Enviado el: martes, 29 de mayo de 2018 18:18
Para: enfasisperu@gmail.com
CC: PLCefe@aol.com
Asunto: PLOWSHARES: Liz McAlister: ¿Quién debe ser enjuiciado? y Carta al Papa Francisco (English follows)
Los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, nuestro país, se comprometió a cumplir con la Carta de las Naciones Unidas de 1945 que declara criminales a los sistemas de armas nucleares porque el propósito de las Naciones Unidas es salvar "a las futuras generaciones del azote de la guerra". La Carta además ordena que "ninguna nación use la fuerza contra otra nación." Nuestro país hizo suyos los Principios de Nuremburg de 1945 que prohiben los crímenes contra la Paz, los crímenes contra la humanidad, los crímenes de guerra; y el genocidio. En consecuencia, los Principios de Nuremburg hacen ilegales las armas nucleares, dice que son armas criminales en toda cinscumstancia. Nuestro país se comprometió en 1970 con el Tratado de No-Proliferación que busca el "cese de la carrera de armas nucleares y a adoptar medidas efectivas hacia el desarmamiento nuclear." Nuestro país se ha comprometido además con el Tratado Comprensivo Contra las Pruebas Nucleares de 1996 que prohibe las explosiones nucleares y la producción de materiales físil para las armas.
El trabajo que se hace con las armas nucleares en Kings Bay viola todas estas leyes y viola las más altas leyes morales y en consecuencia es un gran crimen. Nosotros venimos a exponer esta criminalidad y a retirar nuestro permiso a participar en el crimen de la producción y mantenimiento de las armas nuclares.
Clare Grady #015632
Patrick O'Neill #015637
Elizabeth McAlister #015633
Stephen Kelly #015634
Martha Hennessy #015631
Mark Colville #015635
100 Sulphur Springs Road
Brunswick, GA 31520
Our country bound itself in 1945 to the UN Charter which rendered nuclear weapons systems criminal by its purpose is to "save future generations from the scourge of war." It further directed that "all nations shall refrain from the use of force against another nation." Our country bound itself in 1945 the Nuremburg Principles which prohibit crimes against the peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The Nuremburg Principles thus render nuclear weapons illegal and criminal under all circumstances. Our country bound itself in 1970 by the Non Proliferation Treaty which seeks the "cessation of the nuclear arms race and to undertake effective measures in the direction of nuclear disarmament." Our country is further bound by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty of 1996 which bans nuclear explosions and the production of fissile material for weapons.
The work being done with nuclear weapons at Kings Bay violates all these laws and higher moral laws and is thus a great crime. We acted to expose this criminality and withdraw our consent to participate in the crime of the production and maintained of nuclear weapons.
We went to Kings Bay with a message that we believe to be completely aligned with the message you have been tirelessly teaching and proclaiming for as long as you have been leading the Church. That message as we have articulated it is, in part, as follows: The existence of nuclear weapons is an ongoing, relentless assault on the human community and the planet itself. They are built in outright violation of both U.S. Constitutional and international law, and the standing threat to use them gives authorization to every other form of violence, eviscerates the rule of law, entrenches white supremacy, perpetuates endless war and environmental destruction and ensures impunity for all manner of crimes against humanity. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s public life was centered on exposing what he called the "triplets of evil" in our society: racism, militarism and extreme materialism. Near the end of his life, he said, "The ultimate logic of racism is genocide." Nuclear weapons are not only a mortal threat to our future. They are used every day. They kill, every day. They are the ultimate logic of the delusions to which we as a nation are addicted.
Clare Grady #015632
Patrick O'Neill #015637
Elizabeth McAlister #015633
Stephen Kelly #015634
Martha Hennessy #015631
Mark Colville #015635
100 Sulphur Springs Road
Brunswick, GA 31520







