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Dubbed Queen Bee by Annie
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I Rise to Speak – On This Memorial Day – In Refusal of Murder
Wow, this is a powerful article. I can really relate to what he says about having the fruits of one's labor stolen under threat of severe penalty, only to be used to finance atrocities. I went through this angst when I worked at a high-paying job for "Corporate America" and knew the high income tax I was paying was financing things I'd never approve of and didn't want to support. I quit four years ago. Since my savings are dwindling I need to earn an income again but don't want to finance a rogue, out of control and morally bereft government. I would like to earn enough to cover my needs with a little more for a rainy day, but not enough to pay much of an income tax. I'm complicit in the atrocities if I help finance them and while reading this I was glad to see I'm not the only one who has been through this moral dilemma.
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I Rise to Speak – On This Memorial Day – In Refusal of Murder
by Jeff Knaebel
INTRODUCTION
It has been more than forty years since my outfit shipped out to the Vietnam war zone. When I read out the orders to the detachment of which I had charge, one of the seamen asked, "Why are we going?"
Taken aback, I had no intelligent answer for him. If asked now, I would say, "Because this uniform is a costume that has cast us in the role of murderers on hire to the Money Power, to carry on its alchemy of blood into money for the Power Structure."
Young, naive, brainwashed, deceived and patriotically duped did I ship out to Vietnam. After service with minor distinction, and many years and many tax returns later, I now see patriotism as a mental disease. Not only have I come to understand it as a diseased conditioning of the mind, but I have come to realize that the Power Structure which is the vector of the disease – in addition to being without conscience – is utterly ruthless.
There is something wrong with the internal guidance mechanism of the Money Power as human beings – something deranged.
Now old, not much wise but waking up, I write from exile to speak truths that would put me on FBI-CIA watch lists. So convinced am I of the urgent need for peace that I have refused to continue as a tax-paying accomplice to murder, and have become a man without a country. The war in which I served – like every one of the forever wars of aggression of the USA – is a shame and a stain and a disgrace upon the human race.
I pray to become worthy of the following words of Mohandas Gandhi:
I must not suppress the voice within, call it conscience… that something in me which never deceives me tells me now: ‘forsake friends, wife, and all; but testify to that for which you have lived, and for which you have to die.’
STATEMENT OF ABUSES AND VIOLATIONS OF MY HUMANITY AND NATURAL RIGHTS PERPETRATED AGAINST ME BY THE UNITED STATES
by Jeff Knaebel, 20 October 2006
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the State becomes lawless and corrupt."
~ Mohandas Gandhi
* The United States has forcibly taken from me, under penalty of my liberty, the product of my labor.
* It has used this product of my labor, taken from me by force, to execute massive crimes against humanity in my name usurped from me. These crimes are too numerous to account. A few of them include deliberate, calculated, cold-blooded mass murder of innocent, non-combatant civilians including women and children; massive destruction of the infrastructure of civilized societies, resulting in untold suffering and death; long term poisoning of earth’s ecosystem and food-water supply with effluence of war, such as depleted uranium and Agent Orange; massive destruction of local ecologies upon which civilians depend for life and livelihood; massive direct destruction of livestock and crops, leading to suffering and death of human beings; deliberately fomented and supported war, revolution and genocide in foreign lands for its own purposes of domination. Other abuses are discussed elsewhere in the text of the booklet of which this is part.
* It has used this product of my labor, forcibly removed from me, to undertake assassinations and murder in the course of overthrowing foreign governments. It has further employed these funds for the illegal imprisonment, torture, degradation and murder of innocent civilians, without charge, and without habeas corpus.
* It has used my taxes paid under coercion of threat of force to conduct weapons experiments with poisonous chemical and radioactive substances on its own unwitting citizens, some of whom died as a result. This is premeditated murder.
* It has used my taxes paid under threat to my liberty to experiment with pesticides on pregnant women, resulting in damage and death to the unborn.
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