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taxfree@planeteer.com <Daniel J. Lavigne>, continuing to espouse the
need for a total and worldwide tax refusal, writes:

The following is the article accompanying, as exhibit �A�, the notice of
motion that led to a successful courtroom confrontation regarding
everyone�s unassailable right and concurrent and unavoidable duty to
refuse to support any society participating in plans and preparations
that involve the will and the capacity to use nuclear and other weapons
of mass murder against defenceless fellow human beings.

The article, after various ploys by the court attempting to avoid having
it entered into the record, was read as part and parcel of  the speech,
accusing the court of being no more than a lackey, a serf to its masters
wishes.
 
          Mankind / Mancruel : A Choice / A Duty

In the aftermath of World War Three, there shall be two classes of
survivors. The first in the bunkers that will shelter the world�s
political, military and industrial leaders. The second formed of wounded
and despairing souls who may well then wonder why they ever allowed
their taxes, efforts and children to be so misused. In the following
days, what tortures will the second group wish to exact upon the first?
Even now the first group prepares for that eventuality.

The INF treaty, the �Hallmark Of Defence Agreements� has failed; with
Nato and the Warsaw Pact using the monies saved from the discontinuance
of that missile group to further other �First Strike / Counter Strike�
preparations. Both acknowledge their development of new weapons and
delivery systems; both reaffirm their policy of �Immediate and
Devastating Retaliatory Response�.

All �Peace Talks� have failed and will continue to fail as the world�s
arm merchants deftly seek and use public monies to cutail meaningful
negotiations, assuring thereby the continuance of their prolific
profits.

The peace movement has failed. Its newest and most vocal adherents
enjoying the social camaradie yet fearing and failing to participate in
a confrontation designed to deny the nuclear powers the funds with which
they fuel the arms race.

Why? Do they have other agendas? That type of involvement, that lack of
resolve, identifies and is similar to the abject apathy that abandons
humanity to those who most risk its existence.

True activists, committed activists, should forget empty hope and
consider actions best equated with determination; and work thereby to
force the issue. There is no other way. Parades, protests and parrotting
are futile.

Societal indifference, humanity�s pathetic and stumbling stance, has
allowed the vile and the violent to risk the destruction of
civilization. Their dark and primal savageness, the spreading madness of
greed and the accelerating decay of what little moral fibre remains will
cause the total use of all nuclear and other weapons of mass murder.
Their massive proliferation assures that useless event.

Such a negative, self-imposed end to human endeavour must be averted. No
force of will, no demand of conscience, even at the risk of anarchy, can
be considered beyond the limits of civil disobedience or dissent when
the result sought, that must be attained, is no less than society�s
salvation. That result, without question, justifies the use of the means
herein described.

The first: Refusing to support the insanity is of utmost importance. The
requirement of a shared existence demands such action. No society
participating in preparations to wage all-out nuclear war deserves nor
should it receive taxes or support of any kind from those recognizing
their humanity.

The second: A compromise wherein those recognizing the necessity of the
first wish to avoid the risk of anarchy and firmly withold only the
military portion of their taxes. This action offers great possibilities
of raising humanity�s consciousness and conscience leading to the severe
rebuke of all who counsel and profit from warlike and murderous
preparations.

The third: The development of new technology allowing the most average
of adults to build a weapon the use of which will murder hundreds of
thousands could well be used TO FORCE THE TOTAL USE OF OR DISMANTLING OF
ALL OTHER WEAPONS.

The attentive and ideological response of some to Dylan Thomas�s �Do not
go meekly . . .� and their personal sense of worth and human value will
lead them to access that technology and so utilize it by threatening the
worldwide publication of the nature and construction of that weapon. 

Insanity? Perhaps. But also a possible, however paradoxical, scource of
human salvation employing the same greed and cowardice that curses our
existence.

The scenario of the third option is one for fools, for all to think of;
but is it not only fools that have allowed the accelerating development
of ever more numerous and deadly weapons of mass murder and the public
will to use them?

We have little time or choice left. Our salvation, the continued
existence of humanity, may well require that we risk forcing the total
use of all nuclear and other weapons of mass murder. 

Many have so decided and are now participating in the first option
described, realizing that the end result is the same as option three
without the added risk of personally contributing to the proliferation
of another class of weapons.

A pending action in the Federal Court Of Canada - Trial Division
#2020-88, places a duty on governments and their courts and judges to
review and redress their culpable involvement in the prosecution of wars
and the present arms race.

All governments, most of the world�s larger newspapers and all members
of Parliament plus differing peace groups have received a copy of this
statement. Ask hard questions, wait for constructive answers.

The matter is one of courage and morality. The question, �Does my birth
as a human being truly condemn me to paying taxes to or otherwise
supporting a society participating in plans and preparations to wage
nuclear war and risk thereby the murder of hundreds of millions of
defenceless fellow human beings?� and the answer (your answer) to it,
defines the problem.

Serious readers may wish to review �Tax Refusal�, Editorial Page, The
Toronto Star, June 16, 1987.

taxfree@planeteer.com adds: 

The �Cold War� continues. It is far from over. It lives and prospers in
the mind of humanity. And will continue to do so, destroying all values,
until humanity faces a choice as outlined and presented to the court. 

The above �article� was written at the height of the arms race with the
specific intent of presenting it as a slap to greed�s bastards, their
courts, their judges and laws.
 
May such bastards face your eternal wrath.

Daniel J. Lavigne
Founder, Co-ordinator
International Humanity House
-- 
SPIRIT'S MISSILES

Do they exist,
These forces on which we rely,

Those great unknowns
For which we have murdered . .
And prayed?

Do they laugh at our ways?
Or cry?

Copyright. 1989 Daniel J. Lavigne