At 13:41 14/08/07 +0100, Janet Shapiro wrote (in small part):
>Lockheed Martin is one of the shortlisted contractors to provide data
>capture and storage services for the 2011 Census, ....
>......The petition - to be found at the url below - is worded as follows:
>"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to stop the involvement of
>arms company Lockheed Martin in the 2011 Census for England and Wales,
>Northern Ireland and Scotland, because this company's history of working in
>American military intelligence will undermine public confidence in the
>Census process."
Janet, are you in a position to share with us the identities of the other
shortlisted contractors, in order that we might attempt to judge their
relative merits/demerits, rather than pass judgment on one of them out of
that context?
Kind Regards,
John
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