On 5 July 2010, 36
nonviolent activists were arrested moments after this Declaration of
Independence from Nuclear Weapons was read:
The Declaration of Independence on
July 4, 1776 indicted a government that engaged in barbaric conduct contrary to
the laws of Humanity that included "works of death, destruction and
tyranny unparalleled in the most barbaric ages" until the Age of Now!
Current Law requires an end to all
planning, preparation, production, threat, or use of nuclear weapons and we the
people have gathered here today, July 4, 2010 at Y-12 to demand this Government
adhere to the fundamental rules and principles of Humanitarian Law.
These rules and principles require
that civilians never be the object of attack. Consequently we must never use
weapons that are incapable of distinguishing between civilians and military
targets.
Whereas, all W-76 and W-76-1
thermonuclear secondaries produced at Y-12 are designed and produced to unleash
100 KT of uncontrollable and indiscriminate heat, blast and radiation, six
times more than the Hiroshima Bomb,
Whereas, the International Court of
Justice found that the destructive power of nuclear weapons cannot be contained
in either space or time, and that the potential to destroy all civilization and
the entire ecosystem of the planet,
Whereas, citizens have both rights and
duties we the people of conscience must ensure future generations their right
to life,
Whereas, under the principals of
democracy we the people of conscience demand this government to fulfill its
promise and responsibilities to pursue and achieve nuclear disarmament,
We the people of conscience therefore
exercise the right of every citizen of this republic and this planet to
peacefully resist the nuclear threat; attacking as it does every core concept
of human rights.
Whereas it is a basic human right to
be free of threat or violence, and it is our duty to protect children and
future generations we call on this government to use our tax dollars that are
now being used to wage permanent war unequivocally demand they be used to
pursue a nuclear free world and clean up all chemical and radioactive
contamination.
Three time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Kathy Kelly, on 3 July 2010 in front of The Banner made from the cloth cut from the clothes of PLOWSHARES 8, Father Philip Francis Berrigan as he lay dying in his bed.
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