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# 19-Jun-2002
# A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE: NOT IN OUR NAME
Let it not be said that people in the
United States did nothing when their government declared a war without
limit and instituted stark new measures of repression.
The signers of this statement call on the people of the U.S. to resist
the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since
September 11, 2001, and which pose grave dangers to the people of the
world.
We believe that peoples and nations have the right to determine their
own destiny, free from military coercion by great powers. We believe
that all persons detained or prosecuted by the United States government
should have the same rights of due process. We believe that questioning,
criticism, and dissent must be valued and protected. We understand that
such rights and values are always contested and must be fought for.
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# 19-Jun-2002
# The Higher Patriotism
The love of country is a splendid thing.
But why should love stop at the border? –Pablo Casals
For years during the Vietnam war, the critics of American foreign policy
in Southeast Asia were labeled as un-American: pro-Communist and
anti-patriotic. One of the leading critics of US policy at that time was
Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. Rejecting the "my country,
right or wrong" mentality, he said:
Criticism is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism–a higher form
of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar ritual of national
adulation. All of us have the responsibility to act upon the higher
patriotism, which is to love our country less for what it is than for
what we would like it to be.
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# 19-Jun-2002
# UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS: THE IMPOSTERS
We now have an anti-administration
together with an anti-cabinet. Please review the fruits and the
personnel of this ill suited cabal which has been structured in
opposition to the common good of the people of the United States.
Perhaps we can call it the ENRON Board of Directors. By their fruits you
will know them! Yes, some of these horrors began with previous
administrations. We agree with the National Catholic Reporter in its
editorial of 12/28/01
“The withdrawal from the ABM treaty and the decision to go forward with
building a missile defense shield is the biggest U.S. foreign policy
blunder since the Vietnam War.”
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# 19-Jun-2002
# California Peace Action Activates Grassroots Network to Oppose Bush's False Arms Control Treaty
BERKELEY & LOS ANGELES--California
Peace Action (CAPA), the state's largest disarmament organization, today
activated its grassroots membership network to pressure members of
Congress to oppose the increasingly unilateral foreign policy of the
Bush Administration.
CAPA sees this week's treaty signing as more of an exercise in public
relations than meaningful arms control, cynically designed to overshadow
the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty -- the landmark treaty that the Bush Administration will
unilaterally abandon next month. With activation of CAPA's statewide
network, thousands of members will be alerted to contact their
Congressional representatives and register their opposition to President
Bush's systematic dismantling of existing arms control agreements.
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# 18-Jun-2002
# Stand and Demand (a Thorough Investigation of 9-11!!!)
Why did Bush stay on vacation for three
more weeks last August after hearing of the possible hijacks of U.S.
planes by Osama bin Laden? Why was the Phoenix memo, which noticed the
requests for flying lessons by Middle Eastern men (who weren't
interested in knowing how to take off or land) not connected with the
hijacking threats received by Bush? Why did Bush not stop reading to
children in Florida (“The obscure goat story of 9-11”
http://ecclesia.org/lawgiver/911.asp) after he received news of one Twin
Tower’s demise? How did three more airplanes get hijacked and crash
into two more major U.S. monuments, after Bush was told of the first
crash into the World Trade Center? In short, what was this
administration doing, or not doing, to prevent the siege of America
known as S-11, from which the same administration has picked-up such
enormous political capital, and warded off the kinds of criticism it was
getting just before?
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