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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR CLOWN
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When I was 16 years old I registered for the military draft as a Conscientious Objector. You can too.
(Painting by Ron English)
A conscientious objector (CO) is an “individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service” on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religion. In some countries, conscientious objectors are assigned to an alternative civilian service as a substitute for conscription or military service. Some conscientious objectors consider themselves pacifist, non-interventionist, non-resistant, or antimilitarist. The international definition of conscientious objection officially broadened on March 8, 1995 when the United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/83 stated that “persons performing military service should not be excluded from the right to have conscientious objections to military service.” That definition was re-affirmed in 1998, when the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights document called “Conscientious objection to military service, United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/77” officially recognized that “persons [already] performing military service may develop conscientious objections.
The most famous American conscientious objector. Cassius Clay Jr. ( MUHAMMED ALI) was an Olympic gold medal winning boxer and 3 time professional Heavyweight boxing champion in the life of his boxing career. In 1964 Clay converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammed Ali. In 1966 Ali was drafted for the Viet Nam war. He refused to be inducted and applied as a conscientious objector. His application was denied by the local draft board. His title and boxing license were temporarily suspended. Ali took his case to the Supreme Court and was eventually granted CO status and returned to boxing.
MAHATMA GANDHI is the father of India. During that country’s fight for independence Gandhi was their political and spiritual leader. He was the pioneer of resistence to tyranny through non-violent mass civil disobedience. But Gandhi was more than just a wise man in a loin cloth. He was educated in London as a lawyer. During the Boer War in South Africa Gandhi served as a Sargeant Major in the British Ambulance Corps.
EVERY PACIFIST IS A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. NOT EVERY CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR IS A PACIFIST.
WAR NEVER ENDS UNTIL SOLDIERS REFUSE TO KILL FOR MADMEN
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1984 has come and gone. The prophecy of George Orwell have been fulfilled. Now we know, without any doubt, that wars are started by bankers and politicians to make a financial profit and to gain personal power for themselves. In the United States there are no more wars of “defending oneself”. (False Flags propaganda notwithstanding). Since WW II the ONLY reason any war was ever fought — and factually, during the last 5,000 years human history — was for the profit of private banks and corporations. Don’t take my word for it. Study the history of warfare. Actually, there has always been a “Big Brother” in every period of history from the Egyptians to the Rockefellers. “Big Brother” is the bankers and politicians — with the blessing of the priests.
However, they are NOT the people who load the shells, fly the planes, drop the bombs and pull the triggers that kill people. They are spineless cowards who hide behind curtains and desks and rhetoric and secret police. It is each individual soldier who “is just doing his duty” that does the killing for the despicable slime we call our “leaders”. Until soldiers refuse to become soldiers there will be perpetual wars. I refused to be inducted into the military in 1969, during the Vietnam War. So can you now. All it takes is the balls to say the words: “HELL NO! I WON’T GO!”
So what can “Big Brother” do to you? Put you in prison? Shoot you in the head? So what?! Sacrificing your life is a small price to pay compared to relinquishing your personal responsibility to the whims of a pack of psychopathic power-brokers. It’s just a matter of time before the next person they’ll order you to kill is your own mother, brother and sister — in this lifetime or the next. What goes around, comes around.
Every time you “volunteer” to go out and kill people, or support the parasites who tell you it is your “duty” to murder the “enemy” they created for you, you — not anyone else — are the killer. I have heard a million reasons why it is OK to be a soldier. As a way to earn a living, almost any job is less destructive, and more honest, than helping a Gang of War Profiteers to invade entire countries so Wall Street bankers and Corporate Arms manufacturers can make another billion dollars on selling guns to your “enemies”. How many reasons can you think of to help “Big Brother” continue to slaughter millions and millions of people for their personal financial profit for the next 5,000 years? — Lawrence R. Spencer. 2012.
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Watch the following video with footage from the Vietnam war: notice who’s doing the killing and who’s safe back home in their offices: you guessed it, “Big Brother”.
Here is a quick less on how BIG BROTHER (“The Party”) keeps getting away with murder, theft and mayhem for their personal power and profit, at our expense:
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” ― George Orwell, 1984 — published in 1949.
HERE IS A FREE ON-LINE COPY OF THE COMIC BOOK VERSION OF THE BOOK 1984