10

It's fucked-up that any mention of art on indymedia has some conservative wanker throwing around accusation of middle-class exploitation.

It's really insulting to the intelligence of the working class that you prolier-than-thou losers think we want to be associated with your inability to understandl, much less create, art.

ACAB


Calm down, I'll call you A TAXI

10.09.2007 20:10

I was refering to the Spacehijacers continous use of demos for promoting their egotistical art installations and not insinuating the workingclass were artless!

@narchist


Lighten up you loser

12.09.2007 21:01

mr @narchist, why do you spend so much energy shouting at the space hijackers? if you dont like their tactics, you dont have to involved yourself with them!

You're going to give yourself a hernia. All this bitterness is bad for your health you know, Im worried about your blood pressure.
And why do you hate art? What did it ever do to you?
Art is wonderful, and good art shows the same level of rebellion, equality, participation, accessibility and FREE thinking as the best rebellion.

You should read the situationists.
Or just read anything!

Or are you scared of books as well as art?

just me


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