AKTIE bij Amerikaanse ambasade
B55
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - TO ALL MEDIA AGENTS
Subject: To mark the birth of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a
former UNITED STATES Marine announces his intent to seek legal
representation in
order to charge the U.S with War Crimes for Human Experiments during the
Gulf War (details below) and Crimes Against Humanity for its use of
Depleted
Uranium (DU) with absolute knowledge that its use would cause massive
birth deformities and death from radiation exposure. Kenneth Nichols is
currently seeking
political asylum in Holland and will additionally Serve Legal Notice to
the U.S. officials of his human right to Self Determination as a final
action in renouncing
U.S. citizenship. As a symbolic action to affirm his human rights he
will Burn his U.S. Passport. For what appears to be the first time in
history, a birth
citizen of the UNITED STATES is renouncing his citizenship in favor of
being Stateless. This action is also in protest o! f ongoing U.S.
policies, specifically
the "American Servicemembers Protection Act (ASPA)," the "Patriot Act,"
and most notably the blatant U.S. hostility and threats against those
who support the
formation of the ICC. Currently the UNITED STATES is the only Western
Democratic nation opposed to the ICC. It stands with China, Israel,
Libya,
and Iraq, and North Korea in this position.
Where: U.S. Consulate in Amsterdam at Museumplein.
When: July 1, 2002. 2pm.
All Activists and concerned people are hereby invited to attend. Bring
signs or material if you like
"All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that
right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue
their economic, social and cultural development."
2200A
(XXI) International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR)
Despite having completed an extensive legal renunciation process in
accordance with U.S. Law, International Law, and Human Rights Law, the
State Department of the U.S. has
attempted to deny Kenneth Nichols his right to renounce U.S.
citizenship. Nichols has complied with all laws pertaining to
renunciation of citizenship and he has denounced America
publicly as "the #1 terrorist on the planet," left the U.S. and
relinquished his passport, twice and rejected any "allegiance" to
America to confirm his rights and convictions. Is Mr. Nichols
in light of these facts still a U.S. citizen? He says the legal
definition of the word citizen under U.S. law is enough to answer that
question.
citizen, n. 1. A person who, by either birth or naturalization, is a
member of a political community, owing allegiance to the community and
being entitled to enjoy all its civil rights and
protections; a member of the civil state, entitled to all its
privileges.
Black s Law Dictionary Seventh Edition
How much does the US intend to "Protect" its people with the enactment
of the American Servicemembers Protection Act? Nichols views this law as
a farce that intends to
intimidate and terrorize the ICC and European people into submission. To
support his contention that the law is a farce Nichols points to his
Gulf War service as a U.S. Marine. During this
time he was injected with the drugs now known (despite huge obstacles by
the U.S. and British Governments) to be directly linked to "Gulf War
Syndrome" through extensive scientific
study.
"I was one of approximately 600,000 service members who received a
battery of immunizations and pills, specifically pyridostigmine bromide
pills and anthrax and botulinum toxoid
vaccines. These pharmaceutical creations were supposedly meant to
protect us against chemical and biological weapons. In reality, for many
of us, these same drugs were our death
warrants." (Nichols)
The U.S. Government has since admitted that these drugs were known to be
"experimental" at the time of use.
There is no provision in the Nuremberg Code that allows a country to
waive informed consent for military personnel or veterans who serve as
human subjects in experiments during
wartime or in experiments that are conducted because of threat of war.
However, the UNITED STATES Department of Defense (DOD) has recently
argued that wartime experimental
requirements differ from peacetime requirements for informed consent.
According to the Pentagon, "In all peacetime applications, we believe
strongly in informed consent and its ethical
foundations.....But military combat is different."
Human Research Subject Protection
It appears that the U.S. has officially condoned human experiments in
wartime without informed consent. A logical question then becomes does
international law and opinion also agree
that human experiments without consent are morally acceptable and valid
in war? Nichols believes both law and opinion overwhelmingly see this as
a War Crime.
"When the Nazi s did this to the Jews it was a War Crime. What should we
call it today? Ultimately I intend to bring legal charges against the
UNITED STATES for War Crimes."
(Nichols)
In addition Nichols says he was likely exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU)
from downed Iraqi tanks and vehicles he and his unit had direct contact
with during combat missions in Kuwait.
Partial support for this belief comes from several miscarriages with his
former wife and his apparent inability to produce children.
Study: More birth defects found in Gulf War babies
The rising number of cases in Iraq, particularly in the South where the
greatest concentration of DU was fired,
is simply staggering. Iraqi physicians have never encountered anything
like it, and have made the perfectly reasonable point that similar
increases in cancer and deformities were
experienced in Japan after the two US atomic bomb attacks. Cancer has
increased between 7 and 10 fold; deformities between 4 and 6 fold.
LIFE magazine November 1995
"Once inside the body, DU causes a slow death from cancers, irreversible
kidney damage or wastage from immune deficiency disorders. In the UK
(with far less combat soldiers than
the US), there are more than 400 veterans who are estimated to have died
from "Gulf War Syndrome",
Dr.
Durakovic - Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Georgetown University
Coincidentally Dr.
Durakovic was forced to flee the U.S. due to threats against his life
"if he were to continue his research."
"I was likely exposed to DU without my knowledge and I was definitely
given experimental drugs without my knowledge. I may very well die from
these hideous violations of human rights
in which the U.S. Government all the way up to George Bush Sr. were
fully aware. The fact that Iraqi families have endured incalculable pain
and suffering from DU and are terrorized with
potential bomb attacks by the US is enough in itself to renounce
citizenship, that is the least I can do. This is a question of human
rights vs. state tyranny, and the U.S. represents modern
global tyranny like no other" (Nichols)
"Along with methodological and historical descriptions, topical
discussions, and records series descriptions, the Roadmap included
summaries of approximately 150 human radiation
experiments associated with DOE (UNITED STATES Department of Energy) and
its predecessors. Those summaries are included here, along with
summaries of over 275 additional
studies that have since been identified, documented, and confirmed.
Taken together, these summaries describe a wide range of activities from
the early 1940s through the early 1970s."
Ellyn R. Weiss,
Special Counsel and Director - Office of Human Radiation Experiments
U.S.
Department of Energy - July 1995 (full document at www.ohre.doe.gov)
"Shocking as it may sound, the U.S. Government has openly admitted that
it conducted human experiments on U.S. citizens without their knowledge.
Not only were these experiments
conducted, but they were systematically done over several decades. That
alone fits the criteria for a Crime Against Humanity. The knowledge
gained from these human experiments
means that the use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq or the Balkans is with
full knowledge of the results to human health. In other words, the
horrendous birth deformities in Iraq were
approved by the U.S. Government all the way to the top." (Nichols see
www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html)
In the aftermath of the tragic 9-11 events and the subsequent wave of
patriotism Nichols felt forced to leave his home, business, and his
family in order to seek political asylum and safety
from persecution in Holland. He has proof that the US was politically
targeting him, primarily for his participation in the Hawaiian
Independence movement. Partial proof of this is an
$11,000 "Bench Warrant" issued for his arrest in which official court
transcripts prove his innocence (available on request). As an act of
conscience and in protest of U.S. policies he
began the process of legally renouncing his US citizenship in 1999.
Among the documents required for renunciation of citizenship by the
UNITED STATES Department of State is the "RENUNCIATION OF UNITED STATES
CITIZENSHIP
STATEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING CONCERNING THE CONSEQUENCES AND RAMIFICATIONS
OF RENUNCIATION." The document states:
I, Kenneth Roy Nichols , understand that:
1.I have the right to renounce my UNITED STATES citizenship,
2.If I do not possess the nationality/citizenship of any country
other than the UNITED STATES, upon my renunciation I will become a
stateless person and may face extreme
difficulties in travelling internationally and entering most
countries. (available upon request)
Nichols legally swore and signed to these terms and yet the UNITED
STATES response was to reject his renunciation of citizenship. This was
based on the fact that
he "returned to Hawaii without registering as an alien." The State
Department ignored all reference to his detailed "Declaration of
Expatriation" which addressed
specifically the historical facts surrounding Hawaii. Most importantly,
UNITED STATES Federal Law, "PUBLIC LAW 103-150." This law took affect
with the
signature of then President Bill Clinton in November 1993, 100 years
after the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation. The law states:
"Whereas, on January 14, 1893, John L. Stevens, the United States
Minister assigned to the sovereign and independent Kingdom of Hawaii
conspired
with a small group of non-Hawaiian residents of the Kingdom of
Hawaii including citizens of the United States, to overthrow the
indigenous and lawful
Government of Hawaii&"
It goes further to say;
"Whereas the indigenous Hawaiian people never directly relinquished
their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people or over their
national lands
to the United States, either through their monarchy or through a
plebiscite or referendum&"
In light of Public Law 103-150 s shocking confession that the U.S.
Government committed the international crime of conspiracy in
overthrowing the lawful
government of Hawaii, the question now becomes what happened to this
government? No one would dispute whether the U.S. has controlled Hawaii
since the
overthrow; it has, by virtue of the crime of conspiracy. Even more
shocking than the U.S. confession above is the answer to the question,
what happened to the
"sovereign and independent Kingdom of Hawaii?" The answer is it was
"Reinstated" on March 13, 1999 in accordance with the extensive dictates
of Public
International Law (www.reinstated.org).
"This partially explains why the U.S. is reserving the right to invade
Holland (by virtue of the ASPA) and all other nations. They know the
power of
international law and are actually fearful of its application.
Specifically, they fear the law being used equally and therefore against
them for countless crimes
against humanity, but also for the power of law to serve the Hawaiian
Nation in its just cause for independence." (Nichols)
He says that international law provides the remedy for small nations and
individuals that have been violated by large and powerful nations.
"The Rule of postliminium is that by which the persons and property
captured by the enemy are restored to their former status on coming
again into the power
of the Nation to which they belong."
The Law of Nations (E. DE Vattel)
Of even greater interest to the Dutch people is the fact that Queen
Beatrix herself, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs are aware of the
Reinstated
Kingdom of Hawaii. Nichols has proof of this via a letter signed by Mrs.
N. van de Pol of the Queens Cabinet on August 20, 1999. (Available on
request). Furthermore, a critically important legal notice was served in
Hawaii s largest newspaper on September 9, 2001 (available on request)
by the
Kingdom of Hawaii announcing its intent to exercise the natural rights
of a sovereign nation as it did before the overthrow. This legal notice
provided
the opportunity for the U.S. Government to "Object." By objecting it
could then dispute the Kingdom of Hawaii s claim to sovereign rights,
either in
U.S. Courts or an International Court.
"THERE WAS NO OBJECTION BY THE UNITED STATES! This is legal proof that
the Hawaiian Nation exists and is in fact the lawful authority in
Hawaii, not the UNITED STATES! (Nichols)
"Immediate steps shall be taken, in trust and non-self-governing
territories or all other territories which have not yet attained
independence, to transfer all
powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or
reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire,
without any
distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to
enjoy complete independence and freedom."
1514 (XV) United Nations
Declaration Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
Kuwait in 1991is a sterling example of Public International Law
protecting weak nations from large powerful nations. This was the maxim
of law
exercised during the Gulf War for restoring (Reinstating) Kuwait to
power after Iraq s invasion in 1990.
"We have before us the chance for a New World Order, an order where the
Rule of Law, not the Law of the Jungle, governs the conduct of nations."
George
Bush Sr. State of the Union address January 1991
"If Europeans capitulate and ultimately tolerate U.S. threats of
invasion, they will invite the continued abuse of law for the benefit of
the powerful minority at
the expense of the politically, economically and militarily weaker
nations. This would be a true disaster, not just for the typical third
world victims, but even for
free European and therefore Dutch men, women and children" (Nichols)
Material available for media agents interested in this story will
include:
Video footage of Nichols denouncing U.S. Senators, Congressmen,
Generals, and various other U.S. agents at Federal Hearings for ongoing
crimes in Hawaii and renouncing U.S. citizenship in December 1999. And
at a University lecture in California just before
leaving the U.S..
Hidden camera video of Nichols challenging a judge in a U.S. court
regarding civil rights abuses and the courts blatant violation of
Article I of the Bill Of Rights (free press) by not allowing visible
video documentation.
Video footage of Nichols involvement in marine rescues with his
business "Deep Ecology Hawaii." (see www.deepecology1.com)
Photographs of Nichols as a U.S. Marine, political activist, and
marine conservationist rescuing endangered Green Sea Turtles in Hawaii
(40 rescues total).
Various documents including those listed above along with his
"Non-Violence Resolution" which was enacted into Hawaiian Kingdom Law in
2001 and numerous others pertaining to his commitment to peaceful and
lawful means of resistance.
--
內躬偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻
*Don't upgrade to Windows XP
Instead, you better get LINUX for free!
http://www.linux.org/*
內躬偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻,虜,齯滌`偕爻
Anneke Andriessen
klachten aanneemt. De Golfoorlog valt daar waarschijnlijk buiten. Datie zijn
paspoort nog even heel houdt.
"B55" <B...@etc.nl> wrote in message news:3D1B7F3A...@etc.nl...