From: Tim Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) Save Social Security; Stop Star Wars! Date: 02 Sep 2001 20:52:06 -0700 Dear Abolition Caucus: Below is a letter I wrote to my local newspaper about missile defense and the raiding of Social Security. Please write similar letters to your newspapers and Congress people. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Government will have to raid $9 billion from the Social Security surplus to pay its bills this fiscal year. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration has requested $8.3 billion in fiscal year 2002 for its missile defense program, up $3 billion from this year, in spite of the following facts: I. Only two of the past five tests have been successful, and the tests have involved only one simple decoy, as opposed to the multiple decoys in a real life attack. Moreover, the Pentagon has rigged the tests by putting a Global Positioning beacon onboard the target missiles to guide the interceptors to them. II. It would cost over $100 billion over the next 20 years. III. The Russians and Chinese have repeatedly warned that The deployment of a U.S. missile defense system would prompt them to increase their nuclear arsenals, thus triggering a renewed nuclear arms race. Please contact Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; senator@boxer.senate.gov), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; senator@feinstein.senate.gov), and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-5716; doug.ose@mail.house.gov) to help save Social Security from further raids by canceling the $8.3 billion missile defense budget. For more information, please contact Bruce K. Gagnon, the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (PO Box 90083 Gainesville, FL. 32607; (352) 337-9274; http://www.space4peace.org globalnet@mindspring.com). Please also contact Sacramento-Yolo Peace Action (909 12th Street #118, Sacramento, CA 95814; 916-448-7157; sypeaceact@jps.net). - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Please sign on -- Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone Date: 04 Sep 2001 22:35:26 -0400 --=====================_4522567==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi. I'm writing to ask you please to sign yourself and/or your organization on to the following letter in support of U.S. House of Representatives bill HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act." Please see http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm for more information. If you support this concept, no matter where you're from, please hit the reply button and give us your endorsement. This could help a great deal. Last year we received endorsements from 43 organizations on a letter to the Senators. See http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm. Hopefully we will do as well or better with this year's effort to get the idea introduced into the Senate. We also need to get HR-2503 out of the U.S. House International Relations and Armed Services Committees, and onto the floor for discussion and vote. Your help is much needed. Thanks for a quick reply.... Ellen Thomas ------------ Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, for Sign-On ----------- September, 2001 Senator Paul Wellstone Fax: 202-224-8438 Secretary of Energy 717 Hart SOB Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Wellstone: We found it surprising when one of your aides said recently that he thinks introducing a Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act," is an "impractical" idea. See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm. Last year one of your aides said that you would probably support Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if Jesse Helms weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He said that you were concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but might be convinced that this bill was worth co-introducing with other Senators. Jesse Helms is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. If we can tell other Senators that you will co-introduce with them, this will help us get further support. To respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical": 187 countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish nuclear weapons, but haven't set a date. Our purpose here is to make it happen, to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW. Treaties aren't enforceable unless backed by national laws. National laws rarely happen without regional or local initiatives. We have proven that most people from every region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear disarmament. This is do-able. It requires visionary thinking, a touch of faith, and a large portion of hope. What else is America about? Let me explain how HR-2503 would work. It would be a statement to the world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament. It is a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons IF everyone else does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up the nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other war industries into something good for society. For example, instead of building missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and people could be paid to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells ... an entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform all our societies. No one need lose. HR-2503 is entirely a win-win idea. I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow Minnesotan, to discuss this. Sincerely, Ellen Thomas Executive Director PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE PO BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA 202-462-0757-- (voice) | 202-265-5389 -- (fax) prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail) | http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web) ___________________________________________________________ I agree with this letter: Name / Organization / City/State/Country / Email Address / Website ____________________________________________________________________________ _______ --=====================_4522567==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Hi.  I'm writing to ask you please to sign yourself and/or your organization on to the following letter in support of U.S. House of Representatives bill HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act."  Please see http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm for more information.

If you support this concept, no matter where you're from, please hit the reply button and give us your endorsement.  This could help a great deal.

Last year we received endorsements from 43 organizations on a letter to the Senators.  See http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm. Hopefully we will do as well or better with this year's effort to get the idea introduced into the Senate.  We also need to get HR-2503 out of the U.S. House International Relations and Armed Services Committees, and onto the floor for discussion and vote.  Your help is much needed.

Thanks for a quick reply....

Ellen Thomas

------------ Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, for Sign-On -----------

September, 2001

Senator Paul Wellstone                  Fax: 202-224-8438
Secretary of Energy 
717 Hart SOB            
Washington, D.C.  20510 

Dear Senator Wellstone:

We found it surprising when one of your aides said recently that he thinks introducing a Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act," is an "impractical" idea.   See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm.

Last year one of your aides said that you would probably support Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if Jesse Helms weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.  He said that you were concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but might be convinced that this bill was worth co-introducing with other Senators.  Jesse Helms is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.  If we can tell other Senators that you will co-introduce with them, this will help us get further support.

To respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical":  187 countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish nuclear weapons, but haven't set a date.  Our purpose here is to make it happen, to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW.  Treaties aren't enforceable unless backed by national laws.  National laws rarely happen without regional or local initiatives.  We have proven that most people from every region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear disarmament.  This is do-able.  It requires visionary thinking, a touch of faith, and a large portion of hope.  What else is America about?

Let me explain how HR-2503 would work.  It would be a statement to the world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament.  It is a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons IF everyone else does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up the nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other war industries into something good for society.  For example, instead of building missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and people could be paid to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells ... an entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform all our societies.  No one need lose.  HR-2503 is entirely a win-win idea. 

I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow Minnesotan, to discuss this.

Sincerely,

Ellen Thomas
Executive Director
PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE
PO BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA
202-462-0757-- (voice)  |  202-265-5389 -- (fax)
prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail)  |  http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web)
___________________________________________________________


I agree with this letter:

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 --=====================_4522567==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Harry Rogers" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Please sign on -- Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone Date: 05 Sep 2001 08:46:52 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C135E7.4EF3C2C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Harry Rogers Nuclear Issues Coordinator Carolina Peace Resource Center Columbia SC ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Ellen Thomas=20 To: NucNews=20 Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:35 PM Subject: (abolition-usa) Please sign on -- Letter to Senator Paul = Wellstone Hi. I'm writing to ask you please to sign yourself and/or your = organization on to the following letter in support of U.S. House of = Representatives bill HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic = Conversion Act." Please see http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm for more = information. If you support this concept, no matter where you're from, please hit = the reply button and give us your endorsement. This could help a great = deal. Last year we received endorsements from 43 organizations on a letter = to the Senators. See http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm. Hopefully we = will do as well or better with this year's effort to get the idea = introduced into the Senate. We also need to get HR-2503 out of the U.S. = House International Relations and Armed Services Committees, and onto = the floor for discussion and vote. Your help is much needed. Thanks for a quick reply.... Ellen Thomas ------------ Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, for = Sign-On ----------- September, 2001 Senator Paul Wellstone Fax: 202-224-8438 Secretary of Energy =20 717 Hart SOB =20 Washington, D.C. 20510=20 Dear Senator Wellstone: We found it surprising when one of your aides said recently that he = thinks introducing a Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament = and Economic Conversion Act," is an "impractical" idea. See = http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm.=20 Last year one of your aides said that you would probably support = Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if = Jesse Helms weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He = said that you were concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but = might be convinced that this bill was worth co-introducing with other = Senators. Jesse Helms is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations = Committee. If we can tell other Senators that you will co-introduce = with them, this will help us get further support. To respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical": = 187 countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish = nuclear weapons, but haven't set a date. Our purpose here is to make it = happen, to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW. Treaties aren't = enforceable unless backed by national laws. National laws rarely happen = without regional or local initiatives. We have proven that most people = from every region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear = disarmament. This is do-able. It requires visionary thinking, a touch = of faith, and a large portion of hope. What else is America about? Let me explain how HR-2503 would work. It would be a statement to the = world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament. It is = a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons IF everyone = else does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up the = nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other war industries = into something good for society. For example, instead of building = missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and people could be paid = to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells ... an = entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform all our = societies. No one need lose. HR-2503 is entirely a win-win idea. =20 I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow Minnesotan, to discuss = this. Sincerely, Ellen Thomas Executive Director PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE PO BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA 202-462-0757-- (voice) | 202-265-5389 -- (fax) prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail) | http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web) ___________________________________________________________ I agree with this letter: Name / Organization / City/State/Country / Email = Address / Website = _________________________________________________________________________= __________ ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C135E7.4EF3C2C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Harry Rogers
Nuclear Issues Coordinator
Carolina Peace Resource = Center
Columbia SC
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Ellen = Thomas
To: NucNews
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, = 2001 7:35=20 PM
Subject: (abolition-usa) Please = sign on=20 -- Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone

Hi.  I'm writing to ask you = please to=20 sign yourself and/or your organization on to the following letter in = support=20 of U.S. House of Representatives bill HR-2503, the "Nuclear = Disarmament and=20 Economic Conversion Act."  Please see http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm for more=20 information.

If you support this concept, no matter where = you're from,=20 please hit the reply button and give us your endorsement.  This = could=20 help a great deal.

Last year we received endorsements from 43=20 organizations on a letter to the Senators.  See http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm. Hopefully we = will do=20 as well or better with this year's effort to get the idea introduced = into the=20 Senate.  We also need to get HR-2503 out of the U.S. House = International=20 Relations and Armed Services Committees, and onto the floor for = discussion and=20 vote.  Your help is much needed.

Thanks for a quick=20 reply....

Ellen Thomas

------------ Letter to Senator = Paul=20 Wellstone of Minnesota, for Sign-On -----------

September,=20 2001

Senator Paul=20 = Wellstone       =          &nbs= p; Fax:=20 202-224-8438
Secretary of Energy 
717 Hart=20 SOB      =20      
Washington, = D.C. =20 20510 

Dear Senator Wellstone:

We = found it=20 surprising when one of your aides said recently that he thinks = introducing a=20 Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic = Conversion=20 Act," is an "impractical" idea.   See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm.

Last = year one=20 of your aides said that you would probably support Delegate Norton's = "Nuclear=20 Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if Jesse Helms weren't = Chairman of=20 the Foreign Relations Committee.  He said that you were concerned = about=20 veterans' issues, primarily, but might be convinced that this bill was = worth=20 co-introducing with other Senators.  Jesse Helms is no longer = Chairman of=20 the Foreign Relations Committee.  If we can tell other Senators = that you=20 will co-introduce with them, this will help us get further = support.

To=20 respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical":  = 187=20 countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish = nuclear=20 weapons, but haven't set a date.  Our purpose here is to make it = happen,=20 to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW.  Treaties aren't = enforceable=20 unless backed by national laws.  National laws rarely happen = without=20 regional or local initiatives.  We have proven that most people = from=20 every region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear=20 disarmament.  This is do-able.  It requires visionary = thinking, a=20 touch of faith, and a large portion of hope.  What else is = America=20 about?

Let me explain how HR-2503 would work.  It would be = a=20 statement to the world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear=20 disarmament.  It is a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its = nuclear=20 weapons IF everyone else does; and will use the money saved to shut = down and=20 clean up the nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other = war=20 industries into something good for society.  For example, instead = of=20 building missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and people = could be=20 paid to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells ... = an=20 entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform all = our=20 societies.  No one need lose.  HR-2503 is entirely a win-win = idea. 

I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow = Minnesotan,=20 to discuss this.

Sincerely,

Ellen Thomas
Executive=20 Director
PROPOSITION ONE = COMMITTEE
PO=20 BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA
202-462-0757-- (voice)  = | =20 202-265-5389 -- (fax)
prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail)  |  http://prop1.org --=20 = (World-Wide-Web)
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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Patricia Watson Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Please sign on -- Letter to Senator Paul Date: 05 Sep 2001 11:09:25 -0400 > Hi. I'm writing to ask you please to sign yourself and/or your >organization on to the following letter in support of U.S. House of >Representatives bill HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic >Conversion Act." Please see >http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm for >more information. > > If you support this concept, no matter where you're from, please hit the >reply button and give us your endorsement. This could help a great deal. > > Last year we received endorsements from 43 organizations on a letter to >the Senators. See >http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm. >Hopefully we will do as well or better with this year's effort to get the >idea introduced into the Senate. We also need to get HR-2503 out of the >U.S. House International Relations and Armed Services Committees, and onto >the floor for discussion and vote. Your help is much needed. > > Thanks for a quick reply.... > > Ellen Thomas > > ------------ Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, for Sign-On >----------- > > September, 2001 > > Senator Paul Wellstone Fax: 202-224-8438 > Secretary of Energy > 717 Hart SOB > Washington, D.C. 20510 > > Dear Senator Wellstone: > > We found it surprising when one of your aides said recently that he >thinks introducing a Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament >and Economic Conversion Act," is an "impractical" idea. See >http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm. > > Last year one of your aides said that you would probably support Delegate >Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if Jesse Helms >weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He said that you >were concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but might be convinced >that this bill was worth co-introducing with other Senators. Jesse Helms >is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. If we can tell >other Senators that you will co-introduce with them, this will help us get >further support. > > To respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical": 187 >countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish nuclear >weapons, but haven't set a date. Our purpose here is to make it happen, >to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW. Treaties aren't enforceable >unless backed by national laws. National laws rarely happen without >regional or local initiatives. We have proven that most people from every >region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear disarmament. >This is do-able. It requires visionary thinking, a touch of faith, and a >large portion of hope. What else is America about? > > Let me explain how HR-2503 would work. It would be a statement to the >world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament. It is a >promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons IF everyone else >does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up the nuclear >weapons industries, and to begin converting other war industries into >something good for society. For example, instead of building missiles and >bombs, factories could be retooled and people could be paid to >mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells ... an entirely >new, massively profitable industry which can transform all our societies. >No one need lose. HR-2503 is entirely a win-win idea. > > I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow Minnesotan, to discuss this. > > Sincerely, > > Ellen Thomas > Executive Director > PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE > PO BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA > 202-462-0757-- (voice) | 202-265-5389 -- (fax) > prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail) | http://prop1.org -- >(World-Wide-Web) > ___________________________________________________________ > > > I agree with this letter: > > Name; Patrcia Watson, editor, Peacework / Organization: American >Friends Service Committee / City/State/Country : Cambridge, MA >02140 / Email Address: / Website > > >________________________________________________________________________________ >___ > > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Rosalie Tyler Paul Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Please sign on -- Letter to Senator Paul Date: 05 Sep 2001 16:21:34 -0400 (EDT) > Harry Rogers Nuclear Issues Coordinator Carolina Peace Resource Center >Columbia SC > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Ellen Thomas To: NucNews >Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:35 PM Subject: (abolition-usa) >Please sign on -- Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone >Hi. I'm writing to ask you please to sign yourself and/or your >organization on to the following letter in support of U.S. House of >Representatives bill HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic >Conversion Act." Please see http://prop1.org/prop1/prop1.htm for more >information. > >If you support this concept, no matter where you're from, please hit >the reply button and give us your endorsement. This could help a great >deal. > >Last year we received endorsements from 43 organizations on a letter to >the Senators. See http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm. Hopefully we will do >as well or better with this year's effort to get the idea introduced into >the Senate. We also need to get HR-2503 out of the U.S. House >International Relations and Armed Services Committees, and onto the >floor for discussion and vote. Your help is much needed. > >Thanks for a quick reply.... > >Ellen Thomas > >------------ Letter to Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, for Sign-On >----------- > >September, 2001 > >Senator Paul Wellstone Fax: 202-224-8438 >Secretary of Energy >717 Hart SOB >Washington, D.C. 20510 > >Dear Senator Wellstone: > >We found it surprising when one of your aides said recently that he >thinks introducing a Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear >Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act," is an "impractical" idea. >See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm. > >Last year one of your aides said that you would probably support >Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if >Jesse Helms weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He >said that you were concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but >might be convinced that this bill was worth co-introducing with other >Senators. Jesse Helms is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations >Committee. If we can tell other Senators that you will co-introduce >with them, this will help us get further support. > >To respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical": 187 >countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish nuclear >weapons, but haven't set a date. Our purpose here is to make it happen, >to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW. Treaties aren't enforceable >unless backed by national laws. National laws rarely happen without >regional or local initiatives. We have proven that most people >from >every region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear >disarmament. This is do-able. It requires visionary thinking, a touch >of faith, and a large portion of hope. What else is America about? > >Let me explain how HR-2503 would work. It would be a statement to the >world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament. It is >a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons IF everyone >else does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up the >nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other war >industries into something good for society. For example, instead of >building missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and people could >be paid to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells >... an entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform >all our societies. No one need lose. HR-2503 is entirely a win-win >idea. > >I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow Minnesotan, to discuss this. > >Sincerely, > >Ellen Thomas >Executive Director >PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE >PO BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA >202-462-0757-- (voice) | 202-265-5389 -- (fax) >prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail) | http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web) >___________________________________________________________ > > >I agree with this letter: > >Name - Rosalie Tyler Paul, Chair Organization - Peace Action Maine City/State/Country Portland, ME, USA Email handinhand@clinic.net Address POBox 275, Georgetown, ME 04548 Website www.peaceactionme.org >_______________________________________________________________________________ >____ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Wash. Post: Democrats to Pare Missile Funds Date: 06 Sep 2001 09:54:44 -0400 DEMOCRATS TO PARE MISSILE FUNDS Panel's Planned $1.3 Billion Cut Opens Defense Budget Fight By Vernon Loeb and Dan Morgan Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, September 6, 2001; Page A05 Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee plan to cut $1.3 billion from the Bush administration's $8.3 billion request for ballistic missile defense this week as an opening shot in this fall's battle over defense spending, committee members and aides said yesterday. Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), the committee chairman, said a move to cut missile defense would come, possibly today, as the panel crafts the fiscal 2002 defense authorization bill. Levin said the administration's request for a 57 percent increase in missile defense funds is "unjustified" militarily and strategically, particularly since Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has yet to tell the panel whether any of the money would fund research activities that violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Levin revealed his plan as Congress began work in earnest on the budget for the coming fiscal year amid controversy over the dwindling surplus and whether Social Security and Medicare funds should be used for defense and other spending priorities despite pledges from leaders in both parties not to do so. Sen. John W. Warner (Va.), the committee's ranking Republican, said he had been informed the Democrats plan to cut funds from missile defense and add language to the bill limiting President Bush's ability to pursue research that would violate the ABM Treaty with the Russians. Warner said these moves would ensure a veto of the bill. Any successful effort by Senate Democrats to substantially reduce missile defense funding and restrict Bush's ability to modify or withdraw from the ABM Treaty would greatly complicate discussions the administration plans to hold with both the Russians and Chinese. With Bush scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in November at Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., administration officials have been trying to fashion a new "strategic framework" with Moscow to replace the ABM Treaty, which prohibits numerous elements of the administration's missile defense plan. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said the moves contemplated by the Democrats would send a signal to the Russians that "they effectively have a veto over what we do, which enormously reduces their incentive to come to an understanding with us." National security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other administration officials, meanwhile, are also preparing for extensive discussions on missile defense with the Chinese in preparation for the president's meeting with President Jiang Zemin in Beijing next month. Speaking in an interview, Levin said he favors transferring the money cut from missile defense funding to other military programs and authorizing the administration's full $328.9 billion defense request for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Full authorization of the administration's request, he added, would be contingent upon approval by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) or by a vote by 60 senators to waive the requirement of this year's budget resolution, which ruled out using surplus Medicare funds to pay for defense increases. Members of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee clashed yesterday over the administration's defense request, with committee Democrats divided over whether the Social Security surplus should be used to pay for defense and other increases. After listening to testimony from Rumsfeld and Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), the subcommittee's chairman, said he supports the administration's full spending request. He added he would, if necessary, recommend waiving the Senate budget resolution to dip into the Social Security trust fund. "Many of our colleagues are going to be reluctant to cut into Medicare and Social Security to pay for defense," he said. "Politically, they worry that the voters will penalize them for raiding Social Security. I, for one, believe it is essential that we provide the resources necessary for defense." But Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calf.), a subcommittee member, made it clear that she does not favor tapping Social Security and, echoing the position of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D), said Bush has an obligation to recommend cuts elsewhere in the budget to pay for the largest defense increase since the mid-1980s. "He has said he does not want it coming from Social Security, he does not want it coming from the Medicare trust fund," she said. "Ergo, it has to come from something else that's cut." Rumsfeld refused to speculate about what he might be willing to cut to pay for the defense request, saying that is an issue for Congress and the president to work out. "The 2002 budget includes critical funding for military quality of life," he said. "It includes funding for training and readiness, for maintenance and repair of our aging equipment, for modernization and transformational research and development. Mr. Chairman, we need every nickel of it." Across the Capitol, White House budget director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. assured members of the House Budget Committee that the existing budget "will allow the funding of our nation's priorities -- defense, education, debt reduction -- all consistent with the full protection of the Social Security surplus for debt reduction." But Democrats challenged Daniels to show how he could fund the president's request for additional defense funds in 2002 without using surplus payroll taxes from the account that pays Medicare benefits. Ranking Democrat John M. Spratt Jr. (S.C.), citing the Congressional Budget Office, said it would be necessary to tap the Medicare surplus through 2008 to pay for defense and other priorities, such as a new Medicare prescription drug benefit. "So [Republicans] have got to not just recant political rhetoric; they have got to violate the written letter of the budget resolution that the Congress had adopted just months ago," he said. Daniels said he understood that the budget committees would have to make an "active decision" on how to get around the problem. But he argued that the Social Security and Medicare trust funds were protected whether or not their surpluses were tapped. © 2001 The Washington Post Company - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Karl Grossman Subject: (abolition-usa) Star Wars Returns Press Conference Monday 2 P.M. Date: 09 Sep 2001 11:31:49 -0400 "STAR WARS RETURNS” PRESS CONFERENCE The latest U.S. moves to make space a new arena of war--the return of Star Wars--will be outlined at a press conference beginning at 2 p.m. Monday, September 10 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The press conference will feature Alice Slater, president of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power In Space and founder of Abolition 2000, and Karl Grossman, author of the just-published book “Weapons In Space” and writer and narrator of the television documentary “Star Wars Returns” which is now airing throughout the U.S. Slater will show how “missile defense is a misnomer,” that the U.S. space military program is a “provocative, aggressive program by the United States to weaponize space and dominate the world.” And she will explain how the program can be stopped. Grossman will distribute U.S. military and government documents acknowledging the U.S. plan is to “control space” and from there “dominate” the earth below, explain the roles of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, just-named chairman of the chiefs of staff and former U.S. Space Command commander-in-chief, detail connections between the Bush administration and aerospace corporations promoting Star Wars and explain how the plan violates the intent of the basic international law on space, the Outer Space Treaty. The “Star Wars Returns” press conference is sponsored by the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA). For further information, contact Sam Husseini at IPA @ 202-347-0020. *** - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) NDE's "Monday Night Series" begins Sept. 10th in Berkeley Date: 09 Sep 2001 12:46:34 +0100 "MONDAY NIGHT SERIES" STARTS SEPTEMBER 10th FEATURING INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS BY EXPERTS ON ALL ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR AND MISSILE DEFENSE/"STARWARS" ISSUES. Sponsored by Nevada Desert Experience. All are welcome to these free presentations followed by Q & A sessions and discussion. Come get answers to your burning questions on these issues! Refreshments will be provided. WHERE: Nevada Desert Experience's Berkeley office located in the Wesley Methodist Student Center, 2398 Bancroft Way (at Dana), directly across from the UC campus. WHEN: 6 - 9 pm. On alternate Mondays from Sept. 10 '01 through April 22 '02. September schedule: Sept. 10 - Patrice Sutton from Western States Legal Foundation. A medical researcher and long-time anti-nuclear activist, Patrice will speak on "Public Health & Nuclear Weapons" Sept. 17 - Cade Bursell - A prizewinning filmmaker and artist, she focuses on the inner journeys and experiences of cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment. October schedule: Oct. 1 - Maurice Campbell from Community First Coalition at Hunters Point. A brilliant community strategist, Maurice will speak on the amazing story now emerging from Hunters Point, the largely African American community in San Francisco that has suffered decades of radioactive and toxic contamination from the secret US lab at Hunters Point Naval Ship Yard (&other projects there). Oct. 22 - Ernest Goitein, retired engineer, authority on nuclear power and well-known anti-nuclear activist. His presentation on nuclear powerplants will answer all your questions about NPP and its risks to public health. Oct. 29 - Jackie Cabasso andAndy Lichterman from Western States Legal Foundation. Internationally recognized, they will present on the legal perspectives of nuclear weapons, including the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and a recent advisory opinion of the World Court. For the full schedule of presentations running through April 2002, please contact Sally Light, ExecutiveDirector of Nevada Desert Experience at (510) 527-2057. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Missile Defense: Next Steps in Congress Date: 10 Sep 2001 11:09:01 -0400 Missile Defense: Next Steps in Congress Defense Authorization Bill - House The House Armed Services Committee completed the annual defense authorization bill in early August. The Committee provided missile defense funding of $8.2 billion, compared with the administration's request of $8.3 billion. The bill goes to the full House floor Tuesday, September 11, with debate on floor amendments expected to last through Thursday. Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the ranking Democrat on the Committee, and Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) will offer an amendment to cut missile defense by $1 billion. Success will require a dozen or so moderate Republicans supporting the amendment. Defense Authorization Bill - Senate The Senate Armed Services Committee finished its version of the bill last Friday. The committee reduced the missile budget by $1.3 billion. More important, the committee "adopted a provision that provides for an expedited congressional vote if the administration determines that any of the activities funded in this bill are in conflict with the requirements of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Another provision ensures that the [Defense] Department completes a robust testing program before significant investments are made in a national missile defense system." (committee press release, September 7, 2001, p. 18) The provision was drafted by committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and subcommittee chairman Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI). In the committee markup, Sen. John Warner (VA), the ranking Republican, tried to restore $1 billion to the missile defense budget. All 12 Republicans voted for restoring the funds and the 13 Democrats opposed the increase. Similarly a Warner amendment to strike the requirement for a vote on activities that conflict with the ABM Treaty failed on a 12-13 party-line vote. The sharp divisions over missile defense resulted in another 13-12 party-line vote on adopting the final defense bill. Senate floor debate on the defense authorization bill is slated to begin Monday, September 17, with voting on floor amendments to begin Wednesday, September 19. Sen. Warner is expected to offer amendments to restore most of the missile defense cuts and to strike the Levin restriction on testing activities. With a 51-49 party split in the Senate, the Warner amendments may be decided by only a few votes. Among Republicans, Sen. Lincoln Chafee (RI) is the most likely to vote against missile defense. Democrat Senators Lincoln (AK), Miller (GA), Akaka and Inouye (HI), Bayh (IN), Breaux (LA), Edwards (NC), and Hollings (SC) are considered uncertain in their vote. Inouye and Hollings are the most likely to support the Warner amendments. The Defense Department has already issued a veto threat over the missile defense provisions in the bill. Defense Appropriations Bill The House and Senate have yet to begin drafting the annual defense appropriations bill. Work on the bill has become entangled in the larger congressional debate on the budget, described below. Given the veto threat over the defense authorization bill, the defense appropriations bill may set missile defense policy for next year. Missile Defense and the Budget Washington is moving toward one of its end-of-session mud fights over the spending. The budget resolution drafted last spring allowed the House and Senate budget chairmen to increase defense spending, if they did not dip into the Social Security surplus. Since then, Republicans lost the Senate Budget Committee chairmanship, the budget surplus has vanished, and the economy is sputtering. Granting the Pentagon's summer request of an additional $18.3 billion is likely to require dipping into Social Security funds, which would take 60 Senate votes to waive the budget rules. Negotiations over the budget numbers may not be completed until mid-November. For the first time in over a decade, the Defense Department's budget request is in trouble on Capitol Hill. This is putting pressure on the missile defense, which is one of the biggest ticket items in the Pentagon budget. Summary Important floor votes on the missile defense will occur in the House and Senate over the next few weeks. These votes will set the parameters for the missile defense provisions that likely to be included in a final spending package that Congress adopts, perhaps in November. David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 547-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Web site: www.fcnl.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Report from DC Date: 11 Sep 2001 19:48:47 -0400 Reporting from Washington DC after the World Trade and Pentagon attacks: Vigilers outside the White House are safe, but banished two blocks away from their signs. I listened to C-Span radio call-in all day; many Americans are truly ignorant ("nuke Iran/Afghanistan/Iraq" - "fall down on your knees and pray to God, then retaliate"). A few made sense: "Don't jump to conclusions, we don't know who did this" - "Put them in jail; violence begets violence." One woman called to point out that the U.S. had been bombing Iraq, but C-Span cut her off. The ignorant were allowed to say their piece. Downtown DC was surreal this morning, as all the federal buildings sent their people home. Otherwise peaceful. Really worried about our friends in New York. Please let us know you're okay. Love and forgiveness, Ellen Thomas Proposition One Committee PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org *** BAN ALL RADIOACTIVE BOMBS * depleted uranium, fission, neutron * Online Petition! - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Write Letter to Congress - http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Depleted uranium keeps on killing! - http://prop1@prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm NucNews - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: Fw: Deepest sympathy from Russia] Date: 11 Sep 2001 23:28:35 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B83B235792F08565C642842B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------B83B235792F08565C642842B Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from voxnet.ru ([212.48.151.145]) by merlin (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id tptq92.6ls.37tiu4s for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.2] (HELO localhost2) by voxnet.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with SMTP id 370676; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:48:33 +0400 Message-ID: <007b01c13b45$9aad10a0$0d64a8c0@voxnet.ru> , "Scott Hajost" , , "Susan Eisenhower" Cc: , "Sally Light" , , , , "Stephen Andersen" , "Stephen Starr" , "Steve Atkins (E-mail)" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0078_01C13B67.219D1EE0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0078_01C13B67.219D1EE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Our dear American friends and colleaques! The Center for Russian Environmental Policy join with people round the = world to express our utter horror at the terrible violence and = devastation in America yesterday. We send our deepest sympathy to all = who have been so affected. World to-day is unsafety place even in USA. We have to join to stop = this kind of madness. The sickness behind all this is hard to imagine = but we must find a cure which we believe together we can. Alexey Yablokov, CREP President Vladimir Zacharov, CREP Vice-President=20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0078_01C13B67.219D1EE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
 
 
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0078_01C13B67.219D1EE0-- --------------B83B235792F08565C642842B-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) FCNL: Statement on the Attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pen Date: 12 Sep 2001 17:51:56 -0400 FCNL SPECIAL STATEMENT (INFO LINE) The following is a special announcement from FCNL. To learn more about the FCNL INFO LINE, please see the end of this message. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Call: Ned Stowe, 202-547-6000 ext. 117 or September 12, 2001 Kathy Guthrie, ext. 144 Statement on the Attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Civilian Aircraft Our hearts go out today to the victims of Tuesday's terrible attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the people in the four civilian aircraft. We call on Friends and others across the U.S. to offer prayers, solace, friendship, and aid to the survivors, families, and friends of the victims. We commend the heroic efforts of public safety personnel and the many others who, at great personal risk, are working to rescue and treat the victims of these tragedies. We join with people across the country and around the world in expressing the hope that those who planned and orchestrated these terrible acts will soon be brought to justice under the rule of law. We are concerned, however, about how the U.S. government responds now. First, we are concerned that the U.S. not avenge these attacks with attacks upon other innocent people who may happen to be of the same nationality, faith, or ethnic group as the alleged perpetrators. This concern extends to protecting the safety and rights of people here at home. Many in this country of the Islamic faith or of Middle Eastern descent are worried that they may now become the unwarranted focus of suspicion in their communities or, worse, the subjects of unjust persecution. Second, many in the administration and Congress have declared that a state of war now exists. We are concerned that these public statements may be stirring the popular will and expectation for war. We wonder: War against whom? Cooler heads must prevail in the U.S. government during this time of crisis. War will only compound the tremendous assault on humanity that has already occurred. War is not the answer. The people who committed these acts struck with hatred. They saw the people in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the aircraft as faceless enemies. They denied the humanity of their victims. The U.S. must not commit the same sin by compounding the hatred, violence, and injustice of these attacks with its own acts of terror and war against another people, most of whom are innocent of these crimes. Finally, the people who planned these suicide attacks were able to draw volunteers from a growing number of people around the world who harbor deep resentment and anger toward the U.S. It is important that we in the U.S. try to hear and understand the sources of this anger. If we in the U.S. do not seek to understand and address the roots of this anger--poverty, injustice, and hopelessness--then the violence may well continue, no matter what the U.S. does to try to prevent it. As members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) we witness to that spirit of love which takes away the occasion of war. Out of darkness and tragedy, may God show us the path of true and lasting peace. If you have comments or questions regarding this message or other issues, please contact FCNL. Mail: 245 Second St, NE, Washington, DC 20002-5795 Email: fcnl@fcnl.org Phone: (202) 547-6000 Fax: (202) 547-6019 Toll Free: (800) 630-1330 Web: Congressional Information: Your contributions sustain our Quaker witness in Washington. We welcome your gifts to FCNL, or, if you need a tax deduction, to the FCNL Education Fund. You can use your credit card to donate money securely to FCNL through a special page on FCNL's web site. FCNL also accepts credit card donations over the phone. For information about donating, please contact the Development team directly at development@fcnl.org. Thank you. The FCNL INFO LINE provides announcements and information from the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). These messages (1) focus on legislative work, but do not have a legislative action component, (2) provide updates on FCNL's work, and/or (3) inform you about resources available from FCNL. These messages are intended as a supplement to the Legislative Action Message and other FCNL materials. This message may be found regularly on PeaceNet in the fcnl.updates conference. This message is also distributed via the fcnl-news mailing list. If you would like to subscribe to this list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@his.com The message should read subscribe fcnl-news Please Note: Make sure that you are sending this message from the e-mail address to which you would like fcnl-news messages to be sent. If you currently receive this message via the fcnl-news mailing list and are no longer interested in receiving messages from this list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@his.com The message should read unsubscribe fcnl-news We seek a world free of war and the threat of war We seek a society with equity and justice for all We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled We seek an earth restored... - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carah Lynn Ong Subject: (abolition-usa) On Activism and Terrorism Date: 12 Sep 2001 19:05:56 -0600 On Activism and Terrorism Social devastation, social chaos and social change. There are those who will want to paint activists and terrorist with the same brush. Perhaps both have identified similar injustices, identified similar culprits and both set out to make social change. From that point on the similarities begin to dissolve. Left-progressives begin with assumption about the inherent value of all life. We begin with the assumption, that the vast majority of humanity yearns to live in peace, full equality and dignity... and we wholeheartedly believe that better societies create better human beings. Just and cooperative societies with relative social equality produce cooperative citizens striving for common the good. We invest our lives in the quest for a new social order based on the human dignity for all. Our methods are education, persuasion and social activism. While never passive in the face of repression, we seek to build participatory, democratic organizations, which reflect the very ideals we seek in a new society. As Che said "true revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love." Terrorism is born of hopelessness. It is an unnatural state of affairs. A social order that has closed the doors on dignity and the possibility of democratic participation is a breeding ground for individualistic and suicidal desperation. A society full of cruelty will produce cruel offspring. A society based on class hierarchies, racial divisions, religious discrimination and national oppression will have no peace. There is peace born of justice and equality. There is also the peace of repression and dictatorship, but this is always a temporary peace. Social justice activists make no apologies for terrorism, but we do understand it roots causes. The irony is that the results of terrorism will mean greater repression on all forms of democratic participation and increased military retaliation - retaliation by those who never wanted social equality in the first place. We will have either greater global equity or greater global atrocity. This as true as any mathematical formula. Rather than despair over the devastation, let us redouble our efforts to create a world of peace with justice, equality and self-determination. After all is said and done it is social justice, which will end to both repression and its terrorist stepchild. May we stand united for social justice worldwide. Martin Eder for Activist San Diego Activist@home.com www.ActivistSanDiego.org September 11, 2001 ASD is a non-profit, social justice network that survives overwhelmingly on individual donations. Join us or one of the many other local or national organizations. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Hunters Point Whistleblower Program 9/30/01 Date: 12 Sep 2001 23:06:20 +0100 Friends, On 9/30/01 at 9:30 pm California time, a local community cable TV station (Ch 29 in San Francisco) will air an interview with Tom Olson, a whistleblower re: the emerging, major story of the Hunters Point Naval Ship Yard (HPNSY) in San Francisco. Tom was born and raised at Hunters Point, a largely African American community that was originally brought there to work in the ship yard during WWII. He spent all his working years in the ship yard and is now suffering major health problems. The Hunters Point Naval Ship Yard is a "Superfund" site containing many toxic and radioactive substances that have been exposed to the surrounding community for decades. Very little cleanup has yet been done there. In May of this year, the S.F. Weekly newspaper ran an extremely well-researched expose about the facility and its affects on the community, as well as about the secret US project, the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, that was located there during the 40s, 50s and 60s. You may find this story by reporter Lisa Davis, called "Fallout," at the paper's web site which is www.sfweekly.com. Major pieces of the US' nuclear and missile programs are being added to our knowledge as more facts about HPNSY's many projects are revealed. Tom's detailed knowledge and sharp recall are very valuable in this process. Please watch this program if you are able. "60 Minutes" has also interviewed Tom for a future program, but the show's air date is unknown at this time. In peace... Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience Member, Global Council, Abolition 2000 Member, Coordinating Committee, US Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Member, Board, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Peace Vigil-Livermore Date: 13 Sep 2001 10:40:53 -0700 Dear friends, colleagues and fellow Tri-Valley CAREs members: We staffers working in the TVC office grieve the horrific events that unfolded on Tuesday, even as we struggle to carry on the organization's daily work and commitments. Interwoven with our thoughts and prayers for the dead and dying are our fears that the U.S. will retaliate in a manner that will perpetuate -- and not ameliorate -- the cycle of violence. Each of us expresses our feelings in our own language, but, out of our common concern, we prepare for -- and invite you to -- a vigil we all hope will never need to happen. Please read the text of the flyer we are placing around town... In Peace, Marylia If the United States begins bombing another country, meet that first evening at 7 PM at the Peace Monument at the Livermore main library, 1000 South Livermore Ave. (at Pacific Ave.). Bring a candle or song, or simply come with love. We vigil for peace and call for an end to hatred and violence in all of its forms. We affirm the connectedness of all peoples everywhere. We condemn the acts of violence perpetrated on September 11, 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC, and we mourn the loss of many lives. Similarly, we do not condone any bombing attacks by our own government that will likewise result in bloodshed and heartbreak in cities in other nations. Let peace begin with each of us. Sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs (925) 443-7148 All are welcome. ends Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Statement from Nevada Desert Experience Date: 13 Sep 2001 10:53:28 +0100 Dear Friends Here & Abroad, First, we give thanks for the many, many messages received from those of you around the world. Your healing messages of sympathy, support and loving friendship are deeply appreciated. To those of you here in the US, we thank you for sending out statements calling for peace and restraint during a time of retaliatory rhetoric coming from DC. Gathering together with our families and other loved ones, we offer our prayers for our sisters and brothers in New York, DC and Pennsylvania during this time of mourning and shock. In the days ahead, we will continue our prayers for healing and for peace. We pray that our elected officials be calm, and not take hasty action that comes out of fear, anger or retaliation. We pray that we as a nation not stereotype or demonize our brothers and sisters of Middle Eastern descent, or otherwise act toward them with anything less than love. We pray for us all to work from a center of calm strength, to be a source of loving peace for others that may be distraught and bound on vengeance. We pray that the international peace movement rededicates itself to working in unity towards seeing a world that moves beyond warfare and other forms of violence. In the cause of peace.. Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. 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Women's Action for New Directions (WAND) Statement - issued September 12, 2001

We are deeply shaken by the horror inflicted on our country on September 11th.  For several frantic hours, WAND could not reach our Washington staff. Thankfully, they are all safe.  Like the rest of the world, we searched for hope and assurances of the safety of loved ones.  Our deepest sympathy and our prayers are with the victims, their families, and the emergency response teams.

We condemn these terrorist attacks and the hatred and disregard for life and law implicit in them.  Those responsible must be brought to justice.

There are no simple answers.  As The New York Times wisely observed, "What we live with now, beyond shock and beyond the courage witnessed on the streets in New York and Washington . . . is an urge for reprisal.  But this is an age when even revenge is complicated, when it is hard to match the desire for retribution with the need for certainty."  Let us remember that innocent civilians live in those countries we call "enemy."

Yesterday's tragedy underscores a fundamental truth about US national security: a missile shield will not protect us.  The rush to mount an ill-conceived defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles is draining precious resources from programs that would address real security needs.  Missile defense funds should be redirected toward antiterrorist work and initiatives such as the Nunn Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.

It would be irresponsible not to acknowledge the infinitely more horrible devastation that would result from terrorist attacks involving nuclear weapons.  Recognizing this, we advocate federal policy and funding priorities that immediately de-alert nuclear weapons, renounce the production of weapons-capable materials and dispose of existing stockpiles.  Further, we redouble our efforts to abolish nuclear weapons from the earth.

Ultimately peace and security cannot come through military power alone, but must be borne of thoughtful, determined diplomacy and negotiation.  Such a path calls us all and requires the best we have to give.  Children ask the world of us.  It is our responsibility, and our highest honor, to respond.


Please forward this message if you see fit  and send it to your member of Congress and your two US Senators.

Susan Shaer, Executive Director
Kathryn Bowers, WAND President
Kimberly Robson, WAND Director of Policy and Programs

Women's Action for New Directions, WAND
110 Maryland Avenue, NE
Suite 205
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-543-8505
Fax: 202-675-6469
wand@wand.org
<http://www.wand.org>


WAND's mission is to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs.



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For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) FCNL: Congressional Response to Attacks Date: 13 Sep 2001 17:10:52 -0400 FCNL LEGISLATIVE ACTION MESSAGE - [9/13/01] The following action item from the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) focus on federal policy issues currently before Congress or the Administration. TOPIC: CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSE TO ATTACKS. Congress is acting quickly to respond to the attacks on the U.S. this past Tuesday. The House and Senate are expected to approve a $20 billion emergency spending bill by tonight (Thursday 9/13), giving the President broad discretion to use the funds as needed for disaster relief, repairing public buildings and infrastructure, expanded investigations and intelligence gathering, increased security on national transportation systems, and increased military security. The second, more troubling, bill is likely to be a resolution authorizing the President, in advance, to take action to retaliate for the attacks. The resolution is still being drafted. At issue are: 1) whether the President should be given advance authority to act without further authorization from Congress, and 2) whether and in what way Congress should limit the President's authority to act. Some are concerned that granting broad war powers to the President would also give him the authority to curtail civil liberties. As reported in the CQ Daily Monitor, Sen. Hatch (UT) has said he thinks the President should be granted "wide powers." Sen. Biden (DE), however, stated: "There's no doubt that the President has the right to retaliate, but it is wise and necessary for national unity for him to ask [Congress] for that when he feels it's prudent." Given the strong desire on the part of the Democratic and Republican leadership to put forward an image of national unity at this time, the discussion over the resolution language is likely to take place behind closed doors. When they reach unity, the resolution will likely move quickly to the floors of the House and Senate for votes. This could occur as early as tonight (9/13), tomorrow, or early next week. (Tune in to C-Span to get the latest information.) ACTION: Please contact your representative and senators as soon as possible. Urge them to oppose granting the President wide war powers. This is not a time for precipitous military action. There is no reason for Congress to surrender its constitutional authority at this time. This IS a time for quick, cooperative action by U.S. law enforcement agencies and governments around the world to identify and capture those who aided and abetted in the commission of these atrocities and to bring them before a court of law. War is not the answer to the horror and violence of these attacks. War, destruction, and hatred between peoples are what the perpetrators of these heinous acts apparently seek. The U.S. should not give them what they want. If the U.S. declares war, the hijackers and their supporters will have won. Instead, the U.S. should proceed swiftly, steadfastly, and in cooperation with other countries to bring the perpetrators to justice under law. A sample letter may be found on FCNL's web site. You can personalize the language and send the message as an email directly from our site or print it out and mail it. To view the letter, click on the link below, enter your zip code in the box, then click the button. Here is the link: A similar message should be sent to the President. A sample letter may be found on FCNL's web site. You can personalize the language and send the message as an email directly from our site or print it out and mail it. To view the letter, click on the link below and then click the button. Here is the link: . Friends Committee on National Legislation: Statement on the Attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Civilian Aircraft Our hearts go out today to the victims of Tuesday's terrible attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the people in the four civilian aircraft. We call on Friends and others across the U.S. to offer prayers, solace, friendship, and aid to the survivors, families, and friends of the victims. We commend the heroic efforts of public safety personnel and the many others who, at great personal risk, are working to rescue and treat the victims of these tragedies. We join with people across the country and around the world in expressing the hope that those who planned and orchestrated these terrible acts will soon be brought to justice under the rule of law. We are concerned, however, about how the U.S. government responds now. First, we are concerned that the U.S. not avenge these attacks with attacks upon other innocent people who may happen to be of the same nationality, faith, or ethnic group as the alleged perpetrators. This concern extends to protecting the safety and rights of people here at home. Many in this country of the Islamic faith or of Middle Eastern descent are worried that they may now become the unwarranted focus of suspicion in their communities or, worse, the subjects of unjust persecution. Second, many in the administration and Congress have declared that a state of war now exists. We are concerned that these public statements may be stirring the popular will and expectation for war. We wonder: War against whom? Cooler heads must prevail in the U.S. government during this time of crisis. War will only compound the tremendous assault on humanity that has already occurred. War is not the answer. The people who committed these acts struck with hatred. They saw the people in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the aircraft as faceless enemies. They denied the humanity of their victims. The U.S. must not commit the same sin by compounding the hatred, violence, and injustice of these attacks with its own acts of terror and war against another people, most of whom are innocent of these crimes. Finally, the people who planned these suicide attacks were able to draw volunteers from a growing number of people around the world who harbor deep resentment and anger toward the U.S. It is important that we in the U.S. try to hear and understand the sources of this anger. If we in the U.S. do not seek to understand and address the roots of this anger--poverty, injustice, and hopelessness--then the violence may well continue, no matter what the U.S. does to try to prevent it. As members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) we witness to that spirit of love which takes away the occasion of war. Out of darkness and tragedy, may God show us the path of true and lasting peace. CONTACTING LEGISLATORS Capitol Switchboard: 2022243121 Sen. ________ U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 Rep. ________ U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Information on your members is available on FCNL's web site: http://capwiz.com/fconl/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?command=congdi CONTACTING THE ADMINISTRATION White House Comment Desk: 202-456-1111 FAX: 202-456-2461 E-MAIL: president@whitehouse.gov WEB PAGE: http://www.whitehouse.gov President George W. Bush The White House Washington, DC 20500 This message supplements other FCNL materials and does not reflect FCNL's complete policy position on any issue. For further information, please contact FCNL. Mail: 245 Second Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-5795 Email: fcnl@fcnl.org Phone: (202) 547-6000 Toll Free: (800) 630-1330 Fax: (202) 547-6019 Web: http://www.fcnl.org Your contributions sustain our Quaker witness in Washington. We welcome your gifts to FCNL, or, if you need a tax deduction, to the FCNL Education Fund. You can use your credit card to donate money securely to FCNL through a special page on FCNL's web site http://www.fcnl.org/suprt/indx.htm FCNL also accepts credit card donations over the phone. For more information about donating, please contact the Development Team directly at development@fcnl.org. Thank you. This message may be found regularly on FCNL's web site http://www.fcnl.org where a printer-friendly version is available and on PeaceNet in the fcnl.updates conference. This message is distributed regularly via the fcnl-news mailing list. To subscribe to this list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@his.com Leave the subject line blank. The message should read subscribe fcnl-news Please Note: Make sure that you are sending this message from the e-mail address to which you would like fcnl-news materials to be sent. If you currently receive this message via the fcnl-news mailing list and are no longer interested in receiving messages from this list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@his.com The message should read unsubscribe fcnl-news We seek a world free of war and the threat of war We seek a society with equity and justice for all We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled We seek an earth restored... David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 547-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Web site: www.fcnl.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: Another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? Date: 13 Sep 2001 16:23:38 -0500 Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954(voice) 217-244-1478(fax) fboyle@law.uiuc.edu -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:39 PM Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Thursday, September 13, 2001 * Another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? * "Because We Embrace Freedom"? FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle@law.uiuc.edu Professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, Boyle said today: "According to the facts in the public record so far, this was not an act of war and NATO Article 5 does not apply. President Bush has automatically escalated this national tragedy into something it is not in order to justify a massive military attack abroad and an apparent crackdown on civil liberties at home. We see shades of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which the Johnson administration used to provide dubious legal cover for massive escalation of the Vietnam War." MATT ROTHSCHILD, mattr@progressive.org, http://www.progressive.org Editor of The Progressive magazine, Rothschild said today: "President Bush said that America was targeted 'because we embrace freedom.' Not knowing with any certainty who the attackers were, it's hard to speculate on their motives. But many groups in the Third World have grievances that are more specific than the ones Bush mentioned.... The Pearl Harbor analogy has frightening connotations. Two months after Japan's surprise attack, the U.S. government rounded up Japanese Americans into internment camps. Now it seems highly improbable that Arab Americans or Muslim Americans will be rounded up, but what does seem quite possible is that the media's obsessive focus on a non-differentiated Islamic fundamentalism -- mixed in with nativist sentiment that is always on the shelf -- will create a cocktail of hate crimes." RANIA MASRI, rania@nc.rr.com, http://www.peace-action.org A national board member of Peace Action, Masri said today: "In Raleigh, N.C. -- where I live -- the local mosque received two bomb threats the day of the attack. The Islamic School in Raleigh had to close -- due to fear for its students' safety. People driving by the mosque have been spewing racist statements -- such as 'sand niggers go home' and 'death to you all.' Several Arab women wearing Hijab had stones thrown at them from passing cars, and have been spat on at the main university campus. In pockets across the U.S. and Canada, the verbal threats have become direct physical assaults." DAVID COLE, cole@law.georgetown.edu Professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, Cole said today: "In the past we have responded to acts of terrorism by clamping down on basic civil liberties, by anti-immigrant actions, and by engaging in unjustified and widespread guilt by association." LARRY BIRNS, coha@coha.org, http://www.coha.org Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Birns said today: "The Senate is ducking its responsibility in today's pro forma confirmation hearings on John Negroponte as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. No public witnesses are being heard. While the Bush administration has professedly become an apostle of democracy, it has selected one of the most tainted figures of the Central American wars of the 1980s to be its ambassador to the UN." RYME KATKHOUDA, wbaiinexile@yahoo.com, http://www.wbix.org A correspondent with WBIX, which is producing community internet radio in Manhattan, Katkhouda witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: marylia@earthlink.net (marylia) Subject: (abolition-usa) Livermore vigil-complete text Date: 13 Sep 2001 17:33:54 -0700 Dear friends: The first sentence of the flier about the Livermore vigil got lost in cyberspace when I sent it this morning. I apologise. I will try again. Here it is,,, In Peace, Marylia If the United States begins bombing another country, meet that first evening at 7 PM at the Peace Monument at the Livermore main library, 1000 South Livermore Ave. (at Pacific Ave.). Bring a candle or song, or simply come with love. We vigil for peace and call for an end to hatred and violence in all of its forms. We affirm the connectedness of all peoples everywhere. We condemn the acts of violence perpetrated on September 11, 2001 in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC, and we mourn the loss of many lives. Similarly, we do not condone any bombing attacks by our own government that will likewise result in bloodshed and heartbreak in cities in other nations. Let peace begin with each of us. Sponsored by Tri-Valley CAREs (925) 443-7148 All are welcome. ends Marylia Kelley Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) 2582 Old First Street Livermore, CA USA 94550 - is our web site, please visit us there! (925) 443-7148 - is our phone (925) 443-0177 - is our fax Working for peace, justice and a healthy environment since 1983, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a member of the nation-wide Alliance for Nuclear Accountability in the U.S. since 1989, and is a co-founding member of the Abolition 2000 global network for the elimination of nuclear weapons, the U.S. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Back From the Brink campaign to get nuclear weapons taken off hair-trigger alert. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Alice Slater and other New York abolitionists, where are you? Date: 13 Sep 2001 19:22:55 -0400 Please, check in? Love, Ellen Thomas Proposition One Committee PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 202-462-0757 -- fax 202-265-5389 prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org *** BAN ALL RADIOACTIVE BOMBS * depleted uranium, fission, neutron * Online Petition! - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html Write Letter to Congress - http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm Depleted uranium keeps on killing! - http://prop1@prop1.org/2000/du/dulv.htm NucNews - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Actions in DC Date: 13 Sep 2001 22:25:26 -0400 --=====================_42405789==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Actions in Washington, DC since September 12, 2001: Every day, 5:00 p.m., Dupont Circle - Creative prayer vigil ----- Procession for Peace On Friday evening, September 14th at 7:30 pm we will gather at 16th and Columbia Road NW. In silence and in sorrow we will process through nearby neighborhoods carrying our loss and our call for peace. All are welcome. Bring your loved ones, your families, friends, colleagues, neighbors and members of your religious communities. Bring a candle to help heal the revenge and hatred of our world with our love and our hope. -- Please Sign On: We are a community of concerned people who have come together to grieve over the tragic loss of human life on Tuesday, September 11th. Representing ourselves and dozens of organizations working for peace and social justice, we condemn the attacks that have unleashed such terror and destruction in the United States and sent shock waves throughout the world. This is a time to mourn, reflect and to address the worldwide culture of violence, which permits such atrocities. We call for peace and condemn any calls for war, military retaliation, revenge, retribution, or any future acts of violence by the United States Government, which will only continue this cycle of senseless bloodshed and misery. We call for respect and dignity, not guilt by association, harassment or persecution of our Arab, Arab-American or Muslim friends and neighbors. This is a time for us to come together as a global community that values life, not death. -- For more information contact the American Friends Service Committee at (202) 265-7997 and the Washington Peace Center at 202-234-2000 - mailto:wpc@igc.org -- __________________________________________________ * Peace Through Reason - http://prop1.org * Please sign the Online Petition! - http://www.PetitionOnline.com/prop1/petition.html NucNews - Today and Archives - http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm __________________________________________________ --=====================_42405789==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Actions in Washington, DC since September 12, 2001:

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Procession for Peace

On Friday evening, September 14th at 7:30 pm we will gather at 16th and Columbia Road NW.   In silence and in sorrow we will process through nearby neighborhoods carrying our loss and our call for peace. 

All are welcome.  Bring your loved ones, your families, friends, colleagues, neighbors and members of your religious communities.

Bring a candle to help heal the revenge and hatred of our world with our love and our hope.

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Please Sign On:

We are a community of concerned people who have come together to grieve over the tragic loss of human life on Tuesday, September 11th.  Representing ourselves and dozens of organizations working for peace and social justice, we condemn the attacks that have unleashed such terror and destruction in the United States and sent shock waves throughout the world.

This is a time to mourn, reflect and to address the worldwide culture of violence, which permits such atrocities. We call for peace and condemn any calls for war, military retaliation, revenge, retribution, or any future acts of violence by the United States Government, which will only continue this cycle of senseless bloodshed and misery.

We call for respect and dignity, not guilt by association, harassment or persecution of our Arab, Arab-American or Muslim friends and neighbors. This is a time for us to come together as a global community that values life, not death.

-- For more information contact the American Friends Service Committee at (202) 265-7997 and the Washington Peace Center at 202-234-2000 - mailto:wpc@igc.org --


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__________________________________________________ --=====================_42405789==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) NO RUSH TO WAR!/O'Reilly Factor/FOX/13Sept2001 Date: 14 Sep 2001 08:37:36 -0500 -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 8:33 AM Importance: High SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR (20:29) September 13, 2001 Thursday Transcript # 091303cb.256 SECTION: News; Domestic LENGTH: 3973 words HEADLINE: America Unites How Should the U.S. Bring Terrorists to Justice? GUESTS: Sam Huessini, Francis Boyle BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly BODY: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. O'REILLY: While most Americans are united in their support of President Bush and the desire to bring Osama bin Laden and other terrorists to justice, there are some differing voices. Joining us now from Washington is Sam Husseini, the former spokesman for the Arab Anti -- American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and from Urbana, Illinois, is Francis Boyle, an international law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.......... .... O'REILLY: Cut his mike. All right, now, Mr. Boyle, Professor Boyle, let's have a little bit more of a rational discussion here. That was absurd. The United States now has to take action against certain segments in this world who we know have been harbouring people like Osama bin Laden. That's going to happen. How will you react to that? FRANCIS BOYLE, LAW PROFESSOR: Well, first I think you have to look at the law involved. Clearly what we have here, under United States domestic law and statutes, is an act of international terrorism that should be treated as such. It is not yet elevated to an act of war. For an act of war, we need proof that a foreign state actually ordered or launched an attack upon the United States of America. So far, we do not yet have that evidence. We could... O'REILLY: All right, now why are you, why are you, why are you taking this position when you know forces have attacked the United States. Now, maybe they don't have a country, but they are forces. They have attacked the United States, all right? Without warning, without provocation. Civilian targets. They've done everything that an act of war does. So, I'm saying that because we live in a different world now, where borders don't really matter, where terrorism is the weapon of choice, that you would declare war -- if I were President Bush, I would declare war on any hostile forces, notice those words, professor, hostile forces to the United States. I would have a blanket declaration of war so I could go in and kill those people. Would I be wrong? BOYLE: Well, Bill, so far you'll note Congress has been unwilling to declare war. And indeed, this matter is being debated right now. Right now, it appears that what they are seeking is not a full declaration of war, but only what we law professors call an imperfect declaration, which means a limited use of military force under the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Precisely for the problem that we don't know if any state was involved and we still do not know who was responsible for this undoubted terrorist attack upon the United States of America. O'REILLY: All right, but we have the secretary of state saying that Osama bin Laden now has been linked into and, you know, we don't have all the intelligence information, as President Bush said today. He's not going to give us, and he shouldn't, the people of America all the information that they have. But when the secretary of state gets up and says, look, we know this guy was involved to some extent, I believe him. And he's a wanted man, professor. He's been wanted for eight years. The Clinton administration didn't have the heart to get him and in the first few months the Bush administration didn't either. We now know, and you just heard the FBI agent say that Afghanistan has been involved for years harbouring and training these kinds of people. Certainly, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, those five countries, certainly have been hostile to the United States and given safe harbour to these terrorists. That's a fact. BOYLE: Well, let me point out, the secretary of state was very careful in the words he used. He said Osama bin Laden was a suspect. He did not accuse him. And, again, under these circumstances... O'REILLY: No, he didn't use the word suspect. He used another word. BOYLE: The account I read in, just off the wire service, said suspect. But let me continue my point. Under these circumstances, where we have 5,000 Americans dead and we could have many more Americans killed in a conflict, we have to be very careful, Congress and the American people and the president, in not to over-escalate the rhetoric, here. We have to look at this very rationally. This is a democracy. We have a right to see what the evidence is and proceed in a very slow and deliberate manner. O'REILLY: No, we don't. We do not, as a republic, we don't have the right to see what the evidence is if the evidence is of a national security situation, as you know. Now, I'm trusting my government to do the right thing, here. I am trusting. But I think it's beyond a doubt right now, beyond a reasonable doubt, which is, as you know, a court of law standard, that there are at least five, North Korea you could put in to, six states in the world that have harboured continually these terrorists. Now, we know that this was a well-coordinated effort. Our initial intelligence shows that some of the people that have been arrested have ties to Osama bin Laden. We know, as you just heard the FBI agent say, that the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was tied in to a guy who knew bin Laden. So, bin Laden -- I agree with you, that you don't want to be a hothead. You don't want to overreact. You don't want to lob a missile at the pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan, which was terrible, and that was the one good point, or fair point, that Mr. Husseini made, you don't want to do that. But, on the other hand, professor, I think Americans are rightful, are right, to demand action against states that we know in the past have harboured these individuals and there's a warrant out for Osama bin Laden's arrest. So, if he is in Afghanistan, I would give that government a couple of days to hand him over, and if they did not, I'd go in. BOYLE: Well, again. The American people are right. We need to see the evidence. I remember people saying a generation ago, during the Vietnam war, I trusted my government. And I think people of my generation found out that that was wrong. We needed more evidence. O'REILLY: All right. Professor, let me stop you there, though. This is another point that Mr. Husseini tried to make. Just because the United States of America has made mistakes in the past, does not mean that we cannot defend ourselves now. This is a unique situation in history. We have now been attacked by forces without borders, OK? We've been attacked. And it hasn't been a military attack, it's been an attack on civilians. The reason, the sole reason a federal government exists is to protect the people of the United States. And as I said in my "Talking Points" memo, they haven't really done the job, for political reasons. But now's the time to correct those things. So, there's going to be a reckoning, Professor. You know it's going to happen. I know it's going to happen. And it's going to come down on Osama bin Laden first and maybe some of these rouge states later. Will you support that action? BOYLE: Before I support a war that will jeopardize the lives of tens of thousands of our servicemen and women, I want to see the evidence that we are relying on to justify this. So far, I do not see it. I see allegations. I see innuendo. I see winks and I see nods, but I do not see the evidence that you need under international law and the United States constitution so far to go to war. Maybe that evidence will be there, but it is not there now. My recommendation to Congress is to slow down, let's see what develops and let's see what this evidence is before we knowingly go out and not only kill large numbers of people, perhaps in Afghanistan and other countries, but undoubtedly in our own armed forces. 58,000 men of my generation will killed in Vietnam because of irresponsible behavior by the Johnson administration rushing that Tonkin Gulf resolution through Congress, exactly what we're seeing now. And we need to pull back and stop and think and ask the hard questions and demand to see the evidence first, before we march off to war. O'REILLY: All right, so it's not enough that people arrested in the bombings of the embassies in Africa testified in court that Osama bin Laden was behind and financed and coordinated those bombings. That evidence is not enough for you? BOYLE: Well, Africa is a very is a very different story than what happened in the World Trade Center. O'REILLY: No, it's not. He's wanted, he's wanted in the United States for the bombings of those two embassies. Is that evidence enough for you, professor, for the United States to go in and get this man? Is it enough? BOYLE: That, that matter was treated and handled as an act of international terrorism in accordance with the normal laws and procedures of the United States of America as a question of domestic and international law enforcement. And I am suggesting that is the way we need to proceed here... O'REILLY: Well, wait. You're dodging the question professor. BOYLE: ... unless we have evidence that... O'REILLY: Wait, professor. Professor. This is a no spin zone. Hold it. Hold it. Even out in Urbana Champagne, the no spin zone rules. You're dodging the question. There is an absolutely rock solid arrest warrant out for this man. Evidence in court, testimony by people who did the bombings that this man was behind it. Is that enough evidence for you to have the United States go in and get him now? Is it enough? BOYLE: The United States has been attempting to secure his extradition from Afghanistan. I support... O'REILLY: Yeah, that's long enough. BOYLE: I support that approach as international... O'REILLY: Come on already, I mean, eight years, we've been attempting to extradite this guy. Now's the time to tell the Afghans you've got 48 hours or 72 hours to turn him over. You don't turn him over, we're coming in and getting him. You try to stop us, and you're toast. Enough is enough, professor. BOYLE: That's vigilantism. It is not what the United States of America is supposed to stand for. We are supposed to stand... O'REILLY: No, what that is is protecting the country from terrorists who kill civilians. BOYLE: ... for rule of law. O'REILLY: It's not vigilantism. BOYLE: We are supposed to stand for rule of law, and that is clearly vigilantism. There is a Security Council, there is Congress, there are procedures and there are laws, and they are there to protect all of us here in the United States as well as... O'REILLY: So, you're telling me... BOYLE: ... as well as our servicemen and women. Look, Bill, if we allegedly, as you put it, go in, you are not going in, I am not going in. It's going to be young men and women serving in our armed forces... O'REILLY: And that's their job. To protect us. But, professor, let me, you know, what you're saying is, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. B0YLE: ... with the constitution and the laws of the United States. O'REILLY: We're not violating any laws here, professor. No one is going to violate the law. There is going to be a state of war induced against states, states, terroristic states, who have attacked us. And what you're saying is, though, and correct me if I'm wrong, you're saying that even though there is a legitimate warrant out for Osama bin Laden's arrest, and even though most civilized nations would honor that warrant and turn him over to us, extradite him to us, the vast majority of nations on earth would do that, you still are opposed for the United States to demand that the Taliban government arrest this man and turn him over? You are opposed to that? BOYLE: During the Gulf War, President Bush's father, who has far more experience that the current president Bush, got a Security Council resolution authorizing the United States of America to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. Second, President Bush's father got a War Powers Authorization Resolution from Congress that gave him the constitutional authority to use military force to enforce that Security Council resolution. What I'm calling for here is the same adherence to international law and the United States constitution that the first President Bush adhered to in dealing with Iraq. O'REILLY: Well, you'll get that, professor. That's just a formality. There -- nobody on Capitol Hill right now, they're not going to -- there's no profile of courages up there anyway, usually. They're going to give President Bush what he wants. If he wants a War Powers Act, they're going to give it to him. He wants a declaration, they're going to give it to him. BOYLE: Actually, they're arguing about it right now... O'REILLY: They're going to give it to him. But I'm not interested in that, because it's going to happen. It's going to happen. BOYLE: The reports -- no, the reports I read was that this President Bush initially asked for a blank check, and Congress balked because they had been suckered once before... O'REILLY: All right, I'm not -- speculation is not what I'm in -- all right, professor. I don't want to speculate. I'm just going to say in my opinion he's going to have the authority to go in and get Osama bin Laden and his pals, wherever they are. He will get that authority, whether it takes a day or a week, he'll get it. And once he gets it, now, that's what I want to talk about here. Once he gets it, are you and others like you going to say, oh, no, we shouldn't do this, even though we have proof of the man's -- masterminded the bombings in Africa and the Cole,testimony in Yemen, are you going to still say, even after the authority is granted by Congress, which it will be, no, don't do it, let Afghanistan handle him? Are you going to still do that, professor? BOYLE: Second, like his father, his father also got authorization from the United States, the United Nations Security Council under chapter seven of the United Nations charter... O'REILLY: Oh, you want to go to U.N. now? You want the U.N. involved now. BOYLE: Is exactly what his father did... O'REILLY: So what? BOYLE: And that's exactly right. O'REILLY: His father made a huge mistake by not taking out Sadam Hussein when he could of. BOYLE: His father adhered to the required procedures under the United States constitution and the United Nations charter that is a treaty and the supreme law of our land. I expect the current President Bush to do exactly what his father did before he starts engaging in a massive military campaign in Iraq or against other countries... O'REILLY: All right, I don't know whether he's going to go -- I know he's not going to let the U.N. dictate. He might go for a consensus. He's already got it with Putin and all of our NATO allies, he's already go that. Whether he goes -- I think it would be a mistake to let -- empowering the U.N. in this situation. BOYLE: Then why did his father do this? O'REILLY: I'm going -- we're going to wrap this up with this. I'm going to give my last summation and then you can give yours, I'll give you the last word on it. This is a fugitive we're dealing with here. He has now been tied in by U.S. intelligence agencies, according to Attorney General Ashcroft and the secretary of state, tied into this horrendous bombing here in New York. The United States must make a response to this, and I am agreeing with you in a sense, it can't be a knee-jerk. It's got to be done in a methodical way. Congress will go along, they may debate it or whatever, but they will go along in either a War Powers, special War Powers Act or a declaration of war against forces hostile to the United States. Then they will go in and they will take him. This man you're looking at on the TV screen is a dead man. He should be a dead man. You don't do what he did and be allowed to walk around this earth. Now, I'm distressed, professor, by your reliance, reliance on the strict letter of propriety, when we've got 10,000 people laying in the street about 22 miles from me right now. I want deliberation. I want methodical discipline, but I also want action. We know who this guy is. We know the governments that are protecting him. We know the other rouge states that have terrorist camps there. They all have to be dealt with, in my opinion. I'll give you the last word. BOYLE: Sure, I agree with you, Bill. He is a fugitive from justice and this should be handled as a matter as other fugitives from justice of international law enforcement. If indeed there is evidence that a foreign state orchestrated and ordered an attack against the United States then clearly that is an act of war that should be dealt with as such... O'REILLY: What about harbouring? BOYLE: Right now... O'REILLY: Is harbouring an act of war? BOYLE: In my opinion, no. And under the current circumstances, I don't see it. O'REILLY: All right, professor. BOYLE: I think there is a distinction here. O'REILLY: OK, all right, wrap it up, if you would. BOYLE: I agree -- I agree that the -- if we go to war in a hasty manner here, we could see thousands of U.S. military personnel being killed without proper authorization by Congress or by the United Nations Security Council. O'REILLY: OK. BOYLE: Our founding fathers decided that the most awesome decision we would ever make would be to go to war, and we have to be very careful in making that decision. O'REILLY: All right, professor, I appreciate it very much. Thank you for your point of view. BOYLE: Thank you, Bill. >Francis A. Boyle >Law Building >504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. >Champaign, IL 61820 USA >217-333-7954(voice) >217-244-1478(fax) >fboyle@law.uiuc.edu > > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JGG786@aol.com (by way of ASlater ) Subject: (abolition-usa) Advocates of Missile Defense Date: 14 Sep 2001 11:09:59 -0400 Dear Friends, Here's what we're up against, although September 11th may have changed this equation. Alice National Journal News Service: LOBBYING: The Missile Defense Brigade Not too long ago, defense industry lobbyists thought President Bush had a good shot at winning from Congress the $8.3 billion that he wants for missile defense spending next year, despite a host of political objections and technological questions about the program. But that was before last month's gloomy news about the budget and the eroding federal surplus. Now, these lobbyists are girding for a much tougher appropriations fight than they had expected. Pentagon contractors are tapping veteran outside defense consultants and new lobbying recruits-including grassroots specialists and public relations firms-as part of a fall offensive to help enlist more money for the missile shield project. Further, conservative groups that have long dreamed of, and advocated the need for, a national missile shield are revving up their own lobbying and advertising efforts to boost the industry efforts. With Democrats primed to attack the President's request in part on fiscal grounds, missile defense promoters acknowledge it will be difficult to boost spending on the program by 57 percent next year, as Bush wants. "The sale hasn't been made yet to the American public," said former Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., who runs the Livingston Group and lobbies on the issue for Raytheon Co. "All of this has to be sold on the heels of the tax cut." Livingston, who chaired the House Appropriations Committee, said that "industry has an obligation to help build the case for missile defense" by strongly supporting the Administration's budget numbers in the upcoming appropriations struggle. Boeing Co. is working hard in support of the Administration. As the prime contractor on the missile shield program-which so far has involved only research and development, not procurement-Boeing has a big stake in the outcome. To deliver its message to Capitol Hill and the public at large, Boeing recently tapped two of K Street's premier lobbying and public affairs shops. Bonner & Associates Inc. hopes to build public support through grassroots work, while Powell Tate is handling the overall PR drive. Both firms declined to comment on the campaign, as did Boeing. Boeing also recently hired Alan Myer, who helped write President Reagan's famous speech in 1983 that launched the "Star Wars" initiative. Myer helped prep five scientists to deal more effectively with the media. The scientists appeared in May at a Washington news conference to counter press coverage that had focused on missile defense critics and their concerns. Meanwhile, Raytheon-besides deploying Livingston to visit old buddies on the Appropriations panel-has done joint inside-the-Beltway advertising with TRW on one component of the missile defense shield that the two companies are developing together. Raytheon was also one of the few defense firms to support a June symposium on missile defense that was held at Valley Forge, Pa. The event drew some important officials, including Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, the director of the Defense Department's Ballistic Missile Defense Organization; and Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., the chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Readiness. Like other contractors, Raytheon is following a two-pronged strategy. It is backing the Administration's overall budget request while lobbying to save the line-item funding for the specific components that bring business to the company, including Raytheon's radar system. Industry lobbyists are focusing especially hard on the Republican-controlled House, which, they say, has to at minimum support the Administration's numbers. The Democratic-controlled Senate is likely to try to cut deeply into Bush's $8.3 billion request. The battle between those who want missile defense and those who don't will be complicated by the more pessimistic budget projections, says Livingston, who was a big advocate for missile defense when he served in Congress. "It's a new budget dynamic, but it's not necessarily a straitjacket," he said. A number of conservative groups are conveying similar messages to Capitol Hill and constituents outside the Beltway, and these groups are stepping up their advocacy to help the Administration realize one of the Right's long-cherished dreams. In recent months, Frank J. Gaffney Jr., a Pentagon official in the Reagan Administration and one of the country's leading champions of missile defense, has been hosting a weekly conclave in which conservative allies share information and discuss lobbying strategies. Among the most active participants in this new coalition, called Americans for Missile Defense, have been the American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, and the S.A.F.E. Foundation. David Keene, the chairman of the ACU, says that Gaffney, who runs the conservative Center for Security Policy, approached his group about holding regular sessions to boost the coalition's effort. "Our job is to coordinate," said Keene. Americans for Missile Defense operates a Web page of briefing materials and has launched a drive to raise about $1 million to help underwrite a radio, print, and television ad blitz in selected congressional districts and in Washington. "The idea that we shouldn't go down this road goes against the grain" of most Americans, Keene argued. "It's really a question of focusing attention." Kevin Generous, the president of the S.A.F.E. Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes military programs, said his group is trying to raise money for a multimillion-dollar ad effort aimed at increasing public backing for the deployment of a missile defense shield. "Our focus is to build support outside the Beltway," he said. Generous said that Rep. Weldon had a hand in getting the group going in late 1998 when he suggested that a grassroots effort would be useful. Weldon serves on the S.A.F.E. board and has arranged meetings between the group and other lawmakers, such as Rep. Bud Cramer Jr., D-Ala. S.A.F.E. sponsored the May press conference at which the five pro-missile defense scientists, along with Weldon, defended the feasibility of a missile shield to protect the United States. Generous, who's also a consultant with the Plexus Consulting Group in Washington, said he is trying to recruit other constituencies, including labor unions and celebrities, to aid the cause. He noted that the nation's leading aerospace union-the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers-supports higher funding for missile defense. A source close to the union said it is working side by side with industry during visits to Capitol Hill. Further, Generous boasted that his group's board has something of a secret weapon in the person of Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, a former guitarist with the rock groups the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan who has been an outspoken advocate for missile defense systems. Baxter said he's trying to woo celebrities from the music world and other quarters to support the cause. Baxter has some experience in the defense area, having served as a paid consultant for a few companies that have financial stakes in the missile defense business, including California-based General Atomics. The guitarist also said he has been an informal adviser to congressional leaders on the issue, such as Reps. Weldon and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. Baxter visits the Washington area with some regularity. He is on the board of regents of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, an Arlington, Va.-based technology policy shop, and he has also been an occasional government consultant. The musician isn't shy about touting his role in the missile defense effort. "Perhaps the biggest contribution I can make is to keep the lines of communication open between government, the military, and industry," he said. By way of explanation, Baxter said that "stove piping"-a term that refers to one hand not knowing what the other is doing-"is a real problem in the national security game." The other side in the debate isn't quiet, either. Liberal groups have stepped up their efforts to curb spending on missile defense and to oppose any unilateral move by the Administration that would abrogate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the keystone to arms control efforts. Some 14 groups belong to the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, including such stalwarts as the Council for a Livable World, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. In the fight to trim President Bush's funding request, the liberal groups are pinning their hopes on the Democratic-controlled Senate. John Isaacs, the president of the Council for a Livable World, said he would like to raise about $2 million for a national advertising campaign, but knows that won't be easy. Meanwhile, the council has produced a 180-page briefing book on the issue for House members and staff, and has started an e-newsletter, Shield of Dreams, to spread information inside and outside Washington about the risks of moving too quickly with a missile defense shield. These critics argue that although $143 billion has been spent to date on missile defense research and development, the technology still doesn't work properly. And they contend that it's dangerous and unnecessary for the United States to unilaterally abandon the ABM Treaty. "We're trying to trim the funds from $8.3 billion," Isaacs said. "The aim is to unify the [Senate] Democrats around a single position." In particular, the liberal groups want to block funds requested by the Administration to build a missile test facility at Fort Greely, Alaska. The plan for Fort Greely would "violate the ABM Treaty," he said. Isaacs and other opponents don't see much hope in the House, given the GOP's strong ideological commitment to the missile defense issue. "It's a religious issue with so many Republicans that it will be hard to break GOP members away," Issacs said. George C. Wilson of National Journal News Service contributed to this story. Peter H. Stone National Journal Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org http://www.gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network for the elimination nuclear weapons. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: CIA CONNECTIONS COME HOME TO ROOST Date: 14 Sep 2001 11:47:20 -0400 >X-Sender: smangiagli@pop.snet.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 >Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:32:29 -0400 >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >From: Sal Mangiagli >Subject: CIA CONNECTIONS COME HOME TO ROOST >To: aslater@gracelinks.org >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >FYi > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space" > >To: >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:39 AM >Subject: BIN LADEN & HIS CIA CONNECTIONS COME HOME TO ROOST > > > > [Note that the date on this story is August 1998, by MSNBC's International > > Editor] > > > > Bin Laden comes home to roost His CIA ties are only the beginning of a > > woeful story > > > > By Michael Moran MSNBC > > http://msnbc.com/news/190144.asp?cp1=1 > > > > NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 1998 - At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a > > code name: Blowback. Simply defined, this is the term that describes an > > agent, an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama > > bin Laden, our new public enemy Number 1, is the personification of > > blowback. And the fact that he is viewed as a hero by millions in the > > Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap what you sow. > > > > BEFORE YOU CLICK on my face and call me naive, let me concede some points. > > Yes, the West needed Josef Stalin to defeat Hitler. Yes, there were times > > during the Cold War when supporting one villain (Cambodia's Lon Nol, for > > instance) would have been better than the alternative (Pol Pot). So yes, > > there are times when any nation must hold its nose and shake hands with >the > > devil for the long-term good of the planet. > > > > But just as surely, there are times when the United States, faced > > with such moral dilemmas, should have resisted the temptation to act. >Arming > > a multi- national coalition of Islamic extremists in > > Afghanistan during the 1980s - well after the destruction of the > > Marine barracks in Beirut or the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 - was > > one of those times. > > > > BIN LADEN'S BEGINNINGS > > > > As anyone who has bothered to read this far certainly knows by now, bin > > Laden is the heir to Saudi construction fortune who, at least > > since the early 1990s, has used that money to finance countless > > attacks on U.S. interests and those of its Arab allies around the > > world. > > > > Osama bin Laden's network > > > > As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia > > to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan after Moscow's invasion in > > 1979. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as Maktab > > al-Khidamar - the MAK - which funneled money, arms and fighters from the > > outside world into the Afghan war. > > > > What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified > > form, at least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's state > > security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, > > the CIA's primary conduit for conducting the covert war against > > Moscow's occupation. > > > > By no means was Osama bin Laden the leader of Afghanistan's > > mujahedeen. His money gave him undue prominence in the Afghan > > struggle, but the vast majority of those who fought and died for > > Afghanistan's freedom - like the Taliban regime that now holds sway > > over most of that tortured nation - were Afghan nationals. > > > > Yet the CIA, concerned about the factionalism of Afghanistan made > > famous by Rudyard Kipling, found that Arab zealots who flocked to aid the > > Afghans were easier to "read" than the rivalry-ridden natives. > > While the Arab volunteers might well prove troublesome later, the > > agency reasoned, they at least were one-dimensionally anti-Soviet for now. > > So bin Laden, along with a small group of Islamic militants from Egypt, > > Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps all over the Middle > > East, became the "reliable" partners of the CIA in its war against Moscow. > > > > WHAT'S 'INTELLIGENT' ABOUT THIS? > > > > Though he has come to represent all that went wrong with the CIA's > > reckless strategy there, by the end of the Afghan war in 1989, bin > > Laden was still viewed by the agency as something of a dilettante - a rich > > Saudi boy gone to war and welcomed home by the Saudi monarchy he so hated >as > > something of a hero. > > > > America strikes back > > > > In fact, while he returned to his family's construction business, bin > > Laden had split from the relatively conventional MAK in 1988 and > > established a new group, al-Qaida, that included many of the more > > extreme MAK members he had met in Afghanistan. > > > > Most of these Afghan vets, or Afghanis, as the Arabs who fought there >became > > known, turned up later behind violent Islamic movements around the world. > > Among them: the GIA in Algeria, thought responsible for the massacres of > > tens of thousands of civilians; Egypt's Gamat Ismalia, which has massacred > > western tourists repeatedly in recent years; Saudi Arabia Shiite >militants, > > responsible for the Khobar Towers and Riyadh bombings of 1996. > > > > Indeed, to this day, those involved in the decision to give the > > Afghan rebels access to a fortune in covert funding and top-level > > combat weaponry continue to defend that move in the context of the > > Cold War. Sen. Orrin Hatch, a senior Republican on the Senate > > Intelligence Committee making those decisions, told my colleague > > Robert Windrem that he would make the same call again today even > > knowing what bin Laden would do subsequently. "It was worth it," he > > said. > > > > "Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an important role >in > > the downfall of the Soviet Union," he said. > > > > HINDSIGHT OR TUNNEL VISION > > > > It should be pointed out that the evidence of bin Laden's connection > > to these activities is mostly classified, though its hard to imagine > > the CIA rushing to take credit for a Frankenstein's monster like > > this. > > > > It is also worth acknowledging that it is easier now to oppose the > > CIA's Afghan adventures than it was when Hatch and company made them in >the > > mid-1980s. After all, in 1998 we now know that far larger elements than > > Afghanistan were corroding the communist party's grip on power in Moscow. > > > > Even Hatch can't be blamed completely. The CIA, ever mindful of the need >to > > justify its "mission," had conclusive evidence by the > > mid-1980s of the deepening crisis of infrastructure within the Soviet > > Union. The CIA, as its deputy director William Gates acknowledged > > under congressional questioning in 1992, had decided to keep that > > evidence from President Reagan and his top advisors and instead > > continued to grossly exaggerate Soviet military and technological > > capabilities in its annual "Soviet Military Power" report right up to > > 1990. > > > > Given that context, a decision was made to provide America's > > potential enemies with the arms, money - and most importantly - the > > knowledge of how to run a war of attrition violent and well-organized > > enough to humble a superpower. > > > > That decision is coming home to roost. > > > > > > [Michael Moran is MSNBC's International Editor] > > > > > > > > Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space > > PO Box 90083 > > Gainesville, FL. 32607 > > (352) 337-9274 > > http://www.space4peace.org > > globalnet@mindspring.com > > >Sal Mangiagli >54 Old Turnpike Road >Haddam, CT 06438 >(860) 345-8431 > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Wise words from the past Date: 14 Sep 2001 12:59:29 -0400 >From: "Tanya Dawkins" >To: , , , > , , , > , , > , , , > , , > , , > , , , > , , , > , , > , , > , , > , , , > , , > , , > , , > , , > , , > , , , > , , > , , > , , , > , , > , , , > , , , > , , > , , > , , , > , , , > , , , > , , >Subject: Wise words from the past >Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:46:44 -0400 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >Glad you're OK. Thought I'd pass this along. >Dear SOTP Friends: > >Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. >Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. >Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. >Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.... > >Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an >audacious faith >in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of >despair, and when >our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that >there is a >creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains >of evil, a >power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays >into bright >tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it >bends toward >justice. > >Martin Luther King, "Where do we go from here?", August 1967 > >Keep in touch and keep the faith, > >Tanya > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) S.J. Res. 23, "Authorization for Use of Military Force" Date: 14 Sep 2001 14:39:25 -0400 FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION Legislative Advisory on S.J. Res. 23, "Authorization for Use of Military Force" September 14, 2001, 2:45 p.m. EDT The House is now considering a resolution (S.J. Res. 23) to authorize the use of U.S. armed forces to retaliate for the attacks on the U.S. earlier this week. It contains the following very troubling provision: "Section 2. (A) That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons." We at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) believe that this provision would give far too broad an authority to the President and future presidents. We raise the following concerns: * Should not Congress retain the authority to determine where and with whom the United States military forces shall go to war? * Would this permit the President to send U.S. military forces into any sovereign country where the President has identified co-conspirators? For example, if an organization was found to be harbored in Toronto, Canada, and Canada did not accede to demands to take specific actions demanded by the U.S., is the President authorized to send in U.S. troops anyway? How will other countries--U.S. allies and foes alike--respond to this extra-territorial extension of U.S. law and war powers? * How will the President determine who poses a future risk of attack? Will the search for potential enemies include monitoring the activities of all who dissent? What are the safeguards to protect the rights of assembly and free speech of individuals and organizations that may oppose the policies of the present or future administrations? * Congress is extending this authority to the President permanently. What checks on Presidential authority should Congress retain? We at FCNL believe that war and vengeance are not the answer to the horror and violence of these attacks. War, destruction, and hatred between peoples are what the perpetrators of these heinous crimes apparently seek. The U.S. should not give them what they want. If the U.S. declares war, the hijackers and their supporters will have won. This is not a time for precipitous military action. Rather, it is a time for quick action by U.S. law enforcement agencies and close cooperation with governments around the world to identify and capture those who aided and abetted in the commission of these atrocities, and to bring them to justice before a court of law. The United States must not stoop to the level of violence, vengeance, and hatred exhibited by those who carried out this week's heinous attacks against innocent civilians. Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000 Fax: (202) 547-6019 Web site: www.fcnl.org We seek a world free of war and the threat of war. We seek a society with equity and justice for all. We seek a community where every person's potential may be fulfilled. We seek an earth restored. --FCNL Statement of Purpose - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: no_to_nato Sign online "Global Appeal for 'No more Date: 14 Sep 2001 16:29:29 -0400 >X-Sender: ad207@pop.ncf.carleton.ca >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) >Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:43:42 -0400 >To: no_to_nato@flora.org >From: Richard Sanders >Subject: no_to_nato Sign online "Global Appeal for 'No more violence!'" >Sender: owner-no_to_nato@flora.org >Reply-To: no_to_nato@flora.org >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >Please forward this message to others: > >Global Appeal for 'No more violence!' > >In an effort to help mobilize global support for nonviolence, to try to >stop the cycle of violence and to avert war, a global appeal for peace is >now being circulated to thousands of organizations and activists all over >the world. Please join the list of endorsers of this appeal now! > >The text of the Global Appeal is reprinted below. > >To add your name to this urgent plea for peace, please go to > >Once there, fill in the form and follow the simple instructions. > >You can also help by circulating this message to friends, colleagues, >politicians, media, community leaders, organizations, appropriate >listserves and to others who you think will either support this appeal or >benefit from reading it. Thanks! > >In solidarity, >Richard Sanders, >Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT > >P.S. Here is a text copy of the global appeal: > >======================================= >A Global Appeal for 'No more violence!' > >Deeply saddened by the suffering and deaths of thousands in New York, >Washington and Pennsylvania, we, people of many different backgrounds from >around the world, join with millions of others to denounce these latest >acts of terror against innocent civilians. We believe that military >retaliation in response to this mass murder will only accelerate the cycle >of fear, anger and violence. > >We urge our political and religious leaders to heed our appeal for >nonviolence. We will not be swayed by calls to support further violence. We >will respond to cries for revenge with caring, calm and reason. Violent >retaliation and war will only lead to greater losses of life. This, in >turn, will only serve to breed more anger, hatred and terror. > >Instead, we support the rule of international law. The perpetrators of >these crimes, and all other crimes against humanity, crimes against peace >and war crimes, should be brought to justice. No individual, group or >government should have immunity from international law. > >As we mourn for those whose lives were lost on September 11, 2001, we also >mourn for all those around the world dying from the violence inflicted by >terrorism, war or the lack of food, medicine, water and housing. > >Pledge of Nonviolence >Standing firmly together, we will embrace nonviolence to stop the cycle of >violence from spiraling even further out of control. We join in solidarity >with others around the world to build our common security through >disarmament, dialogue and social justice -- not through violent attacks and >military might. > >We pledge ourselves to support nonviolence as the way towards a peace with >justice. >======================================= >To sign this appeal, go to > > > > > > Richard Sanders > Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) > > A national peace network supported by > individuals and organizations across Canada > > 541 McLeod St., Ottawa Ontario K1R 5R2 Canada > Tel.: 613-231-3076 Fax: 613-231-2614 > Email: Web site: > >----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- > Help build opposition to NATO PA meetings in Ottawa, Oct. 5-8, 2001! > Join the "no_to_nato" list serve: > Send the message: subscribe no_to_nato to >Read the archives of our list serve > > Sign our "Global Appeal for 'No More Violence'" > >----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- >Unsubscribe by sending an email to with the following command in the BODY of your message: unsubscribe no_to_nato > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JGG786@aol.com Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Towards a New Progressive Security Agenda Date: 14 Sep 2001 19:35:40 EDT --part1_d1.c78d5b6.28d3ee4c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The hearts of all of good will suffer when injustice is committed. Its scale= =20 can never be measured and the cry of the innocent never fully understood. Le= t=20 us take courage and stand stronger to address the causes the manifest in the= =20 horrors we are seeing. The blasts of the tragic airplane hijack attacks of September 11, 2001=20 awakens us to serious reflection. Yet, our hearts cry like the sirens wailin= g=20 in ambulances carrying suffering casualties to hospitals. First, our hearts=20 deeply mourn the dead and feel for the losses felt by their immediate friend= s=20 and families. They alone know the depths of grief. Second, we grieve for the= =20 loss of humanity in the hearts of the perpetrators for whom only desperate=20 acts of irrationality appeared viable. Third, we emphasize how important a=20 shock this is to the peace and security of our nation. Rational sober=20 responses leading to greater justice and moral coherence will alone cure tha= t=20 shock. May God protect the souls of the departed and lead us, the living, to bring=20 about a world of greater hope and justice for the disenfranchised while=20 ensuring safety for the privileged. The duty to ensure that desperation does= =20 not lead to even greater irrational destruction through the use of a nuclear= =20 device has been heightened by this tragedy. It is imperative that there be a= n=20 international cooperative security regime that will not allow fissile=20 materials to be in the hands of those who devalue life. It is imperative tha= t=20 nuclear states set a credible example by working to rid the world of threats= =20 to the innocent and immediately take nuclear weapons off alert status and=20 create an international inventory of fissile materials. Greater efforts in=20 working for real peace, nuclear disarmament and human security are needed no= w=20 more than ever.=20 Now is the time to help. We must organize to: 1. Address the gross disparities of wealth on the planet and never demonize=20 any peoples, for the dehumanization of others is the precondition for=20 heartless killing. 2. Promote sustainable development so that people have hope and the=20 environment can continue to sustain human life 3. Promote cooperative security by: a. working systematically to end reliance on the threat to use nuclear=20 weapons; b. quickly creating an international=A0 inventory of fissile weapons grade=20 materials so that a terrorist cannot use a device that will destroy millions= =20 of innocent lives and ensure the end of civil liberties by creating a=20 credible threat to national security;=20 c. make sure our civil liberties remain intact; d. ratify the International Criminal Court and bring those who have committe= d=20 a crime against humanity to international justice.=20 Deeply Appreciative of All Who Work for All,=20 Jonathan Granoff President of the Global Security Institute --part1_d1.c78d5b6.28d3ee4c_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The hearts of all of good= will suffer when injustice is committed. Its scale can never be measured an= d the cry of the innocent never fully understood. Let us take courage and st= and stronger to address the causes the manifest in the horrors we are seeing= .

The blasts of the tragic airplane hijack attacks of September 11, 2001 a= wakens us to serious reflection. Yet, our hearts cry like the sirens wailing= in ambulances carrying suffering casualties to hospitals. First, our hearts= deeply mourn the dead and feel for the losses felt by their immediate frien= ds and families. They alone know the depths of grief. Second, we grieve for=20= the loss of humanity in the hearts of the perpetrators for whom only despera= te acts of irrationality appeared viable. Third, we emphasize how important=20= a shock this is to the peace and security of our nation. Rational sober resp= onses leading to greater justice and moral coherence will alone cure that sh= ock.

May God protect the souls of the departed and lead us, the living, to br= ing about a world of greater hope and justice for the disenfranchised while=20= ensuring safety for the privileged. The duty to ensure that desperation does= not lead to even greater irrational destruction through the use of a nuclea= r device has been heightened by this tragedy. It is imperative that there be= an international cooperative security regime that will not allow fissile ma= terials to be in the hands of those who devalue life. It is imperative that=20= nuclear states set a credible example by working to rid the world of threats= to the innocent and immediately take nuclear weapons off alert status and c= reate an international inventory of fissile materials. Greater efforts in wo= rking for real peace, nuclear disarmament and human security are needed now=20= more than ever.=20

Now is the time to help. We must organize to:
1. Address the gross disparities of wealth on the planet and never demon= ize any peoples, for the dehumanization of others is the precondition for he= artless killing.
2. Promote sustainable development so that people have hope and the envi= ronment can continue to sustain human life
3. Promote cooperative security by:
a. working systematically to end reliance on the threat to use nuclear w= eapons;
b. quickly creating an international=A0 inventory of fissile weapons gra= de materials so that a terrorist cannot use a device that will destroy milli= ons of innocent lives and ensure the end of civil liberties by creating a cr= edible threat to national security;=20
c. make sure our civil liberties remain intact;
d. ratify the International Criminal Court and bring those who have comm= itted a crime against humanity to international justice.=20

Deeply Appreciative of All Who Work for All,=20
Jonathan Granoff
President of the Global Security Institute --part1_d1.c78d5b6.28d3ee4c_boundary-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Las Vegas Weekly's article about NDE protestor's arrest Date: 15 Sep 2001 09:53:05 +0100 Friends, This is the first of at least two Las Vegas papers' picking up the story of Erik Thompson's arrest last Hiroshima Day at the Test Site. We should see the "Mercury" paper's article soon. Peace.. Sally Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2001_2/09_13/news_upfront1.html Protestor in the pokey 'Trespasser' prosecution is first in a decade By Kate Silver (silver@vegas.com) Photo by Kate Silver For the past decade, thousands of protestors at the Nevada Test Site have been detained in a desert-surrounded pen for trespassing charges. After a few hours, the "prisoners" are always cited and released, causing some of them to refer to these actions as "ceremonial citings." That is, until Aug. 6 of this year. A group of protestors from Nevada Desert Experience, a faith-based organization opposed to nukes, was at the site to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Las Vegas resident Erik Thompson, 44, entered the fenced area surrounding the Test Site and was immediately confronted by Nye County sheriffs, who led Thompson to the 100-by-300-foot holding pen. Authorities later returned, offering to cite and release Thompson. He refused. They offered two more times. He remained steadfast. On the fourth refusal, Thompson told the officers to just take him to jail--he wasn't leaving the Test Site on his own. And that's just what they did. Though Thompson has protested at the site since 1984, and says he's been cited for trespassing close to 100 times, he'd never been taken to jail. He sees the outcome as an opportunity to go before a judge and garner attention for the issue. His hearing is Oct. 4. "I will certainly have some impact. If nothing else, than to make Nye County realize what they're doing," he says. "I would like to raise these issues in court, issues of how the United States is in violation of international law (by continuing nuclear tests)." Sounds like Christmas at Ground Zero to me. FALSE IMPRISONMENT Another issue in Thompson's case is how can he face trespassing charges when he holds a permit to protest on the land? As outlined by the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, Nye County has no jurisdiction over the Nevada Test Site. The treaty states that the 1,863 acres of land belongs to the Western Shoshone Nation, which grants permits to protestors each year, allowing their presence on the Test Site. "One of the contentions we have with Nye County is that this is land that belongs to the Shoshone. That we have permits to come and go. And that we're here by invitation of the Shoshone," says Paul Colbert, office manager for Nevada Desert Experience. Nye County Sheriff Wade Lieseke sees ownership of the land differently. When asked about the protestors having Shoshone permits to protest on the land, Lieseke seemed to stifle his laughter. "Well, I guess that's their contention," he says. "The other contention is that they're on Department of Energy land and the Department of Energy runs the Nevada Test Site and we contract our services through the Department of Energy. The venue would be for a court of law to make that determination." FEDERAL CRACKDOWN Thompson's case has local activists worried about the future. "There's a trend now that the authorities are coming down very harshly compared to the past," says Sally Light, executive director of Nevada Desert Experience. "A few years ago I was arrested and put in the pen, held for a while and individually cited. I asked for the time frame that I'll hear from the court, and the police officer said I could go home and make the citation into a paper plane." Light fears those days are over. "The Bush administration is moving very quickly to consolidate a military posture in the world," she says. "We can't draw a single line of causation, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility." Since the Nevada Test Site is owned by the Department of Energy--it's federal land--Light fears the worst, citing the encounters at Vandenberg Air Force Base as evidence of the recent federal crackdown. The May Vandenberg protest resulted in 15 Greenpeace activists--Star Wars protestors--and two journalists facing felony charges of "conspiracy to violate a safety zone." If convicted, they'll face up to six years in prison and fines of up to $250,000. All this for a peaceful protest consisting of actions which, according to Light, "were all but ignored in the past." Another local activist who's witnessed this change in attitude is Susi Snyder, project coordinator for the Shundahai Network, an organization opposed to nukes that advocates the rights of indigenous people. About a year ago, Snyder was arrested and sent to jail for 16 days for what she calls "a simple line cross." A deputy insisted that she tried to bite him; Snyder says she was simply trying to reason with him (Las Vegas Weekly, "Continuing the Fight," Oct. 19, 2000). "I think security are very worried because Southern Nevadans are taking more action opposing Bush's policies, which include the possible resumption of nuclear weapons testing and Cheney's plan to ship waste out to Yucca Mountain," says Snyder. "People are ... willing to put their bodies on the line and make sure their voices are heard. The security people are worried about that." As well they should be, given the nuclear tests being performed at the Test Site, the possibility of nuclear waste coming to Yucca Mountain and the recent discovery of a military germ factory at the Nevada Test Site. Protestors could soon deluge the site faster than a mushroom cloud, and Snyder's convinced that a cop crackdown won't deter them. "It's to scare people away, but people won't be scared like that." -30- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [abolition-caucus] A Letter to Bush from Hiroshima] Date: 15 Sep 2001 10:03:08 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AFC34D56F52E8449E60EBCF4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------AFC34D56F52E8449E60EBCF4 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from n20.groups.yahoo.com ([216.115.96.70]) by emu (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id tq6tqt.qot.37tiu8v for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:44:28 -0700 (PDT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-1413460-4450-1000568666-sallight1=earthlink.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by n20.onelist.org with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2001 15:44:26 -0000 X-Sender: CXJ15621@nifty.ne.jp X-Apparently-To: abolition-caucus@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 15:44:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 39181 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 12:54:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 12:54:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.nifty.ne.jp) (202.219.63.53) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 12:54:04 -0000 Received: from default (ykhm070n241.ppp.infoweb.ne.jp [61.124.73.241]) by smtp1.nifty.ne.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W-991025) with SMTP id VAA07198; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:54:02 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <029f01c13de5$54374d00$18497c3d@default> Cc: "MORITAKI Haruko" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com; contact abolition-caucus-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Dear Friends, Since I haven't seen on this list-serve the following letter to Bush from the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, a newly established citizens' coalition across the local organizations, I'll forward it herewith. In peace and solidarity, Hiro Umebayashi ************************************************* Hiro Umebayashi President/Executive Director, Peace Depot International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for Disarmament and Security (PCDS) 3-3-1 Minowa-cho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-0051 Japan tel: 81-45-563-5101 (office), fax: 81:45-563-9907 (office) e-mail: CXJ15621@nifty.ne.jp (personal) ************************************************* September 13, 2001 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States Dear President Bush, We are writing on behalf of the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition to express our condolences for those who died in the tragic terrorist attack on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon on September 11. We share your grief and sorrow that so many innocent lives were lost to this violent outburst of hatred. We are concerned, however, about the repeated comparisons of this incident to Pearl Harbor. That attack led very quickly to the hysterical incarceration of Japanese Americans. Ultimately, it led to atomic bombings that devastated not two buildings but two entire cities. We beg you to ensure that no similar hysteria sweeps your nation again. We are further concerned about the emphasis in your subsequent speech to the nation on America$B!G(Bs power and determination to exact revenge. Thus, we are writing to urge you to refrain from reacting in anger and violence. As the most powerful nation on Earth, the United States must not stoop to the level of these terrorists. They are desperate, filled with rage. As you said, the US is strong, strong enough to rise above even this. This tragic man-made disaster must not be the start of a wildly escalating vicious cycle of violence that will bring the whole world down to the level of Israel$B!G(Bs West Bank. We hope this incident will convince you that any effort to protect the US with a missile defence program or space-based weapons will be futile. We must all realize that our enemy is not any group of terrorists. Rather, it is the hatred and rage that move terrorists and burn in all our hearts today. The US should immediately re-evaluate its reliance on power and make serious efforts to explore and alleviate misery and hatred throughout the world. Rather than remaining an object of envy and hate, the US must earn the love and respect of an increasingly desperate and interdependent world. Friendship and cooperation are the only means of achieving true and lasting security. Please be aware that the peace-loving people of Hiroshima stand ready to help you and the United States in any way we can to fight hatred and violence. Sincerely, Mitsuo Okamoto Goro Kawai Haruko Moritaki On behalf of the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition ------------------------ Yahoo! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [abolition-caucus] A Letter to Bush from Hiroshima] Date: 15 Sep 2001 10:03:08 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AFC34D56F52E8449E60EBCF4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------AFC34D56F52E8449E60EBCF4 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from n20.groups.yahoo.com ([216.115.96.70]) by emu (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id tq6tqt.qot.37tiu8v for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:44:28 -0700 (PDT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-1413460-4450-1000568666-sallight1=earthlink.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by n20.onelist.org with NNFMP; 15 Sep 2001 15:44:26 -0000 X-Sender: CXJ15621@nifty.ne.jp X-Apparently-To: abolition-caucus@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 15 Sep 2001 15:44:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 39181 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 12:54:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 15 Sep 2001 12:54:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.nifty.ne.jp) (202.219.63.53) by mta2 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 12:54:04 -0000 Received: from default (ykhm070n241.ppp.infoweb.ne.jp [61.124.73.241]) by smtp1.nifty.ne.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W-991025) with SMTP id VAA07198; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:54:02 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <029f01c13de5$54374d00$18497c3d@default> Cc: "MORITAKI Haruko" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com; contact abolition-caucus-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list abolition-caucus@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Dear Friends, Since I haven't seen on this list-serve the following letter to Bush from the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, a newly established citizens' coalition across the local organizations, I'll forward it herewith. In peace and solidarity, Hiro Umebayashi ************************************************* Hiro Umebayashi President/Executive Director, Peace Depot International Coordinator, Pacific Campaign for Disarmament and Security (PCDS) 3-3-1 Minowa-cho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-0051 Japan tel: 81-45-563-5101 (office), fax: 81:45-563-9907 (office) e-mail: CXJ15621@nifty.ne.jp (personal) ************************************************* September 13, 2001 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States Dear President Bush, We are writing on behalf of the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition to express our condolences for those who died in the tragic terrorist attack on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon on September 11. We share your grief and sorrow that so many innocent lives were lost to this violent outburst of hatred. We are concerned, however, about the repeated comparisons of this incident to Pearl Harbor. That attack led very quickly to the hysterical incarceration of Japanese Americans. Ultimately, it led to atomic bombings that devastated not two buildings but two entire cities. We beg you to ensure that no similar hysteria sweeps your nation again. We are further concerned about the emphasis in your subsequent speech to the nation on America$B!G(Bs power and determination to exact revenge. Thus, we are writing to urge you to refrain from reacting in anger and violence. As the most powerful nation on Earth, the United States must not stoop to the level of these terrorists. They are desperate, filled with rage. As you said, the US is strong, strong enough to rise above even this. This tragic man-made disaster must not be the start of a wildly escalating vicious cycle of violence that will bring the whole world down to the level of Israel$B!G(Bs West Bank. We hope this incident will convince you that any effort to protect the US with a missile defence program or space-based weapons will be futile. We must all realize that our enemy is not any group of terrorists. Rather, it is the hatred and rage that move terrorists and burn in all our hearts today. The US should immediately re-evaluate its reliance on power and make serious efforts to explore and alleviate misery and hatred throughout the world. Rather than remaining an object of envy and hate, the US must earn the love and respect of an increasingly desperate and interdependent world. Friendship and cooperation are the only means of achieving true and lasting security. Please be aware that the peace-loving people of Hiroshima stand ready to help you and the United States in any way we can to fight hatred and violence. Sincerely, Mitsuo Okamoto Goro Kawai Haruko Moritaki On behalf of the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition ------------------------ Yahoo! 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: carol wolman Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Towards a New Progressive Date: 15 Sep 2001 16:52:24 -0700 --------------861FE4DAA31A3CED6574663A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well said, Jonathan. Thank you. Peace, Carol JGG786@aol.com wrote: > The hearts of all of good will suffer when injustice is committed. Its > scale can never be measured and the cry of the innocent never fully > understood. Let us take courage and stand stronger to address the > causes the manifest in the horrors we are seeing. > > The blasts of the tragic airplane hijack attacks of September 11, 2001 > awakens us to serious reflection. Yet, our hearts cry like the sirens > wailing in ambulances carrying suffering casualties to hospitals. > First, our hearts deeply mourn the dead and feel for the losses felt > by their immediate friends and families. They alone know the depths of > grief. Second, we grieve for the loss of humanity in the hearts of the > perpetrators for whom only desperate acts of irrationality appeared > viable. Third, we emphasize how important a shock this is to the peace > and security of our nation. Rational sober responses leading to > greater justice and moral coherence will alone cure that shock. > > May God protect the souls of the departed and lead us, the living, to > bring about a world of greater hope and justice for the > disenfranchised while ensuring safety for the privileged. The duty to > ensure that desperation does not lead to even greater irrational > destruction through the use of a nuclear device has been heightened by > this tragedy. It is imperative that there be an international > cooperative security regime that will not allow fissile materials to > be in the hands of those who devalue life. It is imperative that > nuclear states set a credible example by working to rid the world of > threats to the innocent and immediately take nuclear weapons off alert > status and create an international inventory of fissile materials. > Greater efforts in working for real peace, nuclear disarmament and > human security are needed now more than ever. > > Now is the time to help. We must organize to: > 1. Address the gross disparities of wealth on the planet and never > demonize any peoples, for the dehumanization of others is the > precondition for heartless killing. > 2. Promote sustainable development so that people have hope and the > environment can continue to sustain human life > 3. Promote cooperative security by: > a. working systematically to end reliance on the threat to use nuclear > weapons; > b. quickly creating an international inventory of fissile weapons > grade materials so that a terrorist cannot use a device that will > destroy millions of innocent lives and ensure the end of civil > liberties by creating a credible threat to national security; > c. make sure our civil liberties remain intact; > d. ratify the International Criminal Court and bring those who have > committed a crime against humanity to international justice. > > Deeply Appreciative of All Who Work for All, > Jonathan Granoff > President of the Global Security Institute --------------861FE4DAA31A3CED6574663A Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well said, Jonathan.  Thank you.  Peace,  Carol

JGG786@aol.com wrote:

The hearts of all of good will suffer when injustice is committed. Its scale can never be measured and the cry of the innocent never fully understood. Let us take courage and stand stronger to address the causes the manifest in the horrors we are seeing.

The blasts of the tragic airplane hijack attacks of September 11, 2001 awakens us to serious reflection. Yet, our hearts cry like the sirens wailing in ambulances carrying suffering casualties to hospitals. First, our hearts deeply mourn the dead and feel for the losses felt by their immediate friends and families. They alone know the depths of grief. Second, we grieve for the loss of humanity in the hearts of the perpetrators for whom only desperate acts of irrationality appeared viable. Third, we emphasize how important a shock this is to the peace and security of our nation. Rational sober responses leading to greater justice and moral coherence will alone cure that shock.

May God protect the souls of the departed and lead us, the living, to bring about a world of greater hope and justice for the disenfranchised while ensuring safety for the privileged. The duty to ensure that desperation does not lead to even greater irrational destruction through the use of a nuclear device has been heightened by this tragedy. It is imperative that there be an international cooperative security regime that will not allow fissile materials to be in the hands of those who devalue life. It is imperative that nuclear states set a credible example by working to rid the world of threats to the innocent and immediately take nuclear weapons off alert status and create an international inventory of fissile materials. Greater efforts in working for real peace, nuclear disarmament and human security are needed now more than ever.

Now is the time to help. We must organize to:
1. Address the gross disparities of wealth on the planet and never demonize any peoples, for the dehumanization of others is the precondition for heartless killing.
2. Promote sustainable development so that people have hope and the environment can continue to sustain human life
3. Promote cooperative security by:
a. working systematically to end reliance on the threat to use nuclear weapons;
b. quickly creating an international  inventory of fissile weapons grade materials so that a terrorist cannot use a device that will destroy millions of innocent lives and ensure the end of civil liberties by creating a credible threat to national security;
c. make sure our civil liberties remain intact;
d. ratify the International Criminal Court and bring those who have committed a crime against humanity to international justice.

Deeply Appreciative of All Who Work for All,
Jonathan Granoff
President of the Global Security Institute

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John Burroughs wrote: > http://www.ipsdailyjournal.org/daily/091201.htm > > US SHIES AWAY FROM UN TREATIES ON TERRORISM > > by Thalif Deen > > UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 (IPS) - Less than 24 hours before the United States > came > under a wave of terrorist attacks, the United Nations was rejoicing over the > fact that 83 of its 189 member states had ratified some 12 existing U.N. > conventions against international terrorism. But what was "particularly > gratifying", said Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his annual report to the > General Assembly, was that 16 of those countries had ratified the landmark > International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings which > entered into force in May this year. The U.S., which was not on the list of 83 > ratifiers, is one of the few countries that refuses to ratify international > conventions, including those against terrorism. "Sign yes, ratify no," says a > U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. If a country refuses to > ratify a treaty, that treaty has no legal validity in that country, he added. > > During the last four years, the United Nations has established two new > conventions: the 1999 International Convention For the Suppression of > Terrorist > Financing and the 1997 U.N. Convention on the Suppression of Terrorist > Bombings. Successive U.S. administrations have been thwarted by right-wing > politicians in Congress who argue that the Washington should not be party to > international conventions because they either override domestic law or are > perceived as being not in the national interest. As a result, the United > States > has refused to ratify not only conventions against terrorism but also several > other treaties, including a convention against landmines and those relating to > climate change, law of the sea, and the creation of an international criminal > court. > > Nevertheless, Annan Tuesday expressed shock and grief following the day's > terror attacks against New York's World Trade Centre and the U.S. defence > department's Pentagon headquarters. Annan expressed his ''profound condolences > to (the attacks' victims and their families) and to the people and government > of the United States.'' ''There can be no doubt that these attacks are > deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated - and as > such I > condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it > appears,'' Annan said. > > In his report to the General Assembly Monday, Annan said he was looking > forward > to two new conventions currently under discussion: an International Convention > for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism and an omnibus Comprehensive > Convention on International Terrorism. Both conventions are scheduled for > discussion by the Adhoc Committee on Terrorism during the current session of > the General Assembly, which runs through mid-December. Meanwhile, the United > States also has continued to express strong reservations over a Third World > proposal for a major international conference to combat terrorism. Addressing > the Ad Hoc Committee last February, U.S. delegate Robert Rosenstock said > such a > conference would have no practical benefits. "The issues suggested as possible > subjects at such a conference had historically confounded a practical > solution," he said. > > Rosenstock told the Committee that a conference on terrorism would distract > from pragmatic measures that could and should be taken - such as steps to > facilitate and encourage universal adherence to the existing 12 terrorism > conventions adopted by the United Nations. The U.S. delegate also pointed out > that an effective vehicle to discuss these issues would be the 189-member > General Assembly, which annually adopts more than half a dozen U.N. > resolutions > relating to terorrism. Rosenstock questioned whether an international > conference on terrorism would be "a useful stimulus or a costly distraction." > > The proposed conference, backed by the 119-member Non-Aligned Movement > (NAM) of > Third World nations, is expected to tackle several sensitive subjects, > including one of the most politically- divisive issues at the United Nations: > how to distinguish a terrorist from a freedom fighter. The proposal for an > international conference on terrorism has been kicked around at the United > Nations for nearly a decade. But it has failed to get off the ground > because it > has raised questions such as: Should military attacks by armed forces of any > state be deemed acts of terrorism when civilians are killed? To what extent > were NATO bombings of the former Yugoslavia acts of terrorism and > violations of > the national sovereignty of a U.N. member state? Is not the assassination of > Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza acts of state terrorism? > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> > FREE COLLEGE MONEY > CLICK HERE to search > 600,000 scholarships! > http://us.click.yahoo.com/47cccB/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/7XSolB/TM > ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > To subscribe to the Abolition Global Caucus, send an email from the account you wish to be subscribed to: "abolition-caucus-subscribe@egroups.com" > > Do not include a subject line or any text in the body of the message. > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) petition to renounce potential first strike nuclear response to terrorism Date: 16 Sep 2001 12:47:24 -0700 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement/message/1 One simple and universally acceptable initiative that can be undertaken by an American Peace Movement in response to the tradegy of the terrorist suicide attacks on the United States of September 10, 2001, in memory of the victims and with the firm determination that such kind of thing should never happen again, is to mobilize US and global public opinion to seek a public commitment from President Bush that US first-strike nuclear weapons will not be used in the coming war that he has declared on terrorism, in spite of the United States' continuing "first-strike policy" reserving the right to use nuclear weapons to impose its will on the world, a policy in violation of the repeatedly expressed UN ban on weapons of mass destruction starting with the 1945 UN Charter language banning the use of such weapons. Such a US renunciation of the potential use of first-strike use of nuclear weapons in this present "war on terrorism" situation will bring public opinion to bear on the need, after such decision by President Bush, to consider renunciation of the overall US nuclear first-strike policy maintained since the atomic bombings of the civilian noncombatant populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bombings which both symbolize and began the terror of the threat of global nuclear war, the nuclear arms race, and the continuing dangers of nuclear holocaust from accidental or intential use of nuclear weapons by nations or terrorists. Consideration of this US renunciation of any first-strike response to terrorism and subsequent consideration of abandonment of US first-strike nuclear policy will logically lead to consideration of the abolition of nuclear weapons entirely and the reapplication of their costs to funding human needs instead, as per the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act again introduced to Congress by DC Congresswoman Norton which would authorize the President to begin a multi-lateral complete nuclear disarmament after his certification of such agreement from all other nations. http://www.prop1.org Please spread this idea to your readers with the goal of obtaining worldwide support for this "no US first-strike nuclear response in the war on terrorism" decision by President Bush, a decision to be made as soon as possible before the upcoming December 25, 2001, 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ, the "technical" end of the Second Millennium and the beginning of The Third Millennium. On behalf of the memory of all those victimized by war and violence and the fears and traumas of same, I pray for universal support of this idea and that this message be copied to all activists and media with your endorsement. David Crockett Williams, September 16, 2001 (100days until 12-25-01) an American Peace Movement member http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: NO RUSH TO WAR!/FOX/(fwd) Date: 16 Sep 2001 16:44:21 -0500 -----Original Message----- Sent: 9/15/2001 7:00 PM SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR (20:29) September 13, 2001 Thursday Transcript # 091303cb.256 SECTION: News; Domestic LENGTH: 3973 words HEADLINE: America Unites How Should the U.S. Bring Terrorists to Justice? GUESTS: Sam Huessini, Francis Boyle BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly BODY: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. O'REILLY: While most Americans are united in their support of President Bush and the desire to bring Osama bin Laden and other terrorists to justice, there are some differing voices. Joining us now from Washington is Sam Husseini, the former spokesman for the Arab Anti -- American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and from Urbana, Illinois, is Francis Boyle, an international law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.......... O'REILLY: Cut his mike. All right, now, Mr. Boyle, Professor Boyle, let's have a little bit more of a rational discussion here. That was absurd. The United States now has to take action against certain segments in this world who we know have been harbouring people like Osama bin Laden. That's going to happen. How will you react to that? FRANCIS BOYLE, LAW PROFESSOR: Well, first I think you have to look at the law involved. Clearly what we have here, under United States domestic law and statutes, is an act of international terrorism that should be treated as such. It is not yet elevated to an act of war. For an act of war, we need proof that a foreign state actually ordered or launched an attack upon the United States of America. So far, we do not yet have that evidence. We could... O'REILLY: All right, now why are you, why are you, why are you taking this position when you know forces have attacked the United States. Now, maybe they don't have a country, but they are forces. They have attacked the United States, all right? Without warning, without provocation. Civilian targets. They've done everything that an act of war does. So, I'm saying that because we live in a different world now, where borders don't really matter, where terrorism is the weapon of choice, that you would declare war -- if I were President Bush, I would declare war on any hostile forces, notice those words, professor, hostile forces to the United States. I would have a blanket declaration of war so I could go in and kill those people. Would I be wrong? BOYLE: Well, Bill, so far you'll note Congress has been unwilling to declare war. And indeed, this matter is being debated right now. Right now, it appears that what they are seeking is not a full declaration of war, but only what we law professors call an imperfect declaration, which means a limited use of military force under the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Precisely for the problem that we don't know if any state was involved and we still do not know who was responsible for this undoubted terrorist attack upon the United States of America. O'REILLY: All right, but we have the secretary of state saying that Osama bin Laden now has been linked into and, you know, we don't have all the intelligence information, as President Bush said today. He's not going to give us, and he shouldn't, the people of America all the information that they have. But when the secretary of state gets up and says, look, we know this guy was involved to some extent, I believe him. And he's a wanted man, professor. He's been wanted for eight years. The Clinton administration didn't have the heart to get him and in the first few months the Bush administration didn't either. We now know, and you just heard the FBI agent say that Afghanistan has been involved for years harbouring and training these kinds of people. Certainly, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, those five countries, certainly have been hostile to the United States and given safe harbour to these terrorists. That's a fact. BOYLE: Well, let me point out, the secretary of state was very careful in the words he used. He said Osama bin Laden was a suspect. He did not accuse him. And, again, under these circumstances... O'REILLY: No, he didn't use the word suspect. He used another word. BOYLE: The account I read in, just off the wire service, said suspect. But let me continue my point. Under these circumstances, where we have 5,000 Americans dead and we could have many more Americans killed in a conflict, we have to be very careful, Congress and the American people and the president, in not to over-escalate the rhetoric, here. We have to look at this very rationally. This is a democracy. We have a right to see what the evidence is and proceed in a very slow and deliberate manner. O'REILLY: No, we don't. We do not, as a republic, we don't have the right to see what the evidence is if the evidence is of a national security situation, as you know. Now, I'm trusting my government to do the right thing, here. I am trusting. But I think it's beyond a doubt right now, beyond a reasonable doubt, which is, as you know, a court of law standard, that there are at least five, North Korea you could put in to, six states in the world that have harboured continually these terrorists. Now, we know that this was a well-coordinated effort. Our initial intelligence shows that some of the people that have been arrested have ties to Osama bin Laden. We know, as you just heard the FBI agent say, that the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was tied in to a guy who knew bin Laden. So, bin Laden -- I agree with you, that you don't want to be a hothead. You don't want to overreact. You don't want to lob a missile at the pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan, which was terrible, and that was the one good point, or fair point, that Mr. Husseini made, you don't want to do that. But, on the other hand, professor, I think Americans are rightful, are right, to demand action against states that we know in the past have harboured these individuals and there's a warrant out for Osama bin Laden's arrest. So, if he is in Afghanistan, I would give that government a couple of days to hand him over, and if they did not, I'd go in. BOYLE: Well, again. The American people are right. We need to see the evidence. I remember people saying a generation ago, during the Vietnam war, I trusted my government. And I think people of my generation found out that that was wrong. We needed more evidence. O'REILLY: All right. Professor, let me stop you there, though. This is another point that Mr. Husseini tried to make. Just because the United States of America has made mistakes in the past, does not mean that we cannot defend ourselves now. This is a unique situation in history. We have now been attacked by forces without borders, OK? We've been attacked. And it hasn't been a military attack, it's been an attack on civilians. The reason, the sole reason a federal government exists is to protect the people of the United States. And as I said in my "Talking Points" memo, they haven't really done the job, for political reasons. But now's the time to correct those things. So, there's going to be a reckoning, Professor. You know it's going to happen. I know it's going to happen. And it's going to come down on Osama bin Laden first and maybe some of these rouge states later. Will you support that action? BOYLE: Before I support a war that will jeopardize the lives of tens of thousands of our servicemen and women, I want to see the evidence that we are relying on to justify this. So far, I do not see it. I see allegations. I see innuendo. I see winks and I see nods, but I do not see the evidence that you need under international law and the United States constitution so far to go to war. Maybe that evidence will be there, but it is not there now. My recommendation to Congress is to slow down, let's see what develops and let's see what this evidence is before we knowingly go out and not only kill large numbers of people, perhaps in Afghanistan and other countries, but undoubtedly in our own armed forces. 58,000 men of my generation will killed in Vietnam because of irresponsible behavior by the Johnson administration rushing that Tonkin Gulf resolution through Congress, exactly what we're seeing now. And we need to pull back and stop and think and ask the hard questions and demand to see the evidence first, before we march off to war. O'REILLY: All right, so it's not enough that people arrested in the bombings of the embassies in Africa testified in court that Osama bin Laden was behind and financed and coordinated those bombings. That evidence is not enough for you? BOYLE: Well, Africa is a very is a very different story than what happened in the World Trade Center. O'REILLY: No, it's not. He's wanted, he's wanted in the United States for the bombings of those two embassies. Is that evidence enough for you, professor, for the United States to go in and get this man? Is it enough? BOYLE: That, that matter was treated and handled as an act of international terrorism in accordance with the normal laws and procedures of the United States of America as a question of domestic and international law enforcement. And I am suggesting that is the way we need to proceed here... O'REILLY: Well, wait. You're dodging the question professor. BOYLE: ... unless we have evidence that... O'REILLY: Wait, professor. Professor. This is a no spin zone. Hold it. Hold it. Even out in Urbana Champagne, the no spin zone rules. You're dodging the question. There is an absolutely rock solid arrest warrant out for this man. Evidence in court, testimony by people who did the bombings that this man was behind it. Is that enough evidence for you to have the United States go in and get him now? Is it enough? BOYLE: The United States has been attempting to secure his extradition from Afghanistan. I support... O'REILLY: Yeah, that's long enough. BOYLE: I support that approach as international... O'REILLY: Come on already, I mean, eight years, we've been attempting to extradite this guy. Now's the time to tell the Afghans you've got 48 hours or 72 hours to turn him over. You don't turn him over, we're coming in and getting him. You try to stop us, and you're toast. Enough is enough, professor. BOYLE: That's vigilantism. It is not what the United States of America is supposed to stand for. We are supposed to stand... O'REILLY: No, what that is is protecting the country from terrorists who kill civilians. BOYLE: ... for rule of law. O'REILLY: It's not vigilantism. BOYLE: We are supposed to stand for rule of law, and that is clearly vigilantism. There is a Security Council, there is Congress, there are procedures and there are laws, and they are there to protect all of us here in the United States as well as... O'REILLY: So, you're telling me... BOYLE: ... as well as our servicemen and women. Look, Bill, if we allegedly, as you put it, go in, you are not going in, I am not going in. It's going to be young men and women serving in our armed forces... O'REILLY: And that's their job. To protect us. But, professor, let me, you know, what you're saying is, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. B0YLE: ... with the constitution and the laws of the United States. O'REILLY: We're not violating any laws here, professor. No one is going to violate the law. There is going to be a state of war induced against states, states, terroristic states, who have attacked us. And what you're saying is, though, and correct me if I'm wrong, you're saying that even though there is a legitimate warrant out for Osama bin Laden's arrest, and even though most civilized nations would honor that warrant and turn him over to us, extradite him to us, the vast majority of nations on earth would do that, you still are opposed for the United States to demand that the Taliban government arrest this man and turn him over? You are opposed to that? BOYLE: During the Gulf War, President Bush's father, who has far more experience that the current president Bush, got a Security Council resolution authorizing the United States of America to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. Second, President Bush's father got a War Powers Authorization Resolution from Congress that gave him the constitutional authority to use military force to enforce that Security Council resolution. What I'm calling for here is the same adherence to international law and the United States constitution that the first President Bush adhered to in dealing with Iraq. O'REILLY: Well, you'll get that, professor. That's just a formality. There -- nobody on Capitol Hill right now, they're not going to -- there's no profile of courages up there anyway, usually. They're going to give President Bush what he wants. If he wants a War Powers Act, they're going to give it to him. He wants a declaration, they're going to give it to him. BOYLE: Actually, they're arguing about it right now... O'REILLY: They're going to give it to him. But I'm not interested in that, because it's going to happen. It's going to happen. BOYLE: The reports -- no, the reports I read was that this President Bush initially asked for a blank check, and Congress balked because they had been suckered once before... O'REILLY: All right, I'm not -- speculation is not what I'm in -- all right, professor. I don't want to speculate. I'm just going to say in my opinion he's going to have the authority to go in and get Osama bin Laden and his pals, wherever they are. He will get that authority, whether it takes a day or a week, he'll get it. And once he gets it, now, that's what I want to talk about here. Once he gets it, are you and others like you going to say, oh, no, we shouldn't do this, even though we have proof of the man's -- masterminded the bombings in Africa and the Cole,testimony in Yemen, are you going to still say, even after the authority is granted by Congress, which it will be, no, don't do it, let Afghanistan handle him? Are you going to still do that, professor? BOYLE: Second, like his father, his father also got authorization from the United States, the United Nations Security Council under chapter seven of the United Nations charter... O'REILLY: Oh, you want to go to U.N. now? You want the U.N. involved now. BOYLE: Is exactly what his father did... O'REILLY: So what? BOYLE: And that's exactly right. O'REILLY: His father made a huge mistake by not taking out Sadam Hussein when he could of. BOYLE: His father adhered to the required procedures under the United States constitution and the United Nations charter that is a treaty and the supreme law of our land. I expect the current President Bush to do exactly what his father did before he starts engaging in a massive military campaign in Iraq or against other countries... O'REILLY: All right, I don't know whether he's going to go -- I know he's not going to let the U.N. dictate. He might go for a consensus. He's already got it with Putin and all of our NATO allies, he's already go that. Whether he goes -- I think it would be a mistake to let -- empowering the U.N. in this situation. BOYLE: Then why did his father do this? O'REILLY: I'm going -- we're going to wrap this up with this. I'm going to give my last summation and then you can give yours, I'll give you the last word on it. This is a fugitive we're dealing with here. He has now been tied in by U.S. intelligence agencies, according to Attorney General Ashcroft and the secretary of state, tied into this horrendous bombing here in New York. The United States must make a response to this, and I am agreeing with you in a sense, it can't be a knee-jerk. It's got to be done in a methodical way. Congress will go along, they may debate it or whatever, but they will go along in either a War Powers, special War Powers Act or a declaration of war against forces hostile to the United States. Then they will go in and they will take him. This man you're looking at on the TV screen is a dead man. He should be a dead man. You don't do what he did and be allowed to walk around this earth. Now, I'm distressed, professor, by your reliance, reliance on the strict letter of propriety, when we've got 10,000 people laying in the street about 22 miles from me right now. I want deliberation. I want methodical discipline, but I also want action. We know who this guy is. We know the governments that are protecting him. We know the other rouge states that have terrorist camps there. They all have to be dealt with, in my opinion. I'll give you the last word. BOYLE: Sure, I agree with you, Bill. He is a fugitive from justice and this should be handled as a matter as other fugitives from justice of international law enforcement. If indeed there is evidence that a foreign state orchestrated and ordered an attack against the United States then clearly that is an act of war that should be dealt with as such... O'REILLY: What about harbouring? BOYLE: Right now... O'REILLY: Is harbouring an act of war? BOYLE: In my opinion, no. And under the current circumstances, I don't see it. O'REILLY: All right, professor. BOYLE: I think there is a distinction here. O'REILLY: OK, all right, wrap it up, if you would. BOYLE: I agree -- I agree that the -- if we go to war in a hasty manner here, we could see thousands of U.S. military personnel being killed without proper authorization by Congress or by the United Nations Security Council. O'REILLY: OK. BOYLE: Our founding fathers decided that the most awesome decision we would ever make would be to go to war, and we have to be very careful in making that decision. O'REILLY: All right, professor, I appreciate it very much. Thank you for your point of view. BOYLE: Thank you, Bill. >Francis A. Boyle >Law Building >504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. >Champaign, IL 61820 USA >217-333-7954(voice) >217-244-1478(fax) >fboyle@law.uiuc.edu - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Carol Wolman Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: [abolition-caucus] Legislative Action Message (9/6/01) Amended] Date: 17 Sep 2001 07:22:23 +0000 --------------C9240839555C0A0EBE175BEB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the wake of the attacks, this is more important than ever. Could the text be amended to include mention of the terrorist attacks, and how it makes control of fissile material the #1 priority in the world? Peace, Carol "M.W. Stowell" wrote: > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: FCNL: Legislative Action Message (9/6/01) Amended > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:22:23 -0400 (EDT) > From: fcnl-news@fcnl.org > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > > The link to the sample message to senators in today's LAM was incorrect. > The correct > link is . > > -----Original Message----- > From: fcnl-news@fcnl.org [mailto:fcnl-news@fcnl.org] > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:15 PM > To: undisclosed-recipients > Subject: FCNL: Legislative Action Message (9/6/01) > > FCNL LEGISLATIVE ACTION MESSAGE - September 6, 2001 > > The following action items from the Friends Committee on National > Legislation (FCNL) focus on federal policy issues currently before Congress > or the Administration. > > TOPIC: PRESERVE THE NUCLEAR TEST MORATORIUM > > PRESERVE THE NUCLEAR TEST MORATORIUM: Certain unnamed officials in the Bush > administration are proposing to trade the nuclear testing moratorium for > Chinese support of U.S. missile defense plans. In a front page story in the > Washington Post (Sunday, September 2), an "administration official said that > as a sweetener for China, the United States will signal that it recognizes > both sides might want to resume nuclear weapons testing in the future." On > the same day, the New York Times carried a similar, front-page story: "One > senior official said that in the future, the United States and China might > also discuss resuming underground nuclear tests if they are needed to assure > the safety and reliability of their arsenals." > > The suggestion by an administration official that the U.S. and China might > agree to resume nuclear testing is extremely troubling. It is an idea that > should be challenged immediately and laid to rest permanently. > > The current moratorium on nuclear weapons testing is a logical, reasonable, > and sane step toward reducing the nuclear danger-a step toward ending all > nuclear test explosions and the development of new nuclear weapons. > Conversely, if the U.S. and China resume nuclear testing, it will mark the > beginning of the next nuclear arms race. Pakistan and India will not wait > long to resume testing and to produce more nuclear weapons. Inevitably, > Russia will respond in kind. The nuclear danger will increase dramatically. > Is this the legacy we want to leave for our grandchildren? > > ACTION: > (1) Please write both your senators. Urge them to support the current > nuclear testing moratorium. Bush administration officials will be testifying > before Congress this fall in confirmation hearings and in budget hearings. > Senators will have an opportunity to question officials about their > intentions concerning nuclear testing. Strong, bipartisan opposition by > senators to the resumption of testing will have an impact on the Bush > administration's policy. > > You can use FCNL's web site to make letter-writing easier. Start with a > sample letter, personalize the language, then send your message as an email > directly from our site or print it out and mail it. To view a sample letter, > click on the link below, then enter your zip code and click in the > box. Here is the link: > > > (2) If possible, also alert your community to this important issue by > writing a letter to the editor of your local paper. Urge your neighbors to > consider the implications of ending the current nuclear testing moratorium. > > You can use FCNL's web site to make letter-writing easier. Start with a > sample letter, personalize the language, then send your message as an email > directly from our site or print it out and mail it. To view a sample > letter-to-the-editor, click on the link below, then enter your zip code. > Select the media organization(s) to which you would like to send your > letter, then selected the message . > Here is the link: . > > BACKGROUND: The Washington Post and New York Times stories provoked a > strong reaction in official circles in Washington, between both > conservatives and liberals. The White House was forced to backtrack. They > issued a statement last evening (Tuesday, September 4) that the Bush > administration will not "acquiesce in any resumption of nuclear testing by > China. We are respecting the nuclear testing moratorium and all other > nations should as well." > > While proponents of nuclear testing in the administration may have been > slowed in the short-term, they will continue to push for an end to the > current nuclear testing moratorium. The U.S. has not tested a nuclear weapon > since 1992. All countries that possess nuclear weapons (Russia, China, > United Kingdom, France, India and Pakistan) have informally pledged to honor > the testing moratorium. > > These unnamed officials are sending signals that the U.S. will not object to > the resumption of testing by China. Nuclear testing by China would then be > used as a rationale for the resumption of U.S. testing. Proponents of > building U.S. missile defenses would also use it as a further excuse for > deploying a system to counter a Chinese nuclear buildup. > > The issue of nuclear testing will likely come up again this fall as the > administration decides whether to develop a new nuclear weapon, or > "mini-nuke." Development of such a weapon would require resuming underground > testing. The administration is preparing a report to Congress on > "mini-nukes" that will be completed in November. > > CONTACTING LEGISLATORS > > Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 > > Sen. ________ > U.S. Senate > Washington, DC 20510 > > Rep. ________ > U.S. House of Representatives > Washington, DC 20515 > > Information on your members is available on FCNL's web site: > http://capwiz.com/fconl/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?com > mand=congdi > > CONTACTING THE ADMINISTRATION > > White House Comment Desk: 202-456-1111 > FAX: 202-456-2461 > E-MAIL: president@whitehouse.gov > WEB PAGE: http://www.whitehouse.gov > > President George W. Bush > The White House > Washington, DC 20500 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > This message supplements other FCNL materials and does not reflect FCNL's > complete policy position on any issue. 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Subject: FCNL: Legislative Action Message (9/6/01) Amended
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:22:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: fcnl-news@fcnl.org
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

The link to the sample message to senators in today's LAM was incorrect.
The correct
link is <http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=49359&type=CO&azip=>.

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From: fcnl-news@fcnl.org [mailto:fcnl-news@fcnl.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:15 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: FCNL: Legislative Action Message (9/6/01)

FCNL LEGISLATIVE ACTION MESSAGE - September 6, 2001

The following action items from the Friends Committee on National
Legislation (FCNL) focus on federal policy issues currently before Congress
or the Administration.

TOPIC: PRESERVE THE NUCLEAR TEST MORATORIUM

PRESERVE THE NUCLEAR TEST MORATORIUM:  Certain unnamed officials in the Bush
administration are proposing to trade the nuclear testing moratorium for
Chinese support of U.S. missile defense plans.  In a front page story in the
Washington Post (Sunday, September 2), an "administration official said that
as a sweetener for China, the United States will signal that it recognizes
both sides might want to resume nuclear weapons testing in the future." On
the same day, the New York Times carried a similar, front-page story: "One
senior official said that in the future, the United States and China might
also discuss resuming underground nuclear tests if they are needed to assure
the safety and reliability of their arsenals."

The suggestion by an administration official that the U.S. and China might
agree to resume nuclear testing is extremely troubling.  It is an idea that
should be challenged immediately and laid to rest permanently.

The current moratorium on nuclear weapons testing is a logical, reasonable,
and sane step toward reducing the nuclear danger-a step toward ending all
nuclear test explosions and the development of new nuclear weapons.
Conversely, if the U.S. and China resume nuclear testing, it will mark the
beginning of the next nuclear arms race.  Pakistan and India will not wait
long to resume testing and to produce more nuclear weapons.  Inevitably,
Russia will respond in kind.  The nuclear danger will increase dramatically.
Is this the legacy we want to leave for our grandchildren?

ACTION:
(1) Please write both your senators.  Urge them to support the current
nuclear testing moratorium. Bush administration officials will be testifying
before Congress this fall in confirmation hearings and in budget hearings.
Senators will have an opportunity to question officials about their
intentions concerning nuclear testing. Strong, bipartisan opposition by
senators to the resumption of testing will have an impact on the Bush
administration's policy.

You can use FCNL's web site to make letter-writing easier. Start with a
sample letter, personalize the language, then send your message as an email
directly from our site or print it out and mail it. To view a sample letter,
click on the link below, then enter your zip code and click <Go> in the
<Take Action Now> box.  Here is the link:
<http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=49359&type=CO&azip =>

(2) If possible, also alert your community to this important issue by
writing a letter to the editor of your local paper.  Urge your neighbors to
consider the implications of ending the current nuclear testing moratorium.

You can use FCNL's web site to make letter-writing easier.  Start with a
sample letter, personalize the language, then send your message as an email
directly from our site or print it out and mail it. To view a sample
letter-to-the-editor, click on the link below, then enter your zip code.
Select the media organization(s) to which you would like to send your
letter, then selected the message <Preserve the nuclear testing moratorium>.
Here is the link: <http://capwiz.com/fconl/dbq/media>.

BACKGROUND:  The Washington Post and New York Times stories provoked a
strong reaction in official circles in Washington, between both
conservatives and liberals. The White House was forced to backtrack. They
issued a statement last evening (Tuesday, September 4) that the Bush
administration will not "acquiesce in any resumption of nuclear testing by
China. We are respecting the nuclear testing moratorium and all other
nations should as well."

While proponents of nuclear testing in the administration may have been
slowed in the short-term, they will  continue to push for an end to the
current nuclear testing moratorium. The U.S. has not tested a nuclear weapon
since 1992.  All countries that possess nuclear weapons (Russia, China,
United Kingdom, France, India and Pakistan) have informally pledged to honor
the testing moratorium.

These unnamed officials are sending signals that the U.S. will not object to
the resumption of testing by China. Nuclear testing by China would then be
used as a rationale for the resumption of U.S. testing. Proponents of
building U.S. missile defenses would also use it as a further excuse for
deploying a system to counter a Chinese nuclear buildup.

The issue of nuclear testing will likely come up again this fall as the
administration decides whether to develop a new nuclear weapon, or
"mini-nuke." Development of such a weapon would require resuming underground
testing. The administration is preparing a report to Congress on
"mini-nukes" that will be completed in November.

CONTACTING LEGISLATORS

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

Sen. ________
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510

Rep. ________
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Information on your members is available on FCNL's web site:
http://capwiz.com/fconl/dbq/officials/directory/directory.dbq?com
mand=congdi

CONTACTING THE ADMINISTRATION

White House Comment Desk: 202-456-1111
FAX: 202-456-2461
E-MAIL: president@whitehouse.gov
WEB PAGE: http://www.whitehouse.gov

President George W. Bush
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
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--------------C9240839555C0A0EBE175BEB-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Rep. Barbara Lee: One courageous Congresswomen Date: 17 Sep 2001 16:28:58 -0400 On Friday evening, September 14, the House of Representatives approved an "Authorization for Use of Military Force," S. J. Res. 23, by a vote of 420-1. It was earlier adopted in the Senate by 98-0. One courageous Congresswomen, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA-9) voted against the resolution. Her statement follows: Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today really with a very heavy heart, one that is filled with sorrow for the families and the loved ones who were killed and injured this week. Only the most foolish and the most callous would not understand the grief that has really gripped our people and millions across the world. This unspeakable act on the United States has forced me, however, to rely on my moral compass, my conscience, and my God for direction. September 11 changed the world. Our deepest fears now haunt us. Yet I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. This is a very complex and complicated matter. This resolution will pass, although we all know that the President can wage a war even without it. However difficult this vote may be, some of us must urge the use of restraint. Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, let us step back for a moment. Let us just pause for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control. I have agonized over this vote, but I came to grips with it today and I came to grips with opposing this resolution during the very painful yet very beautiful memorial service. As a member of the clergy so eloquently said, "As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore." We strongly urge organizations and individuals to write Rep. Barbara Lee with letters of support for her courageous stand. Rep. Barbara Lee 426 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 or Rep. Barbara Lee 1301 Clay Street, Suite 1000N Oakland, CA 94612 Letters to the editor supporting Rep. Lee are also important. Please copy this message to your friends, especially in the Oakland, California area. Best regards, David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 547-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Web site: www.fcnl.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lorraine Krofchok Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Rep. Barbara Lee: One courageous Congresswomen Date: 17 Sep 2001 14:28:45 -0700 Barbara Lee has an e-mail also: barbara.lee@mail.house.gov David Culp wrote: > > On Friday evening, September 14, the House of Representatives approved an > "Authorization for Use of Military Force," S. J. Res. 23, by a vote of > 420-1. It was earlier adopted in the Senate by 98-0. One courageous > Congresswomen, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA-9) voted against the resolution. Her > statement follows: > > Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today really with a very heavy heart, one that > is filled with sorrow for the families and the loved ones who were killed > and injured this week. Only the most foolish and the most callous would not > understand the grief that has really gripped our people and millions across > the world. > > This unspeakable act on the United States has forced me, however, to rely on > my moral compass, my conscience, and my God for direction. September 11 > changed the world. Our deepest fears now haunt us. Yet I am convinced that > military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism > against the United States. This is a very complex and complicated matter. > > This resolution will pass, although we all know that the President can wage > a war even without it. However difficult this vote may be, some of us must > urge the use of restraint. Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of > us must say, let us step back for a moment. Let us just pause for a minute > and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does > not spiral out of control. > > I have agonized over this vote, but I came to grips with it today and I came > to grips with opposing this resolution during the very painful yet very > beautiful memorial service. As a member of the clergy so eloquently said, > "As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore." > > We strongly urge organizations and individuals to write Rep. Barbara Lee > with letters of support for her courageous stand. > > Rep. Barbara Lee > 426 Cannon House Office Building > Washington, DC 20515 > > or > > Rep. Barbara Lee > 1301 Clay Street, Suite 1000N > Oakland, CA 94612 > > Letters to the editor supporting Rep. Lee are also important. Please copy > this message to your friends, especially in the Oakland, California area. > > Best regards, > > David Culp, Legislative Representative > Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) > 245 Second Street, N.E. > Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 > Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 > Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 > Fax: (202) 547-6019 > E-mail: david@fcnl.org > Web site: www.fcnl.org > > - > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Burroughs Subject: (abolition-usa) Security Council resolution re September 11 Date: 17 Sep 2001 18:42:29 -0400 United Nations S/RES/1368 (2001) Security Council Distr.: General 12 September 2001 01-53382 (E) *0153382* Resolution 1368 (2001) Adopted by the Security Council at its 4370th meeting, on 12 September 2001 The Security Council, Reaffirming the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, Determined to combat by all means threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, Recognizing the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence in accordance with the Charter, 1. Unequivocally condemns in the strongest terms the horrifying terrorist attacks which took place on 11 September 2001 in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania and regards such acts, like any act of international terrorism, as a threat to international peace and security; 2. Expresses its deepest sympathy and condolences to the victims and their families and to the people and Government of the United States of America; 3. Calls on all States to work together urgently to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these terrorist attacks and stresses that those responsible for aiding, supporting or harbouring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of these acts will be held accountable; 4. Calls also on the international community to redouble their efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts including by increased cooperation and full implementation of the relevant international anti-terrorist conventions and Security Council resolutions, in particular resolution 1269 (1999) of 19 October 1999; 5. Expresses its readiness to take all necessary steps to respond to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and to combat all forms of terrorism, in accordance with its responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations; 6. Decides to remain seized of the matter. Some initial explanatory comments (look for fuller analysis by LCNP later): In the preamble the resolution refers to self-defense. But the resolution nowhere says specifically that use of force in response to the attacks would be self-defense. The first sentence of Art. 51 of the UN Charter states: "Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security". The resolution in para. 1 characterizes the attacks as a "threat to international peace and security". Under Chapter VII of the Charter, once this has been determined, the SC can decide upon sanctions (Art. 41) or armed force (Art. 42). Art. 48 provides that the SC can decide whether such enforcement measures are to be carred out by some or all member states. The resolution in para. 5 "expresses [the SC's] readiness to take all necessary steps to respond to the terrorist attacks". Paras. 3 and 4 concern bringing to justice perpetrators etc. and suppression of terrorism. The International Criminal Court could not be used for prosecution of perpetrators, because the ICC treaty has not yet entered into force and the treaty applies only to crimes committed after it enters into force. But the SC could establish an ad hoc tribunal. Regarding treaties on terrorism, eg prosecute or extradite and prevention of financing for terrorist operations, not all have entered into force and the United States is not a party to all those that have. However, this is not necessarily an obstacle, for example, to another country extraditing a suspect to US or to international tribunal. (I will circulate more info on this soon). Generally, then, the resolution lays groundwork for steps that may be taken by the SC in the future. It is not itself an action resolution. The emphasis perhaps is on justice and suppression of terrorism. But self-defense is mentioned. And the basis is there also for the SC, should it so choose, later to approve the use of force by the United States and other states to respond to the "threat to international peace and security". On the latter point, there is concern about the use of the SC to legitimize acts of force, especially by US and NATO. On the other hand, going through the SC probably imposes some constraints on US/NATO, and is also what is called for by the Charter and insisted upon by major powers like Russia and China. John Burroughs, Executive Director Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 New York, New York 10017 USA tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org website: www.lcnp.org Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Dems to Drop Missile Defense Provision Date: 17 Sep 2001 18:54:50 -0400 DEMS TO DROP MISSILE DEFENSE PROVISION Monday, September 17, 6:34 PM ET=20 By CAROLYN SKORNECK, Associated Press Writer=20 WASHINGTON (AP) - Looking to quickly approve new defense spending, = Senate Democrats are setting aside their effort to block the missile defense = money if the activity would violate a 1972 arms control treaty.=20 Republicans had vehemently opposed the provision, saying it tied = President Bush's hands. It had been expected to trigger a fight on the Senate = floor as lawmakers considered the $343 billion defense authorization bill for = the year that begins Oct. 1.=20 Both parties are anxious to approve the defense bill. So Senate = Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, in consultation with Senate Armed Services = Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., decided to postpone any consideration of missile defense money until later.=20 "There will be an appropriate time to bring this up for debate, but = this week is not the appropriate time," Daschle's spokeswoman, Anita Dunn, = said Monday. The version of the bill approved by the Republican-led House Armed = Services Committee in July contains no such provision.=20 In the House, meanwhile, a key Republican is pressing to boost defense spending next year to about $384 billion in light of last week's = terrorist attacks, up more than $40 billion over the amounts approved by the = House and Senate Armed Services Committees. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said = some of the money could come from the $40 billion approved by Congress last = week to respond to the terrorist attacks.=20 The $384 billion for defense work by the Defense and Energy departments would represent a $73 billion increase over this year's spending level, = up by nearly one-quarter.=20 Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House committee's research and = development panel, said that along with including $34 billion to cover unfunded = needs of the Pentagon - something the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Ike Skelton = of Missouri, approves -- it also would add $2 billion to the $8.2 billion = the committee had approved for missile defense.=20 Two committee Democrats said after a closed-door briefing Friday on the attacks that they predicted the final bill would place a greater = emphasis on short- and theater-range missile defenses.=20 Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, said an emphasis on short- and = medium-range missile defense systems could come at the expense of national missile defense that would guard against intercontinental ballistic missiles.=20 But Hunter said he would fight any such move.=20 "It's totally illogical for any member of Congress to say that since we = were just attacked by terrorist-commandeered aircraft, we shouldn't be = building defenses against the long-range missiles that North Korea, Iraq and = others are developing," he said. "That's akin to saying we were just hit on = the right flank, so let's not protect the left flank." =20 Hunter conceded he did not yet have the support of committee Chairman = Bob Stump, R-Ariz., the House GOP leadership or the White House.=20 The proposal also would add $1.4 billion to build more Tomahawk cruise missiles and other precision munitions, and could include several = billion for improved radar capabilities. =20 Skelton, reached by phone at his office in Blue Springs, Mo., said he = had not been told about the proposal but he "absolutely" favors the overall increase. He was, after all, the one who elicited the list of $34 = billion unfunded needs from the service chief.=20 But he said he wants to see the details: "I want to make sure it's = spent correctly." Copyright =A9 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Lichterman" Subject: (abolition-usa) Dellums backs Lee vote against armed force Date: 18 Sep 2001 11:59:45 -0700 Oakland Tribune Tuesday September 18 2001 Dellums backs Lee vote against armed force By Lisa Friedman WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- Former Oakland congressman Ron Dellums was watching television with his wife, witnessing endless footage of the attacks Sept. 11 at the Pentagon and World Trade Center and its aftermath of grief and twisted metal, when he learned Congress would be asked to approve a declaration of war. "How would you vote on that?" Dellums said his wife asked. "I looked at her and I said, 'I would vote no,'" he answered. It was a gut response, born out of a lifetime of conviction that war is a statement of desperation. Yet days later, after long hours of introspection, Dellums said he believes his instinct was right, and that that his faith in nonviolence is as strong now as it ever was. "It's during these moments of fear and anxiety and pain that your belief system is tested to the limit," Dellums said during a 75-minute telephone conversation Sunday. But, he said, "The peace movement is not just something you name yourself. It's a way of thinking. "It is not an accident that the Gandhis and the Kings and the Mandelas of the world are a very small group. It takes courage to find another way to deal with these problems." For many in Oakland and the Bay Area, the name Ron Dellums is synonymous with opposition to war. His election to the U.S. House as an East Bay representative in 1970 came on an anti-Vietnam platform. National news reports screamed, "Afro-topped, bell-bottomed radical black man from Berkeley wins election!" He left office nearly 30 years later, an expert in national security, having earned the respect of his ideological foes, and having voted against every use of military force from Vietnam to Operation Desert Storm. Dellums retired from public life in 1998 and now runs Healthcare International Management Co., a company that provides health services in poor countries. Never one to court media attention even while in office, Dellums is these days more guarded than ever of his privacy. He spoke to The Oakland Tribune this weekend because, he said, "now the drums of war are beating very loudly." Ever since the first hijacked airplane struck the World Trade Center at 12 minutes before 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dellums said he has been trying to sort out his own conflicting feelings. "Here we are as a people having experienced this incredibly awful thing, and we simultaneously feel pain, we feel sorrow, we feel anger ... and, if the truth be told, high anxiety and a great amount of fear," he said. "Suddenly any act of violence is very possible any time and anywhere. In many ways, America has been changed forever." That, Dellums said, is precisely why he believes the president and Congress should not rush to vengeance. "I have to hope, and I've been hoping every day, that what happened on Tuesday has not already set in motion events that will send us down the spiral of darkness. "The American people need to feel, mourn the pain," Dellums said. "This is a very frightening and dangerous moment. This is not the time for us to make a decision about war and vengeance. We live in a society of immediateness and quickness and 'let's block out these feelings.' Rational thought is not the order of the day. "This is not the end. It's frightening to even contemplate where this can go. So, it behooves us to pause. ... I'm not sure if we as a people have grappled with what it means to go to war in the 21st Century," he said. He may be right. Yet according to the latest CBS/New York Times poll, 85 percent of Americans are willing to find out. According to the same poll, 68 percent of the country wants to take military action against those responsible for the attacks even if it means innocent people will be killed, and 60 percent said the United States should go to war even if "thousands" of innocent civilians are killed. President Bush has spent the past few days preparing America for war in no uncertain terms, declaring, "My message is for everybody who wears the uniform: Get ready." Dellums said he is still praying that the country can find another way. "War is just a statement that we have lost control. It's a statement of desperation. We've got to reach in and figure out, 'How do we overcome the desperation?' "There has to be a better way than killing and dying and more killing and more dying," he said. "It's not going to bring back this incredible loss of life that we've had." Congress did vote on the war resolution, a bill that authorized President Bush to use whatever military force necessary to respond to Tuesday's terrorist attacks. The House passed the resolution late Friday by a vote of 420-1. The lone dissenting vote belonged to Dellum's successor, Rep. Barbara Lee. Lee, Dellums said, came to her decision by her own path. He said he is troubled by some of the visceral reactions to her decision, the callers to talk shows who call Lee a "national embarrassment," "un-American" and worse. "What are we defending if we're not defending the principle of honest dissent in the marketplace of ideas?" Dellums asked. "I think people need to applaud courage in a moment when someone is willing to stand up against the tide. We have to care about the fact that few people along the way have a different perspective. ... What could be more American?" 1999-2001 by MediaNews Group, Inc. and ANG Newspapers Andrew Lichterman Program Director Western States Legal Foundation 1504 Franklin St. Suite 202 Oakland, CA 94612 USA phone: +1 (510) 839-5877 fax: +1 (510) 839-5397 web site: www.wslfweb.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tom Condit Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Dellums backs Lee vote against armed force Date: 18 Sep 2001 16:10:59 -0700 At 11:59 AM 9/18/01 -0700, Andrew Lichterman wrote: >[snip] > He left office nearly 30 years later, an expert in national > security, having earned the respect of his ideological foes, and > having voted against every use of military force from Vietnam to > Operation Desert Storm. Actually, Dellums didn't vote against Operation Desert Storm. He was one of the handful in the House who cast their votes as "Not Voting", rather than "Yes" or "No". Tom Condit tomcondit@igc.org The Peace & Freedom Party needs to raise its registration to 86,212 to get back on the California ballot. http://www.peaceandfreedom.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Andrew Lichterman" Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Dellums backs Lee vote against armed force Date: 18 Sep 2001 16:40:08 -0700 Please note that the passage objected to below appeared in a forwarded news article which appeared in the Oakland Tribune. A. Andrew Lichterman Program Director Western States Legal Foundation 1504 Franklin St. Suite 202 Oakland, CA 94612 USA phone: +1 (510) 839-5877 fax: +1 (510) 839-5397 web site: www.wslfweb.org -----Original Message----- [mailto:owner-abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Tom Condit Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:11 PM Cc: Abolition USA (E-mail); ANA Full (E-mail); Abolition Caucus (E-mail) At 11:59 AM 9/18/01 -0700, Andrew Lichterman wrote: >[snip] > He left office nearly 30 years later, an expert in national > security, having earned the respect of his ideological foes, and > having voted against every use of military force from Vietnam to > Operation Desert Storm. Actually, Dellums didn't vote against Operation Desert Storm. He was one of the handful in the House who cast their votes as "Not Voting", rather than "Yes" or "No". Tom Condit tomcondit@igc.org The Peace & Freedom Party needs to raise its registration to 86,212 to get back on the California ballot. http://www.peaceandfreedom.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: [abolition-europe] Fw: THOUSANDS march for peace in downtown Date: 19 Sep 2001 08:42:24 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2AF3FC72A1499D6DF43DAC39 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------2AF3FC72A1499D6DF43DAC39 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from n10.groups.yahoo.com ([216.115.96.60]) by eagle (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id tqgu8c.jsf.37tiu0o for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 03:53:00 -0700 (PDT) X-eGroups-Return: sentto-2366078-698-1000896286-sallight1=earthlink.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.55] by ej.egroups.com with NNFMP; 19 Sep 2001 10:44:46 -0000 X-Sender: jbloomfield@gn.apc.org X-Apparently-To: abolition-europe@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 19 Sep 2001 10:44:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 68531 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2001 10:44:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 19 Sep 2001 10:44:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hose.mail.pipex.net) (158.43.128.58) by mta1 with SMTP; 19 Sep 2001 10:44:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 8828 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2001 10:44:43 -0000 Received: from userdn69.uk.uudial.com (HELO jbloomfieldgn) (62.188.4.188) by smtp-4.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 19 Sep 2001 10:44:43 -0000 Message-ID: <004701c140f8$63e98540$bc04bc3e@apc.org> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Janet Bloomfield" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list abolition-europe@yahoogroups.com; contact abolition-europe-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list abolition-europe@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Reply-To: abolition-europe@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Sent: 19 September 2001 02:53 > In a message dated 9/17/01 11:20:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, clowe@igc.org > writes: > > << >Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:11:46 -0700 (PDT) > >From: Red Emma > >Subject: THOUSANDS march for peace in downtown Portland > >To: redemma13@yahoo.com > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > >Many thousands of people gathered on the South Park > >Blocks Sunday at noon to rally and march for peace. > >The event, put on by Portland Peaceful Response, had > >three themes: (1) to mourn the victims of Tuesday's > >terrorist attack; (2) to speak out against racist > >scapegoating; and (3) to demand that there be no more > >violence, including no military retaliation by our > >government. The crowd was the largest seen at any > >anti-war demonstration since the Gulf War ten years > >ago. A count taken at one street corner registered > >2,630 people. Estimates of the total number of people > >ranged from 3,000 to 4,500. > > > >Attendees and speakers ran the gamut from members of > >the local Middle Eastern community, to Native American > >and Christian spiritual leaders, to teachers and union > >activists, to long-time peace activists, and many > >more. We all were very much heartened to see so many > >of our fellow Portlanders coming out and standing up > >for peace. As several speakers remarked from the > >stage, the media accounts saying 85% of Americans > >support war do not seem so believable now. > > > >There was no counter-demonstration, and I personally > >did not see any harassment or overt hostility from > >passers-by, although there may have been some. > > > >For a fuller account, with pictures, go to > >www.portland.indymedia.org (give them a few hours to > >get everything loaded up!) Look for us on tonight's > >news--just about every local station was there. > >Listen to KBOO 90.7 FM Monday morning at 7am for audio > >coverage. If there's nothing about this in Monday's > >Oregonian, call them up and ask them why. > > > >Above all, help spread the word. In this frightening > >and confusing time, those of us who support peace are > >not alone! > > > >Attendees at the rally signed a letter to President > >Bush, and were urged to make calls to our > >representatives in Congress. EVERY ONE of our Oregon > >congressional representatives voted for Friday's > >resolution authorizing use of force (basically, a new > >"Gulf of Tonkin" resolution authorizing the President > >to do whatever he wants). But they may change their > >tunes, if they hear from enough constituents. This > >could be the beginning of a long war, and it is not > >too late for our congress to change course and > >reconsider. We should tell them: NO declaration of > >war against Afghanistan; the PEOPLE of Afghanistan are > >not our enemy. The Capitol Switchboard number is > >1-888-449-3511 or 202-224-3121. The White House > >comment line number is 202-456-1111 (not that HE's > >going to listen, but heck, we can try.) > > > >If/when the bombing starts, there is still a standing > >plan for an emergency protest action: 4-6 pm at Terry > >Schrunk Plaza (SW 3rd and Madison, across the street > >from the Federal Building). This will be the DAY OF > >the bombing, if it starts before 4pm; and the DAY > >AFTER, if it starts after 4pm. Portland Peaceful > >Response will continue to coordinate these actions. > >We can be reached at 503-223-1399 (voice mail) or > >portland911.tripod.com (website). > > > >Peace be with you, > > > >Kathleen > > > >> > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/MDsVHB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/xbTolB/TM To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: abolition-europe-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --------------2AF3FC72A1499D6DF43DAC39-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER Subject: (abolition-usa) IEER Reflections on September 11, 2001 Date: 20 Sep 2001 13:49:32 -0500 --=====================_15049256==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At http://www.ieer.org you will find a link to "Reflections on September 11, 2001" by Arjun Makhijani, along with other recent postings to IEER's web site. The piece is also pasted below, but I encourage you to go to the web version, which contains links to some of the referenced items. Apologies for double postings. Lisa Ledwidge, IEER Reflections on September 11, 2001 by Arjun Makhijani 20 September 2001 Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.... -- Martin Luther King, Jr. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and makes itself irresistible. Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth. Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within. Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi The destruction of the World Trade Center towers and a part of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, was more than an attack on the symbols of financial and military power of the United States. It was more than what the media have called an "Attack on America." It was mass murder of people from around the world. The flames of fear and sorrow and tears spread rapidly across the oceans and north and south across the Americas that day. U.S. as well as international phone lines to New York and Washington were jammed. People from more than fifty countries were among those who perished along with thousands of Americans. No goal, however lofty, can justify the murder of innocent people. People from around the world are grieving and share the immense sadness of the families and friends of the victims of the tragedies. The staff of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) grieves with them. I have written this message and these suggestions for resistance to violence and terror and militarism at the instance of and on behalf of the entire IEER staff. The September 11 events of global terror cry out for and deserve a global response to help make the world as secure as we can from the threat of mass destruction. This was not the first or the most devastating event of mass destruction. As is well known, air warfare was created in the twentieth century as an instrument of state terror to entirely neutralize or destroy "vital centers" - that is, cities, thereby obliterating the difference between combatants and non-combatants in war. (A brief history of air warfare doctrine is posted on IEER's website.) Nuclear weapons extended the terror of conventional explosive bombing and fire bombing to a new dimension. But September 11, 2001 has nonetheless created a dreadful watershed in world history. The preponderance of evidence indicates that a non-state party, a terrorist network, has now used civilian aircraft as weapons of mass destruction to kill thousands. The possibility that terrorists may create destruction on a vast scale has until now been postulated in studies and hinted at by many actual acts of terrorism such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and the 1995 chemical attack on a Tokyo subway. But the enormous scale and coordination of the assault, the choice of targets, the years of preparation, and the results of the September 11, 2001 attack mean that what was once largely hypothetical has moved into the column of grim reality. The risk of continued terrorist attack remains, according to the U.S. government. Retributive violence would add to the risks of continued terrorism, and it may also add to the risk of escalation to the use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons by a terrorist group. We do not know if some non-state groups already have nuclear materials. And we do not know how much they might have, if they do. Specifically, instability and conflict in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state, over cooperation with U.S. military actions might have unpredictable consequences. It is imperative that we try to persuade the U.S. government against a policy of violence and for a process that will lead to capture of the suspects and a trial. Moreover, if eradication of terrorism is the overall goal, a trial of the suspected plotters and financiers would reveal more about how terror networks are organized and maintained than a violent elimination of the suspects. The Nuremberg trials not only brought many of the perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice but also revealed great detail about how it was organized and implemented. They also led to important advances in international law. A trial in relation to the September 11 attacks would also show the world the best side of the traditions of the United States: the struggle for the rule of law and justice that motivated the American constitution, which has inspired not only generations of Americans but also freedom fighters worldwide. But we need more than a trial. We need a process will lead to a progressive diminution of the conflicts and hatreds that lead up to acts of terror and indiscriminate killing. It is widely recognized that they are rooted in the terrible injustices and inequities that characterize our world. Reducing violence requires a reduction in militarism and repression by states and a systematic reduction of the great inequities in the world, so that people can have hope instead of despair. One analysis and discussion of the world economic and military structure as a kind of global apartheid (with some important differences) can be found in a July 9, 2001 article in The Nation by Salih Booker and William Minter. Another can be found in my book, From Global Capitalism to Economic Justice, (Apex Press, 1992, reprinted in 1996), along with a discussion of possible approaches to reduce global inequity and violence. Given the level, scale and geographical spread of inequity, injustice, and anger in the world, it is likely that violent retribution by the United States would lead to global disunity and more conflict. It would increase the likelihood of more terrorist attacks, possibly more devastating ones. Such a prospect would be made more likely if U.S. retribution produces large-scale civilian casualties. Oil is and has been, through much of the twentieth century, one of the central aspects to the violent tangle of Middle Eastern, Central Asian, U.S., and world politics. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came after the U.S. imposed an oil embargo to prevent Japan from getting access to and eventual control of Indonesian oil, which belonged neither to Japan, nor to the United States, nor to the Dutch colonialists who then ruled Indonesia. As another example, the CIA-supported overthrow of an elected government in Iran in 1953 (in reaction to nationalization of the Iranian oil industry) and its replacement by the Shah of Iran led to two and a half decades of repression in which substantial dissent was only possible in the mosques. The process was central to the dynamic that led up to the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. For an excellent history of oil politics, see Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991). For a fine, recent analysis of Central Asian oil resources and U.S. policy see Michael Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict, (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001). Much U.S. policy in the Middle East makes for alliances with undemocratic regimes, including the one in Saudi Arabia, where, as in Afghanistan, no freedom of religion is allowed. That the Saudi Islamic government has allowed the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, which has the two places most sacred to Muslims as well as the largest oil reserves in the world, has been in the center of the anger of some Islamic militants of the region. (See for instance a TV interview with Osama bin Laden partly conducted by ABC news correspondent John Miller in 1998. See also Mary Ann Weaver's article on Osama bin Laden in the New Yorker and John K. Cooley, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, Second Edition, (London, Pluto Press, 2000).) And as is increasingly recognized, those angry militants largely come from the phase of U.S. policy that funded and trained them in the 1980s to oust the Soviet military from Afghanistan. Later, the Taliban was partly funded by Saudi Arabia until the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (For a brief history of the Taliban, see Ahmed Rashid, "The Taliban: Exporting Extremism," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1999, pp. 22-35). If retribution and violence are the wrong answers, how can the people of the world work together to pursue justice and increased security? Active, non-violent resistance to evil that goes to the root of the problem in a manner that everyone could participate was the hallmark of the Gandhian struggle for India's independence, known as Satyagraha, as it was of the U.S. civil rights movement, and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. Making salt, making cloth, and desegregating lunch counters and buses were everyday acts that mobilized millions. The Gandhian struggle in India had a part of its inspiration in U.S. history - in the acts of Henry David Thoreau in the mid-nineteenth century to resist an unjust war and slavery. The civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King, inspired in part by Gandhi's example, was non-violent resistance to injustice returning to the United States. This rich history can perhaps provide us with the inspiration we need in these grim and sad days to find ways to resist the violence both from weapons of mass destruction but also from injustice and exploitation that has come to characterize global society. More than five hundred million children have died needless deaths from starvation, lack of clean water, and lack of elementary medical care since World War II. At the same time, the wealthiest 400 people control more wealth than the poorest two billion. Maintenance of such inequalities requires a vast and global repressive machinery that has led to many valiant struggles for justice, but also bred hopelessness, anger, and hate. October 2 is Gandhi's birthday. Perhaps it can be a day when we can all reflect on what we might do individually, in our communities, and on a global scale to resist militarism and violence, whether it comes from non-state groups or from states and to help create security, peace and justice. For instance, one way in which those of us who live in the West and consume more than our fair share of fossil fuels can resist the cynical and militarist politics of oil be to reduce our petroleum consumption as much as we can. A 25 percent reduction in oil consumption in the wealthy countries would amount to about 10 million barrels a day - more than the production of Saudi Arabia, which is the world's largest oil exporter. That could change the face of oil politics. While we cannot completely eliminate the use of oil in short and medium term - it would cause immense economic dislocation and suffering - significant voluntary reduction of oil consumption as well as sensible policies to that same end could help create a direction of greater equity, security, and environmental sanity. The soldiers who may be sent to fight in the desert sands, or those who are already there, with oil as a prime objective, would breathe easier too. (For an analysis of the proposed Bush administration energy policy and for IEER's energy policy recommendations see Science for Democratic Action, vol. 9 number 4, August 2001) Another idea that has been put forth is to send food to the villages of Afghanistan instead of bombs. That act of love might create cooperation from the heart that may increase the chance that there will be a trial instead of cycles of escalating violence. The official rhetoric in Washington makes it seem unlikely that the U.S. government would, at this stage, take actions friendly to the people of Afghanistan - indeed it is in the contrary direction. How people to people diplomacy might be conducted around the world to create a direction of peace at time when the talk of war is so loud is a major challenge, to say the least. But Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress, and the people of South Africa joined by people all over the world used Gandhi as an inspiration to get rid of apartheid in South Africa. We now need a bigger struggle that taps into the same roots to get rid of global apartheid. It will take the cooperation of organizations and people of goodwill around the world to rise to the challenge. We might begin this October 2 by gathering in our communities to remember those who died in a common global disaster and to ponder what we might do together across national boundaries that would honor the global nature of the tragedy and prevent its repetition. At meetings around the world on that date, we might gather to consider the questions of justice and of finding a path away from global apartheid, global violence and militarism, whether by states or terrorist groups, and towards global democracy, justice, equity, and friendship. Lisa Ledwidge Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) 2104 Stevens Ave. South | Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA phone: (612) 879-7517 | fax: (612) 879-7518 ieer@ieer.org | http://www.ieer.org --=====================_15049256==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" At http://www.ieer.org you will find a link to "Reflections on September 11, 2001" by Arjun Makhijani, along with other recent postings to IEER's web site.  The piece is also pasted below, but I encourage you to go to the web version, which contains links to some of the referenced items. Apologies for double postings.
Lisa Ledwidge, IEER

Reflections on September 11, 2001
by Arjun Makhijani
20 September 2001


             Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder.
             Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth.
             Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate.
             Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that....
                         -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

             An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
             Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and makes itself irresistible.
             Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.
             Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.
             Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
                          -- Mahatma Gandhi


             The destruction of the World Trade Center towers and a part of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, was more than an attack
             on the symbols of financial and military power of the United States. It was more than what the media have called an "Attack on
             America." It was mass murder of people from around the world. The flames of fear and sorrow and tears spread rapidly across
             the oceans and north and south across the Americas that day. U.S. as well as international phone lines to New York and
             Washington were jammed. People from more than fifty countries were among those who perished along with thousands of
             Americans. No goal, however lofty, can justify the murder of innocent people.

             People from around the world are grieving and share the immense sadness of the families and friends of the victims of the
             tragedies. The staff of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) grieves with them. I have written this message
             and these suggestions for resistance to violence and terror and militarism at the instance of and on behalf of the entire IEER staff.

             The September 11 events of global terror cry out for and deserve a global response to help make the world as secure as we can
             from the threat of mass destruction. This was not the first or the most devastating event of mass destruction. As is well known, air
             warfare was created in the twentieth century as an instrument of state terror to entirely neutralize or destroy "vital centers" - that is,
             cities, thereby obliterating the difference between combatants and non-combatants in war. (A brief history of air warfare doctrine
             is posted on IEER's website.) Nuclear weapons extended the terror of conventional explosive bombing and fire bombing to a new
             dimension. But September 11, 2001 has nonetheless created a dreadful watershed in world history. The preponderance of
             evidence indicates that a non-state party, a terrorist network, has now used civilian aircraft as weapons of mass destruction to kill
             thousands.

             The possibility that terrorists may create destruction on a vast scale has until now been postulated in studies and hinted at by many
             actual acts of terrorism such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the 1993 bombing of
             the World Trade Center, and the 1995 chemical attack on a Tokyo subway. But the enormous scale and coordination of the
             assault, the choice of targets, the years of preparation, and the results of the September 11, 2001 attack mean that what was once
             largely hypothetical has moved into the column of grim reality.

             The risk of continued terrorist attack remains, according to the U.S. government. Retributive violence would add to the risks of
             continued terrorism, and it may also add to the risk of escalation to the use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons by a
             terrorist group. We do not know if some non-state groups already have nuclear materials. And we do not know how much they
             might have, if they do. Specifically, instability and conflict in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state, over cooperation with U.S. military
             actions might have unpredictable consequences.

             It is imperative that we try to persuade the U.S. government against a policy of violence and for a process that will lead to capture
             of the suspects and a trial. Moreover, if eradication of terrorism is the overall goal, a trial of the suspected plotters and financiers
             would reveal more about how terror networks are organized and maintained than a violent elimination of the suspects. The
             Nuremberg trials not only brought many of the perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice but also revealed great detail about how it
             was organized and implemented. They also led to important advances in international law. A trial in relation to the September 11
             attacks would also show the world the best side of the traditions of the United States: the struggle for the rule of law and justice
             that motivated the American constitution, which has inspired not only generations of Americans but also freedom fighters
             worldwide.

             But we need more than a trial. We need a process will lead to a progressive diminution of the conflicts and hatreds that lead up to
             acts of terror and indiscriminate killing. It is widely recognized that they are rooted in the terrible injustices and inequities that
             characterize our world. Reducing violence requires a reduction in militarism and repression by states and a systematic reduction of
             the great inequities in the world, so that people can have hope instead of despair. One analysis and discussion of the world
             economic and military structure as a kind of global apartheid (with some important differences) can be found in a July 9, 2001
             article in The Nation by Salih Booker and William Minter. Another can be found in my book, From Global Capitalism to
             Economic Justice, (Apex Press, 1992, reprinted in 1996), along with a discussion of possible approaches to reduce global
             inequity and violence.

             Given the level, scale and geographical spread of inequity, injustice, and anger in the world, it is likely that violent retribution by the
             United States would lead to global disunity and more conflict. It would increase the likelihood of more terrorist attacks, possibly
             more devastating ones. Such a prospect would be made more likely if U.S. retribution produces large-scale civilian casualties.

             Oil is and has been, through much of the twentieth century, one of the central aspects to the violent tangle of Middle Eastern,
             Central Asian, U.S., and world politics. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor came after the U.S. imposed an oil embargo to
             prevent Japan from getting access to and eventual control of Indonesian oil, which belonged neither to Japan, nor to the United
             States, nor to the Dutch colonialists who then ruled Indonesia. As another example, the CIA-supported overthrow of an elected
             government in Iran in 1953 (in reaction to nationalization of the Iranian oil industry) and its replacement by the Shah of Iran led to
             two and a half decades of repression in which substantial dissent was only possible in the mosques. The process was central to the
             dynamic that led up to the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. For an excellent history of oil politics, see Daniel Yergin, The Prize:
             The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991). For a fine, recent analysis of Central
             Asian oil resources and U.S. policy see Michael Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict, (New York:
             Metropolitan Books, 2001).

             Much U.S. policy in the Middle East makes for alliances with undemocratic regimes, including the one in Saudi Arabia, where, as
             in Afghanistan, no freedom of religion is allowed. That the Saudi Islamic government has allowed the stationing of U.S. troops in
             Saudi Arabia, which has the two places most sacred to Muslims as well as the largest oil reserves in the world, has been in the
             center of the anger of some Islamic militants of the region. (See for instance a TV interview with Osama bin Laden partly
             conducted by ABC news correspondent John Miller in 1998. See also Mary Ann Weaver's article on Osama bin Laden in the
             New Yorker and John K. Cooley, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, Second Edition,
             (London, Pluto Press, 2000).) And as is increasingly recognized, those angry militants largely come from the phase of U.S. policy
             that funded and trained them in the 1980s to oust the Soviet military from Afghanistan. Later, the Taliban was partly funded by
             Saudi Arabia until the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (For a brief history of the Taliban, see
             Ahmed Rashid, "The Taliban: Exporting Extremism," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1999, pp. 22-35).

             If retribution and violence are the wrong answers, how can the people of the world work together to pursue justice and increased
             security? Active, non-violent resistance to evil that goes to the root of the problem in a manner that everyone could participate
             was the hallmark of the Gandhian struggle for India's independence, known as Satyagraha, as it was of the U.S. civil rights
             movement, and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. Making salt, making cloth, and desegregating lunch counters and buses
             were everyday acts that mobilized millions.

             The Gandhian struggle in India had a part of its inspiration in U.S. history - in the acts of Henry David Thoreau in the
             mid-nineteenth century to resist an unjust war and slavery. The civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King, inspired in part by
             Gandhi's example, was non-violent resistance to injustice returning to the United States. This rich history can perhaps provide us
             with the inspiration we need in these grim and sad days to find ways to resist the violence both from weapons of mass destruction
             but also from injustice and exploitation that has come to characterize global society. More than five hundred million children
             have died needless deaths from starvation, lack of clean water, and lack of elementary medical care since World War II.
             At the same time, the wealthiest 400 people control more wealth than the poorest two billion. Maintenance of such inequalities
             requires a vast and global repressive machinery that has led to many valiant struggles for justice, but also bred hopelessness,
             anger, and hate.

             October 2 is Gandhi's birthday. Perhaps it can be a day when we can all reflect on what we might do individually, in our
             communities, and on a global scale to resist militarism and violence, whether it comes from non-state groups or from states and to
             help create security, peace and justice.

             For instance, one way in which those of us who live in the West and consume more than our fair share of fossil fuels can resist the
             cynical and militarist politics of oil be to reduce our petroleum consumption as much as we can. A 25 percent reduction in oil
             consumption in the wealthy countries would amount to about 10 million barrels a day - more than the production of Saudi Arabia,
             which is the world's largest oil exporter. That could change the face of oil politics. While we cannot completely eliminate the use of
             oil in short and medium term - it would cause immense economic dislocation and suffering - significant voluntary reduction of oil
             consumption as well as sensible policies to that same end could help create a direction of greater equity, security, and
             environmental sanity. The soldiers who may be sent to fight in the desert sands, or those who are already there, with oil as a prime
             objective, would breathe easier too. (For an analysis of the proposed Bush administration energy policy and for IEER's energy
             policy recommendations see Science for Democratic Action, vol. 9 number 4, August 2001)

             Another idea that has been put forth is to send food to the villages of Afghanistan instead of bombs. That act of love might create
             cooperation from the heart that may increase the chance that there will be a trial instead of cycles of escalating violence. The
             official rhetoric in Washington makes it seem unlikely that the U.S. government would, at this stage, take actions friendly to the
             people of Afghanistan - indeed it is in the contrary direction.

             How people to people diplomacy might be conducted around the world to create a direction of peace at time when the talk of
             war is so loud is a major challenge, to say the least. But Nelson Mandela, the African National Congress, and the people of South
             Africa joined by people all over the world used Gandhi as an inspiration to get rid of apartheid in South Africa. We now need a
             bigger struggle that taps into the same roots to get rid of global apartheid.

             It will take the cooperation of organizations and people of goodwill around the world to rise to the challenge. We might begin this
             October 2 by gathering in our communities to remember those who died in a common global disaster and to ponder what we
             might do together across national boundaries that would honor the global nature of the tragedy and prevent its repetition. At
             meetings around the world on that date, we might gather to consider the questions of justice and of finding a path away from
             global apartheid, global violence and militarism, whether by states or terrorist groups, and towards global democracy, justice,
             equity, and friendship.

Lisa Ledwidge
Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
2104 Stevens Ave. South |  Minneapolis, MN 55404  USA
phone:  (612) 879-7517  |  fax:  (612) 879-7518
ieer@ieer.org  |  http://www.ieer.org --=====================_15049256==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Latest Update on Your Good Work Date: 20 Sep 2001 18:37:31 -0400 >Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:00:40 -0700 >From: "Fran Korten" >To: fkorten@futurenet.org >X-Sender: (Unverified) >Subject: Latest Update on Your Good Work >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >My dear State of the Possible community, > >I sense the tide is starting to turn on what has appeared to be the= dominant >call for war. I know you are all part of making that shift happen and I'm >so glad to be connected to each and every one of you. > >Let me highlight for you some of what I see as the most hopeful signs -- >signs that are now being picked up by the press (New York Times, ABC, NPR >and others). We need to add to that momentum. If you can bring these >initiatives to the attention of people in your networks, and the press in >your area, that can help shift the sense of what Americans want. > >JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE INITIATIVE - Last weekend, when Danny Glover was in >Seattle we talked about what can be done. We decided that rounding up some >well-known voices to advocate moderation would help break the media spell= so >focused on support for war. So Danny, Dave Korten, Sarah van Gelder, and I >teamed up with Harry Belafonte (who is on the board of the Institute for >Policy Studies) and John Cavanagh and Sarah Anderson of IPS to develop a >statement and get sign-ons. Together with Rod Arakaki and Carol Estes= we've >called on our wider networks, including a number of you for help on this, >and you have all been fabulous. > >Below I attach a press release that went out yesterday. We've been looking >for "household names" to add to Harry and Danny's star power and now have >Gloria Steinem (thanks to Susan Davis for that); Rosa Parks (thanks to= Grace >Boggs for that); Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry's (thanks >to Dave for that); Alice Walker (thanks to Belvie for that); Martin Sheen >(thanks to Rod's friend of a friend); Bonnie Raitt, and many others. Plus >many of you have also signed on which is great -- though of course the= media >are looking for the big names. > >NPR carried a good story on this and related initiatives last night on All >Things Considered, the New York Times had a lovely story that mentioned= this >initiative today, and ABC is likely to cover it tonight -- as well as many >other media. > >We continue to look for names with "star power." I fyou know of anyone= with >high name recognition, please have them sign on. You can find the= statement >at www.yesmagazine.org and at www.ips-dc.org. They can email their name= to:=20 >jcavanagh@igc.org or fax to David Korten at 206/842-5350.=20 > >RELIGIOUS INITIATIVE - The National Council of Churches, working together >with Jim Wallis of Sojourners and others, has mounted a call for= "tolerance, >compassion, justice and the sacredness of human life" that has now been >signed on to by more than 1500 religious leaders -- mostly Christian, but >also Muslim, Jewish and others. It is being delivered to the Congress >today. You can view that at www.ncccusa.org. > >MASS PETITIONS - Two mass petitions have gained tremendous momentum. One >is "A call for Peace and Justice" which has more than 150,000 signatures. >It's on www.thepetitionsite.com. Another one is at >www.9-11peace.org/petition.php3. It now has over 300,000 signatures. > >STUDENT PEACE RALLIES AND VIGILS - There is so much evidence that students >are really mobilizing. Juliette Beck at Global Exchange says there are >vigils and rallies today (Thursday) on more than 146 campuses around the >country -- and growing every minute. The site that reports on this great >work is www.peacefuljustice.cjb.net/. > >HATE-FREE ZONES - In response to some of the terrible acts of hate against >people who look different (such as the killing of a Sikh person in= Arizona), >there is growing momentum to declare cities and states "Hate-Free Zones". >Kelly Quirke wrote to us of the beautiful mass rally in San Francisco held >last Sunday attended by over 1,000 people. I think several of you were >involved in that. San Francisco was declared a Hate Free Zone in support= of >and in solidarity with all the people, especially people of color. Check >out the Global Exchange website to get a Hate Free Zone action pack, >including a downloadable poster at www.globalexchange.org > >Here in Washington State, Pramila Jayapal got the whole state on board to >declare Washington a Hate-Free Zone. On Tuesday the effort was launched >with Governor Gary Locke, Seattle mayor Paul Schell, a U.S. Congressman= (Jim >McDermott) and other prominent people here. Seattle's City Council also >declared Seattle a Hate-Free Zone (hooray for Richard Conlin for being part >of that). Pramila is now preparing packages to send to any city that= wants >to join the momentum. You can contact pramila at: pramila@mindspring.com > >WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG - Ours is one of many great websites that many of you >are involved with. On our site we've got the Justice Not Vengeance >statement and sign-ons, a list of "10 Things You Can Do to Shape History," >two downloadable images -- one of them of a flag that says "Americans Stand >for Justice, Not Vengeance." Plus prayers, analyses, sample letters to the >editor, and other resources all designed to encourage people to speak out >and shape the nation's sense of it's own response to this terrible tragedy. >Our whole staff has mobilized on this. We've been getting lots of grateful >responses from people who feel alone and isolated in their desire for >moderation, compassion and understanding. > >And of course there are tons of local things going on, large and small,= that >I know every one of you is involved in. Do keep spreading the word about >what people can do.=20 > > >My love and best wishes to all of you for all the great work you are doing. > >Fran > >------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Here's the press release on the Justice, Not Vengeance initiative. > >David Lerner (212) 260-5000; dlerner@riptideonline.com >John Cavanagh (202) 234-9382; jcavanagh@igc.org >David Korten >Fran Korten (206) 842-5009 x205; fkorten@futurenet.org >Sarah Van Gelder (206) 842-5009 x214; svangelder@futurenet.org > >DIVERSE COALTION OF AMERICANS SPEAK OUT AGAINST WAR AS SOLUTION TO= TERRORISM > >Rosa Parks, Danny Glover, Gloria Steinem And Harry Belafonte Join Effort >Calling For Justice Not Vengeance > >September 19, 2001=D0As Americans begin to consider the implications of a >military response against terrorism, an increasing number are voicing their >opposition to precipitous acts that may involve the world in a deadly >conflict. Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, and Gloria Steinem= have >joined Ben Cohen and a number of business, environmental, religious, and >civil society leaders to speak out against war as the solution to= terrorism. >In a statement released today, these leaders argue that a "military= response >would not end the terror." They call for "bringing the terrorists to >justice under the rule of law" and they argue against an erosion of civil >liberties. > >The statement calls for a response to the September 11th disaster that is >"prompt, just and effective." The signers questions whether "a military >response will end the terror: As citizens of this great nation, we support >the efforts being made to find those behind the acts of terror. Bringing >them to Justice under the rule of law ? not military action ? is the way to >end the violence." > >The signers also note that while the terrorist acts were aimed at U.S., >citizens from more than 50 nations were among the victims: "Our best= chance >for preventing such devastating acts of terror is to act decisively and >cooperatively as part of a community of nations within the framework of >international law to route our terrorism and work for justice at home and >abroad." > >The statement is one of many which are being developed by civil society >groups including religious leaders and academics calling for justice rather >than revenge. Newspaper advertisements and other initiatives are being >planned. Reports from around the country indicate that activism is being >planned throughout the coming months. On Thursday, students at 82 campuses >in 25 states will hold peace rallies and vigils to call for restraint and >reconciliation.=20 > >The full statement is attached. For further information and updates on >peace activities please contact Riptide Communications 212.260.5000. >--=20 > >Frances F. Korten >Executive Director >Positive Futures Network >PO Box 10818 >Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 >fkorten@futurenet.org >www.yesmagazine.org >206/842-0216 (tel) >206/842-5208 (fax) > >subscriptions to YES! >$24/year >CALL 1 800/937-4451 > =20 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Latest Update on Your Good Work Date: 20 Sep 2001 18:38:11 -0400 >Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:00:40 -0700 >From: "Fran Korten" >To: fkorten@futurenet.org >X-Sender: (Unverified) >Subject: Latest Update on Your Good Work >X-Loop-Detect: 1 > >My dear State of the Possible community, > >I sense the tide is starting to turn on what has appeared to be the= dominant >call for war. I know you are all part of making that shift happen and I'm >so glad to be connected to each and every one of you. > >Let me highlight for you some of what I see as the most hopeful signs -- >signs that are now being picked up by the press (New York Times, ABC, NPR >and others). We need to add to that momentum. If you can bring these >initiatives to the attention of people in your networks, and the press in >your area, that can help shift the sense of what Americans want. > >JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE INITIATIVE - Last weekend, when Danny Glover was in >Seattle we talked about what can be done. We decided that rounding up some >well-known voices to advocate moderation would help break the media spell= so >focused on support for war. So Danny, Dave Korten, Sarah van Gelder, and I >teamed up with Harry Belafonte (who is on the board of the Institute for >Policy Studies) and John Cavanagh and Sarah Anderson of IPS to develop a >statement and get sign-ons. Together with Rod Arakaki and Carol Estes= we've >called on our wider networks, including a number of you for help on this, >and you have all been fabulous. > >Below I attach a press release that went out yesterday. We've been looking >for "household names" to add to Harry and Danny's star power and now have >Gloria Steinem (thanks to Susan Davis for that); Rosa Parks (thanks to= Grace >Boggs for that); Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry's (thanks >to Dave for that); Alice Walker (thanks to Belvie for that); Martin Sheen >(thanks to Rod's friend of a friend); Bonnie Raitt, and many others. Plus >many of you have also signed on which is great -- though of course the= media >are looking for the big names. > >NPR carried a good story on this and related initiatives last night on All >Things Considered, the New York Times had a lovely story that mentioned= this >initiative today, and ABC is likely to cover it tonight -- as well as many >other media. > >We continue to look for names with "star power." I fyou know of anyone= with >high name recognition, please have them sign on. You can find the= statement >at www.yesmagazine.org and at www.ips-dc.org. They can email their name= to:=20 >jcavanagh@igc.org or fax to David Korten at 206/842-5350.=20 > >RELIGIOUS INITIATIVE - The National Council of Churches, working together >with Jim Wallis of Sojourners and others, has mounted a call for= "tolerance, >compassion, justice and the sacredness of human life" that has now been >signed on to by more than 1500 religious leaders -- mostly Christian, but >also Muslim, Jewish and others. It is being delivered to the Congress >today. You can view that at www.ncccusa.org. > >MASS PETITIONS - Two mass petitions have gained tremendous momentum. One >is "A call for Peace and Justice" which has more than 150,000 signatures. >It's on www.thepetitionsite.com. Another one is at >www.9-11peace.org/petition.php3. It now has over 300,000 signatures. > >STUDENT PEACE RALLIES AND VIGILS - There is so much evidence that students >are really mobilizing. Juliette Beck at Global Exchange says there are >vigils and rallies today (Thursday) on more than 146 campuses around the >country -- and growing every minute. The site that reports on this great >work is www.peacefuljustice.cjb.net/. > >HATE-FREE ZONES - In response to some of the terrible acts of hate against >people who look different (such as the killing of a Sikh person in= Arizona), >there is growing momentum to declare cities and states "Hate-Free Zones". >Kelly Quirke wrote to us of the beautiful mass rally in San Francisco held >last Sunday attended by over 1,000 people. I think several of you were >involved in that. San Francisco was declared a Hate Free Zone in support= of >and in solidarity with all the people, especially people of color. Check >out the Global Exchange website to get a Hate Free Zone action pack, >including a downloadable poster at www.globalexchange.org > >Here in Washington State, Pramila Jayapal got the whole state on board to >declare Washington a Hate-Free Zone. On Tuesday the effort was launched >with Governor Gary Locke, Seattle mayor Paul Schell, a U.S. Congressman= (Jim >McDermott) and other prominent people here. Seattle's City Council also >declared Seattle a Hate-Free Zone (hooray for Richard Conlin for being part >of that). Pramila is now preparing packages to send to any city that= wants >to join the momentum. You can contact pramila at: pramila@mindspring.com > >WWW.YESMAGAZINE.ORG - Ours is one of many great websites that many of you >are involved with. On our site we've got the Justice Not Vengeance >statement and sign-ons, a list of "10 Things You Can Do to Shape History," >two downloadable images -- one of them of a flag that says "Americans Stand >for Justice, Not Vengeance." Plus prayers, analyses, sample letters to the >editor, and other resources all designed to encourage people to speak out >and shape the nation's sense of it's own response to this terrible tragedy. >Our whole staff has mobilized on this. We've been getting lots of grateful >responses from people who feel alone and isolated in their desire for >moderation, compassion and understanding. > >And of course there are tons of local things going on, large and small,= that >I know every one of you is involved in. Do keep spreading the word about >what people can do.=20 > > >My love and best wishes to all of you for all the great work you are doing. > >Fran > >------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Here's the press release on the Justice, Not Vengeance initiative. > >David Lerner (212) 260-5000; dlerner@riptideonline.com >John Cavanagh (202) 234-9382; jcavanagh@igc.org >David Korten >Fran Korten (206) 842-5009 x205; fkorten@futurenet.org >Sarah Van Gelder (206) 842-5009 x214; svangelder@futurenet.org > >DIVERSE COALTION OF AMERICANS SPEAK OUT AGAINST WAR AS SOLUTION TO= TERRORISM > >Rosa Parks, Danny Glover, Gloria Steinem And Harry Belafonte Join Effort >Calling For Justice Not Vengeance > >September 19, 2001=D0As Americans begin to consider the implications of a >military response against terrorism, an increasing number are voicing their >opposition to precipitous acts that may involve the world in a deadly >conflict. Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, and Gloria Steinem= have >joined Ben Cohen and a number of business, environmental, religious, and >civil society leaders to speak out against war as the solution to= terrorism. >In a statement released today, these leaders argue that a "military= response >would not end the terror." They call for "bringing the terrorists to >justice under the rule of law" and they argue against an erosion of civil >liberties. > >The statement calls for a response to the September 11th disaster that is >"prompt, just and effective." The signers questions whether "a military >response will end the terror: As citizens of this great nation, we support >the efforts being made to find those behind the acts of terror. Bringing >them to Justice under the rule of law ? not military action ? is the way to >end the violence." > >The signers also note that while the terrorist acts were aimed at U.S., >citizens from more than 50 nations were among the victims: "Our best= chance >for preventing such devastating acts of terror is to act decisively and >cooperatively as part of a community of nations within the framework of >international law to route our terrorism and work for justice at home and >abroad." > >The statement is one of many which are being developed by civil society >groups including religious leaders and academics calling for justice rather >than revenge. Newspaper advertisements and other initiatives are being >planned. Reports from around the country indicate that activism is being >planned throughout the coming months. On Thursday, students at 82 campuses >in 25 states will hold peace rallies and vigils to call for restraint and >reconciliation.=20 > >The full statement is attached. For further information and updates on >peace activities please contact Riptide Communications 212.260.5000. >--=20 > >Frances F. Korten >Executive Director >Positive Futures Network >PO Box 10818 >Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 >fkorten@futurenet.org >www.yesmagazine.org >206/842-0216 (tel) >206/842-5208 (fax) > >subscriptions to YES! >$24/year >CALL 1 800/937-4451 > =20 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: RULE OF LAW VS. RULE OF WAR: Are Media Missing the Lesson of Date: 20 Sep 2001 17:38:44 -0500 -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:01 PM Okl ahoma City? RULE OF LAW VS. RULE OF WAR: Are Media Missing the Lesson of Oklahoma City? By Jeff Cohen Sept 19, 2001 Many media voices are enlisting in the push toward war. CBS anchor Dan Rather seemed more soldier than reporter on Monday's Letterman show when he endorsed the war drive and added: "George Bush is the President.. Wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where." It's worth remembering that a similar push followed the last dreadful act of terrorism against America on our soil, Oklahoma City. Many in the mass media immediately began goading us toward retaliation against a presumed Arab, Islamic enemy. Columnist Mike Royko called for the overseas bombing of civilian infrastructures: "If it happens to be the wrong country, well, too bad." The bellicose rhetoric came to a stunning halt as soon as it was learned that the anti-American terrorists were not from the Mideast. In fact, one was from the Midwest -- Michigan. The leader was Timothy McVeigh, who went to his death believing himself to be at war against the U.S. Perhaps the lesson to be learned from Oklahoma City is that our country did not take the bait. The U.S. did not declare war on McVeigh and his network of extremist fellow-travelers. The Bill of Rights and civil liberties were not trampled on the path to increased security. Instead, McVeigh and his accomplices were dealt with as a democracy deals with mass murderers. They were apprehended, prosecuted and punished after being given trials, lawyers, the right to confront witnesses and challenge evidence. The armed fanatics who sympathized with McVeigh were not all hunted down and destroyed, but they've certainly been quieted. Many of us abhor the death penalty that was given to McVeigh, but the rule of law prevailed. The terrorists behind the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon are more numerous, perhaps more dangerous and better protected than McVeigh and friends. Still, it's appalling how little mainstream media have discussed relying on the rule of law -- international law -- to pursue the foreign terrorists. Few news reports have pointed out that there is one body under international law that can authorize military action: the United Nations Security Council. If the U.S. has strong evidence against Osama bin Laden and associates, and Afghanistan continues to refuse extradition to the U.S., the two countries could negotiate surrender of the suspects to a neutral country for trial (as happened with Libyan agents tried for the Lockerbie explosion). If that approach fails, the U.S. could present its case to the Security Council, which could authorize the equivalent of an international arrest warrant. That the United States of America should uphold and adhere to international law is seen as preposterous, un-American and weak. In a piece titled, "To War, Not to Court," Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote: "Secretary of State Colin Powell's first reaction to the day of infamy was to pledge to 'bring those responsible to justice.' This is exactly wrong." Fox News Channel offered a rare interview with an actual expert in international law, Francis Boyle of University of Illinois, who offered a step-by-step legal process for pursuing the terrorists -- which provoked an indignant Bill O'Reilly to decry "empowering the U.N." Days later on his show, one of the most watched on cable news, O'Reilly advocated bombing and destroying the civilian infrastructures of Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by attacks on Libya. Listening to the Krauthammers and O'Reillys and leaping into unilateral action does more than undermine the rule of law. It isolates the U.S. instead of isolating the terrorists. Much of the world will see an excessive or misdirected U.S. military action as a tragic rerun of adventures that have callously injured innocent civilians from Panama to Iraq to Sudan. And a new misstep will breed ever more anti-American terrorists. -------------------------- Jeff Cohen is the founder of FAIR, a national media watch group based in Manhattan, and a media critic on the Fox News Channel. For more on media coverage since 911: http://www.fair.org ------ SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR (20:29) September 13, 2001 Thursday Transcript # 091303cb.256 SECTION: News; Domestic LENGTH: 3973 words HEADLINE: America Unites How Should the U.S. Bring Terrorists to Justice? GUESTS: Sam Huessini, Francis Boyle BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly BODY: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. O'REILLY: While most Americans are united in their support of President Bush and the desire to bring Osama bin Laden and other terrorists to justice, there are some differing voices. Joining us now from Washington is Sam Husseini, the former spokesman for the Arab Anti -- American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and from Urbana, Illinois, is Francis Boyle, an international law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.......... O'REILLY: Cut his mike. All right, now, Mr. Boyle, Professor Boyle, let's have a little bit more of a rational discussion here. That was absurd. The United States now has to take action against certain segments in this world who we know have been harbouring people like Osama bin Laden. That's going to happen. How will you react to that? FRANCIS BOYLE, LAW PROFESSOR: Well, first I think you have to look at the law involved. Clearly what we have here, under United States domestic law and statutes, is an act of international terrorism that should be treated as such. It is not yet elevated to an act of war. For an act of war, we need proof that a foreign state actually ordered or launched an attack upon the United States of America. So far, we do not yet have that evidence. We could... O'REILLY: All right, now why are you, why are you, why are you taking this position when you know forces have attacked the United States. Now, maybe they don't have a country, but they are forces. They have attacked the United States, all right? Without warning, without provocation. Civilian targets. They've done everything that an act of war does. So, I'm saying that because we live in a different world now, where borders don't really matter, where terrorism is the weapon of choice, that you would declare war -- if I were President Bush, I would declare war on any hostile forces, notice those words, professor, hostile forces to the United States. I would have a blanket declaration of war so I could go in and kill those people. Would I be wrong? BOYLE: Well, Bill, so far you'll note Congress has been unwilling to declare war. And indeed, this matter is being debated right now. Right now, it appears that what they are seeking is not a full declaration of war, but only what we law professors call an imperfect declaration, which means a limited use of military force under the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Precisely for the problem that we don't know if any state was involved and we still do not know who was responsible for this undoubted terrorist attack upon the United States of America. O'REILLY: All right, but we have the secretary of state saying that Osama bin Laden now has been linked into and, you know, we don't have all the intelligence information, as President Bush said today. He's not going to give us, and he shouldn't, the people of America all the information that they have. But when the secretary of state gets up and says, look, we know this guy was involved to some extent, I believe him. And he's a wanted man, professor. He's been wanted for eight years. The Clinton administration didn't have the heart to get him and in the first few months the Bush administration didn't either. We now know, and you just heard the FBI agent say that Afghanistan has been involved for years harbouring and training these kinds of people. Certainly, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, those five countries, certainly have been hostile to the United States and given safe harbour to these terrorists. That's a fact. BOYLE: Well, let me point out, the secretary of state was very careful in the words he used. He said Osama bin Laden was a suspect. He did not accuse him. And, again, under these circumstances... O'REILLY: No, he didn't use the word suspect. He used another word. BOYLE: The account I read in, just off the wire service, said suspect. But let me continue my point. Under these circumstances, where we have 5,000 Americans dead and we could have many more Americans killed in a conflict, we have to be very careful, Congress and the American people and the president, in not to over-escalate the rhetoric, here. We have to look at this very rationally. This is a democracy. We have a right to see what the evidence is and proceed in a very slow and deliberate manner. O'REILLY: No, we don't. We do not, as a republic, we don't have the right to see what the evidence is if the evidence is of a national security situation, as you know. Now, I'm trusting my government to do the right thing, here. I am trusting. But I think it's beyond a doubt right now, beyond a reasonable doubt, which is, as you know, a court of law standard, that there are at least five, North Korea you could put in to, six states in the world that have harboured continually these terrorists. Now, we know that this was a well-coordinated effort. Our initial intelligence shows that some of the people that have been arrested have ties to Osama bin Laden. We know, as you just heard the FBI agent say, that the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was tied in to a guy who knew bin Laden. So, bin Laden -- I agree with you, that you don't want to be a hothead. You don't want to overreact. You don't want to lob a missile at the pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan, which was terrible, and that was the one good point, or fair point, that Mr. Husseini made, you don't want to do that. But, on the other hand, professor, I think Americans are rightful, are right, to demand action against states that we know in the past have harboured these individuals and there's a warrant out for Osama bin Laden's arrest. So, if he is in Afghanistan, I would give that government a couple of days to hand him over, and if they did not, I'd go in. BOYLE: Well, again. The American people are right. We need to see the evidence. I remember people saying a generation ago, during the Vietnam war, I trusted my government. And I think people of my generation found out that that was wrong. We needed more evidence. O'REILLY: All right. Professor, let me stop you there, though. This is another point that Mr. Husseini tried to make. Just because the United States of America has made mistakes in the past, does not mean that we cannot defend ourselves now. This is a unique situation in history. We have now been attacked by forces without borders, OK? We've been attacked. And it hasn't been a military attack, it's been an attack on civilians. The reason, the sole reason a federal government exists is to protect the people of the United States. And as I said in my "Talking Points" memo, they haven't really done the job, for political reasons. But now's the time to correct those things. So, there's going to be a reckoning, Professor. You know it's going to happen. I know it's going to happen. And it's going to come down on Osama bin Laden first and maybe some of these rouge states later. Will you support that action? BOYLE: Before I support a war that will jeopardize the lives of tens of thousands of our servicemen and women, I want to see the evidence that we are relying on to justify this. So far, I do not see it. I see allegations. I see innuendo. I see winks and I see nods, but I do not see the evidence that you need under international law and the United States constitution so far to go to war. Maybe that evidence will be there, but it is not there now. My recommendation to Congress is to slow down, let's see what develops and let's see what this evidence is before we knowingly go out and not only kill large numbers of people, perhaps in Afghanistan and other countries, but undoubtedly in our own armed forces. 58,000 men of my generation will killed in Vietnam because of irresponsible behavior by the Johnson administration rushing that Tonkin Gulf resolution through Congress, exactly what we're seeing now. And we need to pull back and stop and think and ask the hard questions and demand to see the evidence first, before we march off to war. O'REILLY: All right, so it's not enough that people arrested in the bombings of the embassies in Africa testified in court that Osama bin Laden was behind and financed and coordinated those bombings. That evidence is not enough for you? BOYLE: Well, Africa is a very is a very different story than what happened in the World Trade Center. O'REILLY: No, it's not. He's wanted, he's wanted in the United States for the bombings of those two embassies. Is that evidence enough for you, professor, for the United States to go in and get this man? Is it enough? BOYLE: That, that matter was treated and handled as an act of international terrorism in accordance with the normal laws and procedures of the United States of America as a question of domestic and international law enforcement. And I am suggesting that is the way we need to proceed here... O'REILLY: Well, wait. You're dodging the question professor. BOYLE: ... unless we have evidence that... O'REILLY: Wait, professor. Professor. This is a no spin zone. Hold it. Hold it. Even out in Urbana Champagne, the no spin zone rules. You're dodging the question. There is an absolutely rock solid arrest warrant out for this man. Evidence in court, testimony by people who did the bombings that this man was behind it. Is that enough evidence for you to have the United States go in and get him now? Is it enough? BOYLE: The United States has been attempting to secure his extradition from Afghanistan. I support... O'REILLY: Yeah, that's long enough. BOYLE: I support that approach as international... O'REILLY: Come on already, I mean, eight years, we've been attempting to extradite this guy. Now's the time to tell the Afghans you've got 48 hours or 72 hours to turn him over. You don't turn him over, we're coming in and getting him. You try to stop us, and you're toast. Enough is enough, professor. BOYLE: That's vigilantism. It is not what the United States of America is supposed to stand for. We are supposed to stand... O'REILLY: No, what that is is protecting the country from terrorists who kill civilians. BOYLE: ... for rule of law. O'REILLY: It's not vigilantism. BOYLE: We are supposed to stand for rule of law, and that is clearly vigilantism. There is a Security Council, there is Congress, there are procedures and there are laws, and they are there to protect all of us here in the United States as well as... O'REILLY: So, you're telling me... BOYLE: ... as well as our servicemen and women. Look, Bill, if we allegedly, as you put it, go in, you are not going in, I am not going in. It's going to be young men and women serving in our armed forces... O'REILLY: And that's their job. To protect us. But, professor, let me, you know, what you're saying is, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. B0YLE: ... with the constitution and the laws of the United States. O'REILLY: We're not violating any laws here, professor. No one is going to violate the law. There is going to be a state of war induced against states, states, terroristic states, who have attacked us. And what you're saying is, though, and correct me if I'm wrong, you're saying that even though there is a legitimate warrant out for Osama bin Laden's arrest, and even though most civilized nations would honor that warrant and turn him over to us, extradite him to us, the vast majority of nations on earth would do that, you still are opposed for the United States to demand that the Taliban government arrest this man and turn him over? You are opposed to that? BOYLE: During the Gulf War, President Bush's father, who has far more experience that the current president Bush, got a Security Council resolution authorizing the United States of America to use force to expel Iraq from Kuwait. Second, President Bush's father got a War Powers Authorization Resolution from Congress that gave him the constitutional authority to use military force to enforce that Security Council resolution. What I'm calling for here is the same adherence to international law and the United States constitution that the first President Bush adhered to in dealing with Iraq. O'REILLY: Well, you'll get that, professor. That's just a formality. There -- nobody on Capitol Hill right now, they're not going to -- there's no profile of courages up there anyway, usually. They're going to give President Bush what he wants. If he wants a War Powers Act, they're going to give it to him. He wants a declaration, they're going to give it to him. BOYLE: Actually, they're arguing about it right now... O'REILLY: They're going to give it to him. But I'm not interested in that, because it's going to happen. It's going to happen. BOYLE: The reports -- no, the reports I read was that this President Bush initially asked for a blank check, and Congress balked because they had been suckered once before... O'REILLY: All right, I'm not -- speculation is not what I'm in -- all right, professor. I don't want to speculate. I'm just going to say in my opinion he's going to have the authority to go in and get Osama bin Laden and his pals, wherever they are. He will get that authority, whether it takes a day or a week, he'll get it. And once he gets it, now, that's what I want to talk about here. Once he gets it, are you and others like you going to say, oh, no, we shouldn't do this, even though we have proof of the man's -- masterminded the bombings in Africa and the Cole,testimony in Yemen, are you going to still say, even after the authority is granted by Congress, which it will be, no, don't do it, let Afghanistan handle him? Are you going to still do that, professor? BOYLE: Second, like his father, his father also got authorization from the United States, the United Nations Security Council under chapter seven of the United Nations charter... O'REILLY: Oh, you want to go to U.N. now? You want the U.N. involved now. BOYLE: Is exactly what his father did... O'REILLY: So what? BOYLE: And that's exactly right. O'REILLY: His father made a huge mistake by not taking out Sadam Hussein when he could of. BOYLE: His father adhered to the required procedures under the United States constitution and the United Nations charter that is a treaty and the supreme law of our land. I expect the current President Bush to do exactly what his father did before he starts engaging in a massive military campaign in Iraq or against other countries... O'REILLY: All right, I don't know whether he's going to go -- I know he's not going to let the U.N. dictate. He might go for a consensus. He's already got it with Putin and all of our NATO allies, he's already go that. Whether he goes -- I think it would be a mistake to let -- empowering the U.N. in this situation. BOYLE: Then why did his father do this? O'REILLY: I'm going -- we're going to wrap this up with this. I'm going to give my last summation and then you can give yours, I'll give you the last word on it. This is a fugitive we're dealing with here. He has now been tied in by U.S. intelligence agencies, according to Attorney General Ashcroft and the secretary of state, tied into this horrendous bombing here in New York. The United States must make a response to this, and I am agreeing with you in a sense, it can't be a knee-jerk. It's got to be done in a methodical way. Congress will go along, they may debate it or whatever, but they will go along in either a War Powers, special War Powers Act or a declaration of war against forces hostile to the United States. Then they will go in and they will take him. This man you're looking at on the TV screen is a dead man. He should be a dead man. You don't do what he did and be allowed to walk around this earth. Now, I'm distressed, professor, by your reliance, reliance on the strict letter of propriety, when we've got 10,000 people laying in the street about 22 miles from me right now. I want deliberation. I want methodical discipline, but I also want action. We know who this guy is. We know the governments that are protecting him. We know the other rouge states that have terrorist camps there. They all have to be dealt with, in my opinion. I'll give you the last word. BOYLE: Sure, I agree with you, Bill. He is a fugitive from justice and this should be handled as a matter as other fugitives from justice of international law enforcement. If indeed there is evidence that a foreign state orchestrated and ordered an attack against the United States then clearly that is an act of war that should be dealt with as such... O'REILLY: What about harbouring? BOYLE: Right now... O'REILLY: Is harbouring an act of war? BOYLE: In my opinion, no. And under the current circumstances, I don't see it. O'REILLY: All right, professor. BOYLE: I think there is a distinction here. O'REILLY: OK, all right, wrap it up, if you would. BOYLE: I agree -- I agree that the -- if we go to war in a hasty manner here, we could see thousands of U.S. military personnel being killed without proper authorization by Congress or by the United Nations Security Council. O'REILLY: OK. BOYLE: Our founding fathers decided that the most awesome decision we would ever make would be to go to war, and we have to be very careful in making that decision. O'REILLY: All right, professor, I appreciate it very much. Thank you for your point of view. BOYLE: Thank you, Bill. ### - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Senate email list and Wellstone sign-on letter (last call) Date: 20 Sep 2001 15:36:26 -0400 --=====================_43811001==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" NucNews is posted through the September 16, 2001. "Activists' News" each day has reports and upcoming events -- http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm. Below: (1) Two important nuclear news resources. (2) Here are U.S. Senate email addresses, as of September 2001 (3) Results of Senator Wellstone sign-on letter (and last call) ==> (1) Two news services you should know about (plus Senate email addresses) - Radiation Bulletin -- Roger Herried refuses (so far) to put the fruits of his labor onto the web, but will subscribe activists as a free service, if you write to him. You'll be really glad you did. - DOE Watch -- outstanding coverage of U.S. nuclear facilities and waste. Subscribe: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/doewatch ==> (2) Senate email addresses (as of February 15, 2001), by order of state: (For fax, phone, website also, see http://prop1.org/prop1/senate.htm) email@murkowski.senate.gov, Senator_Stevens@stevens.senate.gov, senator@sessions.senate.gov, senator@shelby.senate.gov, senator.hutchinson@hutchinson.senate.gov, blanche_lincoln@lincoln.senate.gov, info@kyl.senate.gov, senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov, senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@feinstein.senate.gov, senator_allard@exchange.senate.gov, administrator@campbell.senate.gov, sen_dodd@dodd.senate.gov, senator_lieberman@lieberman.senate.gov, senator@biden.senate.gov, bob_graham@graham.senate.gov, senator@billnelson.senate.gov Senator_Max_Cleland@Cleland.senate.gov, senator@akaka.senate.gov, senator@inouye.senate.gov, chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov, tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov, larry_craig@craig.senate.gov, askmike@mail.house.gov, dick@durbin.senate.gov, senator_fitzgerald@fitzgerald.senate.gov, senator@bayh.senate.gov, senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov, sam_brownback@brownback.senate.gov, pat_roberts@roberts.senate.gov, jim_bunning@bunning.senate.gov, senator@mcconnell.senate.gov, senator@breaux.senate.gov, senator@landrieu.senate.gov, senator@kennedy.senate.gov, john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov, senator@mikulski.senate.gov, senator@sarbanes.senate.gov, senator@collins.senate.gov, olympia@snowe.senate.gov, senator@levin.senate.gov, senator@stabenow.senate.gov, senator@wellstone.senate.gov, kit_bond@bond.senate.gov, senator_carnahan@carnahan.senate.gov, senator@cochran.senate.gov, senatorlott@lott.senate.gov, max@baucus.senate.gov, conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov, Senator@Edwards.senate.gov, jesse_helms@helms.senate.gov, senator@conrad.senate.gov, senator@dorgan.senate.gov, senator@bennelson.senate.gov, chuck_hagel@hagel.senate.gov, mailbox@gregg.senate.gov, opinion@smith.senate.gov, senator@torricelli.senate.gov, senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov, senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov, senator@ensign.senate.gov, senator_reid@reid.senate.gov, senator@clinton.senate.gov, senator@schumer.senate.gov, senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov, senator_voinovich@voinovich.senate.gov, jim_inhofe@inhofe.senate.gov, senator@nickles.senate.gov, oregon@gsmith.senate.gov, senator@wyden.senate.gov, senator@santorum.senate.gov, senator_specter@specter.senate.gov, senator_chafee@chafee.senate.gov, jack@reed.senate.gov, qmail@hollings-cms.senate.gov, administrator@thurmond.senate.gov, tom_daschle@daschle.senate.gov, tim@johnson.senate.gov, senator_frist@frist.senate.gov, senator_thompson@thompson.senate.gov, phil_gramm@gramm.senate.gov, senator@hutchison.senate.gov, senator@bennett.senate.gov, senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov, senator_allen@allen.senate.gov, senator@warner.senate.gov, vermont@jeffords.senate.gov, senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov, maria@cantwell.senate.gov, senator_murray@murray.senate.gov, russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov, senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov, senator_byrd@byrd.senate.gov, senator@rockefeller.senate.gov, senator@enzi.senate.gov, craig@thomas.senate.gov, vice.president@whitehouse.gov ==> (3) Wellstone letter status Thank you, those of you who signed on to the letter to Senator Paul Wellstone in support of HR-2503 earlier this month. (I include another copy of it below.) This legislation is particularly important now that the politicians are scrambling for short AND long-term solutions to terrorism. The people who have signed on so far are listed at the bottom of the letter. You're invited to add your name. I plan to deliver it on September 30th, barring further unforeseen circumstances. I will include a cover note; perhaps you have something you would recommend I say. Very grateful to you all for your clear thinking.... Ellen Thomas -- September, 2001 Senator Paul Wellstone Fax: 202-224-8438 Secretary of Energy 717 Hart SOB Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Wellstone: We found it surprising when one of your aides said recently that he thinks introducing a Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act," is an "impractical" idea. See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm. Last year one of your aides said that you would probably support Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if Jesse Helms weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He said that you were concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but might be convinced that this bill was worth co-introducing with other Senators. Jesse Helms is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. If we can tell other Senators that you will co-introduce with them, this will help us get further support. To respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical": 187 countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish nuclear weapons, but haven't set a date. Our purpose here is to make it happen, to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW. Treaties aren't enforceable unless backed by national laws. National laws rarely happen without regional or local initiatives. We have proven that most people from every region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear disarmament. This is do-able. It requires visionary thinking, a touch of faith, and a large portion of hope. What else is America about? Let me explain how HR-2503 would work. It would be a statement to the world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament. It is a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons IF everyone else does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up the nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other war industries into something good for society. For example, instead of building missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and people could be paid to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells ... an entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform all our societies. No one need lose. HR-2503 is entirely a win-win idea. I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow Minnesotan, to discuss this. Sincerely, Ellen Thomas Executive Director PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE PO BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA 202-462-0757-- (voice) | 202-265-5389 -- (fax) prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail) | http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web) ___________________________________________________________ I agree with this letter (in order of receipt): Name / Organization / City/State/Country / Email Address / Website ____________________________________________________________________________ _______ George Crocker, North American Water Office, Lake Elmo MN 55042, mailto:gwillc@mtn.org Bruce A Drew, Prairie Island Coalition Steering Committee, Minneapolis MN 55410-1444 Phone: (612)927-5087, FAX: (978)945-5816, mailto:bdrew@igc.org John J. Neumaier, Ph.D., former President, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN and Sara Fletcher Luther, Ph.D., former Minnesota state legislator mailto:neumluth@aol.com David Hartsough, PEACEWORKERS, San Francisco, CA 94117 mailto:peaceworkers@igc.org James "Guin" McGuinness, Homeless Advocacy Task Force, Las Vegas, NV 89106 mailto:guinstigator@yahoo.com John Hallam, Friends of the Earth, Sydney, Australia, mailto:nonukes@foesyd.org.au John LaForge, Nukewatch, P.O. Box 649, Luck, WI 54853, mailto:nukewatch@lakeland.ws Carol Wolman, Nuclear Peace Action Group of Mendocino, CA, mailto:cwolman@mcn.org Bill Smirnow, Nuclear Free New York, Huntington, New York, mailto:smirnowb@ix.netcom.com Clive Fudge, several organizations, Norwich, England, mailto:clivef55@hotmail.com John Ragsdale, Retired Teacher, San Bernardino, CA 92404, mailto:JAR1Puggy@webtv.net Sal Mangiagli, Board Member, Citizens Awareness Network, mailto:ctcan@snet.net Paula Elofson-Gardine, Environmental Information Network, Lakewood, CO, USA mailto:pelofson1@home.com | http://members.aol.com/magnu96196/EINHome.html David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794 mailto:dkrieger@napf.org | www.wagingpeace.org Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Monroe, MI 48161 mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net Corrine Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net Keith Gunter, Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two, Monroe, MI 48161 mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net Vina Colley, (PRESS) Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security, Ohio, mailto:vcolley@earthlink.net Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth, Tecopa CA 92389 mailto:heal@kay-net.com Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK mailto:wmcndall@gn.apc.org | http://members.aol.com/WMCNDH/Home.htm Norm Cohen, UNPLUG Salem Campaign, Linwood, NJ 08221 and Coalition for Peace and Justice, mailto:ncohen12@home.com Owen Berio, Dawn Watch, Springdale WA, mailto:owenb@theofficenet.com | http://dawnwatch.org D.E. Massey ABC Consultants PO Box 820056 Houston, Tx 77281, MDemassey@aol.com Reinard Knutsen, Shundahai Network, Nuclear Free Great Basin Campaign, PO Box 1115, Salt Lake City, UT 84110 (801) 359-2614 reinard@shundahai.org, http://www.shundahai.org Rudy Stolfer, Walt Root's Quest for Peace, Washington, PA USA rvwaltroot@yahoo.com Pat Birnie, Environmental Justice Action Group of Tucson, AZ, mailto:birnie@gci-net.com Alice Slater, GRACE Public Fund, New York, NY 10010 mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org | http://www.gracepublicfund.org John P. Shannon, Former Scientist for the Navy Nuclear Program, mailto:Jacksha1@aol.com Patricia Watson, Editor, Peacework, American Friends Service Committee, Cambridge, MA 02140, mailto:pwork@igc.org| www.afsc.org/peacewrk.htm Mary Olson, Southeast Office Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Asheville, NC USA, mailto:nirs.se@mindspring.com | www.nirs.org Harry Rogers, Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia SC, mailto:cprcrogers@mindspring.com M. Lindsey Hagood, Standup For Democracy,Washington,DC, mailto:linh26@juno.com Gregor, for Shundahai Network, Pahrump NV 89041 mailto:gregor@shundahai.org | www.shundahai.org Molly Johnson, Grandmothers for Peace/San Luis Obispo County Chapter San Miguel, CA, mailto:peacegrannie@hotmail.com Carol Jahnkow, Peace Resource Center of San Diego, mailto:prcsandiego@igc.org Natalia Mironova, Movement for Nuclear Safety, Chelyabink, Russia, mailto:natalia_mironova@yahoo.com | mailto:mnatalie@chat.ru | http://www.chat.ru/~bureau Greg Wingard, Waste Action Project Seattle, WA 98104-90832, mailto:gwingard@earthlink.net Ernest Goitein & Claire Feder, Californians for Radioactive Safeguards, mailto:fego@pacbell.net Laurence H. Ebersole, Writer/counselor/advocate, Seattle, Wa, 98105, mailto:wordheath@yahoo.com Rosalie Tyler Paul, Peace Action, Portland, ME, USA mailto:handinhand@clinic.net | www.peaceactionme.org Joan Norman, Greenpeace, Save the Redwoods, Boycott the Gap, Peninsula Peace and Freedom Party, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087 mailto:jndefender@home.com Makoto KONDO, Associate Professor of GIFU UNIVERSITY (Constitutional Law), Gifu City, JAPAN, mailto:mKondo@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp Tatiana A. Kostanian, MHONA International, mailto:mhona@linex.com Mitzi and Peter Bowman, Don't Waste Connecticut, New Haven Ct. USA mailto:upthesun@tallships.ca Shiva Shrestha, Save the World, Kathmandu, Nepal mailto:shshrestha@wlink.com.np | www.speedweb2000.com/savetheworld Tara Thornton, Military Toxics Project, Lewiston, Maine mailto:tara@miltoxproj.org | www.miltoxproj.org Michael W. Stowell, Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Commission, Arcata, Ca. USA mailto: nonukes@arcatacityhall.org | http://www.arcatacityhall.org/nukefree Alan Haber, Megiddo Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan, mailto:megiddo@umich.edu Jim Schulman, Sustainable Community Initiatives, Washington, DC 20002, mailto:jschulman@igc.org Mavis Belisle, The Peace Farm, Panhandle TX 79068, , mailto:peacefarm@arn.net Susann M. Bradford, Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers, Missoula, Montana USA 59807 mailto:cmcr@wildrockies.org | http://www.wildrockies.org/cmcr Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ mailto:bobkinsey@earthlink.net Frank H. Lucido MD, member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Berkeley, CA, USA, mailto:drfrank@well.com Elizabeth McAllister, et al, Jonah House, Baltimore, MD, mailto:disarmnow@aol.com Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee (South Australian Branch) , Adelaide SA 5000, Australia, mailto:r-grayle@msn.com.au | www.peacecourier.com Bob Darby, Food Not Bombs, Atlanta, GA, mailto:tferguson8@aol.com Hiroko Shirai, Okayama Univercity, Japan (Biology) mailto:shirai@uml.okayama-u.ac.jp | http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/znet/pleae.html Philip & Phyllis Creighton, Science for Peace! Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, mailto:ppcreig@idirect.com Cathy Gatling, Linden, VA 22642, mailto:cg1146@yahoo.com Kenny Freeman, Silver Spring, Maryland, US, mailto:JewishOpinion@hotmail.com Tom Cloud, Calico Rock, Arkansas 72519, mailto:inea1111@webtv.net Mike Stephens, Mountain Home, Idaho 83647 mailto:mastephens@micron.com Mary Herzel, Harrisburg, PA, mailto:Fherzel@aol.com Dan Behrens, Ottsville, PA 18942, mailto:dbehrens@hotmail.com Cedar Dvorin, Alexandria, VA, mailto:cedar1950@cs.com Patricia Ann Arnold and William C. Wardlaw III, Takoma Park, MD, mailto:Patandb99@aol.com Steven Botscheller, Coconut Creek, Florida, mailto:botscheller@mindspring.com Ethel MacDonald, Missoula, Montana 59801, mailto:Macethel@aol.com Annie Wildwood, Cotati, CA, mailto:livefunny@earthlink.net [PSR/Atlanta is sending its own letter, a straightforward request for support. Tom Ferguson mailto:tferguson8@aol.com] --=====================_43811001==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" NucNews is posted through the September 16, 2001. "Activists' News" each day has reports and upcoming events -- http://prop1.org/nucnews/briefslv.htm.

Below:

(1) Two important nuclear news resources.
(2) Here are U.S. Senate email addresses, as of September 2001
(3) Results of Senator Wellstone sign-on letter (and last call)

==> (1)

Two news services you should know about (plus Senate email addresses)

- Radiation Bulletin -- Roger Herried <mailto:rogerh@energy-net.org> refuses (so far) to put the fruits of his labor onto the web, but will subscribe activists as a free service, if you write to him.  You'll be really glad you did.

- DOE Watch -- outstanding coverage of U.S. nuclear facilities and waste.  Subscribe:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/doewatch

==> (2)

Senate email addresses (as of February 15, 2001),
by order of state:

(For fax, phone, website also, see http://prop1.org/prop1/senate.htm)

email@murkowski.senate.gov,
Senator_Stevens@stevens.senate.gov,
senator@sessions.senate.gov,
senator@shelby.senate.gov,
senator.hutchinson@hutchinson.senate.gov,
blanche_lincoln@lincoln.senate.gov,
info@kyl.senate.gov,
senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov,
senator@boxer.senate.gov,
senator@feinstein.senate.gov,
senator_allard@exchange.senate.gov,
administrator@campbell.senate.gov,
sen_dodd@dodd.senate.gov,
senator_lieberman@lieberman.senate.gov,
senator@biden.senate.gov,
bob_graham@graham.senate.gov,
senator@billnelson.senate.gov
Senator_Max_Cleland@Cleland.senate.gov,
senator@akaka.senate.gov,
senator@inouye.senate.gov,
chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov,
tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov,
larry_craig@craig.senate.gov,
askmike@mail.house.gov,
dick@durbin.senate.gov,
senator_fitzgerald@fitzgerald.senate.gov,
senator@bayh.senate.gov,
senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov,
sam_brownback@brownback.senate.gov,
pat_roberts@roberts.senate.gov,
jim_bunning@bunning.senate.gov,
senator@mcconnell.senate.gov,
senator@breaux.senate.gov,
senator@landrieu.senate.gov,
senator@kennedy.senate.gov,
john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov,
senator@mikulski.senate.gov,
senator@sarbanes.senate.gov,
senator@collins.senate.gov,
olympia@snowe.senate.gov,
senator@levin.senate.gov,
senator@stabenow.senate.gov,
senator@wellstone.senate.gov,
kit_bond@bond.senate.gov,
senator_carnahan@carnahan.senate.gov,
senator@cochran.senate.gov,
senatorlott@lott.senate.gov,
max@baucus.senate.gov,
conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov,
Senator@Edwards.senate.gov,
jesse_helms@helms.senate.gov,
senator@conrad.senate.gov,
senator@dorgan.senate.gov,
senator@bennelson.senate.gov,
chuck_hagel@hagel.senate.gov,
mailbox@gregg.senate.gov,
opinion@smith.senate.gov,
senator@torricelli.senate.gov,
senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov,
senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov,
senator@ensign.senate.gov,
senator_reid@reid.senate.gov,
senator@clinton.senate.gov,
senator@schumer.senate.gov,
senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov,
senator_voinovich@voinovich.senate.gov,
jim_inhofe@inhofe.senate.gov,
senator@nickles.senate.gov,
oregon@gsmith.senate.gov,
senator@wyden.senate.gov,
senator@santorum.senate.gov,
senator_specter@specter.senate.gov,
senator_chafee@chafee.senate.gov,
jack@reed.senate.gov,
qmail@hollings-cms.senate.gov,
administrator@thurmond.senate.gov,
tom_daschle@daschle.senate.gov,
tim@johnson.senate.gov,
senator_frist@frist.senate.gov,
senator_thompson@thompson.senate.gov,
phil_gramm@gramm.senate.gov,
senator@hutchison.senate.gov,
senator@bennett.senate.gov,
senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov,
senator_allen@allen.senate.gov,
senator@warner.senate.gov,
vermont@jeffords.senate.gov,
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov,
maria@cantwell.senate.gov,
senator_murray@murray.senate.gov,
russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov,
senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov,
senator_byrd@byrd.senate.gov,
senator@rockefeller.senate.gov,
senator@enzi.senate.gov,
craig@thomas.senate.gov,
vice.president@whitehouse.gov

==> (3) Wellstone letter status

Thank you, those of you who signed on to the letter to Senator Paul Wellstone in support of HR-2503 earlier this month.  (I include another copy of it below.)  This legislation is particularly important now that the politicians are scrambling for short AND long-term solutions to terrorism.  The people who have signed on so far are listed at the bottom of the letter.  You're invited to add your name.  I plan to deliver it on September 30th, barring further unforeseen circumstances.  I will include a cover note; perhaps you have something you would recommend I say.  Very grateful to you all for your clear thinking.... 

Ellen Thomas

--

September, 2001

Senator Paul Wellstone                  Fax: 202-224-8438
Secretary of Energy 
717 Hart SOB            
Washington, D.C.  20510 

Dear Senator Wellstone:

We found it surprising when one of your aides said recently that he thinks introducing a Senate version of HR-2503, the "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act," is an "impractical" idea.   See http://prop1.org/prop1/hr2503.htm.

Last year one of your aides said that you would probably support Delegate Norton's "Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act" if Jesse Helms weren't Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.  He said that you were concerned about veterans' issues, primarily, but might be convinced that this bill was worth co-introducing with other Senators.  Jesse Helms is no longer Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.  If we can tell other Senators that you will co-introduce with them, this will help us get further support.

To respond to the aide's dismissal that the idea is "impractical":  187 countries, including the U.S., promised in May, 2000, to abolish nuclear weapons, but haven't set a date.  Our purpose here is to make it happen, to make global nuclear disarmament the LAW.  Treaties aren't enforceable unless backed by national laws.  National laws rarely happen without regional or local initiatives.  We have proven that most people from every region of the country and the Earth favor global nuclear disarmament.  This is do-able.  It requires visionary thinking, a touch of faith, and a large portion of hope.  What else is America about?

Let me explain how HR-2503 would work.  It would be a statement to the world that the U.S. is serious about global nuclear disarmament.  It is a promise that the U.S. will get rid of its nuclear weapons IF everyone else does; and will use the money saved to shut down and clean up the nuclear weapons industries, and to begin converting other war industries into something good for society.  For example, instead of building missiles and bombs, factories could be retooled and people could be paid to mass-produce solar panels, windmills, hydrogen fuel cells ... an entirely new, massively profitable industry which can transform all our societies.  No one need lose.  HR-2503 is entirely a win-win idea. 

I would like a personal meeting, as a fellow Minnesotan, to discuss this.

Sincerely,

Ellen Thomas
Executive Director
PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE
PO BOX 27217, WASHINGTON, DC 20038 USA
202-462-0757-- (voice)  |  202-265-5389 -- (fax)
prop1@prop1.org -- (e-mail)  |  http://prop1.org -- (World-Wide-Web)
___________________________________________________________


I agree with this letter (in order of receipt):

Name    /    Organization    /    City/State/Country    /    Email Address    /    Website
___________________________________________________________________________________

George Crocker, North American Water Office, Lake Elmo MN 55042,
mailto:gwillc@mtn.org

Bruce A Drew, Prairie Island Coalition Steering Committee, Minneapolis MN 55410-1444
Phone: (612)927-5087, FAX:  (978)945-5816, mailto:bdrew@igc.org

John J. Neumaier, Ph.D., former President, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN
and Sara Fletcher Luther, Ph.D., former Minnesota state legislator
mailto:neumluth@aol.com

David Hartsough, PEACEWORKERS, San Francisco, CA 94117 mailto:peaceworkers@igc.org

James "Guin" McGuinness, Homeless Advocacy Task Force, Las Vegas, NV 89106
mailto:guinstigator@yahoo.com

John Hallam, Friends of the Earth, Sydney, Australia, mailto:nonukes@foesyd.org.au

John LaForge, Nukewatch, P.O. Box 649, Luck, WI 54853, mailto:nukewatch@lakeland.ws

Carol Wolman, Nuclear Peace Action Group of Mendocino, CA, mailto:cwolman@mcn.org

Bill Smirnow, Nuclear Free New York, Huntington, New York, mailto:smirnowb@ix.netcom.com

Clive Fudge, several organizations, Norwich, England, mailto:clivef55@hotmail.com

John Ragsdale, Retired Teacher, San Bernardino, CA 92404, mailto:JAR1Puggy@webtv.net

Sal Mangiagli, Board Member, Citizens Awareness Network, mailto:ctcan@snet.net

Paula Elofson-Gardine, Environmental Information Network, Lakewood, CO, USA
mailto:pelofson1@home.com | http://members.aol.com/magnu96196/EINHome.html
 
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794
mailto:dkrieger@napf.org | www.wagingpeace.org

Michael J. Keegan, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Monroe, MI  48161
mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net

Corrine Carey, Don't Waste Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI
mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net

Keith Gunter, Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two, Monroe, MI  48161
mailto:mkeegan@foxberry.net

Vina Colley, (PRESS) Portsmouth/Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security, Ohio, mailto:vcolley@earthlink.net

Jennifer Olaranna Viereck, Healing Ourselves & Mother Earth, Tecopa CA 92389
mailto:heal@kay-net.com

Jenny Maxwell, West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Birmingham, UK
mailto:wmcndall@gn.apc.org |  http://members.aol.com/WMCNDH/Home.htm

Norm Cohen, UNPLUG Salem Campaign, Linwood, NJ 08221
and Coalition for Peace and Justice, mailto:ncohen12@home.com

Owen Berio, Dawn Watch, Springdale WA, mailto:owenb@theofficenet.com |   http://dawnwatch.org
 
D.E. Massey   ABC Consultants    PO Box 820056  Houston, Tx  77281, MDemassey@aol.com

Reinard Knutsen, Shundahai Network, Nuclear Free Great Basin Campaign, PO
Box 1115, Salt Lake City, UT 84110 (801) 359-2614 reinard@shundahai.org,
http://www.shundahai.org

Rudy Stolfer, Walt Root's Quest for Peace, Washington, PA USA
rvwaltroot@yahoo.com

Pat Birnie, Environmental Justice Action Group of Tucson, AZ, mailto:birnie@gci-net.com

Alice Slater, GRACE Public Fund, New York, NY 10010
mailto:aslater@gracelinks.org | http://www.gracepublicfund.org

John P. Shannon, Former Scientist for the Navy Nuclear Program, mailto:Jacksha1@aol.com

Patricia Watson, Editor, Peacework, American Friends Service Committee, Cambridge, MA 02140, mailto:pwork@igc.org| www.afsc.org/peacewrk.htm

Mary Olson, Southeast Office Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Asheville, NC USA, mailto:nirs.se@mindspring.com | www.nirs.org

Harry Rogers, Carolina Peace Resource Center, Columbia SC, mailto:cprcrogers@mindspring.com

M. Lindsey Hagood, Standup For Democracy,Washington,DC, mailto:linh26@juno.com

Gregor, for Shundahai Network, Pahrump NV 89041
mailto:gregor@shundahai.org | www.shundahai.org
 
Molly Johnson, Grandmothers for Peace/San Luis Obispo County Chapter
San Miguel, CA, mailto:peacegrannie@hotmail.com

Carol Jahnkow, Peace Resource Center of San Diego, mailto:prcsandiego@igc.org

Natalia Mironova, Movement for Nuclear Safety, Chelyabink, Russia, mailto:natalia_mironova@yahoo.com | mailto:mnatalie@chat.ru |
http://www.chat.ru/~bureau

Greg Wingard, Waste Action Project Seattle,  WA   98104-90832, mailto:gwingard@earthlink.net

Ernest Goitein & Claire Feder, Californians for Radioactive Safeguards,  mailto:fego@pacbell.net

Laurence H. Ebersole, Writer/counselor/advocate, Seattle, Wa, 98105, mailto:wordheath@yahoo.com

Rosalie Tyler Paul, Peace Action, Portland, ME,  USA  
mailto:handinhand@clinic.net | www.peaceactionme.org

Joan Norman, Greenpeace, Save the Redwoods, Boycott the Gap, Peninsula Peace and Freedom Party, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087 mailto:jndefender@home.com

Makoto KONDO, Associate Professor of GIFU  UNIVERSITY (Constitutional Law), Gifu City, JAPAN, mailto:mKondo@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp
 
Tatiana A. Kostanian, MHONA International, mailto:mhona@linex.com

Mitzi and Peter Bowman, Don't Waste Connecticut, New Haven Ct. USA
mailto:upthesun@tallships.ca

Shiva Shrestha, Save the World, Kathmandu, Nepal
mailto:shshrestha@wlink.com.np | www.speedweb2000.com/savetheworld

Tara Thornton, Military Toxics Project, Lewiston, Maine
mailto:tara@miltoxproj.org | www.miltoxproj.org

Michael W. Stowell, Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Commission, Arcata, Ca. USA
mailto: nonukes@arcatacityhall.org | http://www.arcatacityhall.org/nukefree

Alan Haber, Megiddo Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan, mailto:megiddo@umich.edu

Jim Schulman, Sustainable Community Initiatives, Washington, DC  20002, mailto:jschulman@igc.org
 
Mavis Belisle, The Peace Farm, Panhandle TX 79068, , mailto:peacefarm@arn.net

Susann M. Bradford, Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers, Missoula, Montana USA  59807
mailto:cmcr@wildrockies.org | http://www.wildrockies.org/cmcr

Bob Kinsey, Peace and Justice Task Force, Rocky Mountain Conference, United Church of Christ  
mailto:bobkinsey@earthlink.net

Frank H. Lucido MD, member of Physicians for Social Responsibility,  Berkeley, CA, USA, mailto:drfrank@well.com

Elizabeth McAllister, et al, Jonah House, Baltimore, MD, mailto:disarmnow@aol.com

Irene Gale AM, Australian Peace Committee (South Australian Branch) ,
Adelaide SA 5000, Australia, mailto:r-grayle@msn.com.au | www.peacecourier.com

Bob Darby,  Food Not Bombs, Atlanta, GA, mailto:tferguson8@aol.com

Hiroko Shirai, Okayama Univercity, Japan (Biology)
mailto:shirai@uml.okayama-u.ac.jp | http://pegasus.phys.saga-u.ac.jp/znet/pleae.html

Philip & Phyllis Creighton, Science for Peace! Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear
Weapons, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, mailto:ppcreig@idirect.com

Cathy Gatling, Linden, VA  22642,  mailto:cg1146@yahoo.com

Kenny Freeman,  Silver Spring, Maryland, US, mailto:JewishOpinion@hotmail.com

Tom Cloud, Calico Rock, Arkansas 72519, mailto:inea1111@webtv.net

Mike Stephens, Mountain Home, Idaho 83647 mailto:mastephens@micron.com

Mary Herzel, Harrisburg, PA, mailto:Fherzel@aol.com

Dan Behrens, Ottsville, PA 18942, mailto:dbehrens@hotmail.com

Cedar Dvorin, Alexandria, VA, mailto:cedar1950@cs.com

Patricia Ann Arnold and William C. Wardlaw III, Takoma Park, MD, mailto:Patandb99@aol.com

Steven Botscheller, Coconut Creek, Florida, mailto:botscheller@mindspring.com

Ethel MacDonald, Missoula, Montana 59801, mailto:Macethel@aol.com

Annie Wildwood, Cotati, CA, mailto:livefunny@earthlink.net

[PSR/Atlanta is sending its own letter, a straightforward request for support.  Tom Ferguson mailto:tferguson8@aol.com]
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Three of the airliners were crashed into the Pentagon near > Washington and New York's World Trade Center. REUTERS/Brian Snyder > As part of the budding peace offensive, over 1,200 members of the > National Council of Churches and a diverse coalition -- organized by > Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover and Rosa Parks -- issued strong > statementsyesterday noting that, while the attacks' perpetrators > should be brought to justice, wholesale military action would incite > more terrorism, not end it. Demonstrations and teach-ins are planned > on scores of campuses today, and some of the groups that had geared > up to protest the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings > in Washington are joining forces, instead, in plans for a peace > gathering here on Sept. 30. >=20 > Some protesters bring a special moral force to their argument. Judy > Keane, whose husband, Richard, was killed in the World Trade Center > during last week's attacks, spoke out against military retaliation > during a prayer vigil that she helped organize near her home in > Wethersfield, Conn., Sunday evening. The event drew more than 5,000 > people. >=20 > "The World Trade Center [attack] was in retaliation for something > else, and that was the retaliation for something else," she said in a > telephone interview yesterday. "Are we going to continue this in > perpetuity? We have to say at some point, okay, let's find another > way of doing this." >=20 > Business executive and CNN founder Ted Turner argued against a > military solution yesterday at the United Nations as he delivered a > $31 million check to cover part of the United States' U.N. dues. "We > should not, I don't think, go around and indiscriminately start > bombing countries that we suspect the terrorists are in because there > are terrorists everywhere, here in the United States," he said. "What > were [Oklahoma City bombers] Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh but > terrorists?" >=20 > The statement by the National Council of Churches declared: "We must > not, out of anger and vengeance, indiscriminately retaliate in ways > that bring on even more loss of innocent life." The coalition of more > than 100 people organized by entertainers Belafonte and Glover and > civil rights legend Rosa Parks said in a separate letter: "Our best > chance of preventing such devastating acts of terror is to act > decisively and cooperatively as part of a community of nations within > the framework of international law." >=20 > Organizers say there is a fast-growing network of peace activists who > will likely outnumber the demonstrators who rallied during the > Persian Gulf War a decade ago. Student groups are planning peace > demonstrations on 105 college campuses in 30 states today. More than > 1,000 students and community members from nine Boston-area schools > are expected to participate in noontime rallies that will converge in > a march from Boston to Harvard Yard, while close to 3,000 are > expected to march and mourn on the campus of the University of > California at Berkeley. >=20 > "There's pretty much a consensus among students in this group [that] > we want to prevent the continuation of the cycle of violence by > averting war," said Brad Hornbake, 22, a senior at Emerson College in > Boston. >=20 > Meanwhile, the Washington Peace Center, a pacifist and human rights > group, is planning a major "peace event" in Washington on Sept. 30 as > an alternative to the canceled meetings of the World Bank and IMF. > Organizers stressed that the event will not involve any of the > "confrontational tactics" that were used during previous meetings of > the international agencies. >=20 > "We don't want the violence here to be perpetrated somewhere else," > said Maria Ramos, a coordinator of the event. "The U.S. has the moral > high ground now . . . . This is a time for building alliances based > on law and strengthening international tribunals [for] cross-border > terrorism." >=20 > Special correspondent Colum Lynch contributed to this report. >=20 > =A9 2001 The Washington Post Company >=20 > ### >> > >----------------------------------------------- >To respond to a post to the 911 list, make sure the recipient of your email >is 911@www.brechtforum.org. Do NOT use "reply" since that will send your >response to the original poster only. >----------------------------------------------- >To subscribe and unsubscribe to this list, use the form on the Brecht >Forum web site. http://www.brechtforum.org. > =20 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joan Russow Subject: (abolition-usa) Rule of international law and global justice not revenge must Date: 21 Sep 2001 11:54:04 +0000 Rule of international law and global justice not revenge must prevail In the face of human disaster, the calls for revenge and retribution are predictable but these calls should be resisted. The rule of international law, must be respected. For too long many member states of the United Nations have failed to respect the International Court of Justice in the Hague. States like the US have refused to accept the jurisdiction of the international Court, and when the US does accept the jurisdiction, the US refuses to accept the decision of the court (1988 ruling against the US planting land mines in Nicaragua). In 1999, ten NATO countries including Canada and the US refused to accept the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice when Yugoslavia brought the NATO countries to the Court for violation of international law. The United States should demand justice through international law, rather than perpetuate the cycle of revenge. Foreign Affairs Minister Manley in question period Wednesday September 19, claimed that there was no recourse through international law because the International Criminal Court proposal has not yet received the 60 signatures required for its implementation. The US is one of the countries that has refused to sign. On the other hand the international Court of Justice has existed for over 50 years and is responsible for hearing cases brought to it by member states of the UN. Francis Boyle, an American specialist in international law, is supporting the use of the International Court of Justice. He affirms the following:=20 "The 1971 Montreal Sabotage Convention is directly on point here, and provides a comprehensive framework for dealing with the current dispute between the United States and Afghanistan over the tragic events of 11 September 2001. Both States are contracting parties to the Montreal Sabotage Convention, together with 173 other States in the World . The United States is under an absolute obligation to resolve this dispute with Afghanistan in a peaceful manner as required by UN Charter Article 2(3) and Article 33 as well as by the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, as well as in accordance with the requirements of the Montreal Sabotage Convention-- all of which treaties bind most of the States of the World. In addition, the United States should offer to submit this entire dispute to the International Court of Justice in The Hague (the so-called World Court) on the basis of the Montreal Sabotage Convention, and should ask the Government of Afghanistan to withdraw its Reservation to World Court jurisdiction as permitted by article 14(3) of the Montreal Sabotage Convention. Furthermore, all other contracting parties must invoke the Montreal Sabotage Convention against both the United States and Afghanistan in order to produce a peaceful resolution of this dispute." =20 In Addition, the US could take other states, signatories to the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, that have been harbouring terrorists to the International Court of Justice using Article 20 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights: this article states:=20 Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law". The global community should support the respect for the international Court of Justice as a means for preventing the potentially devastating cycle of revenge and violence. Perhaps the best counter to terrorism would be for the global community to substantively reduce the military budget of approximately 840 billion, and transfer the peace dividend to the achievement of global social justice and equity.=20 Throughout the years, through international agreements, member states of the United Nations have recognized that the military budget has been a waste and misuse of resources. Unfortunately, institutional memory is either short or member states ignore precedents.=20 In 1976 at Habitat 1, member states of the United Nations affirmed the following in relation to the military budget:=20 "The waste and misuse of resources in war and armaments should be prevented. All countries should make a firm commitment to promote general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, in particular in the field of nuclear disarmament. Part of the resources thus released should be utilized so as to achieve a better quality of life for humanity and particularly the peoples of developing countries" (II, 12 Habitat 1). In 1981, in the General Assembly resolution entitled Resolution on the reduction of the military budget, the member states=20 (i) reaffirmed "the urgent need to reduce the military budget, and agreed to freeze and reduce the military budget"; (ii) recognised that "the military budget constitutes a heavy burden for the economies of all nations, and has extremely harmful consequences on international peace and security"; (iii) reiterated the appeal "to all States, in particular the most heavily armed States, pending the conclusion of agreements on the reduction of military expenditures, to exercise self-restraint in their military expenditures with a view to reallocating the funds thus saved to economic and social development, particularly for= the benefit of developing countries" (Resolution on the Reduction of Military budgets, 1981). These appeals were further reinforced in a 1983 General Assembly Resolution on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development, that curbing the= arms build-up would make it possible to release additional resources for use in economic and social development, particularly for the benefit of the developing countries." Also in the 1993 resolution, member states considered that "the magnitude of military expenditures is now such that their various implications can no longer be ignored in the efforts pursued in the international community to secure= the recovery of the world economy and the establishment of a new international economic order." In 1994, in adopting the statement from the International Conference on Population and Development, the member states of the United Nations concurred that the attainment of =93quantitative and qualitative goals of the present Programme= of Action clearly require additional resources, some of which could become available from a reordering of priorities at the individual, national and= international levels. However, none of the actions required=97nor all of them combined=97 = is expensive in the context of either current global development or military= expenditures." (Article 1.19)=20 In 1995, similarly, states in adopting the statement from the Social Development Summit endorsed the calling for =93the reallocation of military spending to ensure a greater pocket of resources to expand public services. Again, in 1995, member states of the United Nations reconfirmed these commitments by adopting the Platform of Action at the UN conference on Women, Equality, Development and Peace. In the Platform of Action, States have made a commitment to maintain =93peace= and security at the global, regional and local levels, together with the prevention of policies of aggression ... and the resolution of armed conflict=94 (Art.= 14) and to reduce "...military expenditures" (Art. 15), states have also made a commitment to the =93prevention and resolution of conflicts=94 (Art.15) and = to =93increase and hasten, ... the conversion of military resources and related industries to development and peaceful purposes" (145a). In the 1984 General Assembly Resolution entitled the Right of Peoples to Peace, there were "Appeals to all States and international organizations to do= their utmost to assist in implementing the right of peoples to peace through the adoption of ...measures at both the national and the international level." (4. Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace approved by General Assembly resolution= 39/11 of 12 November 1984) Currently the Global Community spends more than $800 billion per year on the military budget at a time when many basic and fundamental rights have not= been fulfilled: the right to affordable and safe housing; the right to unadulterated food (pesticide-free and genetically engineered-free food); the right to= safe drinking water; the right to a safe environment; the right to universally accessible, not for profit health care; and the right to free and accessible education.In addition, years of redress and assistance to those who have been oppressed should be compensated and "third world debt canceled. The time is now. Joan Russow PhD Victoria, BC. 1 250 598-0071 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) FW: Senate to Restore Missile Defense $ Date: 21 Sep 2001 15:17:23 -0400 SENATE TO RESTORE MISSILE DEFENSE $ Friday September 21 2:39 PM ET=20 By CAROLYN SKORNECK, Associated Press Writer=20 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate agreed Friday to restore $1.3 billion to = the budget for missile defense, providing President Bush his full $8.3 = billion request while giving him the option of using the money instead for anti-terrorism efforts. The amendment to the $343 billion defense authorization bill for the = year beginning Oct. 1 was approved by voice vote as debate on the overall = bill began. It would put back money that Democrats on the Armed Services Committee had diverted to other defense purposes. Both committee chairman Carl Levin and the panel's top Republican, John Warner of Virginia, urged support of the bill in light of last week's terrorist attacks. "Our fury at those who attack innocents is matched by our determination = to protect our citizens from more terror and by our resolve to track down, = root out and relentlessly pursue the terrorists and those who would shelter = or harbor them," said Levin, D-Mich. Warner said, "This bill will communicate a message to our citizens and = to the world that the United States resolves to do whatever is necessary = to protect our homeland, our forces abroad, and to work with our allies in their mutual protection and to address the whole spectrum of threats = that confronts our nation" and other nations around the world. Bush had sought to boost this year's missile defense spending by $3 = billion, for a total of $8.3 billion. Levin and Warner cosponsored Friday's amendment in a bipartisan effort combining Warner's wish to fully fund missile defense and Levin's wish, = if the money was going back in, to allow it to be used for anti-terrorism, Levin told reporters.=20 Panel Democrats had pushed the bill to the floor two weeks ago on a party-line vote, 13-12. That rare division stemmed from Republican anger over a Democratic = missile defense provision that the GOP believed would tie the president's hands = in talks with Russia. The provision sought to require a vote of Congress = before any money could be spent on missile defense activities that the = president said would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. To help speed through the spending bill, Levin dropped that from the = measure Wednesday and offered it as a separate bill that Senate Majority Leader = Tom Daschle, D-S.D., can bring to the floor later. Other issues such as base closings may still pose stumbling blocks, = Levin conceded. The panel approved one round of closings, 17-8. The House = Armed Services Committee, by contrast, sought to derail base closings by = omitting any mention of them. Levin said the $1.3 billion amendment would actually boost the bill's = total above the allowed limit of $343 billion, but he expected offsetting = cuts would be made during the House-Senate conference that will resolve differences between the measures the two chambers approve. The House began debate on its bill Thursday, but no final vote was = expected until next week. Levin and Warner anticipated the bill that emerges from the negotiating conference will include supplemental money the administration will seek after it determines its needs to fight the war against terrorism. Separately, the House voted 401-0 to authorize $10.5 billion for = military construction.=20 Copyright =A9 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) Try For Peace Date: 21 Sep 2001 23:12:27 -0700 Dear Abolition Caucus: Below is a letter I wrote to my local newspaper about the crisis with Afghanistan over Osama bin Laden. Please write similar letters to your newspapers, President Bush, and your Congressional representatives. On September 21, Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef said about the U.S. demand that Afghanistan hand over Osama bin Laden for the September 11 terrorist attacks "Our position on this is that if America has proof, we are ready for the trial of Osama bin Laden in light of the evidence". Before we risk thousands of American and Afghani lives, lets send our top law enforcement officials to Afghanistan to present the Taliban with our evidence against Osama bin Laden and his henchmen, thank the Taliban for expressing their sorrow over the attacks, and respectfully ask them to extradite bin Laden and company. As an incentive, we should offer the Taliban diplomatic recognition, normal trade relations, and large scale humanitarian and reconstruction aid in return for the extradition of the terrorists. Please contact (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; (202) 456-1111; president@whitehouse.gov), Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; senator@boxer.senate.gov), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; senator@feinstein.senate.gov), and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-5716; doug.ose@mail.house.gov) to urge that we try for peace. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Burroughs Subject: (abolition-usa) War: Metaphor into Reality Date: 22 Sep 2001 11:15:22 -0400 An article by Peter Weiss re response to September 11, "War: Metaphor into Reality", is available at http://lcnp.org/disarmament/metaphor%20into%20reality.htm Also available are the texts of Security Council and General Assembly resolutions re September 11, with previously posted explanatory comments, at http://lcnp.org/global/unresolutions%20resept11.htm John Burroughs, Executive Director Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 New York, New York 10017 USA tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org website: www.lcnp.org Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ellen Thomas Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: BAN DU Urgent Info request - DU and new recruits Date: 22 Sep 2001 14:16:33 -0400 --=====================_198626910==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ----- Original Message ----- Dear friends: Because recruitment into the armed services is in high gear, we are trying to strategize ways to advise potential recruits, young men and women, about depleted uranium and also the adverse health effects of some of the immunization given them. We sent out an alert to our networks, urging folks to contact government officials and congressional officials, demanding that DU weapons NOT be used in the impending retaliation . This message needs to be amplified and repeated over and over. Can you help us spread this word? But we also feel the need to warn our young recruits about the dangers they will face, and what (if any) choices they may have. Do you have any ideas? We will call you later today to talk with you. Thanks, Betty Schroeder, Chair, BANDU (Ban Depleted Uranium) 5349 W. Bar X Street Tucson, AZ 85713 Phone 520-908-9269 Sent by: Pat Birnie , September 18, 2001 --=====================_198626910==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" ----- Original Message -----
Dear friends:

Because recruitment into the armed services is in high gear, we are trying to strategize ways to advise potential recruits, young men and women, about depleted uranium and also the adverse health effects of some of the immunization given them.

 We sent out an alert to our networks, urging folks to contact government officials and congressional officials, demanding that DU weapons NOT be used in the impending retaliation .  This message needs to be amplified and repeated over and over.  Can you help us spread this word?

But we also feel the need to warn our young recruits about the dangers they will face, and what (if any) choices they may have.  Do you have any ideas?  We will call you later today to talk with you.

Thanks,  Betty Schroeder, Chair,  BANDU  (Ban Depleted Uranium)

5349 W. Bar X Street
Tucson, AZ  85713
Phone  520-908-9269

Sent by: Pat Birnie <birnie@gci-net.com>, September 18, 2001
--=====================_198626910==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Pentagon said to eye nuclear attack against terrorists Date: 22 Sep 2001 12:13:30 -0700 Pentagon said to eye nuclear attack against terrorists http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010920a6.htm Pentagon said to eye nuclear attack against terrorists WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The Defense Department has recommended to President George W. Bush the use of tactical nuclear weapons as a military option to retaliate for last week's terrorist attacks in the United States, diplomatic sources said Tuesday. It is unknown whether Bush has made any decision. Military analysts said the president is unlikely to opt for the use of nuclear weapons because doing so would generate a backlash from the international community and could even trigger revenge from the enemy involving weapons of mass destruction. However, the Pentagon's suggestion shows the determination of U.S. officials to retaliate for the first massive terrorist attacks on the U.S. mainland, the analysts said. The recommendation appears intended to deter terrorists, they said. On ABC television's "This Week" program Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to rule out the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Rumsfeld, who is notoriously tight-lipped with the press, avoided answering a question on whether their use could be ruled out. To a similar question, a Pentagon official also replied, "We will not discuss operational and intelligence matters." The diplomatic sources said the Pentagon recommended using tactical nuclear weapons shortly after it became known that the terrorist attacks caused an unprecedented number of civilian casualties. On Sept. 11, hijackers seized four commercial U.S. aircraft. Two of the planes slammed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, while a third hit the Pentagon near Washington. The fourth plane crashed outside Pittsburgh. More than 5,000 people were left dead or missing in the attacks. Tactical nuclear weapons have been developed to attack very specific targets. The military analysts said Pentagon officials are apparently thinking of using weapons that can reach and destroy terrorists hiding in an underground shelter, limiting damage to surrounding areas. In 1986, the U.S. conducted an air raid on Libya, attempting to target Col. Moammar Gadhafi. In 1998, Washington fired a cruise missile into Afghanistan in an attempt to kill Osama bin Laden. Analysts said that since these attempts failed, U.S. officials may be mulling the use of tactical nuclear weapons, which can cause much greater destruction than conventional weapons. The U.S. has indicated that it does not rule out the use of nuclear weapons if a country attacks the U.S., its allies, or its forces with chemical or biological weapons. The Japan Times: Sept. 20, 2001 (C) All rights reserved - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Next in NDE's "Monday Night Series" Date: 23 Sep 2001 11:20:19 +0100 Friends, Here's a reminder about the next in NDE's "Monday Night Series" at our Berkeley office. Please pass this information along. I hope to see you there. Peace.. Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience "MONDAY NIGHT SERIES" Next presentation is October1, 2001 at 6 pm Sponsored by Nevada Desert Experience Wesleystudent Center 2398 Bancroft Way (at Dana) across from UC campus ***** Maurice Campbell speaks on Hunters Point Maurice Campbell is a brilliant community strategist from Hunters Point, a largely African American community in San Francisco that has suffered for decades from radioactive and toxic contamination from the Hunters Point Naval Ship Yard. Come hear the amazing true story concerning the US' secret lab (Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory) that performed human radiological experiments, and other activities, that is now emerging from Hunters Point. This newly-revealed information is having a deep impact on our understanding of the US' nuclear and missile programs. There will be time for Q & A and in-depthdiscussion with this remarkable activist. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome. For further information and/or for the series' complete list of free presentations on nuclear and "Star Wars" issues, call (510) 527-2057. **** - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) Show The Taliban The Evidence Date: 23 Sep 2001 17:56:05 -0700 Dear Abolition Caucus: Below is a revised letter I wrote to my local newspaper about the crisis with Afghanistan over Osama bin Laden. Please write similar letters to your newspapers, President Bush, and your Congressional representatives. On September 21, Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef said about the U.S. demand that Afghanistan hand over Osama bin Laden for the September 11 terrorist attacks "Our position on this is that if America has proof, we are ready for the trial of Osama bin Laden in light of the evidence". If we do have proof against Osama bin Laden, let's call the Taliban's bluff. Let's show them the evidence, and challenge them to extradite bin Laden and his lieutenants. Please contact (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; (202) 456-1111; president@whitehouse.gov), Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; senator@boxer.senate.gov), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; senator@feinstein.senate.gov), and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-5716; doug.ose@mail.house.gov) to urge that before we go to war, we show the Taliban whatever evidence we have against Osama bin Laden. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) Show The Taliban The Evidence Date: 23 Sep 2001 17:56:05 -0700 Dear Abolition Caucus: Below is a revised letter I wrote to my local newspaper about the crisis with Afghanistan over Osama bin Laden. Please write similar letters to your newspapers, President Bush, and your Congressional representatives. On September 21, Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef said about the U.S. demand that Afghanistan hand over Osama bin Laden for the September 11 terrorist attacks "Our position on this is that if America has proof, we are ready for the trial of Osama bin Laden in light of the evidence". If we do have proof against Osama bin Laden, let's call the Taliban's bluff. Let's show them the evidence, and challenge them to extradite bin Laden and his lieutenants. Please contact (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; (202) 456-1111; president@whitehouse.gov), Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; senator@boxer.senate.gov), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; senator@feinstein.senate.gov), and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-5716; doug.ose@mail.house.gov) to urge that before we go to war, we show the Taliban whatever evidence we have against Osama bin Laden. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Lunev: Attacks Against America Are Not Over, Bush Must Warn Rogue States of Nuclear Retaliation, Russia Increases Military Buildup Date: 23 Sep 2001 22:07:32 -0700 "Your assignment, should you decide to accept it... ...this tape will self-destruct in...." [see end, after 3 articles, excerpts:] Col. Stanislav Lunev: "I also warned the American government that I believe Russia has already smuggled small nuclear devices into the U.S. "I have no doubt that Russia has been behind many of these terrorist groups, financing and equipping them" --- "These groups clearly have received sufficient funds, supplies, support and hospitality from rogue nations--all of whom have close ties to Russia's military and intelligence agencies. "Intelligence experts have told me that there are more than 5,000 highly-trained terrorists in the U.S. and Europe who are in permanent readiness for new attacks against the civilized world." ---- "While Washington talks about building a closer relationship with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Moscow continues its military buildup by developing and deploying new generations of its weapons systems. Many of these systems, if not all of them, were especially designed for a war against the U.S. and its friends and allies - in other words, to kill Americans. "According to media reports, at the end of last year a third group of the new intercontinental nuclear missile "Topol-M" was deployed at a base in the southwest, as a part of Moscow efforts to make this the rugged, extremely hard-to-detect weapon the backbone of its nuclear forces. "A regiment at the Tatischevo base in the Saratov region was equipped with SS-27 (NATO classification for "Topol-M"), which was designed for the penetration of an American National Missile Defense system (NMD) if it ever becomes operational." ----full articles, excerpted above: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/23/212552.shtml Bush Must Warn Rogue States of Nuclear Retaliation Col. Stanislav Lunev Monday, September 24, 2001 After the Sept. 11th tragedy, some liberal Americans and many European politicians have expressed serious reservations about U.S. plans to fight a "war" against international terrorists. Clearly, such politicians and pundits do not understand the danger from the most aggressive evil of our days: international terrorism. These groups clearly have received sufficient funds, supplies, support and hospitality from rogue nations--all of whom have close ties to Russia's military and intelligence agencies. Intelligence experts have told me that there are more than 5,000 highly-trained terrorists in the U.S. and Europe who are in permanent readiness for new attacks against the civilized world. Now that we are in a full-blown war, the stakes are high for each side. No one can rule out that these terrorists may have biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. No one can rule out their use. International terrorism currently has enough power to challenge the West, and using weapons of mass destruction, perhaps hit us with a devastating blow. The planning, network and resources involved in the operation of September 11 suggests to me that one of more countries were behind this, and also that Russian intelligence agencies were likely aware of the possibility of these attacks. Moreover, I firmly believe that the perpetrators of these acts carefully considered the aftermath of their attacks. The dramatic increase of short selling of American Airlines and United Airlines stocks two weeks before the Sept. 11th tragedy was just one clue. No doubt, the groups also realized America would retaliate. It is after America's retaliation that we must worry about the next attack, which may be an escalation in scope and severity then the ones of Sept. 11. This is why America's response must be swift and wide ranging: hitting terrorist networks abroad, and uncovering other networks here that may hav been preparing for years for the "second wave" of attacks. My suggestion is that the U.S. must warn rogue states, ie Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya, that if these groups use a weapon of mass destruction on an American city, the U.S. military will not do any investigations, there will be no delay -- the U.S. will use similar weapons on their population centers and military targets. This policy is one used by Israel, one that has kept it safe despite many enemies. Also, there is little time to uncover terror networks here in the U.S. I would advise the U.S. government, without delay, to offer a large award of $5 to $25 million to any person that has any knowledge of planned terrorists acts planned on the U.S. or Europe. Right now, the U.S. is using this award system for the capture of Osama bin Laden, but the award needs to be offered here. It is very possible, for such a large amount of money, one of the terrorists, or a friend of a terrorist, will come to the FBI and help them foil a plot. I am surprised this has not already been done. Another caveat: the U.S. is currently moving forces to the Mid-east in the area of Afghanistan. I am sure American leaders have no plans to get bogged down in a Vietnam-style war in Afghanistan, as we Russians did. But I am worried about such a large concentration of U.S. forces so far from the homeland of the U.S. Please be on guard about this. America's military is already very weak after ten years of signficant cuts. Do not concentrate your forces abroad and leave them vulnerable to weapons of mass destruction terrorist nations may now have. ------------ http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/14/100711.shtml Attacks Against America Are Not Over Col. Stanislav Lunev Friday, September 14, 2001 Col. Stanislav Lunev is the highest-ranking military spy ever to defect from Russia. He continues as a security consultant to the U.S. government. He filed this report from an undisclosed location in Europe. I was surprised to hear, Thursday, some politicians in Washington making statements that terrorist operations against America are over. How can they make such claims? International terrorists are still targeting the U.S. and the American people as never before. Osama bin Laden, Hamas and other well-known and currently unknown terrorist organizations consider America as their number one target. After such an elaborate and coordinated attack was just conducted against the U.S., isn't it reasonable to think that the terrorist groups, backed by powerful nations, might a) already have plans for an escalation of such attacks, or b) now, seeing the vulnerability of the U.S., become encouraged and launch additional attacks? Since I defected to the U.S. from Russia, I have been always somewhat perplexed by the politically correct thinking in Washington and among the U.S. media. The media are now openly criticizing the President for remaining in Air Force One and not returning immediately to New York or Washington. The President acted very correctly and very smartly. As I recall, America has a Constitution. The President's sole real responsibility is to preserve your Constitutional government - not to hold press conferences. Obviously, the President and his advisors understood that there was a real possibility of a larger threat - perhaps nuclear - and one the media doesn't want you to know about. Let me explain. When I defected in the 1990s from Russia's GRU - its military intelligence - I told the FBI, the CIA, the DIA, anyone that would listen - that the Russians already had elaborate war plans against the U.S. I suggested that such a war might begin with a diversion, some sort of terrorist attack. With people's attention focused elsewhere, special troops could storm Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, the White House - to kill American leaders. I also warned the American government that I believe Russia has already smuggled small nuclear devices into the U.S. I have no doubt that Russia has been behind many of these terrorist groups, financing and equipping them. The President acted prudently. He continues to do so, by understanding the new, larger attacks may occur. He also knows just how weak American intelligence agencies are after the Clinton-Gore administration. Also, these terrorists are funded and sponsored by countries Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and by other rogue nations (all closely aligned with either Russia or China). These terrorist groups and nations want nothing less than war against Western civilization. First of all they would like to destroy the U.S., the recognized leader of the civilized world. On Sept. 11, terrorists used the so-called "cheapest" way for the destruction of symbols of American financial and military power. By doing it this way, the terrorists show just how vulnerable we are. It also allows them to have a place from which they can escalate the terror. This suicidal attack could have been prevented, but that did not happen. However, Tuesday's tragedy very clearly demonstrated the depths of terrorist penetration through the American nation - where they are operating, as if they were in their own backyard - and, for example, using American training facilities for the preparation of the attacks against American people. I am continually amazed how easy the American government makes it for enemies to penetrate American society and institutions. I am also amazed how many American journalists dislike America, and openly work against this country. From now on, we know for sure that there are hundreds if not thousands of terrorists who are living among us in America. They are preparing to continue the war against countries, which provide them hospitality, including dozens of so-called "sleepers" or specially trained terrorists who pretend to be U.S. citizens and residents. 24 hours a day, every day, they are waiting for the wake-up call from their organization leaders for a new attack against American people. The next attack may be more severe. According to Western intelligence estimations, the most powerful international terrorists organizations already have access to weapons of mass destruction, including chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and materials. There is no doubt that the leaders of terrorist organizations already have their own combat groups in America. Next time they could use, against the American people, weapons of mass destruction or so-called "expensive" weapons, which could be delivered to the U.S. very soon, if they aren't already deployed inside America. It's very difficult to understand the logic of terrorists and impossible to predict their next targets. The war against America declared by international terrorism is REAL, PRESENT and DANGEROUS. We will win this war if, instead of words about defending America, we will do everything possible, practically, for the protection of our country and lives of the American people. There is no time for talking and promises any more. It's time for ACTION. Find out what Col. Lunev told the CIA -- NewsMax has just released Col. Lunev's audiotapes "CIA Files: Defector Reveals Russia's Secrets" -- Click Here Now. http://www.newsmaxstore.com/nms/showdetl.cfm?&DID=6&Product_ID=291&CATID=9&G roupID=12 Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Domestic Terrorism http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/War_on_Terrorism.shtml ---- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/19/204945.shtml Russia Increases Military Buildup Col. Stanislav Lunev Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001 Col. Stanislav Lunev is the highest-ranking military spy ever to defect from Russia. He continues as a security consultant to the U.S. government. He filed this report from an undisclosed location in Europe. While Washington talks about building a closer relationship with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Moscow continues its military buildup by developing and deploying new generations of its weapons systems. Many of these systems, if not all of them, were especially designed for a war against the U.S. and its friends and allies - in other words, to kill Americans. According to media reports, at the end of last year a third group of the new intercontinental nuclear missile "Topol-M" was deployed at a base in the southwest, as a part of Moscow efforts to make this the rugged, extremely hard-to-detect weapon the backbone of its nuclear forces. A regiment at the Tatischevo base in the Saratov region was equipped with SS-27 (NATO classification for "Topol-M"), which was designed for the penetration of an American National Missile Defense system (NMD) if it ever becomes operational. Before last year's deployment, Russia already had 20 SS-27s in service, 10 per regiment, all deployed in 1998 and 1999. This missile can be fired from a mobile launcher, making it harder to detect and more likely to survive a first strike in a nuclear war. It was designed to replace older missiles that have outlived their service or must be dismantled under arms control agreements. Some experts have said the SS-27 could be converted to carry several warheads, a change that would violate START II. Recently Russia has conducted a test of a long-range missile with a new jet-powered last stage, or so-called "scramjet," designed to defeat U.S. missile defenses. The flight test of an SS-25 ICBM took place in July from a launch site in Central Russia and it was tracked to an impact area several thousand miles away on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Its last stage was a high-speed Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound or more) cruise missile that flew within the Earth's atmosphere at the altitude of about 100,000 feet. However, while deploying new missiles, Moscow continues modernization of its older weapons. For example, Russia recently carried out a test launch of an aging strategic missile RS-18 (code-named Stiletto by the West) from Baikonur cosmodrome in neighboring Kazakhstan. This missile test , which successfully hit the target area on one of the Kamchatka islands off Russia's Pacific coast, followed a statement by a Moscow military official, saying Russia would offer strategic missiles to launch commercial payloads into space. In his words, about 250 such missiles would be available by 2009 and the proceeds from their sale could reach about $700 million. The test also confirmed the reliability of the aging missile complex, despite its being in operation longer than originally intended. According to the Russian press, in the near future Russia's Navy will commission a new nuclear-powered submarine named Gepard (Cheetah), which is designed to carry cruise missiles with nuclear warheads. The tests of Gepard had started in Arctic waters in early December 2000, just months after the tragic sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine with 118 men on board. The Gepard will be Russia's 13th submarine of what NATO classifies as the Akula class. The new nuclear-powered submarine is half the length of the 505-foot Kursk and would have a crew of 67. The Kursk is still lying on the seabed, but Russia continues its efforts for the development of its navy. In June, Russia has begun testing a new, super-quiet, nuclear-powered attack submarine. According to Russian navy officials, the new sub, the Severodvinsk, "beats the newest Western subs in most measures, including noise level". This submarine was being tested at sea but was not yet complete. It could take several months of sea tests before the Severodvinsk is commissioned. At the same time, Russia has begun production of a new anti-submarine torpedo system capable of hitting targets 2.7 miles away and up to 3,200 feet beneath the surface. This weapon, called RPK-8, would represent an advance beyond most current torpedoes, which cab reach a depth of only about 2,240 to 2,560 feet, and has good prospects for sales in international arms markets. In addition to submarines, the new torpedo system could be also be used against other torpedoes and underwater objects near the surface. According to the Moscow press, the Russian navy is deploying a high-speed underwater missile, Shkval-E, which is fired from a torpedo tube, travels underwater at speed of 200 to 224 miles per hour - three to four times faster than conventional torpedoes. Shkval-E is capable of sinking surface ships, protecting ports and blocking straits. The U.S. Navy is said to have very limited defenses against these high-speed underwater missiles. The Russian government is also continuing to increase its arms sales abroad and considers the growing military strength of rogue nations as a sufficient support to its own military preparations. Moscow is selling its arms abroad for a quick cash as and also because Russia's military brass believes that when many of the rogue states have nuclear and missile weapons America, limited by international arms control agreements will not be able to maintain its policy of strategic deterrence. Col. Stanislav Lunev is the highest-ranking military spy ever to defect from Russia. He continues as a security consultant to the U.S. government. He filed this report from an undisclosed location in Europe. Moscow is very careful about its secret weapons of mass destruction and related technology sales and is closing these deals using all possible covert means. But their conventional weapons are ready for sale in the arms bazaars to everybody who is willing to pay. Currently, Russian items for sale including such weapon systems as SU-27 and SU-30 fighter-bombers, Sovremenny-class destroyers with SS-N-22 missiles, Kilo-class submarines, S-300 surface to air missile complexes and many others. We know that there is no question against whom these systems were designed. For example, Russian TV showed just exactly how the new Pechora air-defense missile system can destroy the American F-117 Stealth jets, and the Russian arms merchants advertise this weapon as a "Safer Sky" product with "immunity" to electronic counter-measures. Over the past several years, while the Russian economy in general has fallen off a cliff, Moscow arms dealers have prospered on Chinese, Iranian, Iraqi, and other rogue nation money. According to intelligence experts, a new model Sovremenny-class destroyer for China is secretly under development in Russia. It will have vertical launch tubes and the latest missiles, especially designed for fighting against the U.S. Navy and will dramatically increase Beijing's military capabilities. Russia also has announced increased military cooperation with Iran, including a major arms deal, over the explicit objection of the U.S. State Department. The Iranian deal, including spare parts for armored vehicles and combat tanks, as well as different weapons systems, came shortly after Russia repudiated a secret understanding with the Clinton-Gore team to restrict weapons sales to Iran. In February, Russia and India signed a deal for at least $600 million for 310 of the latest model of Russia's T-90 main battle tanks. According to an agreement, India would buy 124 of the tanks ready-built and assemble the rest. Previously India had bought high-tech SU-30 fighters from Russia, and most of this country's 3,500 tanks are Russian made. Last May, a group of Russian scientists arrived in India to test Russian-made surface-to-air OSA-AK missiles being used by the Indian military. The anti-aircraft missiles are deployed by India's Air Force and were showcased for the first time in last May's war field exercises in the Thar Desert. In violation of its obligations as a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, recently Russia has shipped nuclear fuel to the Tarapur power reactors in India. The Tarapur reactors near Bombay are under the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, but some other Indian nuclear facilities are not, and this country is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. A list of Russia's new weapons and arms sales abroad could be continued for many pages, but if 30 years ago only nine countries possessed ballistic missiles, today that number has increased to 28 nations - thanks to the Russian efforts in arms proliferation. If this tendency continues at the same speed, the strategic global military situation will be changed very soon, and our world will be even far less safe. ----------------------end articles "Psi-ops and Psi-war" considerations should include bringing out, of all things, gasp..., the truth, of physics of consciousness applications for unifying the mind of humankind into harmony with the natural order. We either get along together by understanding our common physical relationship of mind as human beings or we may perish together in an all out nuclear, biological, and chemical WWIII now beginning per 9-11. Options for consideration at http://www.stardrive.org and http://group.yahoo.com/group/gcsc-csun/message/6 "Your assignment, should you decide to accept it, this tape will self destruct in...." David Crockett Williams Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" Subject: (abolition-usa) Howard Bloom solution: NUKE AFGHANISTAN!!! Date: 24 Sep 2001 02:15:01 -0700 Hello there, Tonight on a radio interview, Howard Bloom (www.HowardBloom.net), author of _Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century_ passionately and strongly argues for emptying Afghanistan of fleeing refugees, and then nuking the country!!! This, to an audience of 10 million Americans! I used to respect Bloom. At least until this evening! This arrogance is overwhelming. Why aren't American peace advocates on the radio, CNN, mainstream American media, etc, visibly addressing the American peoples about peaceful ways to address this crisis??????! It's real amazing to witness how in just in two week's time, a war fever in this country can be turned on and up! If it is God who can bless and bring us peace, we plead with her or him to save us from ourselves. Thank you. From the Pacific Ocean, with love and admiration for you Abolitionists. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Abolition2000 Pacific Region" Subject: (abolition-usa) Action in Hawai'i: "Spirit of aloha vital in a time of terror" Date: 24 Sep 2001 03:33:16 -0700 Fyi: "Spirit of aloha vital in a time of terror" Front page of Saturday, Sept 22, 2001 Honolulu Star Bulletin, which carried the following story of our action on Friday in Honolulu, Hawai'i, (a small but lively and silent peace vigil in one of the most militarized state in the U.S. Union, home of Pearl Harbor) -- Participants call for peaceful solutions during silent vigil By Mary Adamski madamski@starbulletin.com The green ribbons were new but some of the slogans harked back to past anti-war movements as about 100 demonstrators lined the curb outside the Prince Kuhio Federal Building [Honolulu, O'ahu island] during the evening rush hour. The two-hour silent vigil yesterday was called by the American Friends Service Committee and other groups anticipating war as the U.S. government's response to the terrorist attack on America. University students in the "Refuse and Resist" organization stood beside people whose faces were seen years ago on similar lines protesting the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf conflict. "It's not to be against the red, white and blue," said committee spokesman Kyle Kajihiro, "but to add another message that expands our humanity to all victims of war and terrorism." He said the demonstrators wore green as a "symbol of healing and peace ... and also the traditional Arab color for peace and friendship." Passing motorists occasionally honked in support of sentiments such as "No more victims anywhere" and "Our grief is not a cry for war" and "Peace not bombs." A few hecklers hollered, "What about the World Trade Center victims?" and "You can lie in the sun while the Marines fight for you." But most motorists kept their silence, too. People who gathered were encouraged to make their own signs, but organizers held some control over the message. On the ground lay a discarded sign reading "U.S. is #1 Terrorist," and Kajihiro prevailed in a debate with a man whose sign proclaimed, "Social Kharma Finally." The purpose of the gathering was to support the victims of Sept. 11 and to back a just response to the attack, but not war, Kajihiro said. The message also was to "affirm the humanity of all people, including Arabs and Muslims, and to uphold civil liberties as the basis for a free and just society." Marion Kelly, whose activist days go back to the Vietnam War, said, "I feel we need to take a lesson from this terrible, terrible thing that happened. We are doing terrible things and people are telling us this. We weep for the victims and their families but war is not the answer." # _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joan Russow Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Howard Bloom solution: NUKE AFGHANISTAN!!! Date: 24 Sep 2001 08:13:36 +0000 Has much work been done on the impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs in armageddon. I remember hearing McTeer? of the Christian Roundtable in the early 80s declaring that nuclear weapons are part of God's design. On september 13, 2001, I heard one of the many tele-evangelists declaring that if you are born again you don't die you rise whole into paradise. The world is decrying how extremist islamic fundamentalism is an affront to Islam. Little mention is made about the global implications of Christian fundamentalist beliefs. I have been apalled at how American fundamentalist churches have been undermining cultures around the world. For example, in a small town in Guatemala of 2000 indigenous people there were 28 churches, 26 of them Christian Fundamentalist. Joan Russow At 02:15 AM 9/24/01 -0700, you wrote: > > >Hello there, > >Tonight on a radio interview, Howard Bloom (www.HowardBloom.net), author of >_Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st >Century_ passionately and strongly argues for emptying Afghanistan of >fleeing refugees, and then nuking the country!!! This, to an audience of 10 >million Americans! > >I used to respect Bloom. At least until this evening! This arrogance is >overwhelming. Why aren't American peace advocates on the radio, CNN, >mainstream American media, etc, visibly addressing the American peoples >about peaceful ways to address this crisis??????! > >It's real amazing to witness how in just in two week's time, a war fever in >this country can be turned on and up! > >If it is God who can bless and bring us peace, we plead with her or him to >save us from ourselves. > >Thank you. > > >From the Pacific Ocean, >with love and admiration for you Abolitionists. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >- > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > > > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Rep. Barbara Lee: Why I opposed the resolution to authorize forc Date: 24 Sep 2001 11:37:24 -0400 WHY I OPPOSED THE RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE FORCE by Rep. Barbara Lee San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, September 23, 2001 URL: On Sept. 11, terrorists attacked the United States in an unprecedented and brutal manner, killing thousands of innocent people, including the passengers and crews of four aircraft. Like everyone throughout our country, I am repulsed and angered by these attacks and believe all appropriate steps must be taken to bring the perpetrators to justice. We must prevent any future such attacks. That is the highest obligation of our federal, state and local governments. On this, we are united as a nation. Any nation, group or individual that fails to comprehend this or believes that we will tolerate such illegal and uncivilized attacks is grossly mistaken. Last week, filled with grief and sorrow for those killed and injured and with anger at those who had done this, I confronted the solemn responsibility of voting to authorize the nation to go to war. Some believe this resolution was only symbolic, designed to show national resolve. But I could not ignore that it provided explicit authority, under the War Powers Resolution and the Constitution, to go to war. It was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the Sept. 11 events -- anywhere, in any country, without regard to our nation's long-term foreign policy, economic and national security interests, and without time limit. In granting these overly broad powers, the Congress failed its responsibility to understand the dimensions of its declaration. I could not support such a grant of war-making authority to the president; I believe it would put more innocent lives at risk. The president has the constitutional authority to protect the nation from further attack and he has mobilized the armed forces to do just that. The Congress should have waited for the facts to be presented and then acted with fuller knowledge of the consequences of our action. I have heard from thousands of my constituents in the wake of this vote. Many -- a majority -- have counseled restraint and caution, demanding that we ascertain the facts and ensure that violence does not beget violence. They understand the boundless consequences of proceeding hastily to war, and I thank them for their support. Others believe that I should have voted for the resolution -- either for symbolic or geopolitical reasons, or because they truly believe a military option is unavoidable. However, I am not convinced that voting for the resolution preserves and protects U.S. interests. We must develop our intelligence and bring those who did this to justice. We must mobilize and maintain an international coalition against terrorism. Finally, we have a chance to demonstrate to the world that great powers can choose to fight on the fronts of their choosing, and that we can choose to avoid needless military action when other avenues to redress our rightful grievances and to protect our nation are available to us. We must respond, but the character of that response will determine for us and for our children the world that they will inherit. I do not dispute the president's intent to rid the world of terrorism -- but we have many means to reach that goal, and measures that spawn further acts of terror or that do not address the sources of hatred do not increase our security. Secretary of State Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem -- economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women, children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe could lead to such an outcome. Rep. Barbara Lee represents the 9th Congressional District, which includes Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda. © 2001 San Francisco Chronicle David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 547-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Web site: www.fcnl.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Bush wants to repeal arms trade restrictions Date: 24 Sep 2001 14:29:02 -0400 > > From: "Tracy Moavero" > To: > Subject: Bush wants to repeal arms trade restrictions > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:02:46 -0400 > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 > Importance: Normal > X-Mdaemon-Deliver-To: palist@peace-action.org > X-Return-Path: tmoavero@peace-action.org > X-Original-Envelope-From: tmoavero@peace-action.org > X-Loop-Detect: 1 > > Washington Post > > September 24, 2001 > > Pg. 1 > > Bush Seeks Wider Foreign-Aid Power > > Waiver Could Entitle Past Terror Sponsors to Military Assistance > > By Karen DeYoung, Washington Post Staff Writer > > President Bush has asked Congress for authority to waive all existing > > restrictions on U.S. military assistance and weapons exports for the next > > five years to any country if he determines the aid will help the fight > > against international terrorism. > > The waiver would cover those nations currently ineligible for U.S. military > > aid because of their sponsorship of terrorism, such as Syria and Iran, or > > because of their nuclear and offensive weapons programs or lack of > > commitment to democracy, which would include Pakistan and China. > > Separately, Bush yesterday lifted all military and economic restrictions on > > India, and he also removed restrictions that barred Pakistan from economic > > assistance and that prevented it from making commercial military purchases > > from U.S. companies. > > The new proposal would also allow the president to lift restrictions based > > on human rights concerns that had been imposed by Congress on U.S. military > > cooperation with other countries. > > The blanket approach has raised concern on Capitol Hill and among human > > rights groups that it risks undermining the hard-fought legal architecture > > that ensures that U.S. moral and political values remain an integral part of > > U.S. foreign and defense policy. > > "We all want to be helpful, and I will listen to what they have in mind," > > said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of both the Senate Judiciary > > Committee and the Appropriations foreign operations subcommittee, which are > > considering the legislation. > > "But we also want to be convinced that what is being proposed is sound, > > measured and necessary and not merely impulsive," said Leahy, who sponsored > > the provision that restricts military aid to human rights violators. "Moral > > leadership in defense of democracy and human rights is vital to what we > > stand for in the world. Acts of terrorism are violations of human rights. > > Now is the time to show what sets us apart from those who attack us." > > So far, the administration has not yet disclosed specific plans to give aid > > to any country as part of the anti-terrorism fight. But options being > > considered in response to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington > > include potential cooperation with virtually every Middle Eastern and South > > and Central Asian nation near Afghanistan -- some of which are currently > > under U.S. aid restrictions. > > In his speech Thursday, Bush established a new, overriding test for alliance > > with the United States, saying, "Either you are with us or you are with the > > terrorists." This is a standard that many in Congress have said they are > > willing to support, despite human rights and other concerns. > > "I don't think anybody has missed the fact that we're in a war. We were > > attacked," said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), ranking minority member of the > > appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. He added that Congress > > should give the administration "any and all" assistance it needs. > > China, which is barred from U.S. aid and defense exports under nearly every > > category of restriction, and is the object of substantial U.S. intelligence > > surveillance, has agreed to share intelligence on terrorists. After a > > meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan here Friday, Secretary of > > State Colin L. Powell said U.S.-China cooperation "might have a military > > component," although it had not yet been discussed. > > Many of the restrictions on military cooperation currently in place give the > > president the power to lift them for an individual country, if he cites a > > national security need. In the case of Pakistan, several different > > restrictions have been applied. Under the Arms Export Control Act, President > > Bill Clinton was required to impose military and economic sanctions on both > > Pakistan and India after they tested nuclear devices in May 1998. Those > > sanctions were waived yesterday for both countries. > > Another law, the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, required additional > > restrictions on Pakistan after its democratically elected government was > > overthrown by the current military regime in October 1999. This law barred > > all development aid, and also blocked any government-to-government weapons > > deals or military training for Pakistan from the United States.The law > > contains no waiver authority, but could be overridden, with the proposed > > blanket waiver . > > The proposed new legislation requires consultation with the appropriations > > committees that would fund such activity, although Congress has rarely > > objected to a presidential determination of national security need. > > One exception came during the Reagan administration, when the House barred > > U.S. funding for the Nicaraguan contras. Subsequent congressional > > investigation of the Iran-contra scandal determined that the administration > > had covertly supplied the assistance anyway, leading to a number of the > > human rights and other restrictions that Bush now wants the power to waive. > > A State Department legal spokesman said that the blanket waiver would apply > > to all current prohibitions, including those related to human rights, > > terrorism and non-payment of debt. "It gives the president authority to be > > able to provide assistance even though it might ordinarily be restricted > > [by] one or more types" of prohibitions, the spokesman said. > > McConnell has been in the forefront of efforts to impose sanctions on some > > countries in the name of human rights; in 1995 he sponsored legislation that > > cut off virtually all U.S. cooperation with Burma in order to protect "the > > rights of 43 million Burmese citizens." That law could also be waived if the > > administration found it useful to cooperate with Burma's oppressive military > > regime in the battle against international terrorism. > > The most sweeping human rights provision currently in effect is the > > so-called Leahy law, which since 1997 has imposed limits on U.S. military > > assistance to all countries where rights abuses have been found within > > military and security forces. > > Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch, whose reports the State Department uses to > > compile much of its own annual human rights reviews, wrote to Bush on > > Thursday urging "caution against ill-considered changes to U.S. law and > > policy that would put at risk the basic rights that were so brazenly flouted > > a week ago." > > The organization said it was particularly concerned about proposals to end a > > 26-year-old ban on U.S. assassination of foreign enemies, and to ease 1995 > > CIA guidelines restricting recruitment of informants who are known human > > rights violators. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Pamela Meidell Subject: (abolition-usa) A question: What can Bush do now? Date: 24 Sep 2001 11:44:05 -0700 Dear Friends, I have just returned from England, and am still in shock at the state of my country. Maybe we all are. I have a question for the lawyers out there. A small article in the Guardian in London mentioned that by declaring a "state of emergency" Bush invoked 500 presidential powers that include establishing martial law, suspending some civil liberties, and others. Can anyone please comment on this? I had not heard about the powers of the president that come into force under such a condition. It seems a pertinent question in these times. Thanks to all. In peace Pamela Meidell At 02:29 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >> >> From: "Tracy Moavero" >> To: >> Subject: Bush wants to repeal arms trade restrictions >> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:02:46 -0400 >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 >> Importance: Normal >> X-Mdaemon-Deliver-To: palist@peace-action.org >> X-Return-Path: tmoavero@peace-action.org >> X-Original-Envelope-From: tmoavero@peace-action.org >> X-Loop-Detect: 1 >> >> Washington Post >> >> September 24, 2001 >> >> Pg. 1 >> >> Bush Seeks Wider Foreign-Aid Power >> >> Waiver Could Entitle Past Terror Sponsors to Military Assistance >> >> By Karen DeYoung, Washington Post Staff Writer >> >> President Bush has asked Congress for authority to waive all existing >> >> restrictions on U.S. military assistance and weapons exports for the next >> >> five years to any country if he determines the aid will help the fight >> >> against international terrorism. >> >> The waiver would cover those nations currently ineligible for U.S. military >> >> aid because of their sponsorship of terrorism, such as Syria and Iran, or >> >> because of their nuclear and offensive weapons programs or lack of >> >> commitment to democracy, which would include Pakistan and China. >> >> Separately, Bush yesterday lifted all military and economic restrictions on >> >> India, and he also removed restrictions that barred Pakistan from economic >> >> assistance and that prevented it from making commercial military purchases >> >> from U.S. companies. >> >> The new proposal would also allow the president to lift restrictions based >> >> on human rights concerns that had been imposed by Congress on U.S. military >> >> cooperation with other countries. >> >> The blanket approach has raised concern on Capitol Hill and among human >> >> rights groups that it risks undermining the hard-fought legal architecture >> >> that ensures that U.S. moral and political values remain an integral part of >> >> U.S. foreign and defense policy. >> >> "We all want to be helpful, and I will listen to what they have in mind," >> >> said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of both the Senate Judiciary >> >> Committee and the Appropriations foreign operations subcommittee, which are >> >> considering the legislation. >> >> "But we also want to be convinced that what is being proposed is sound, >> >> measured and necessary and not merely impulsive," said Leahy, who sponsored >> >> the provision that restricts military aid to human rights violators. "Moral >> >> leadership in defense of democracy and human rights is vital to what we >> >> stand for in the world. Acts of terrorism are violations of human rights. >> >> Now is the time to show what sets us apart from those who attack us." >> >> So far, the administration has not yet disclosed specific plans to give aid >> >> to any country as part of the anti-terrorism fight. But options being >> >> considered in response to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington >> >> include potential cooperation with virtually every Middle Eastern and South >> >> and Central Asian nation near Afghanistan -- some of which are currently >> >> under U.S. aid restrictions. >> >> In his speech Thursday, Bush established a new, overriding test for alliance >> >> with the United States, saying, "Either you are with us or you are with the >> >> terrorists." This is a standard that many in Congress have said they are >> >> willing to support, despite human rights and other concerns. >> >> "I don't think anybody has missed the fact that we're in a war. We were >> >> attacked," said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), ranking minority member of the >> >> appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations. He added that Congress >> >> should give the administration "any and all" assistance it needs. >> >> China, which is barred from U.S. aid and defense exports under nearly every >> >> category of restriction, and is the object of substantial U.S. intelligence >> >> surveillance, has agreed to share intelligence on terrorists. After a >> >> meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan here Friday, Secretary of >> >> State Colin L. Powell said U.S.-China cooperation "might have a military >> >> component," although it had not yet been discussed. >> >> Many of the restrictions on military cooperation currently in place give the >> >> president the power to lift them for an individual country, if he cites a >> >> national security need. In the case of Pakistan, several different >> >> restrictions have been applied. Under the Arms Export Control Act, President >> >> Bill Clinton was required to impose military and economic sanctions on both >> >> Pakistan and India after they tested nuclear devices in May 1998. Those >> >> sanctions were waived yesterday for both countries. >> >> Another law, the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, required additional >> >> restrictions on Pakistan after its democratically elected government was >> >> overthrown by the current military regime in October 1999. This law barred >> >> all development aid, and also blocked any government-to-government weapons >> >> deals or military training for Pakistan from the United States.The law >> >> contains no waiver authority, but could be overridden, with the proposed >> >> blanket waiver . >> >> The proposed new legislation requires consultation with the appropriations >> >> committees that would fund such activity, although Congress has rarely >> >> objected to a presidential determination of national security need. >> >> One exception came during the Reagan administration, when the House barred >> >> U.S. funding for the Nicaraguan contras. Subsequent congressional >> >> investigation of the Iran-contra scandal determined that the administration >> >> had covertly supplied the assistance anyway, leading to a number of the >> >> human rights and other restrictions that Bush now wants the power to waive. >> >> A State Department legal spokesman said that the blanket waiver would apply >> >> to all current prohibitions, including those related to human rights, >> >> terrorism and non-payment of debt. "It gives the president authority to be >> >> able to provide assistance even though it might ordinarily be restricted >> >> [by] one or more types" of prohibitions, the spokesman said. >> >> McConnell has been in the forefront of efforts to impose sanctions on some >> >> countries in the name of human rights; in 1995 he sponsored legislation that >> >> cut off virtually all U.S. cooperation with Burma in order to protect "the >> >> rights of 43 million Burmese citizens." That law could also be waived if the >> >> administration found it useful to cooperate with Burma's oppressive military >> >> regime in the battle against international terrorism. >> >> The most sweeping human rights provision currently in effect is the >> >> so-called Leahy law, which since 1997 has imposed limits on U.S. military >> >> assistance to all countries where rights abuses have been found within >> >> military and security forces. >> >> Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch, whose reports the State Department uses to >> >> compile much of its own annual human rights reviews, wrote to Bush on >> >> Thursday urging "caution against ill-considered changes to U.S. law and >> >> policy that would put at risk the basic rights that were so brazenly flouted >> >> a week ago." >> >> The organization said it was particularly concerned about proposals to end a >> >> 26-year-old ban on U.S. assassination of foreign enemies, and to ease 1995 >> >> CIA guidelines restricting recruitment of informants who are known human >> >> rights violators. > > > > >- > To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" > with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. > For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send > "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. > Pamela Meidell Director The Atomic Mirror "Reflecting and Transforming our Nuclear World through the Arts" P.O. Box 220 Port Hueneme, CA 93044 tel: 805 985 5073 fax: 805 985 7563 email: pamela@atomicmirror.org "Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like." Lionel Trilling - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Subcritical Nuclear Test on Sept. 26, 2001 Date: 24 Sep 2001 17:57:06 +0100 Friends, According to a fax from the US Dept. of Energy, the next underground "subcritical" nuclear test will be detonated on Weds., Sept. 26, 2001, at the U1-A area of the Nevada Test Site. Although the fax stated that it is the "Oboe 8" test in the "Oboe" series, this is probably an error, as the last one was "Oboe 6." We in the Bay Area of Northern California hold demonstrations to protest these tests. Our protests are held at noon on the day of each test, at the Bechtel International HQ in San Francisco. Bechtel is the corporation that runs the Nevada Test Site per its contract with the Dept. of Energy. It is located at 50 Beale St., San Francisco, 1 block south of Market St., and very close to the Embarcadero BART station. I urge everyone to organize peaceful protests in their respective communities. These "subcritical" tests are part of the US' Stockpile Stewardship program, the euphemistically-named nuclear weapons development program. Peace... Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience 20 years of faith-based nuclear resistance - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tim Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) Bomb Afghanistan With Food! Date: 24 Sep 2001 18:01:32 -0700 Dear Abolition Caucus: Below is a letter I just wrote to my local newspaper urging that we bomb Afghanistan with food instead of bombs to utterly confound the masters of terrorism. A military response, particularly an attack on Afghanistan, is exactly what the terrorists want. It will strengthen and swell their small but fanatical ranks. Instead, let's bomb Afghanistan with butter, with rice, bread, clothing and medicine. It will cost less than conventional arms, poses no threat of US casualties and just might get the populace thinking that maybe the Taliban don't have the answers. After three years of drought and with starvation looming, let's offer the Afghani people the vision of a new future. One that includes full stomachs. Bomb them with information. Video and audio players and cassettes of world leaders, particularly Islamic leaders, condemning terrorism. Carpet the country with magazines and newspapers showing the horror of terrorism committed by their "guest." Give the people copies of the Koran, with bookmarks showing where they can read passages which prohibit harm to civilians. Blitz them with laptop computers and DVD players filled with a perspective that is denied them by their government. Saturation bombing with hope will mean that some of it gets through. Send so much that the Taliban can't collect and hide it all. The Taliban are telling their people to prepare for Jihad. Instead, let's give the Afghani people their first good meal in years. Seeing your family fully fed and the prospect of stability in terms of food and a future is a powerful deterrent to martyrdom. All we ask in return is that they, as a people, agree to enter the civilized world. That includes handing over terrorists in their midst. In responding to terrorism we need to do something different. Something unexpected..something that addresses the root of the problem. Something that will utterly confound the masters of terrorism. We need to take away the well of despair, ignorance and brutality from which the Osama bin Laden's of the world water their gardens of terror. Please contact (The White House, Washington, D.C., 20500; (202) 456-1111; president@whitehouse.gov), Senator Boxer (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3553; senator@boxer.senate.gov), Senator Feinstein (U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., 20510; 202-224-3841; senator@feinstein.senate.gov), and Representative Ose (U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C., 20515; 202-225-5716; doug.ose@mail.house.gov) to urge that we try confounding the terrorists with our generosity instead of playing into their hands with brutality. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Einstein, Russell, & (Lindu?) Date: 24 Sep 2001 22:02:26 -0700 I am trying to help the Japanese-English translator of Nichidatsu Fujii's important speech delivered August 6, 1956, and we are at a loss as to who this person named therein really is. Phonetically, the name might be spelled "Lindu", or "Rindu" or something close. Anyone out there old or wise enough to know or remember who this person is from context of paragraph below? Might it be one of the American scientists involved in the a-bomb project? We need correct spelling of his name. "Those who showed the greatest surprise, the greatest fright, the greatest regret and the greatest emaciation, in light of the appalling disaster caused by nuclear weapons that could lead to total annihilation, were the members of the scientific circle that discovered and manufactured the very nuclear weapons. This is evidenced firstly in Albert Einstein's reflection in his last years, and more recently in the statements issued by Bertrand Russell on July 9th of last year, and Lindu (?) on July 15th the same year." please respond/advise to gear2000@lightspeed.net - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) More details on "Oboe 8" subcritical nuclear test Date: 25 Sep 2001 09:54:22 +0100 Friends, My contact at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) just called. According to him, Dept. of Energy (DOE) ran into technical problems with the "Oboe 7" subcritical nuclear test, and have pushed back its detonation until sometime next fiscal year (i.e., after Oct. 1, 2001). "Oboe 8," the last in the "Oboe" series of subcritical tests, is going to be detonated this Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2001. The "Oboe" tests are prepared by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, and are detonated approximately 1,000 feet underground at the Nevada Test Site in a specially made, reusable chamber. Although a subcritical nucear test does not achieve the level of a self-sustained chain reaction, it does involve high explosives blown up along with fissile material (usually plutonium). Sophisticated equipment records the event and the resulting data is later fed into computers. Upon the completion of the "Oboe" series next year with the "Oboe 8" test, the DOE intends to begin detonating another series of underground subcritical tests at NTS that are prepared by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Each test in that series will happen in 12-18 month intervals. The Livermore and Los Alamos labs are the DOE's main nuclear weapons research and development labs, and the subcritical tests are paid for by funds from the DOE's Stockpile Stewardship Program, which, despite its name, is an aggressive nuclear weapons program. While the DOE claims that the underground subcritical tests are needed to maintain the safety & reliability of the nuclear stockpile, anti-nuclear groups believe that they are really about nuclear weapons development, and that, among other things, they violate the spirit if not the letter of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), compounding the difficulty of the CTBT's ongoing international ratification. (Coincidentally, the CTBT conference re: its rapid ratification is to be held soon at the United Nations in New York.) Please join the activities around the world that will be taking place to protest "Oboe 8" - people in Japan, US, Australia, and Europe have held protests over past subcritical nuclear tests. We here in the San Francisco Bay Area of the US will be demonstrating at noon on Weds. Sept. 26 at the Bechtel HQ located at 50 Beale St., San Francisco - 1 block south of Market St. and close to the Embarcadero BART station. In peace.. Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience 20 years of faith-based nuclear resistance Member, Global Council, Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons Member, Coordinating committee, US Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Member, Board, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) DoD Bill: Oppose the Domenici amendment to add $339 million for Date: 25 Sep 2001 14:53:56 -0400 Sens. Domenici, Reid and Bingaman have submitted an amendment (below) that would add $339 million to the Energy Department's nuclear weapons activities budget. The floor amendment will be offered to the defense authorization bill. This would increase the nuclear weapons activities budget total to $5.821 billion. This is $492 million above the Bush administration's request. This is $422 million above the House Armed Services Committee's recommendation. This is $483 million above the House Appropriations Committee's recommendation. Increasing funding for nuclear weapons activities is the wrong priority following the tragedy of September 11. The Senate should be increasing funding for advancing nonproliferation programs--nuclear, chemical and biological. This is the wrong time to restart a nuclear arms race. We know where that leads. The Friends Committee on National Legislation strongly urges you to oppose the Domenici-Reid-Bingaman amendment. David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 547-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Web site: www.fcnl.org -------------------- SA 1671. Mr. DOMENICI (for himself, Mr. REID, and Mr. BINGAMAN) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1438, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2002 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military constructions, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place in Division C, Title XXXI, Subtitle A, insert a new section as follows: "Sec. 31. For weapons activities, an additional $338,944,000 is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2002 for the activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration." On page 399, line 22, strike "$1,018,394,000" and replace with "1,357,338,000". -------------------- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Post-traumatic stress reordering, Linus Pauling, Nichidatsu Fujii, "freedom" and "God" Date: 25 Sep 2001 15:01:27 -0700 bcc: Dan Smith's "Post-traumatic stress reordering" thread cc list Thanks, Steven, for the important message you sent below, "signed[by]: Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Percy Bridgman, Herman Muller, Cecil Powell, Joseph Rotblat, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Leopold Infeld, Hideki Yukawa, Max Born, Linus Pauling." See below reference/links to speeches/message by the man Gandhi called his spiritual teacher, or "Guruji", the late most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii on whose 60th birthday the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and who was a key religious leader whose efforts helped convene the first and second special sessions on disarmament at the United Nations, 1978 and 1982. Yes, I think it must be Linus Pauling because as a chemist I know his name as a famous chemist and peace activist and at least we can check further and see if anyone knows (if so tell me now) for sure if Pauling delivered a somewhat famous speech on July 15, 1956, (~11th anniversary of first atomic bomb test at Los Alamos) which is the American scientist's speech date referenced in Nichidatsu's August 6, 1956, speech now being translated. I'm also quite sure that the below Russell-Einstein Manifesto is one of the messages from famous scientists to which Nichidatsu refers in that speech, especially since he prominently mentions several times therein Hideki Yukawa whose name until now I was not aware of. The confusion may have originated in the difference between Japanese and English namings where the family name is usually listed first in Japanese and last in English names, so a Japanese reference to Linus Pauling could easily have been referenced as (Dr.) Linus instead of (Dr.) Pauling, and given the variations in phonetics I can see where "Linus" could be heard/rendered as "Lindu" in the original Japanese transcription of this speech which so far, on reviewing initial translation drafts, has sent shivers up my spine because of its timely relevance to what is going on right now since 9-11. When, hopefully soon, the translation is finalized I will post it to the nuclear abolition and other lists, meanwhile readers may want to review the amazing speech of July 1978 by the most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii at the end of the Longest Walk at the US Capitol, archived with four others at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/global-peace-walk/message/554 and more info on him and his relationship with Mahatma Gandhi and the native American people is at http://www.indiano.org/pagoda/fujii.htm I especially like the Longest Walk speech because I was there to hear it and was witness to the rolling thunder all around the Capitol while he spoke as though punctuating his remarks which include the only time I have seen/heard/read of a Buddhist Monk discussing the nature of God. His message is especially timely now that we are embarking on an modern day "American Judeo-Christian Crusade" targeting "Islamic terrorists" and for its insightful description of the Machiavellianism connected to what in an earlier translation was called the "myth of the sovereign power of the state" as compared to the "religioius civilization" at the core of "the spiritual civilization" which will inevitably manifest to save humanity from otherwise certain destruction. An elder American Indian in the 1800's, I forget his name, after reflecting on the destruction of his people and the mentality of the American government towards the Indians and the land, etc., responding late in his lifetime to his younger generation wondering why the Great Spirit had allowed such atrocities, he wisely offered the succinct observation that the answer to that question was in understanding what the White Men really mean by "freedom" and "God". In his Longest Walk speech Nichidatsu eloquently addresses the nature of God and in the one now being translated he ever so eloquently addresses the American notion of "freedom". Next spiritual walk across America carrying Guruji's message and prayer practice starts January 15, 2002, the Hiroshima Flame Walk 2002 http://www.dharmawalk.org focusing on "Stop Star Wars", and since 9-11 I'm sure, "Stop WWIII". Please alert folks to help with outreach and support especially those on the route shown at that site. An updates/messages and coordination list has been set up with public archives at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/star-wars-dharma-walk Much appreciate your timely response. David David Crockett Williams an American Peace Movement member http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:36 AM > Dear David, > > This probably won't be of any help, but here is the text of the > Russell-Einstein Manifesto, followed by the signatories. It was broadcast > at the very end of 1954, so possibly it is the 1955 statement being referred > to. I tried to see if I could match any of the names of the Nobel Prize > winners who signed this document, but it didn't seem obvious to me that any > of them were the person who you are looking for (Linus Pauling?). > > Steven Starr > The following is a statement written by Bertrand Russell, and signed by Albert Einstein and nine other Nobel Prize winners (it was the last public statement made by Einstein, who died shortly after its broadcast on the BBC on December 23, 1954). It is incredibly profound, considering it was written only a few years after the United States exploded the first thermonuclear weapon, vaporizing a small island in the South Pacific. Here is the text: "In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft. We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings, members of the species man, whose continued existence is in doubt. The world is full of conflicts; and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between Communism and anti-Communism. Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but we want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species which has had a remarkable history, and whose disappearance none of us can desire. We shall try to say no singe word which should appeal to one group rather than to another. All, equally, are in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it. We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: What steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties? The general public, and even many men in positions of authority, have not realized what would be involved in a war with nuclear bombs. The general public still thinks in terms of the obliteration of cities. It is understood that the new bombs are more powerful than the old, and that, while one A-bomb could obliterate Hiroshima, one H-bomb could obliterate the largest cities, such as London, New York and Moscow. No doubt in an H-bomb war great cities would be obliterated. But this is one of the minor disasters that would have to be faced. If everybody in London, New York and Moscow were exterminated, the world might, in the course of a few centuries, recover from the blow. But we now know, especially since the Bikini test, that nuclear bombs can gradually spread destruction over a very much wider area than had been supposed. It is stated on very good authority that a bomb can now be manufactured which will be 2,500 times as powerful as that which destroyed Hiroshima. Such a bomb, if exploded near the ground or under water, sends radioactive particles into the upper air. They sink gradually and reach the surface of the earth in the form of a deadly dust or rain. It was this dust which infected the Japanese fishermen and their catch of fish. No one knows how widely such lethal radioactive particles might be diffused, but the best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might quite possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death--sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration. Many warnings have been uttered by eminent men of science and by authorities in military strategy. None of them will say that the worst results are certain. What they do say is that these results are possible, and no one can be sure that they will not be realized. We have not yet found that the views of experts depend in any degree upon their politics or prejudices. They depend only, so far as our researches have revealed, upon the extent of the particular expert's knowledge. We have found that the men who know most are the most gloomy. Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war. The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term "mankind" feels vague and abstract. People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity. They can scarcely bring themselves to grasp that they, individually, and those whom they love are in imminent danger of perishing agonizingly. And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited. This hope is illusory. Whatever agreements not to use the H-bombs had been reached in time of peace, they would no longer be considered binding in time of war, and both sides would set to work to manufacture H-bombs as soon as war broke out, for, if one side manufactured the bombs and the other did not, the side that manufactured them would inevitably be victorious. Although an agreement to renounce nuclear weapons as part of a general reduction of armaments would not afford an ultimate solution, it would serve certain important purposes. First: Any agreement between East and West is to the good in so far as it tends to diminish tension. Second: The abolition of thermonuclear weapons, if each side believed that the other had carried it out sincerely, would lessen the fear of a sudden attack in the style of Pearl Harbor, which at present keeps both sides in a state of nervous apprehension. We should, therefore, welcome such an agreement, though only as a first step. Most of us are not neutral in feeling, but, as human beings, we have to remember that, if the issues between East and West are to be decided in any manner that can give any possible satisfaction to anybody, whether Communist or anti-Communist, whether Asian or European or American, whether white or black, then these issues must not be decided by war. We should wish this to be understood, both in the East and in the West. There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal, as human beings, to human beings: Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death. Resolution: In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purposes cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them." signed: Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Percy Bridgman, Herman Muller, Cecil Powell, Joseph Rotblat, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Leopold Infeld, Hideki Yukawa, Max Born, Linus Pauling. Here is a quote from a book entitled, "Breakthrough", written by a group of Soviet and Western scholars in 1989, published by Walker & Co., NY,NY. Here are the first few paragraphs: "War is the issue. War, and the root causes of war. War, which at any time could escalate to total holocaust, end billions of years of development of our life-support system, end all children, all culture, all love, and all life. War is the challenge to the modern mind as the collapse of slavery and serfdom were the challenges for Americans and Russians a century ago. Today, the failure of war calls us to change our view of the world even more profoundly than the discovery that the Earth is round five centuries ago. War is the issue for this generation. War, indiscriminate and brutal, which destroys the fragile civil processes it is designed to protect, wastes and ravages everything in its path, and twice in our century has decimated a generation of young men. War, which after a long evolution of its own, has come to its last chapter in human history. War has been made obsolete by the total, suicidal, destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has been made obsolete by the gradually increasing consciousness that cannons cannot produce social justice; only justice can produce justice; only compassion can produce compassion; only brotherhood can produce brotherhood. War is the issue for this generation, and global thinking is the challenge. Compelled by the threat of a nuclear Armageddon, humans must now raise themselves to a new dimension, a new level of consciousness beyond war. They must move to a new and sunlit plain of human maturity. That is the challenge to change. It is a challenge to every human being to make a shift of evolutionary proportions. The evidence is overwhelming that if we do not do this, the species will have a short tenure on this planet. . . . " on 09/25/2001 12:02 AM, David Crockett Williams at gear2000@lightspeed.net wrote: > I am trying to help the Japanese-English translator of Nichidatsu Fujii's > important speech delivered August 6, 1956, and we are at a loss as to who > this person named therein really is. Phonetically, the name might be > spelled "Lindu", or "Rindu" or something close. Anyone out there old or > wise enough to know or remember who this person is from context of paragraph > below? Might it be one of the American scientists involved in the a-bomb > project? We need correct spelling of his name. > > > "Those who showed the greatest surprise, the greatest fright, the greatest > regret and the greatest emaciation, in light of the appalling disaster > caused by nuclear weapons that could lead to total annihilation, were the > members of the scientific circle that discovered and manufactured the very > nuclear weapons. This is evidenced firstly in Albert Einstein's reflection > in his last years, and more recently in the statements issued by Bertrand > Russell on July 9th of last year, and Lindu (?) on July 15th the same year." > > > please respond/advise to gear2000@lightspeed.net > - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Burroughs Subject: (abolition-usa) Response to September 11: Law, Justice, and the ICC Date: 26 Sep 2001 09:41:22 -0400 Below is an LCNP press statement plus a Washington Times article concerning current discussions concerning the International Criminal Court and its implications for terrorism. Press statement of Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy September 25, 2001 NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court press briefing New York Any military action to prevent further terrorist attacks and bring to= justice the perpetrators and planners of the September 11 attacks should be done= under the authority of the Security Council to maintain international peace and security. The Security Council already, in its September 12 resolution, found the attacks to be a "threat to international peace and security". But it did not= authorize or require any use of force - it only "expressed its readiness to take all necessary steps". Thus it clearly was not an action resolution. A robust multilateralism, centered on the United Nations, is the only way to give legitimacy to the response to September 11 and therefore to make it effective in addressing the threat of terrorism. No matter under what authority it is carried out, any military action must meet legal requirements including necessity, proportionality, and discrimination or not be done at all. Necessity requires that the least violent course of= action be taken to prevent further attacks and to bring planners and perpetrators= to justice. Proportionality requires that military action must not be excessive in relation to the initial attacks and to the action's objectives.= Discrimination requires that civilians not be attacked and that they not be disproportionately injured or killed by attacks on legitimate military targets. Military action must also not inflict unnecessary suffering, harm neutral nations, or cause widespread and severe damage to the environment. These requirements are imposed by international treaty and custom, set forth in US military manuals on the law of war, and recognized by the United States and the United Nations as= binding law governing their conduct of military operations. Of special importance is that, according to relief workers, millions of Afghanis already face starvation. Attacks that exacerbated this situation= and caused mass starvation could not meet the requirements of proportionality= and discrimination. Also important is that, as Pentagon sources confirm, desperately impoverished Afghanistan has hardly any targets of military significance. To meet the requirement of necessity, attacks must be= reasonably aimed at achieving a concrete military advantage; they may not be carried= out for the sake of revenge or a demonstration effect or any other non-military reason. If there=92s nothing to attack, don=92t attack. If persons suspected of planning and perpetrating the September 11 attacks= are extradited or apprehended, an option worth considering is the establishment= of an ad hoc tribunal, by the Security Council or interested states. The United States certainly would have jurisdiction to try suspects, but it may prove much easier for countries in the Middle East to surrender suspects to an international tribunal than to the United States. The ICC itself cannot be used for this purpose, because the Statute has not yet come into force, and when it does in the next year or two will only apply to crimes committed thereafter. But an ad hoc tribunal statute could be written to include crimes as humanity as defined in the Rome Statute. Under the Rome Statute, murder and other inhumane acts intentionally causing great= suffering or serious injury, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic= attack against any civilian population in furtherance of a state or organizational policy, constitute crimes against humanity. Thus acts committed by members= of terrorist groups or networks found to have sufficient longevity and= coherence to qualify as an organization could come under the definition. U.N. SAYS ATTACKS SHOW NEED FOR GLOBAL COURT Betsy Pisik=20 THE WASHINGTON TIMES September 26, 2001 NEW YORK =97 Legal experts converging on the United Nations=20 this week to hammer out details of a global criminal court=20 said yesterday that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks=20 demonstrate the need for a tribunal to prosecute the worst=20 humanitarian crimes. "We emerge more convinced than ever of the need to=20 strengthen the international legal order and the fight=20 against universal crimes," said Dutch Foreign Minister=20 Jozias van Aartsen, referring to the destruction of the=20 World Trade Center's twin towers. "Where better to begin our renewed effort than in that,=20 the same city of New York?" he said. Legal experts attending a long-scheduled meeting about=20 the proposed International Criminal Court (ICC), which would=20 hear charges of atrocities committed around the world, said=20 the attacks on New York and Washington would fit the=20 definition of "crimes against humanity."=20 The proposed ICC would not be created until at least=20 2002, and its jurisdiction will not be retroactive.=20 Nonetheless, Mr. van Aartsen said, "Universal crimes deserve=20 a universal answer."=20 On Monday, the participants in the preparatory=20 commission meeting stood for a moment of silence, and=20 individual speakers offered their condolences from the=20 podium. The United States opposes the court, fearing it would=20 be used to target American soldiers who participate in=20 international peacekeeping missions and other operations. Prospects of U.S. military strikes in the war on=20 terrorism, sparked by the attacks on New York and the=20 Pentagon, appear likely to stiffen U.S. opposition to the=20 court. Nevertheless, lawyers at yesterday's conference spoke=20 enthusiastically of the court as a potential weapon against=20 the spread of global terrorism. "The bombing, and subsequent calls for a global=20 alliance against terrorism, has shaken Washington off its=20 anti-multilateral course," said David Donalcattin, a lawyer=20 with Parliamentarians for Global Action. "The great news for us [is] that American isolationism=20 is finished," Mr. Donalcattin said. "This attack has shown,=20 and the White House seems to hear, that no nation can do it=20 alone."=20 President Bush has rejected the treaty, and proposals=20 in Congress would prevent the United States from cooperating=20 with it. Various U.N. bodies are grappling with terrorism this=20 week, with the Security Council beginning to discuss a=20 separate U.S. anti-terror initiative, and the General=20 Assembly preparing for a public debate on terrorism Monday.=20 In addition, the secretariat is weighing the value of=20 helping states draft an umbrella anti-terrorism treaty=20 combining elements of the 12 existing conventions and=20 treaties.=20 Legal experts say there is a widespread recognition=20 that whoever planned and executed the Sept. 11 attack has=20 committed a crime against humanity, as defined under the=20 Rome Statute creating the ICC. More than 139 nations have=20 accepted that definition, which includes in part:=20 "Murder and other inhumane acts intentionally causing=20 great suffering or serious injury, when committed as part of=20 a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian=20 population in furtherance of a state or organizational=20 policy." Copyright (c) 2001 News World Communications, Inc. All=20 rights reserved. John Burroughs, Executive Director=20 Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy=20 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204=20 New York, New York 10017 USA=20 tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857=20 e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org website: www.lcnp.org=20 Part of the Abolition 2000 Global=20 Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons=20 - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) San Francisco Labor Council statement Date: 26 Sep 2001 09:57:00 -0400 >Here is a resolution by the San Francisco Labor Council opposing the drive to war. Also find a statement by the former head of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) (The ILWU also issued a strong resolution). You will note that the SF Labor Council endorsed the September nationwide actions against war and racism--one of which will take place in San Francisco Saturday. > >>Karen Talbot, International Center for Peace and Justice (ICPJ) >>------------------ >> >>1) San Francisco Labor Council Statement on the Tragic Events of >>September 11, 2001 (adopted on Monday, Sept. 24, 2001) >> >>2) San Francisco Labor Council Endorses September 29 Antiwar Rallies >>(resolution adopted on Monday, Sept. 24, 2001) >> >>3) Former ILWU President Brian McWilliams' Remarks on the Tragic >>Events of September 11, 2001 (presented to the ILWU Pacific Coast >>Pensioners Association Convention in Seattle, Wash., on September 18, >>2001) >> >>******************** >> >>(1) S.F. LABOR COUNCIL STATEMENT ON THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 >> >>[Note: The following statement was adopted by the S.F. Labor Council >>at its delegates meeting on Monday, September 24, 2001. The statement >>was submitted to the Labor Council by the Executive Board of OPEIU >>Local 3. It was adopted following one friendly amendment from the >>floor.] >> >>The San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) joins the nation and the >>world in mourning the devastating loss of life resulting from the >>vicious attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well >>as the crashed plane in Pennsylvania. We condemn the criminality of >>those attacks and those responsible. >> >>Many of those killed were union members and other workers killed on >>the job. Our hearts go out to our sisters and brothers and their >>loved ones. We particularly honor the rescue workers who continue to >>risk their lives to save others. >> >>No one, in this country or any other, should suffer the fate of the >>victims in these attacks. We demand that the perpetrators of these >>crimes be brought to justice. The United States has a responsibility >>to establish with irrefutable facts the identity of those who were >>behind these attacks. The tragic attacks of September 11 should be >>treated as a heinous crime rather than an act of war. >> >>As we mourn this tremendous loss of life, we declare our resistance >>to efforts to use this tragedy to engage in military actions that can >>lead only to more carnage and senseless loss of life. We reject the >>idea that entire nations should be punished for the actions of a few. >>Bombing raids and military strikes will only fuel an endless cycle of >>revenge that can only bring the deaths of more innocent civilians, >>both here and around the world. >> >>In the face of such sorrow, we urge all people, particularly members >>of the labor family, to stand united against prejudice, hatred and >>intolerance wherever it arises. Within our own borders, we call upon >>all in our communities to join us in immediately confronting any >>anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, anti-Sikh or other anti-immigrant hate speech >>or acts of violence, whether in our neighborhoods, our workplaces, or >>in the media. We strongly oppose efforts to curtail the rights of >>immigrants and refugees, including expulsion of suspect foreign >>nationals without due process. >> >>We also declare our resistance to efforts to use this tragedy to >>curtail our civil liberties. Militarization of our society inevitably >>leads to erosion of civil liberties and workers' rights. We must >>remain vigilant in the defense of our democratic principles, >>including the protection of our civil liberties. Already proposals >>have been put forward to allow increased federal surveillance of >>private activities, and there is a strong push for greater use of >>racial profiling. In the past, national security has often been used >>to justify interference with our rights to freedom of association, to >>organize, to strike and to picket. We must redouble our efforts to >>fight for justice, and must not allow those who oppose our goals to >>use a national crisis as an excuse to assault our civil and economic >>rights. >> >>We encourage open discussion as to the origins of this crisis and the >>most appropriate response to the atrocities that have taken place - >>particularly about the need for a foreign policy that is based on >>economic and political justice. >> >>A century ago, Samuel Gompers, first President of the AFL, said that >>labor wants more justice and less revenge. Our greatest memorial to >>our fallen sisters and brothers will be a world of peace, justice, >>tolerance and understanding, underscored by the solidarity of working >>people. >> >>******************** >> - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) No more funds for nuclear weapons programs Date: 27 Sep 2001 07:54:19 -0400 NO MORE FUNDS FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMS A few senators are proposing to add more than $300 million to the nuclear weapons budget. A floor vote in the Senate could occur next week (week of Oct. 1). Sens. Domenici (NM), Reid (NV) and Bingaman (NM) have filed an amendment, Senate Amendment 1671, to increase the nuclear weapons budget of the Energy Department by $339 million. They could offer the amendment as a floor amendment to the defense authorization, as soon as Monday, October 1. ACTION Please call the Washington offices of your two Senators. Ask them to oppose Senate Amendment 1671 by Sen. Domenici, which would increase the nuclear weapons budget in the defense authorization bill. The U.S. should not be spending more money on nuclear weapons development and testing. This is the wrong message to send to the world following the tragedy of September 11. Instead, the Senate should increase funding for non-proliferation programs-such as the "Nunn-Lugar" threat reduction initiative--to safely and securely dismantle and dispose of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the U.S., Russia, and elsewhere, and fund initiatives to de-alert nuclear weapons within the next year. To find your Senators' Washington telephone numbers, either call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or use the Legislative Action Center on FCNL's web site. Just click on the link below, select your state and click on , then select your member and click on . Here is the link: http://capwiz.com/fconl/dbq/officials/ BACKGROUND The Bush administration requested $5.30 billion for the nuclear weapons activities budget at the Energy Department for fiscal year 2002, which begins October 1. The budget funds the work of the Los Alamos (NM), Sandia (NM), and Lawrence Livermore (CA) nuclear weapons labs. It also funds a half dozen nuclear weapons production sites scattered across the country and the Nevada Test Site. These facilities are used to maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal. None of these funds are for non-proliferation programs. Earlier this year, the Senate Armed Services Committee recommended spending $5.45 billion for the nuclear weapons account, higher than the Bush administration's request. Sens. Domenici, Reid and Bingaman are now seeking to boost that by $339 million. Some Senators have been suggesting that the U.S. should develop new nuclear weapons, especially a "mini-nuke." While this amendment does not specifically authorize development of a new nuclear weapon, it is a significant increase for the nuclear weapons budget. David Culp, Legislative Representative Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers) 245 Second Street, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 Tel: (202) 547-6000, ext. 146 Toll free: (800) 630-1330, ext. 146 Fax: (202) 547-6019 E-mail: david@fcnl.org Web site: www.fcnl.org - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lisa Ledwidge / IEER Subject: (abolition-usa) A Call for Gatherings on Oct. 2, Gandhi's Birthday Date: 27 Sep 2001 13:20:12 -0500 --=====================_20220123==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Re: A Call for Gatherings on October 2, Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday, to Reflect on Non-Violent Responses to the September 11 Tragedy The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks cry out for a global response to help make the world as secure as we can from the threats of war, terrorism and mass destruction. We must find a peaceful, non-violent way to respond to the attacks, and to ultimately reduce the inequity and violence in our world which breed such terrorism. Mahatma Gandhi launched India's nonviolent independent movement, inspired in part by U.S. history in the acts of Henry David Thoreau in the mid-nineteenth century to resist an unjust war and slavery. In turn, the civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King, Jr. was partly inspired by Gandhi's example. October 2 is Gandhi's birthday. We are sending this message to ask that you on this day gather in your community to reflect on the lessons of nonviolent struggles led by Mahatma Gandhi (and others) against violence, militarism, and injustice. In doing so, you will join other groups and people around the world in promoting global democracy, justice, equity, and friendship. The links below provide resources for such gatherings, including a selection of Gandhi's quotes, sample letters to the editor, and a sample press release. We at IEER would be happy to help if you have any questions on this material, and we welcome your feedback. Also, we would like to learn of your event so we can post it on our web site, and to hear how you used these materials. Please contact project coordinator Gordon Clark at or 1-301-270-5500 with this information. At the crossroads in history created by the dreadful, tearful ashes of September 11, we must begin to establish a tradition of nonviolence and justice as the normal one for the world of the twenty-first century. Resources and contact information: * A Call for Gatherings on October 2 - http://www.ieer.org/latest/oct2call.html * Events - http://www.ieer.org/latest/oct2evts.html (will be updated as we learn of events) * Quotes of Gandhi - http://www.ieer.org/latest/oct2quot.html * Sample letters to the editor - http://www.ieer.org/latest/oct2ltrs.html * Sample press release for local meeting - http://www.ieer.org/latest/oct2prel.html * Holding an event? Questions? Feedback? Please contact: Gordon Clark at or call 1-301-270-5500 Apologies for multiple postings. --=====================_20220123==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Re: A Call for Gatherings on October 2, Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday, to Reflect on Non-Violent Responses to the September 11 Tragedy

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks cry out for a global response to help make the world as secure as we can from the threats of war, terrorism and mass destruction.  We must find a peaceful, non-violent way to respond to the attacks, and to ultimately reduce the inequity and violence in our world which breed such terrorism.

Mahatma Gandhi launched India's nonviolent independent movement, inspired in part by U.S. history in the acts of Henry David Thoreau in the mid-nineteenth century to resist an unjust war and slavery.  In turn, the civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King, Jr. was partly inspired by Gandhi's example.

October 2 is Gandhi's birthday.  We are sending this message to ask that you on this day gather in your community to reflect on the lessons of nonviolent struggles led by Mahatma Gandhi (and others) against violence, militarism, and injustice.   In doing so, you will join other groups and people around the world in promoting global democracy, justice, equity, and friendship.

The links below provide resources for such gatherings, including a selection of Gandhi's quotes, sample letters to the editor, and a sample press release.  We at IEER would be happy to help if you have any questions on this material, and we welcome your feedback.  Also, we would like to learn of your event so we can post it on our web site, and to hear how you used these materials.  Please contact project coordinator Gordon Clark at <coordinator@ieer.org> or 1-301-270-5500 with this information.

At the crossroads in history created by the dreadful, tearful ashes of September 11, we must begin to establish a tradition of nonviolence and justice as the normal one for the world of the twenty-first century.

Resources and contact information:

Apologies for multiple postings. --=====================_20220123==_.ALT-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Culp Subject: (abolition-usa) Sen. Byrd opposes missile defense Date: 27 Sep 2001 14:46:33 -0400 "Space Wars," by Sen. Robert C. Byrd Congressional Record, September 26, 2001, pp. S9826-28 Mr. BYRD. Madam President, during the August recess, The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story entitled "The Coming Space War" The article caught my interest, as I am sure that it intrigued many other readers. The author's contention is that the U.S. military is considering a campaign to achieve military superiority in space similar to the kind of military superiority that U.S. forces seek in the air, on land, and from the sky. Military superiority in space is deemed critical in order to protect our increasing dependence on satellites for communications, surveillance, commercial and military purposes. On August 24, President Bush named Air Force General Richard Myers, a former chief of the U.S. Space Command and of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, as the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Myers' selection as Chairman is in keeping with President Bush's strong support for building a national missile defense, NMD, the follow-on to President Reagan's Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI. It is certainly true that our dependence--and that of other developed and developing nations--on these winking, blinking objects winging through the night sky has increased exponentially over the last decade. It has rapidly become almost impossible to imagine a world without the Internet, the World Wide Web, electronic mail on handheld computers or cellular phones, automated teller machines, instantaneous worldwide credit card use, and other forms of global telecommunications and electronic commerce. This expansion and its dependence on satellite links will continue to increase in future decades. We are all dependent, and, therefore, we are all vulnerable, to the seamless and uninterrupted access to satellites. Most people, however, do not understand these technologies. I certainly do not. Like most people, I can understand that I may be vulnerable in ways that are new to me, a boy from the Mercer County hills in southern West Virginia. But how best to address this new vulnerability? The author of The New York Times Magazine article describes three fundamentally different philosophical approaches to this brave new realm of space. The first is a military approach, which opens up a Pandora's box of weapons in space. The military, it is reported, has looked into the future and come to the conclusion that space represents the "ultimate military `high ground,' "requiring the military to develop and deploy whatever technology is necessary to achieve what has been termed "Global Battlespace Dominance," or "Full Spectrum Dominance." The tools needed might include everything from National Missile Defense to antisatellite laser or high-powered microwave weapons, or clusters of microsatellites to hyperspectral surveillance satellites and other space sensors--or all of these things. Some of these systems are under development now or due for testing soon, according to the article, already undercutting the author's assertion that the weaponization of space is coming, when, in fact, it may already be upon us. Already--already--additional funding to the tune of $190 million is being sought in the defense authorization and appropriations bills for space weapons. Now, if I, like most people, do not really understand the technologies behind satellite communications and cell phones, it is even harder to understand the technologies behind hyperspectral surveillance satellites or space-based lasers. And that lack of technical expertise means, like most Americans, I must depend on the Pentagon to explain why these new technologies are needed, why no other alternatives will work, and what new questions and challenges might be unleashed by these choices. That is not, I suggest, the best way to perform oversight, but, unfortunately, there are few good alternatives. The second philosophical approach to space outlined by the author is that of the purist, seeking to unilaterally ban weapons from space and seeking to return the heavens to an earlier, unsullied era--an earlier unsullied era. This is not, in the author's view, a realistic hope. The final philosophical approach, the one seemingly favored by the author, is that of the "pragmatist"--the "pragmatist." This approach recognizes the inevitable migration of commerce and the military to space, but hopes to hold the line at surveillance. Weapons for space would, in this view, remain in the research and test phase, to be launched only in response to another nation's attempt to put weapons in space. This launch-on-warning approach would come in conjunction with further diplomatic efforts to establish operating rules for space modeled on those in place for blue-water ships on the open ocean. In the pragmatist's scenario, existing space treaties would be retained: the 1967 Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space and the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty which, in addition to establishing the surveillance system to avoid nuclear conflict, also forbids most antimissile testing. One way of reducing competition and tensions in space proposed in the article is by "mutually assured awareness" in space. The U.S. would develop and make globally available direct video access to space, so that anyone could confirm any hostile action in space, as opposed to mishaps from natural causes. I am not sure that this is technologically feasible, but who am I to question it. The concept of greater openness is the point. It is interesting, in this light, to note that the 1975 Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, operated by the United Nations, has not been very successful. In fact, the nation with the largest number, if not percentage, of unregistered payloads is the United States. The United States has failed to register 141 of some 2,000 satellite payloads. Only one nation is in full compliance--Russia. And, of course, it is the Bush Administration advocating the abrogation of the ABM Treaty in order to commence construction on the first National Missile Defense ground site in Alaska. I cannot say at this point what philosophical camp that I might find myself. The author, Jack Hitt, closes his article by pointing out that if the United States is not successful at holding the line at surveillance, if we "plan, test, and deploy aggressively as the lone superpower, we make certain that after a brief respite from the cold war's nuclear competition, we will once again embark on a fresh and costly arms race. And with it, assume the dark burden of policing a rapid evolution in battlespace." This specter rings true. It should concern us, and it should be debated by the people and the people's representatives. As it stands now, the U.S. military is moving ahead on a trajectory that is both costly and one that carries with it a kind of philosophical imperialism with dangerous ramifications. Now, what do I mean by philosophical imperialism? The military's plans for "full spectrum dominance," and space superiority, if fully realized, would mean that in some not-so-distant future, the United States would be in a position to (in the words of the Air Force Strategic Master Plan) "operate freely in space, deny the use of space to our adversaries, protect ourselves from an attack in and through space and develop and deploy a N[ational] M[issile] D[efense] capability." The U.S. would presumably, then, have information dominance in this arena as well. Thus, the U.S. would be in a position to know if a conflict between two nations, say India and Pakistan, was about to explode into open, even nuclear, warfare. The U.S. would also be in a position to act, but how? Would we shoot down the missiles from one side or the other, or both? If we shot down the missiles that each nation was firing at the other, what would happen if we missed one and it destroyed a city? What is our responsibility? What if we chose not to act because the conflict did not involve us, and tens of thousands or millions of innocent people died? What is our responsibility? If the United States achieves, at enormous expense, space superiority, how could we avoid becoming the space marshal on this dangerous new frontier? If we detect a threat against a third party, do we warn the third party? If we provide a warning, and are asked to interdict the attack because only we can, how do we say no? How do we avoid making our military personnel and our commercial enterprises overseas the targets of reprisals from those whose attacks we thwart? It is difficult for me to envision a future in which we could avoid such an imperialist, if benevolent, dictatorship in space. The role of global policeman and space marshal would not come cheaply, either, and in this period of shrinking or perhaps vanishing surpluses, we cannot ignore those costs. Space dominance would not replace air, land, or sea dominance, but would be additive. In fact, dominance in space might conceivably add to the cost of protecting forces on ground by making them targets for the kind of retaliation I mentioned previously. Gaining and maintaining a robust presence in space is technologically challenging. An airborne laser, reportedly operational sometime around 2010, is budgeted at $11 billion. It will cost still more to build and deploy a space-based laser. The estimated cost for a working space laser test is about $4 billion--that is $4 billion merely to get to a test of a laser in space. A test is expected as early as 2010. The defense budget already consumes a bit over half of the domestic discretionary budget that Congress must allocate among programs ranging from health research to agriculture, education to highway and air traffic safety, environmental protection to diplomacy. How much more are we willing to trade between guns and butter? How much must we trade, or might alternatives be found in the course of free and open debate? As most people are now well aware, those large budget surpluses so optimistically predicted just a few weeks ago--it is not funny--while the economy was booming--and so irresponsibly paid out in the form of vote-buying "tax refunds" before the actual surpluses materialized--are now gone, gone. Indeed, the Administration has had to employ a few green-eyeshade accounting tricks just to find a few dollars beyond the Social Security surplus to spend on other priorities. And the administration's No. 1 priority seems to be the defense budget--well, that might be all right--but more particularly, the defense budget for National Missile Defense and space weapons. The President wants an additional $39 billion for defense--more, perhaps, now--including more than $8 billion to research and test his missile defense plan. I am troubled that this Administration's number one priority is a project whose scientific feasibility is in doubt. That is the problem. We could very well be rushing down a path that leads to spiraling costs and lengthy delays. In the 1960s, Congress was told that research of a Super Sonic Transport plane was essential to U.S. competitiveness in future decades. I was here. We spent nearly a billion dollars developing this aircraft before cancelling it in 1973, a billion dollars then would be much larger now. I do not think we have lost one whit of competitiveness because of the cancellation of that program. We traveled down the same path again when we considered funding the Superconducting Super Collider. The $8 billion program was supposed to fulfill a supposedly vital role in basic scientific research, but we learned that the true cost was nearly fifty percent greater than expected, and we were not even sure it could ever work. Congress had to step in to end this program in 1993. Again, I do not think that we have lost any crucial advantage by not going forward with that project. I can think of no one who believes that a national missile defense system will be deployed on-time and under budget. I am troubled, not because such weapons might be needed, but because we are spending huge sums on them without being sure in our own minds that the weaponization of space is the best course of action to ensure our security. If the United States builds a missile shield to shoot down enemy missiles as soon after they launch as possible, a smart adversary would attempt to shorten the amount of time that our defenses have to react, in addition to taking measures to fool our defenses. One way to shorten the time between launch and impact is to launch closer to the target--either from a submarine offshore, or, as the seas become more transparent to new technologies, from space. Another alternative for a wily adversary would be to switch gears entirely and employ other forms of weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical or biological weapons, that could be dispersed without using long range or intercontinental missiles whose launch points make determining the adversary a simple exercise in geometry. We must be aware that our actions produce reactions. We can assume that if the United States deploys weapons in space, even in a purely defensive posture, even in a global policeman role, not all of our friends, allies, and competitors will see this as benign. We have only to consider the reaction of the world to the recent statements by the Administration concerning National Missile Defense and the potential abrogation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Just what would we do when some other nation--friend or competitor--threatens our space superiority by deploying their own weapons there, even if for avowedly defensive purposes? Again the vision of a space marshal comes to mind, this time facing off another gunman down the dusty main street of space. Does the U.S. Marshal fire first, second, or is it a long, tense stand-off with weapons cocked? None of the alternatives sounds particularly promising. Though it is difficult to conceive, would a military competition in space weaponry deter commercial satellite growth or the growth of e-business that depends on global satellite networked communications? Once weapons are in space, does the cost of doing business in space go up to the point that global commerce is stifled? That would be very bad news for business, for consumers, and for the prospects of returning our national budget to surplus or even to balance. These are all ramifications of our current course of action that merit discussion--broad, open, public discussion and debate. I do not wish for the United States to be left undefended--far from it--but neither do I wish for the military to be left, in the face of public silence, to make decisions that spend our treasure and which may create new problems for us in arenas yet unconsidered. In his farewell address on January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower looked upon the rising power and influence of armament producers and at the increasing share of technological research that is performed for the federal government. He warned the councils of government to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex .....," and to "be alert to the ..... danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite." Mr. Eisenhower was concerned that, among other things, "democracy ..... survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow." He urged that "[O]nly an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." Coming from a former supreme commander of the Allied military forces during World War II, President Eisenhower's words carry the weight of his experience. They are also uncomfortably prophetic. Just forty years after President Eisenhower gave his warning, President Bush proposes to invest many billions of dollars to achieve military superiority in a new realm, where there currently is no threat, jeopardizing the economic health of the nation and creating instability and mistrust in the hearts of other nations. This will occur unless the citizenry--and its elected representatives--we members of the House and U.S. Senate--especially us--consider and agree upon this course of action. Silence does not equal assent. We must talk, and learn, and consider. Again, I am admittedly a layman when it comes to high-tech gadgetry on earth, let alone in space. But it seems to me that we must set aside the whizbang and drama of lasers and satellites to consider the real, age-old questions--those that have plagued the great generals throughout time. We should be taking stock of what we have to gain and what we have to lose by moving the lines of battle. We must consider whether or not we have the necessary weapons to protect ourselves and our land before we send our military into new and vastly different frontiers. We should assess the real, known threats to our Nation, and gauge whether we have the weapons and the resources to remain secure, and whether our time, talent, and treasure would be better spent fending off those most likely threats or devising new unproven plans of attack and fabulously expensive means of battle. And we should ponder the awesome responsibility of militarizing space and then being the world's space cop before we rush headlong into the twilight zone called national missile defense. Madam President, I believe that it would be both wise and prudent to back off just a little bit on the accelerator that is driving us in a headlong and fiscally spendthrift rush to deploy a national missile defense and to invest billions into putting weapons in space and building weapons designed to act in space. That heavy foot on the accelerator is merely the stamp and roar of rhetoric. The threat does not justify the pace. Our budget projections cannot support the pace. Let us continue to study the matter. Let us continue to conduct research. But the threat, as I say, does not justify the pace at which we are traveling. Our budget projections cannot support the pace, so let us slow down a bit, look at the map, and consider just where this path is taking us. ------------------ - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) 9-11solutions: Puthoff on CIA RV, History Channel tonight, 9/27 (Thurs), w/ Hal Puthoff et al, repeats at midnight Date: 27 Sep 2001 15:04:13 -0700 CIA RV Program on History Channel, 9/27 (Thurs), 8PM & Midnight EDT/PDT As the world edges closer to nuclear war with US preparations for a WWIII on "Islamic terrorists" reportedly in possession of "suitcase nukes" already smuggled into the United States, the History Channel is tonight airing repeating key television programs implicating apparently rogue operatives of the CIA in the Kennedy assasination and more official CIA involvement in psychic warfare (remote viewing, psi-ops, psi-war, etc) developments which in part apply knowledge gained by DOE recognized leading American "Zero-Point Energy" physicist Dr. Hal Puthoff subsequent to publication of his hard science Nature magazine article in 1974 documenting experiments with famed Israeli psychic Uri Geller. The deeper applications of this information relate to correcting the mind of science and the brutal policies of the United States government, as well as to ameliorating the inter-religious misunderstandings at the root of the present global terrorism crisis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams/message/120 This "Aviary, Aquarium, and Eshcaton" article names and discusses the etherial "Aviary" of scientists (including Dr. Hal Puthoff), government officials and others, in purported collaboration with the head of the CIA office of Science and Technology, who out of concern for potential public panic over any hint of US government worry about emerging end-of-the-world scenarios, utilize a "blind alley" strategy to "inflate the pieces of the puzzle so the whole picture cannot be seen" as a way to ameliorate potential public panic. While primarily discussing the UFO and related CIA remote viewing and psi-wars issues, this 9pp 1993 article's thesis may be logically extended to other issues such as secrecy policies relating to the suppressed new-energy technologies to replace nuclear and fossil fuel power, the corruption of US politicians and intel agencies whose rogue operatives facilitate the illegal drug trade (www.copvcia.com), etc. The protagonist in this story, a radical Christian activist theologian/physicist named Dan Smith, is still asking for assistance of a developing network (which he calls the "Aquarium") of more spiritually minded collaborators to help him in his efforts to infuse a more balanced spiritual perspective into government policies via his longtime lobbying efforts and collaboration with above named CIA office head. Yesterday, Sept.26, his efforts were referred to the FBI as "plotting a terrorist attack of some sort, possibly directed at the Internet" by a member of the email collaboration list of Dr. Jack Sarfatti who is working to develop more advanced weaponry instead of appplying his "post quantum physics of consciousness theory" to the reconciliation of conflicting religious ideologies (www.stardrive.org) http://www.historychannel.com use "Click here for complete listings" to access when these and related programs* repeat. ----begin forwarded posts/announcement---- [ new-energy researcher and former patent examiner fired for convening a Conference on Future Energy after criticism by a UMD physics professor. Valone says there are 4,000 patents in a vault at US Patent Office confiscated from inventors and ordered secret including many new-energy technologies http://users.erols.com/iri ]-dcw From one of the top zero point energy physicists in the world comes an announcement about a ten-year CIA program that was subjected to a disinformation report after it ended. Dr. Puthoff was directly involved in the program. -T.V. ===================== ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:16 AM According to the History Channel online schedule, "Hidden History: Psychic Espionage" will air at 8pm Eastern time (7pm Central time) on Thursday, 27 September, and again at 12:00 a.m. on the 28th. The program includes interviews with Joe McMoneagle, Hal Puthoff, Skip Atwater, and Paul Smith, among others. Here's what the History Channel's webpage had to say about this show: History Undercover *Psychic Espionage In 1970, reports leaked out of the Soviet Union about their widespread use of ESP, remote-viewing, and other psychic abilities by the military and intelligence agencies. The United States quickly began their own top-secret research into the paranormal. For over 20 years, the CIA used psychic spies in dozens of covert missions. Join us as we step into the world of the unknown and meet psychic spies from the CIA, KGB, and spy agencies in Great Britain, Poland, Germany, and Israel. ---------end forwarded posts---- from 9/27, 8:00PM - 9:00PM *History Undercover, *Psychic Espionage 9/27, 9:00PM - 10:00PM *The Men Who Killed Kennedy The Witnesses If in 1963 there had been an honest investigation of the Kennedy assassination, we might today know the truth. In the fifth episode, witnesses help us decide for ourselves--who really killed Kennedy? TV G *The Men Who Killed Kennedy http://store.aetv.com/html/catalog/vp02.jhtml?id=17493 Six videotapes including an overview episode "Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Truth Shall Make You Free", and a five-part video series, a detailed analysis together totaling 250minutes. THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY is a balanced, unflinching look at the many loose ends and troubling facts surrounding the assassination of JFK. Exclusive interviews with hundreds of people involved, including police and government officials, point to many problems with the official findings, and independently conducted studies cast doubt on many of the conclusions of the Warren Report. From the mysterious background of Oswald to the schizophrenic behavior of the Secret Service and FBI, every aspect of the case is examined, and new evidence exposes the sinister forces behind the brutal murder of JFK. Watch...and decide for yourself! *Sworn to Secrecy [related program, check website for schedule of showings] *Psychological Warfare The soldiers who employ "Psy Ops" use every means available to destroy the will of the enemy to resist. Charlton Heston narrates this look at the secret tools and techniques of wartime "persuasion". TV G ---------end history channel website excerpts Feedback on above TV shows and suggestions for themes of future programs perhaps to more deeply explore historical implications of related themes, may be emailed to the History Channel via http://www.historychannel.com/feed_back/index.html where this post has also been copied. David Crockett Williams, September 27, 2001 (3M-89)** Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy list moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcwilliams an American Peace Movement member http://groups.yahoo.com/group/an-american-peace-movement **The Third Millennium Project http://groups.yahoo.com/group/third-millennium-project - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Burroughs Subject: (abolition-usa) Sept 11 articles: special edition of LCNP newsletter Date: 27 Sep 2001 19:22:38 -0400 A preview edition of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy newsletter Bombs Away! concerning September 11 related issues is now at http://lcnp.org/pubs/Bombsaway!SPE01/contents.htm It contains articles by myself, Peter Weiss, and Saul Mendlovitz concerning the need and requirement for multilateralism under the UN Charter; the constraints of humanitarian law; the inapplicability of the concept of "war"; possible use of a special international tribunal to try suspects like those used for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia; and the current status of terrorism treaties and possible developments. John Burroughs, Executive Director Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy 211 E. 43d St., Suite 1204 New York, New York 10017 USA tel: +1 212 818 1861 fax: 818 1857 e-mail: johnburroughs@lcnp.org website: www.lcnp.org Part of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: Protesting Use of Nukes and Subcritical Test] Date: 29 Sep 2001 18:23:54 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9A7517063B40464D575889C5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------9A7517063B40464D575889C5 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from misc.twics.com ([192.135.222.5]) by emu (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id tr51kt.nvr.37tiu8v for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intlmain (ip43-68.fli.psinet.ne.jp [210.158.43.68]) by misc.twics.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA11014; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:51:03 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <003b01c146f6$9eb2c660$0300a8c0@intlmain> "Abolition-Caucus@egroup" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net id f8U16Za09900 Dear Abolitionist friends, On September 26, Gensuikyo sent the following two letters of protest to U.S. President Bush on: (1) The possible use of nuclear weapons in the imminent U.S. military action, and (2) The planned "Oboe 8" subcritical nuclear test at Nevada Test Site to be conducted on September 26. There will be a protest action over the subcritical test in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo at 11:30 on September 28. Members of Hibakusha organizations and peace groups will take part in the action. Sally, thank you for your valuable information on the subcritical test. Rieko Asato Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Gensuikyo) President George W. Bush The United States of America The White House, Washington D.C. U.S.A. September 26, 2001 Dear Mr. President, The terrorist attacks conducted in the USA on Sept. 11 caused a tragedy o= f unprecedented degree. As we expressed in our letter to the Peace Movemen= ts of the USA, we have deep sentiment of sympathy to the families and friend= s of the victims who lost their lives in the atrocities. The terrorism, wh= ich uses general citizens as targets or means or as both, cannot be justified for whatever reason. This crime must be thoroughly investigated and rigorously tried by law. We, at the same time, are deeply concerned about such an approach in whic= h, from the earliest moment, the current crime has been confused with a =93w= ar=94, and the armed retaliation has been made as pre-requisite. Even if the terrorist attacks are found to have an international background, the crim= e must be handled strictly on the basis of the UN Charter and other international laws and by legally justified means. A unilateral military action by any state or a group of states cannot but generate a new round = of vicious circle of violence. Further, following your recent statement about a possible use of =93all necessary weapons=94, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested that= the US would not exclude a possible use of nuclear weapons. These statements contradict the =93unequivocal undertaking=94 to accomplish the eliminatio= n of nuclear weapons, which was agreed upon by the US Administration, and seriously undermine the credibility of your own government. We therefore urge you to withdraw all the statements made by you and othe= r US officials that have suggested the use of nuclear weapons, and seek a solution of the problem based on law, reason and the strength of international opinion, excluding the military retaliation as a means to address the problem. Sincerely yours, Hiroshi Taka Secretary General President George W. Bush The United States of America The White House, Washington, D.C. U.S.A. September 26, 2001 Dear Mr. President, According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Government is going = to conduct the "Oboe 8" subcritical nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site on September 26, the 14th test of this kind. The abolition of nuclear weapons now represents the common desire of the people of the world. Even the US Administration, along with the nuclear weapons states promised "unequivocally" to eliminate all nuclear arsenals= at the May 2000 NPT Review Conference. The planned "subcritical" nuclear te= st goes against this common will, as well as the spirit of the pledge mentio= ned above. Further, when world opinion is severely denouncing the terrorist crimes and demanding a world order based on law and reason, rejecting the vicious cycle of violence, the nuclear test, if conducted, would definite= ly cause strong repulsion among the people all over the world. Together with the people of the world demanding the abolition of nuclear weapons, we in Japan Gensuikyo urge you to cancel all plans and programs = of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons development, including the "Oboe 8", an= d to carry out the "undertaking to eliminate nuclear weapons" in a sincere manner. Sincerely, Hiroshi Taka Secretary General =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) 2-4-4 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8464 Japan Tel: +81-3-5842-6034 Fax: +81-3-5842-6033 Email: antiatom@twics.com Web Site: http://www.twics.com/~antiatom/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --------------9A7517063B40464D575889C5-- - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) 911 Nuclear Technologies and the Future of Humanity, Nichidatsu Fujii Date: 29 Sep 2001 21:27:51 -0700 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sun-reach/message/3 "The time has come. The time has come when we can no longer contain the urge to do something, but rush out of our houses. The time has come to look up to heaven, prostrate ourselves to earth, to voice our grief, and to share it with everyone" -- Nichidatsu His associate whom Mahatma Gandhi named "Guruji", revered teacher, the most venerable Nichidatsu Fujii's spiritual practice was embraced by Gandhiji who beat the Dharma drum and chanted the prayer brought from the origin of the sun as described below while leading the non-violent spiritual-political revolution to success in India. Fujii Guruji, as he was known in the West, was born on August 6, 1885, and experienced his physical demise on January 9, 1985. Following the teachings and prophecies in the Lotus Sutra of Buddha describing the Great Law, The One Law, he went to India in the 1930's to begin the revival of Buddhism there in its birthplace where it had become dormant, after receiving the vision of the Dharma drum during a seven day fasting session with no food or water or sleep for a full week. Thereafter he practiced this walking drum chanting prayer for the rest of his life which his successors continue in peacewalks around the world to awaken this innate Great Law in the minds of humankind for the cause of "Global Peace Now!" This is the first time that his below August 6, 1956, speech delivered in Hiroshima, Japan, has appeared in the English language and it contains a powerful and synchronistically timely message for these critical times in human history. The name Nichidatsu in English is "The Reach of The Sun." http://www.indiano.org/pagoda Walks: http://www.dharmawalk.org Fujii Guruji study group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sun-reach ___________________________________________________ "Nuclear Technologies and the Future of Humanity" By the Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii The above is the title of Hideki Yukawa's article published in the Arts and Sciences section of the Asahi Shinbun on June 12. I would like to explore and ponder on this title, especially as it relates to the future of humanity. According to Hideki Yukawa: "For one, the innate tendency of a human being is to desire to do whatever it is imagined that can be done. With the extension of a rocket's launching distance came plans to go to the moon or Mars. With the development of machinery came the desire not only to substitute them for the functions of human limbs, but the desire to mechanistically substitute human brain functions. Today's computers are capable of computing complex calculations at a speeds of no comparison to human beings." From time immemorial the process of human growth and development, starting from birth after leaving a mother's womb, has been characterized by the adage that says, "parental love looks forward to the child standing upright when it starts crawling, and to walking when it starts standing upright." This is not only the hope of parents, but it also describes the innate developmental process of most infants. It is true that the tendency of human beings to attempt whatever that seems possible leads to personal growth as well as to that of the society. However, as individuals grow and society has developed, the consumption of alcohol, indulgence in gambling and engaging in fights have become tempting things that are possible to do. Yet, reckless indulgence in alcohol, gambling and physical competition creates a number of harms to the growth of an individual and a society. Therefore, there arises a need to prohibit this reckless indulgence, and embracing a moral code is a prerequisite to proper prohibition. Regardless of whether it is something that might be done simply because an individual wants to do it, there are some things that should not ever be done. This is called Zen, goodness. On the other hand, there are bad things that one cannot resist doing. This is called Aku, evil. Those things that do not matter either way are called Muki, neither good nor evil. Distinguishing between these three is an exercise commonly seen in societies regardless of time and location. These are common ideals in societies, and the compilation of such commonly held concepts in societies constitutes a moral code. Honorific titles, such as "saint", "sage" and "person of virtue", are given to those who actually practice the moral code. Individuals grow harmoniously and societies show healthy development in an era where the moral code is upheld. In an era in which the moral code is slighted, ridiculed and destroyed, individuals become corrupt and societies become chaotic. Believing in violence as omnipotent is a characteristic of such an era, and murder and destruction are the skills of the times. The conditions of such times are described by Buddhism as "concealment of the Genuine Law with resultant prevalence of strife and confrontation." Marital dispute or murders are possible, yet they are to a great extent prevented by commonly accepted moral ideals of modern societies. No matter how much advancement takes place in computers and artificial intelligence, or whether the program to send man to the moon becomes a reality, they do not particularly give joy or anxiety to the lives of the general public. These are matters that are neutral in nature which are neither good nor evil. However, we are living in times, when as a reality, highly advanced science and technology are being utilized for murder and destruction without fail. In this case, it is extremely likely that all of the scientific inventions starting with nuclear power have become the root cause of a human evil that could commit diabolic crimes. Herein lies the curse of the civilization of science. Neither the moral code nor religious admonishment has found a place in modern international warfare. Those who adhere to the moral code or religious belief are punished and branded traitors. The only ultimate judgment in war is who won. For that matter, once in war it must be won. It has been common knowledge in war throughout the times that in order to win, the opponent's fighting force needs to be undermined by killing and injuring them in greater numbers than your own. However, at the end of World War II the United States secured its victory through what is referred to as "strategic bombing", which culminated in the atomic bombing of Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The indiscriminate, instantaneous cruel destruction of the opponent's most vulnerable civilian population, irrespective of age and gender, and their cities, brought striking change to how war is fought. This is the origin of the greatest fear in war that is common to modern humanity. Once interested in the use of nuclear weapons, the United States even after the war dedicated its national resources to an all-out effort for the production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons. The magnitude of the killing and destructive powers of the hydrogen bomb which was tested at the Bikini atolls this May is said to be equivalent to approximately five hundred times of that of the nuclear bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States is on a course in pursuit of the possibility to manufacture bombs with powers that could be in the thousand-folds, even tens of thousand-folds. This effort is not limited to the United States. The Soviet Union and England are also following suit. Even though science has progressed propelled by the simple human urge to attempt whatever that seems possible, the ultimate calamity of the potential total destruction of humanity and its civilization is now more and more apparent at the apex of scientific advancement. Those who showed the greatest surprise, the greatest fright, the greatest regret and the greatest emaciation, in light of the appalling disaster caused by nuclear weapons that could lead to total annihilation, were the members of the scientific circle that discovered and manufactured these very nuclear weapons. This is evidenced firstly in Albert Einstein's reflection in his last years, and more recently in the statements issued by Bertrand Russell on July 9th of last year, [1*], and Lindu (sp) on July 15th the same year. These repeated keen statements issued by world-renowned learned men do not appear to be easing the fear of use of nuclear weapons in the world. It is because the war plutocracy in Russia, the United States, England and the like, as well as politicians hired by the plutocracy and the professional military, want nuclear weapons to be greater in scale, destruction, and excessively brutal. They are exaggerating and applauding the power of nuclear weapons. Be it Harry Truman who commanded their use, Douglas McArthur who came to Japan as the Commander in Chief of the Occupation Force, or even the general American public, not a trace of repentance is shown after obtaining knowledge of the catastrophic disaster, the grave crime against humanity committed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead, they hold pride claiming that the atomic bombings were effective in accelerating the closure of the war. Hideki Yukawa stated: "Science can never become a moral code no matter how much it progresses." In this regard Albert Einstein stated: "To a scientist there is only existence. There is no desire, valuation, difference or purpose." Science, economics, politics, and even war are all either antagonistic to or critical of moral codes and religious belief in the modern civilization. Herein lies the dark side of the modern world. All of modern civilization, including its science, economics and politics, solely exists to serve worldly values. Satisfaction of the desires that derive from possessing a physical body, momentary pleasures and secular happiness, all of which religion and moral codes strictly restricted in the past, is given the highest priority. For this reason, people aimlessly compete in focusing their efforts on increasing production to fulfill human desire. By maintaining such a purely materialistic view of life, that such fulfillment of desires will rid all social evils and serve to immediately create a paradise in this world, true religion, ethics and morals are denied. Instead, economic production, and moreover, money, which is a means of exchange, is prized, worshipped and served as an almighty god on earth. This distorted object of worship is the subject of devout zeal. Spiritual inversion gradually takes place without being noticed, and societies of modern civilization at the zenith of prosperity are suddenly about to be confronted with the risk of being reduced to ashes by the flames of an eternal hell. Modern civilization's two favorites, the United States, a free nation, and the Soviet Union, a communist nation, both represent nothing but outright blunt realities of power. There is not a hint of ethos that honors religion and morality, which are the pillars of human ideals. US expansion of military bases in Okinawa, forceful implementation of lump sum payment of land rent, compulsory expropriation of former Japanese military bases such as Sunagawa and Komaki, and the Soviet Union's forced labor on Japanese prisoners, war tribunes and the like, are all acts of the greatest barbarity, acts only possible by those who have lost their perspective on the all encompassing issues that relate to the mind and spirituality. Unless the spirit is infused back to these people, they will come to ignite the conflagration of annihilation whose escape path is not found in science and technology, i.e., nuclear technology, economics or politics, which they profess faith in. The dreadful calamities of the atomic and hydrogen warfare we fear are an agony reflective of the disease of inner darkness that will cause the breakdown of the civilization of science on its own. Atomic and hydrogen warfare is divine retribution on us, human beings who lead immoral social lives. Atomic and hydrogen warfare is the great fire into which we human beings who lead faithless lives will inevitably fall. Hideki Yukawa grieves and states: "When we think this way we are tempted to despair. However, there is no need for despair yet. Not a single religion, or any doctrine worthy of faith and acknowledgement by many people, affirms mutual mass killing, much less an act of humanity's self-destruction." Hideki Yukawa's despair is well founded. It has the ring of the funeral sounding of a temple gong that one hopes will lay to rest the last days of the civilization of science, the "modern civilization", which is also referred to as the civilization of the West or the civilization of machines. Everything that relates to the civilization of science must now step down from the leadership position in our societies. Should the civilization of science continue to take lead, there is no other course that could be found but self-destruction of the human race. The only thing that could emerge in the latter half of the twentieth century to replace the civilization of science to avert the great catastrophe of the annihilation of humanity is the spiritual civilization. This is the super theoretical conclusion that he, who is a scientist himself, finally arrived at. It is a direct and realistic remedy that does not require rationalization or justification. The motto at the beginning of the modern civilization was "liberty, equality and fraternity." Among these three, the love of humankind denoted by "fraternity" is not found anywhere in science, economics or politics. There is no room for this fraternity to exist where religion and morality are denied. Here, equality is a demand of liberty by the majority who are ruled by the minority. Thus, the modern civilization is characterized by its intent pursuit and assertion of "freedom". Science has also developed to liberate humanity from constraints on freedom. Every idea in politics and economics, which were influenced by the trend of liberalism, were asserted to make adherents free from the restrictions posed by religion and morality. The single term of "freedom" is regarded as a sacred maxim that surpasses morality and religion. In the realm called freedom, freedom to do good is discarded due to its association with morality and religion. The freedom to assert and do evil is considered to be true freedom. The greater scope of freedom that is released from restrictions of morality and religion is nothing more than sophistry that increases vice in the human world. Whether it is science and technology or politics and economics, they are in the end applied to suit the wishes and objectives of man. The more distant our wishes and aims become from the constraints of morality and religion, the more we are then absorbed in the pursuit of beastly desires, physical pleasures, comfort, indulgence, power and fame. If we, modern humanity, call ourselves civilized and pride ourselves in the power of science and technology, we will concurrently risk regressing back to the greatest savage. Nuclear warfare is the epitome of unprecedented savagery not only in the human history of wars, but also in the history of struggle among living creatures of the world. In chapter sixteen of the Lotus Sutra, the Eternal Life of the Tathagata, delivered by Lord Sakyamuni Buddha at Mt. Gridhrakuta (Divine Vulture Peak) in Rajagriha of the ancient Magadha Kingdom in India, the World Honored One preached on the aspects of this predicted "modern age", the evil "Era of the Decline of the Genuine Law", which was to come far in the future, and he left a teaching showing the way out of the current situation: "Even when all the living see, at the kalpa's end, The conflagration when it is burning, Tranquil is this realm of mine Ever filled with celestial beings Parks, and many places with every kind of gem adorned Precious trees full of blossoms and fruits Where all creatures take their pleasure; All the gods strike the heavenly drums And ever more make music, Showering mandarara flowers On the Buddha and his great assembly. My Pure Land will never be destroyed, Yet all view it as being burned up, And grief and horror and distress Fill them all like this." The import of this passage is that we human beings have ourselves created an accursed time of potential annihilation of humanity. The potential disaster of the annihilation of humanity is not the Deluge, but rather the sutra prophesizes that it is the conflagration whose flame from eternal hell reaches us reducing everything on earth to ashes. No one until now believed that a conflagration that engulfs the entire world could ever occur. But, are not today's new weapons, the atomic and hydrogen bombs, precisely that? There is a single gate open for us to escape from the calamity of this conflagration. That is to dispel the delusion of the military and the politicians who view all of the triple worlds, i.e., the heavens, earth and underwater, as battlefields for murder and destruction. Instead, we are to believe that this very world we live in is essentially a sacred Pure Land, where the practice of the Dharma brings pleasure, and everything we produce can become gems to adorn our land, such as gardens, parks, temples and pavilions. In this Pure Land the Enlightened World Honored One, the people who listen to Him preach, and the golden words of the Dharma are all equally revered. We must make this very world of ours such a solemn ceremonial ground where flowers are always offered. To practice the Bodhisattva work of creating the Pure Land with faith in the eternal presence of the Lord, without ever leaving this world of ours, and to believe in the intrinsic existence of the Pure Land are the ultimate and fundamental aims that can be undertaken by human beings. Religions in general encourage devoted practice in pursuit of a noble and supreme goal with a view toward eternal life without departing from our reality as a physical existence. This is the great vow of the Eternal Sakyamuni Buddha, The World Honored One, expounded in the chapter of the Eternal Life of the Tathagata of the Lotus Sutra: "At all times making this my thought: 'How shall I cause all the living To enter the Way supreme And speedily accomplish their buddhahood?' " To this end, the Buddha laid down different precepts in varying degrees as passive laws, out of the wish to encourage people to take actions that are valuable to life. The teachings of the four great vows of a bodhisattva and the six Haramitsu, [2*], (Sat paramita: six kinds of practice by which bodhisattvas are able to attain enlightenment) were taught as affirmative laws. In a letter (by Maha Bodhisattva Nichiren) in response to Saemon-no-jo, he states: "Life is the greatest treasure to all sentient beings. Those who deprive it will inevitably fall into the three evil worlds. This is why Cakra-varti-raja (Wheel-Rolling Saint King) listed the precept of non-killing first among the Ten Good Deeds, why the precept of non-killing is listed at the beginning of the Five Precepts laid down by the Buddha, why it is listed first among the Ten Precepts of the Mahayana Brahmajala sutra, and why the chapter of the Eternal Life of the Tathagata is dedicated entirely to Sakyamuni Buddha's virtue of practicing the precept of non-killing. Accordingly, the Buddhas of the Triple World shall forsake those who commit killing, and Devahs (gods) for the Six Heavens of the World of Desire will not lend their protection." If today's politicians were able to believe that the precept of non-killing is an objective truth and a sacred act of man that holds value, murderous machines like nuclear weapons would have never been produced. Even if they were to be produced they would not have been used in war. Furthermore, if people had not dismissed the precept of non-killing like a torn sandal, there would have been no room for manipulation by the architects of war. The only salvation in the modern time is to believe and accept that the precept of non-killing is what has transcendent value. Hideki Yukawa has finally come to this realization. However, how can this awareness be brought about and create a resonance in the hearts and minds of the people? This is where spirituality comes in. The answer is not found in science. Distorted views cause the truth of the precept of non-killing to be negated, despised and dismissed. A misguided sense of freedom leads to competition, which leads to victory or defeat, which leads to the incorporation of the law of the jungle into human societies. Even the act of murder is given moral justification, and wars are inspired with religious overtones. Recently we are once again hearing terms such as "European Crusades." This is what is causing our societies to be at a risk of being burnt by the bloody flames of war. Science lies at the root of the distorted views towards life. The theory of evolution is such an example. In Buddhism this is called Kenjyoku (misled views towards life creating confusion in the minds of men and causing corruption and social disorder). Then how would the civilization of science be able to have faith in and accept the precept of non-killing? It is no wonder that those who believe and accept the path of the Buddha become gentle, straightforward and honest, and lead peaceful social lives. The history of peace that prevailed in Japan from the reign of Crown Prince Shoutoku until the end of the Nara period stands as its evidence. Those who do not believe and accept the Way of the Buddha, those who resent and harbor grudges and even bloodthirsty killers who only seek strife, must be transformed through the Way. This is the kind of deliverance that is required by the modern times. In the chapter of the Eternal life of the Tathagata of the Lotus Sutra it says: "I know always which living beings Practice the way, and which do not, And in response to their need for salvation I expound the most appropriate Law." How can we dispel the delusions of those who do not practice the Way of the Buddha or who by choice or ignorance violate the precept of non-killing or who do not practice offering? In the Kannjinn-honzon-sho (by Maha Bodhisattva Nichiren) it says: "We are now at the beginning of the Era of Declined Law when Hinayana adherents attack Mahayana doctrines and provisional Mahayana believers denounce the true Mahayana teachings. East is mistaken for West, and the heavens and earth are turned upside down. The four ranks of bodhisattvas of the theoretical teaching of the Lotus sutra are gone, and all the gods have deserted the country and no longer lend it protection. At this very time the Bodhisattvas of the Earth appear in the world for the first time to administer the superb medicine of the five characters "Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo" to the unenlightened people in the Era of Declined Law. This is what is meant by "even if they revile the true teachings and fall into the evil paths, they thereby create the causes for eventual attainment of Buddhahood." Inversion of the heavens and earth is the state of the Era of Declined Law. Because the Buddha would "cause perverted beings, though they are near, not to see," a state of perversion is created where people lose sight of the true savior, the entity which should be the sacred object of faith, and instead worship money which initially was nothing more than a means of trade, as God on earth. Thereby an aberration is seen as if people are ruled by money. Finally, in the stage of financial capitalism, individuals, the state and even the world are chained down by money, and true freedom is lost. The reason why Japan has no choice but to follow the United States is due to the shackles of financial capitalism. Workers have become slaves to machines; capitalists have become slaves to the pursuit of profit. Everyone in civilized societies has been turned into slaves. The sweet wine of civilization brought about the vagary of such aberration. The modern civilization at this time is secreting poison and is thrashing around in agony. The superb medicine kept by Lord Sakyamuni Buddha specifically for the Era of Declined Law is the five or seven characters of Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. The Lotus Sutra says: "This superb medicine I now leave here. You may take it and have no fear of not being better." If we were to simply chant Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo without adhering to the precept of non-killing or practicing the Dana paramita (offerings) how could that possibly make us buddhas or transform the world into a Pure Land? This is a question that would naturally come to anyone's mind. The answer is, all we need to do is chant Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. We must chant Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo for those to hear who do not chant it. We must constantly chant Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo with great compassion and without neglect for those who close their mouth and cover their ears and refuse to chant or hear it. In the letter to Sogaya-nyudo, Maha Bodhisattva Nichiren says: "We are at the Era of Declined Law when those who had the opportunity to receive the teachings of Lord Buddha during his time have gradually declined. The people with aptitudes to seek salvation through both Lord Buddha's expedient and genuine teachings are now no longer. It is now time for the Bodhisattva Who Never Despises (Sadaparibhuta) to emerge in the Era of Decline Law and beat the poisonous drum." The people who are addicted to civilization abhor the voice chanting Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo and the beat of the drum of the Great Law because they perceive them as poisonous. For this reason they slander Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo and hold the sound of the Dharma drum in contempt. Those who chant the Odaimoku (Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo) and beat the Dharma drum are resented, abused and struck. This is the time when the three formidable adversaries, [3*], of the practitioners of the Lotus sutra compete in their attacks. It takes extraordinary compassion to beat the poisonous drum while persevering the attacks of these three daunting enemies. Because of the expansive compassion of Maha Bodhisattva Nichiren I have been able to chant Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. Lord Sakyamuni Buddha's merit of practicing the bodhisattva way leading to Buddhahood, as well as His teachings and deliverance of all sentient beings since His attainment of Buddhahood, have altogether been bundled in the five characters, Myo, Ho, Ren, Ge, Kyo, out of His immense compassion. This is my religious belief. Even those with distorted views will not be able to find room for argument on the universal salvation brought about to sentient beings in this world by the golden voice of the Sakyamuni Buddha over the vast expansion of time. The voices reciting and maintaining sutras heard in the mornings and evenings from the altars of households are the peaceful guiding light in the spiritual lives of the people. The five characters of Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo represent the ultimate teaching among all the teachings delivered by Sakyamuni Buddha throughout his 50 years of life in this world. They are the original purpose of the Buddhas of the past, present and future appearing in this world. Then how could Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo not cure the spiritual ailment of the Era of Declined Law? The efficacy of this superb medicine is obvious. The diagnosis of the symptom of human aberration proved true. Furthermore, the Bodhisattvas of the Earth who have been entrusted to spread the Genuine Law to bring deliverance in the Era of Declined Law have already emerged. The single word of Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is the one and only promise made to the human world to rescue it from the collapse of civilization. Be it the precept of non-killing or the Dana Paramita (practice of offering), these syllables themselves cannot bring deliverance to individuals or societies. These syllables alone are not that different from the syllables of legal articles. Neither the precept of non-killing nor the Dana Paramita is a constraint on form, but is rather a spiritual act. This is known as Kaitai (spiritual essence of precepts). This is why Kaitai is also referred to as Muhyoshiki (non-manifest matter), [4*], or Musa (natural state of being), [5*]. Expression through form consisting of three categories of action, i.e., deeds, words and thought, is required to induce the spiritual essence of precepts, which is an inherent existence that cannot be seen. Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is the Kaitai of the Buddhas of the past, present and future. The Lotus Sutra states: "Such a one is named precept-keeper." Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is the Kaitai through which all people can attain buddhahood. It also states, "This person shall in the Way of the Buddha Be resolved and have no doubts." Maha Bodhisattva Nichiren taught that Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is neither in essence just a word nor its meaning, but it is the essential core of the Lotus Sutra as a function of the mind. Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is the embodiment of the Buddha's essence of precepts that is at a constant state of nirvana, condensed into a single word of mystery given to the human world. Through the visible act of enunciating Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo, the non-manifest essence of Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo is induced. This is the reason why we can have faith in the attainment of our buddhahood as well as transforming this very world of ours to a land of tranquility, the Pure Land. Whether it is the highly advanced science and technology, or the politics and economics of liberalism or communism that employs science and technology, the way to prevent humanity from self-destruction is not found in any of these doctrines advocated, or in any of the new weapons they produce. The pathway to prevent humanity from self-destruction can only be found in the moral code and religion, which are deemed superfluous and are cast aside as antiquated by the modern civilization. But it is religious belief that has the power to purify and transform even the evils that cannot be restrained by the moral code. Science and technology led to the discovery of the atomic and hydrogen bombs and a democratic nation used them for murder and warfare. This has become a subject of major international debate as to its being right or wrong. After World War II, the United States invited Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India to speak. In his address Nehru stated that what India wishes to tell the American people with great pride is that India will not produce or use atomic and hydrogen bombs. The production and use of atomic and hydrogen bombs are a great disgrace to human civilization. The moral code will criticize this as an indelible disgrace on the United States. The Supreme Soviet, which is the governing body of the Soviet Union, recently announced its support for the resolution calling for a ban on testing atomic and hydrogen bombs by the Japanese parliament. The British Prime Minister subsequently expressed similar views. American presidential candidate Stevenson announced several months ago that the United States should resolutely engage in a unilateral ban on nuclear testing and call on the Soviet Union and Great Britain to follow suit. The current administrations of the United States and Japan are still dreaming of the virtues of nuclear weapons and are in opposition to the ban on their testing. As this shows, it is clear that the conception of nuclear warfare is closely linked to the moral code transcending victory or defeat in war. The moral code is a practical rule. Whether this rule is adhered to or not is ultimately determined by the action or non-action of the non-manifest Kaitai of the precept of non-killing hidden deep within our minds. We need to recognize that while morals and religion exist in different spheres they share the same life. Religious belief is not a personal matter as claimed by those who advocate communism. It is a great beacon that illuminates the darkness of the modern civilization. Religion's purification of the mind through transformation of evil transcends the merits of doctrines. This brings about the fundamental prohibition of murder itself, which is the greatest tragedy of all tragedies in the human world. This fundamental prohibition of murder is the basis for an ultimate civilization of humanity, which has never been given heed by science, economics or politics. This fundamental prohibition of murder is the major issue that extends throughout and beyond politics, economics and science. This is the ultimate issue that must be addressed in order to deliver humanity from its otherwise potential extinction. Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo August 6, 1956 Footnotes [*1] Issued in London, July 9, 1955, The Russell-Einsten Manifesto appealing for the renunciation of war itself in order to avert human extinction, written by Bertrand Russell, signed by nine Nobel Prize winners including Hideki Yukawa and Albert Einstein, asks: "Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?" http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm [*2] Paramita refers to the crossing over from this shore of birth and death to the other shore of nirvana. Frequently the practices leading to this objective are themselves termed Haramitsu. The six paramita are the practice of offering (dana), observance of precepts, perseverance of insult and persecution, devotion, meditation (dhyana) and to shed light on truth (prajna). [*3] The Three Formidable Enemies: Arrogance of those in the lay world, including state power; Arrogance of those among the clergy; Arrogance of exulted sages -- all of which through perversion persecute those who practice the Genuine Law. [*4] Muhyoshiki: Avijnapti-rupa. According to Buddhist traditions, when a vow to preserve the precepts of the Buddha is made, certain invisible dharma is produced in the body, which is instrumental in keeping the precepts and eschewing evil. It is termed non-manifest because it cannot be seen. [*5] Musa: Not being produced by conditions, the natural state of being. According to the Tendai school of Buddhism, all phenomenological matters exist "as they are" and are not produced. ________________________ Translated by Yumiko Miyazaki from the original Japanese between September 1-28, 2001, proofreading by David Crockett Williams. This translation was prepared as an offering to honor the November 3, 2001, dedication of the Lumbini Stupa in Lumbini, Nepal, the birthplace of Sakyamuni Buddha over 2500 years ago. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) 9/29/01 Response by NDE to the Events of September 11 Date: 30 Sep 2001 10:08:27 +0100 9/29/01 Nevada Desert Experience Response to the Events of September 11 We grieve the deaths of thousands and pray for the families experiencing loss. As people of Faith, we proclaim the immorality of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. We espouse nonviolence, and we condemn all acts of violence. We recognize nuclear weapons as the most extreme source of terror in the world, targeting millions of undefended innocent people and threatening the life of the planet. We invite our supporters, co-citizens, and sister organizations to join us in calling upon the U.S. government to take all steps necessary to comply with international law, including: 1. Reject its official policy of the first use of nuclear weapons; 2. Take its 3,000 strategic nuclear weapons off hair trigger alert; 3. Discontinue the development of new nuclear weapons under the Stockpile Stewardship Program. As people of Faith, we will continue to reflect and pray for the wisdom and courage to follow God=92s ways to peace. Adopted at a meeting of the Nevada Desert Experience Board and signed by the Board members and staff in attendance. Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton Paul A. Colbert Wendy Kaufmyn Sally Light Chris Montesano Mike Niece Paula Olivares Erik Thompson Louis Vitale, Ofm. - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sally Light Subject: (abolition-usa) Antiwar Demonstration in Greece Date: 30 Sep 2001 15:31:11 +0100 Friends - FYI. This is forwarded through me from a Greek friend. Peace - Sally. Sally Light Executive Director Nevada Desert Experience 20 years of faith-based nuclear resistance >Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 >Dear friends, >although the Greek government has declared it's will to "fight against >terrorism" on the side of the American and European killers, although it >agreed to the imposition of new european and national anti-terrorist laws >that violate the fundamental constitutional rights, the Greek people fight >against war. On Thursday 27th took place a big antiwar demonstration in >Athens. 7.000 people demonstrated as far as the Greek Parliament House >demanding "STOP WAR" and "NO GREEK PARTICIPATION IN IT". New action will >take place in a few days. > >Dimitris Stavropoulos - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.