1. A U.S. resident ("any person") is prohibited from committing an act that is illegal under international law (Principle I), and therefore under U.S. Constitutional Law, even if commanded to do so by one’s superiors, including the President, provided a moral choice was in fact possible (Principle IV). One must disobey an illegal order or command.
[NOTE: The following is a letter sent on July 29, 2004 to members of the Arcata, California City Council alerting them to the dangers of having two major presidential candidates, each of whom has declared their commitment to the dangerous policy of waging pre-emptive attacks on other nations, grotesquely violating the U.S. Constitution, the Nuremberg Principles, and international law.
On March 7, 1969, I arrived at a tiny airbase south of the Bassac River in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta as head of an Air Force combat security unit. On March 13, Navy swiftboat commander John Kerry received a bronze star for actions on the Bay Hap River 70 miles further south.
During the month of April 1969 I witnessed traumatic, horrible scenes of small rice and fishing settlements in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta within minutes after they were decimated by 500-pound shrapnel and napalm bombs. In one instance I was standing on the edge of a small community not far from the Bassac River in Vinh Long Province looking over the bloodied and blackened strewn corpses of well over 100 villagers, the vast majority of whom appeared to be young females and children. I was in shock. I threw up, then wept.
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