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From The Government of the United States of America
By Clinton Callahan
Through my signature below I hereby withdraw my consent to be ruled by the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America.
A government is empowered through the consent of the governed to serve a sacred purpose, namely, to create a bright and sustainable future for its people and a biodiverse garden of its region. This purpose is possible.
If a government no longer serves its intended purpose then it is proper that each individual formally withdraw his or her consent to be ruled by that government.
Through a consistent stream of actions the United States Government has proved itself to be corrupt, having turned away from serving its original purpose. The United States Government has therefore failed, and is de facto illegitimate. Consequently, all of its authorities over me are hereby removed and the United States Government is hereby disbanded in its entirety. All branches, the legislative, executive and judicial branches, including all offices and resources, political, military, security and financial, are hereby disenfranchised and replaced by local, self-organizing, bioregional governments and currencies that promote sustainable infrastructures and demonstrably serve the principles of integrity, transparency, interdependence, consciousness and the sustainable well being of their entire ecology.
Human beings carry an inalienable responsibility for choosing to whom or what they pledge their allegiance. From this moment forward I no longer pledge my allegiance to the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America. We are dissociated. I disallow that organization to legislate, adjudicate, use money, or make agreements in my name, either nationally or internationally. I hereby withdraw my franchise from the United States Government and I no longer submit myself to its authority. I hereby abandon my United States Passport as worthless, null and void because through its own actions the United States Government has invalidated itself.
This document recognizes that the United States Government has irredeemably abolished itself by no longer fulfilling its true purpose. This document announces that I take my authority back from that failed organization. The United States Government no longer has authority to represent me, tax me, detain me, question me, or in any way rule over me. It can no longer take any actions in my name. From this moment forward I take back my autonomy. I hereby declare my independence from the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America.
Signed: _________________________________ Dated: _____________________
Although I alone, without reason or circumstance, am responsible for my decision to withdraw my franchise and allegiance from the organization that has called itself the Government of the United States of America, I am willing to name examples of how this organization has betrayed the purpose for which it was originally created:
- The Government of the United States of America (herein referred to as the Government) has consistently legislated in favor of a carbon-based economy that multiplies corporate profits while disregarding the increases in greenhouse gas concentrations to the point where the future of all of humanity is now seriously threatened by the consequences of global warming.
- The Government has promoted the use of nuclear powered electric generation plants creating millions of tons of lethal nuclear waste products that can never be safely stored, and creating decommissioned power plants that remain radioactive for eternity.
- The Government has abused its leadership position in the world by promoting fear-based military force as the international culture of America, rather than a culture of innovation, compassion, respect, and mutual support of humanity.
- The Government over and over again, and still now is using illegal DU (Depleted Uranium) weapons and devices in direct opposition to signed United Nations agreements, degrading the United States of America to a renegade country, likely to have its leadership regime brought to war crimes trials and capitally punished.
- The Government has promoted an unsustainable consumerism culture that multiplies corporate profits while devouring the future's natural resources and producing mountains, rivers and seas of toxic unrecyclable wastes. The consumer economy never did have a future and still the government promoted it wholeheartedly.
- The Government has promoted covert military actions and subterfuge that includes traffic in illegal drugs, illegal weapons trade, assassinations, illegal takeovers of corporations and governments, and ruthless competition rather than intelligent cooperation or creative collaboration.
- The Government has allowed itself to be infiltrated and corrupted by corporate and elite regimes that now direct the branches of Government to serve purposes contrary to the true and proper purpose of government.
- The Government has turned over control of the currency of the United States of America (the original world currency) to private individuals who manipulate it for their own personal benefit rather than for the benefit of the world.
- The Government has promoted a system of education that keeps people stupid rather than developing their innate potential and well being so they can create satisfying lives, fulfilling relationships and loving families in the 21st Century. The Government has allowed corporations and organized religions to control school curriculums, and has permitted drugs, gangs and guns to define the school experience for many children.
- The Government has promoted economy over humanity in a value system that shamelessly sponsors injustice, inequity, and slavery, not only in America but around the world, regarding people in developing nations not as brothers and sisters but as sweatshop slaves for producing cheap clothes and the latest technological devices.
- The Government has designed cities and towns around automobiles and roads rather than around people, cutting people off from their own community and trapping people in suburbs that are not sustainable.
- The Government has consistently sponsored an imbalanced budget and has accrued a national debt over one trillion dollars that future generations must somehow pay back, meanwhile losing track of an additional trillion dollars.
- The Government has greedily destroyed the future of civilization by developing an infrastructure, energy, food, housing and transportation systems relying entirely on consuming vast quantities of hydrocarbons that exist in limited supply, thus building a dangerous house of cards that will now tumble down as oil, gas and coal supplies dwindle. If half of the war budget would have been redirected towards developing renewable power for the last twenty years, the entire country would be oil free by now.
- The Government has promoted a diet of fat-saturated fast-foods, and hormone and antibiotic saturated beef, pigs, poultry, and dairy products that endanger the health and general well being of its people, ground water and farmlands. The Government has also promoted fishing grounds to be exhausted to near extinction, and promotes deforestation and dependence on pesticides and fertilizers that undermine foreign economies but makes huge profits for corporations.
- The Government has promoted the so-called patenting and engineering of the genetic designs of life forms to be used for the profit of corporations while endangering the future of the humanity.
- The Government has promoted the introduction of genetically modified organisms into the general food chain for the profit of corporations while endangering the future of humanity.
- The Government has used military force, assassination, and political manipulation to overthrow other governments as a desperate attempt to control remaining oil supplies for the purpose of maintaining the illusionary value of a world petro-dollar to assure profit for the corporations rather than assuring a bright future for the people.
- The Government has promoted a medical establishment that profits pharmaceutical corporations and has blocked the development of less profitable but more humanistic, holistic and intuitive healing modalities.
- The Government has persistently implemented legislation and presidential orders to override constitutional rights, and has built and staffed over 600 new prison camps across the country prepared to imprison citizens who might be regarded as the enemy of Government.
These and other actions reveal that the United States Government has irredeemably abolished itself by no longer fulfilling its original and true purpose.
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1. 13-05-2008 02:08
If you are going to declare, at least sp
Paragraph 4 about depleted uranium contains the following errors -
The Government over and over again, and still now is using illegal DU
(Depleted Uranium) weapons and devices -- DU is not illegal; there are no DU weapons and devices - there are kinetic energy penetrator munitions; DU is more than likely not being used at present; the US does not face any foe with armored vehicle targets, it has not faced such a foe since 2003 but the anti-DU crusader drum just beats on despite there really being nothing happening - DU was not used over and over again; it was used to destroy tanks and armored vehicles in the Gulf War, in the Balkans and perhaps in Afghanistan (it was not used in any aerial bombing of Afghanistan, another of the perennial false drumbeats of the anti-DU crusade. The writer is a typical disciple of the crusaders; he just regurgitates without thought and has not got a clue what he is talking about
in direct opposition to signed United Nations agreements, -- There are no agreements, let alone signed United Nations agreements that ban the use of DU - they do not ban any other bullet and DU is no more harmful nor any less harmful than any other bullet fired in war.
degrading the United States of America to a renegade country,
More nonsense, use of DU has not degraded the US in the eyes of the world; there fortunately are enough scientists in the world who understand that DU is just one form of a naturally occuring element in the Earth's crust, uranium. The writer in his political zeal fails to understand that there has been uranium on Earth since it was created and there always will be uranium on the Earth. It is in the writer's backyard, you the reader's backyard, in the writer's air and in you the reader's air along with water. It is present in extremely small amounts, but it is pretty much everywhere, including having been used to date 1000 year old ice from deep in the Antarctica ice.
likely to have its leadership regime brought to war crimes trials and capitally punished.
More nonsense - Iraq appears to be a blunder, but much of the world believed that Saddam Hussein's government had weapons of mass destruction and it had not accounted for their destruction. The writer should actually read the war crimes trials from WW-II -- I presume that they have not - when they do, they will understand what a war crime is and more importantly what it is not.
Want to learn about DU, go to www.depletedcranium.com and see the dinner on the Fiesta Ware orange plate; then come to DUStory and follow some of the links to learn what real scientists from all over the world have to say about its being used in the Balkans and Kuwait and learn about radiation and uranium and what a real radiological accident does and how DU is child's play in comparison. Finally, visit the Files Section using the password and username in Message 57 and learn about the anti-DU crusaders like Doug Rokke or Leuren Moret, both of whom are con artists who love travelling around the world in style with your money!
Write me DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com
The Government over and over again, and still now is using illegal DU
(Depleted Uranium) weapons and devices -- DU is not illegal; there are no DU weapons and devices - there are kinetic energy penetrator munitions; DU is more than likely not being used at present; the US does not face any foe with armored vehicle targets, it has not faced such a foe since 2003 but the anti-DU crusader drum just beats on despite there really being nothing happening - DU was not used over and over again; it was used to destroy tanks and armored vehicles in the Gulf War, in the Balkans and perhaps in Afghanistan (it was not used in any aerial bombing of Afghanistan, another of the perennial false drumbeats of the anti-DU crusade. The writer is a typical disciple of the crusaders; he just regurgitates without thought and has not got a clue what he is talking about
in direct opposition to signed United Nations agreements, -- There are no agreements, let alone signed United Nations agreements that ban the use of DU - they do not ban any other bullet and DU is no more harmful nor any less harmful than any other bullet fired in war.
degrading the United States of America to a renegade country,
More nonsense, use of DU has not degraded the US in the eyes of the world; there fortunately are enough scientists in the world who understand that DU is just one form of a naturally occuring element in the Earth's crust, uranium. The writer in his political zeal fails to understand that there has been uranium on Earth since it was created and there always will be uranium on the Earth. It is in the writer's backyard, you the reader's backyard, in the writer's air and in you the reader's air along with water. It is present in extremely small amounts, but it is pretty much everywhere, including having been used to date 1000 year old ice from deep in the Antarctica ice.
likely to have its leadership regime brought to war crimes trials and capitally punished.
More nonsense - Iraq appears to be a blunder, but much of the world believed that Saddam Hussein's government had weapons of mass destruction and it had not accounted for their destruction. The writer should actually read the war crimes trials from WW-II -- I presume that they have not - when they do, they will understand what a war crime is and more importantly what it is not.
Want to learn about DU, go to www.depletedcranium.com and see the dinner on the Fiesta Ware orange plate; then come to DUStory and follow some of the links to learn what real scientists from all over the world have to say about its being used in the Balkans and Kuwait and learn about radiation and uranium and what a real radiological accident does and how DU is child's play in comparison. Finally, visit the Files Section using the password and username in Message 57 and learn about the anti-DU crusaders like Doug Rokke or Leuren Moret, both of whom are con artists who love travelling around the world in style with your money!
Write me DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com
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2. 13-05-2008 07:08
re-Legal status in weapons
In 1996 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the "legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons".[22] This made it clear, in paragraphs 54, 55 and 56, that international law on poisonous weapons, – the Second Hague Declaration of 29 July 1899, Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907 and the Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925 – did not cover nuclear weapons, because their prime or exclusive use was not to poison or asphyxiate. This ICJ opinion was about nuclear weapons, but the sentence "The terms have been understood, in the practice of States, in their ordinary sense as covering weapons whose prime, or even exclusive, effect is to poison or asphyxiate," also removes depleted uranium weaponry from coverage by the same treaties as their primary use is not to poison or asphyxiate, but to destroy materiel and kill soldiers through kinetic energy.
The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the United Nations Human Rights Commission,[23] passed two motions[24] the first in 1996[25] and the second in 1997.[26] They listed weapons of mass destruction, or weapons with indiscriminate effect, or of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering and urged all states to curb the production and the spread of such weapons. Included in the list was weaponry containing depleted uranium. The committee authorized a working paper, in the context of human rights and humanitarian norms, of the weapons. The requested UN working paper was delivered in 2002[27] by Y.K.J. Yeung Sik Yuen in accordance with Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2001/36. He argues that the use of DU in weapons, along with the other weapons listed by the SubCommission, may breach one or more of the following treaties: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the United Nations Convention Against Torture; the Geneva Conventions including Protocol I; the Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980; and the Chemical Weapons Convention. Yeung Sik Yuen writes in Paragraph 133 under the title "Legal compliance of weapons containing DU as a new weapon":
The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the United Nations Human Rights Commission,[23] passed two motions[24] the first in 1996[25] and the second in 1997.[26] They listed weapons of mass destruction, or weapons with indiscriminate effect, or of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering and urged all states to curb the production and the spread of such weapons. Included in the list was weaponry containing depleted uranium. The committee authorized a working paper, in the context of human rights and humanitarian norms, of the weapons. The requested UN working paper was delivered in 2002[27] by Y.K.J. Yeung Sik Yuen in accordance with Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2001/36. He argues that the use of DU in weapons, along with the other weapons listed by the SubCommission, may breach one or more of the following treaties: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the United Nations Convention Against Torture; the Geneva Conventions including Protocol I; the Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980; and the Chemical Weapons Convention. Yeung Sik Yuen writes in Paragraph 133 under the title "Legal compliance of weapons containing DU as a new weapon":
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3. 14-05-2008 00:04
DUStory - Links to Various International
Depleted Uranium is not a nuclear weapon, nor is it a chemical weapon. It is a bullet; that's all. It does not even explode. This evening, I found that Southern Iraq actually has been surveyed by a UNEP team; I was surprised to see with the murder of the UN mission before they even captured Saddam Hussein that UNEP had done anything in Iraq let alone made a comprehensive DU survey in Basra and other southern Iraq cities and areas. The link is in the DUStories links section - it has not yet been placed in a message that anyone can read without joining that Yahoo group.
The UN also has a Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and they issued a lengthy report. The word "uranium" does not appear in that report.
DU has been found to not be a hazard to the environment or the public in Boznia-Herzegovina by UNEP after extensive international field and laboratory research; Kuwait by IAEA after similar extensive international research and in Southern Iraq by a UNEP trained Iraqi field team that had the samples analyzed at a Swiss lab. Uranium natural levels in Afghanistan are also recorded in a UNEP report. DU is really a non issue except on the net and in far left political circles. Bush had nothing to do with the development of DU kinetic energy penetrator munitions and once he committed US armored forces to battle, he could not expect them to face the fairly sophisticated Soviet Bloc tanks used by the Iraqi Army without their best weapon. I do welcome a link to the UN report because I expect it contains false information. There are substantial false comments - they even make the UNEP reports. They mention non-existent DU-tipped missiles fired by helicopters, so even they, who did good solid science with the field sampling and laboratory anlysis have been led astray by the massive amount of deliberate misinformation on the net.
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The UN also has a Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and they issued a lengthy report. The word "uranium" does not appear in that report.
DU has been found to not be a hazard to the environment or the public in Boznia-Herzegovina by UNEP after extensive international field and laboratory research; Kuwait by IAEA after similar extensive international research and in Southern Iraq by a UNEP trained Iraqi field team that had the samples analyzed at a Swiss lab. Uranium natural levels in Afghanistan are also recorded in a UNEP report. DU is really a non issue except on the net and in far left political circles. Bush had nothing to do with the development of DU kinetic energy penetrator munitions and once he committed US armored forces to battle, he could not expect them to face the fairly sophisticated Soviet Bloc tanks used by the Iraqi Army without their best weapon. I do welcome a link to the UN report because I expect it contains false information. There are substantial false comments - they even make the UNEP reports. They mention non-existent DU-tipped missiles fired by helicopters, so even they, who did good solid science with the field sampling and laboratory anlysis have been led astray by the massive amount of deliberate misinformation on the net.
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4. 14-05-2008 09:22
let me repost this for you
The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, passed two motions the first in 1996 and the second in 1997.They listed weapons of mass destruction, or weapons with indiscriminate effect, or of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering and urged all states to curb the production and the spread of such weapons. Included in the list was weaponry containing depleted uranium.
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