A
DECLARATION OF CONSCIENCE
from Justin Dart. September, 2001
THE BOMBS ARE KILLING
A DECLARATION OF CONSCIENCE
WE DECLARE WAR ON VIOLENCE AND INJUSTICE EVERYWHERE - A WAR OF LOVE, TRUTH AND
PRINCIPLES FIRST, OF BOMBS AND BULLETS ONLY AS A LAST RESORT
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WE SUPPORT A "WAR" OF LOVE AND TRUTH, NOT ONLY TO DEFEAT TERRORISTS, BUT TO
DESTROY THE CAUSES OF TERRORISM. We support a "war" to eliminate poverty,
violence and oppression - in America and in the world. We support a "war" to
create a world that empowers all people - with and without disabilities - to
live lives of quality, dignity and choice. People who live free and well are
unlikely to become terrorists.
LET ALL OF US BECOME CITIZEN SOLDIERS ON THE FRONT LINES OF DEMOCRACY. Let all
of us overcome fear, grief, apathy and spectatorism and unite in increased
productivity, and passionate activism to make the human Dream live in every
life. Our family has tightened its belts to invest more time, money and energy
in the struggle.
WON'T THE TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN? Absolutely. We will, we must be better
prepared, but still some lives will be lost.
BUT WE MUST NOT RETREAT BEHIND WALLS OF "SECURITY." We must not allow fear to
limit our productivity and our priceless rights and freedoms. Truly free
enterprise has never been safe or easy. Freedom has never been cheap. Our
patriot fathers and mothers paid for our magnificent opportunities with their
sweat and their blood. We can do no less for our children.
ON SEPTEMBER 11TH WE LEARNED ONCE AGAIN THAT AMERICA CANNOT EXIST AS AN ISLAND
of prosperity, peace and justice in a sea of poverty, violence and oppression.
It is a fact that most of people in the world still do not live in democracies.
We Americans - and other democratic peoples - must aggressively advocate
democracy directly to the oppressed people of the world. We must cease our
present appeasement and support of regimes that violate human rights, or those
regimes will continue to impose their barbarism on others - and on us. We cannot
afford to fail.
LOVE IS THE UNIVERSAL BOTTOM LINE. WHATEVER YOUR OPINION OF THE WAR, LET US
UNITE IN LOVE, CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews and all who seek a
world of justice. Let us unite in action based on the universal principle of
love for the sacred value of individual human life.
COLLEAGUES, WE ARE SO PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH YOU, the patriots of
yesterday, today and tomorrow. We love you so much. We are with you always. Lead
us forward.
TOGETHER, UNITED IN LOVE, WE SHALL OVERCOME.
Justin and Yoshiko Dart
During his September 20th war speech to Congress, buried
unremarked in the Washington Post report, President Bush said:
"I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come
here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to
live by them."
"That these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not parish from the earth."
--
Yoshiko Dart
907 6th Street, SW, Apt. 516C
Washington, DC 20024
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