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never known as that the United States did not do anything when their government declared a
war unbounded and legatee of measurements of repression Draconian. The signatories of
this proclamation invite the citizens of the United States to resist these new
measurements and the overall policy followed since September 11 2001. Those represent
serious dangers to all the citizens of the whole world.
We believe firmly that the people and the nations have the right to determine their own
destiny, safe from the military coercion exerted by the great powers. We believe that any
person held or passed in judgement by the government of the United States is entitled to
the same legal procedure. We believe that the handing-over in question, criticism, and the
dissension are important legitimate rights which must be protected. We are conscious owing
to the fact that these rights are always disputed and must be maintained, was this at the
price of the fight.
We believe that the men and women of conscience must assume the responsibility for what
their respective governments do. We must first of all oppose to us to the injustices made
on our behalf. This is why we invite all the Americans to resist the war and repression
unchained against the world by the administration of M. Bush. They are unjust,
immoral and illegitimate. We chose to make common cause with the citizens of the world.
We also were shocked by the terrible events of September 11 2001. We also deplored the
death of thousands of innocent and looked at with horror and incomprehension the scenes of
carnages - all while pointing out other scenes similar in Baghdad to us, in Panama, and, a
generation earlier, in Vietnam. As million Americans in the anguish, we also wondered how
such a thing had been able to occur.
However, mourning had hardly started that the leaders of the countries highest placed
unchained already the spirit of revenge. They returned public a simplistic message
opposing " the good " and " the evil " that media obliging and
intimidated propagated. They said to us that to wonder why such terrible events had
occurred brought closer dangerously to treason. There was no debate. There was by
definition neither moral question, nor political question. The only possible answer was to
be the war out of the borders and repression inside.
On our behalf, the administration of M. bush, extremely of the quasi unanimity of
the American Congress, attacked not only Afghanistan but also assumed the right, as well
as with its allies, to impose the military force in any place and constantly. The brutal
repercussions were felt some the Philippines in Palestine, where the tanks and the
bulldozers left a terrible wake of died and destruction. The government now prepares to
carry out an all-out war against Iraq, country which does not have a bond with the horrors
of September 11 2001. Which kind of world will occur if the government of the United
States has white chart to send commandos, killers and bombs where that it they want ?
On our behalf, in the United States, the government created two classes of
citizens : those with which one makes the promise of essential rights and those who
seem from now on not to have any right. The government challenged more than one thousand
of immigrants and held with the secrecy indefinitely. Hundreds of them were off-set and of
the hundreds of others always languish themselves in prison. This situation points out
clearly the concentration camps built during the Second World war for the
Japanese-Americans. For the first time for several decades, the procedures of immigration
have put some nationalities at the index to make them undergo an inequitable treatment.
On our behalf, the government makes weigh on our company a veil of repression. The
spokesman of the President warns people " to pay attention so that they say ".
Dissenting artists, intellectuals and professors see their deformed opinions, attacked and
censured. So-called " Patriot Act ", like a whole batch of measures similar
taken to the level of the State, grants to the police force vast capacities of excavation
and seizure under the theoretical control of secret procedures carried out in courts
secret
On our behalf, the executive power systematically usurped the roles and functions of
the other branches of the government. Military tribunals with the doubtful procedures in
which the defendants do not have the right to make call in short civil were set up by
simple decree. Groups are labelled like " terrorists " of a blow of presidential
feather.
It is necessary that we take very serious to the leaders of this country when they
speak about a war which will last a whole generation and when they speak about a new
social order. We are confronted with a policy openly imperialist towards the rest of the
world and with an interior policy which manufactures and handles the fear in order to
reduce the rights of the people.
The events of the last months outline a fatal trajectory which it is necessary to
identify for what it is really and against which it is necessary to resist. Too much
often, during the history, people waited until it is too late to
fight.
President Bush has déclaré : " Or well you are with us, or well you are
against us ". Here our answer. We refuse you the right to speak in the name of all
the Americans. We will never give up our right to the handing-over in question. We will
not deliver to you our consciences in exchange of promises of safety which sound hollow.
Us you déclarons : " NOT ON OUR BEHALF ". We refuse to play an unspecified
part in these wars and we repudiate any assumption which they are carried out on our
behalf or for our good. We tighten the
hand with those which, throughout the world, suffer because of this politique : we
will show our solidarity by the words and the acts.
By signing this proclamation, we invite all the Americans to join our challenge. We
applaud and encourage the acts of criticism and protest which currently take place, while
knowing that it will be necessary some much more to stop this infernal gears. We take as a
starting point the the Israeli reservists who, at the price of enormous personal risks,
declare that "il has there indeed a limit " and refuse to be used in the
occupied territories and for Gaza.
We are also inspired by the many examples of resistance and conscientious objection
whose the past of the States-Unis abounds: since those which fought against slavery
by the rebellion and by the clandestine networks of escape until those which protested
against the war of Vietnam while refusing to obey the orders, by refusing the conscription
and while joining resistant by solidarity.
Let us not allow all those which look at us in the world despairing of our silence and
our absence of reaction. Instead of that, that the world hears our promesse : we will
resist the gears of the war and of repression and we will gather all those which want to
act to stop it.
 The site "Not In Our Name"
The list of
persons that have signed by mail
The list of
persons that have signed on the site
The
formular for "Not in Our Name"
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