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Issue No. 170 | 14 March 2003 |
Coke or Pepsi?
Poetry: If I Were a Rich Man Interview: League of Nations Industrial: 20/20 Hindsight Organising: On The Buses Unions: National Focus History: The Banner Room International: The Slaughter Continues Legal: A Legal Case For War? Culture: Singing For The People Review: The Hours Poetry: I Wanna Bomb Saddam Satire: Diuretic Makes Warne's Excuses Look Thin
Travelex Wrong-un Stumps Staff No Utopia In Lifetime Contracts Howard�s Navy � Aussies Need Not Apply Intrepid Tourists Buck ILO Bans Whistle Blown on Second Hand Rail Safety Back-Packers Used to Break Hotel Strike Burrow Calls for New Family Formula Central Queensland Sucks on Roche
The Soapbox The Locker Room Guest Report Seduction Bosswatch
A Plea for Legal Action Accord Reconsidered Johnny's Green Card Veto The War Law and Order
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Veto The War
TODAY I WILL VETO HOWARD'S WAR Today I will stand up against the Howard Government and apply MY veto against the war through acts of peaceful, civil disobedience. Today I will act to frustrate and deny its warmongering. I will thwart its military aggression and crimes against humanity. Today I will act non-violently to obstruct the use of weapons of mass destruction against the innocent people of Iraq. I will exercise my right to defy the Power that has stifled parliamentary debate, ignored the will of the Australian people, and shown contempt for the Constitution and traditions of our democracy. Today I will demonstrate that I am a free person although my Prime Minister is a slave and accessory to the war crimes of the President of the United States. Mr John Howard has forfeited, through his criminal actions against humanity and offences against international law, any right to my loyalty or obedience. Today I exert my right to veto the Prime Minister's insane and dangerous plans for military aggression and his denial of democracy, freedom, justice and peace and law. I join with other people of peace and goodwill to defy those who at present hold and misuse the trappings of Power and to oppose them in every possible peaceable fashion in the cause of Peace and in the name of Humanity. Today I stand up to resist with all my faculties that Power's arrogance and appropriation without justification of my right to live in peace with the peoples of the world. Weapons of mass destruction will not make me, or my brothers and sisters, falter in our purpose to render the warmongers humble and to defeat their bloody ambitions. Today I will veto John Howard's war. Cliff Baxter
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