UK Hotel: No Soldiers Allowed

[Times Online] A wounded soldier home from Afghanistan on sick leave was forced to spend the night in his car after a hotel refused him a room.

Corporal Tomos Stringer was told by staff at Metro Hotel, in Woking, that it was company policy not to accept members of the armed forces as guests. The 24-year-old had travelled to the Surrey town to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action.

It was so late that Cpl Stringer, who had broken his wrist jumping off an Army truck as it was attacked, had no choice but to bed down in his tiny, two-door car, arm covered in plaster.

Make Canada A Haven For War Resisters

[Nanaimo Daily News, Letter To The Editor] It is now up to us to keep this issue on the radar. We need to write to our prime minister, to our MPs, and to the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration and urge them to create the legislation necessary to grant a permanent haven in Canada to all U.S. war resisters.

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Have A Misfire? Sue The Government

They didn’t give you an old rifle. They violated your human right to efficiently shoot somebody. Weird, we know, but sue anyway.

A couple of weeks ago, a British High Court judge concluded that sending soldiers into war with defective equipment could be a breach of their human rights. The ruling by Mr. Justice Collins, according to The Independent newspaper, could have significant impact on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and open the door to lawsuits by the families of soldiers killed.

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