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In light of the current absurd talk of the pre-emptive use of Nuclear weapons in order to prevent World War III by starting it, I propose the following citizen action of People powered Politics
I propose a pledge by the American people not to make their mortgage payments should the United States government choose to use nuclear weapons in a pre-emptive manner. The economy will be and should be brought to it's knees.
As many leader's such as Jack Straw and others have pointed out that striking Iran would be nuts and there are alternatives to dealing with Iran, all of which the Bush administration is shunning as pointed out by Seymor Hirsch.
And I don't buy the notion that Hirsch is being used by the administration to spread mis-information. I suspect a majority of Military leaders are becoming seriously concerned about the administration's myopic and messianic world view.
More below the fold.
My proposal is to create an on-line pledge for the American people to sign, of any walk of life, that they will not pay their mortgage should the United States government follow through with the action's proposed by this administration.
The effects of wuch weapons can be found here:
http://www.ucsusa.org/...
Let's face it, the ariel bombing campaign on Iran, let alone the use of nuclear weapons would bring the economy to it's knees. In fact, without the pledge, hordes of people may stop payment of mortgages and credit cards should an attack on Iran move forward.
Best summarized by Jorge E. Hirsch(UC Physics professor)
First, the likelihood of terrorist attacks against Americans both on American soil and abroad will be enormously enhanced after these events. And terrorist's attempts to get hold of "loose nukes" and use them against Americans will be enormously incentivized after the US used nuclear weapons against Iran.
Second, it will destroy America's position as the leader of the free world. The rest of the world rightly recognizes that nuclear weapons are qualitatively different from all other weapons, and that there is no sharp distinction between small and large nuclear weapons, or between nuclear weapons targeting facilities versus those targeting armies or civilians. It will not condone the breaking of the nuclear taboo in an unprovoked war of aggression against a non-nuclear country, and the US will become a pariah state.
Third, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will cease to exist, and many of its 182 non-nuclear-weapon-country signatories will strive to acquire nuclear weapons as a deterrent to an attack by a nuclear nation. With no longer a taboo against the use of nuclear weapons, any regional conflict may go nuclear and expand into global nuclear war. Nuclear weapons are million-fold more powerful than any other weapon, and the existing nuclear arsenals can obliterate humanity many times over. In the past, global conflicts terminated when one side prevailed. In the next global conflict we will all be gone before anybody has prevailed.
This is a proposal so that political and business leader's have a pledge of a million or more people to give them additional pause about their actions. They mis-calculated Iraq and they are gravely mis-calculating how their actions would affect the global economy. And I don't mean this to be a solely monetary thing, the death and horror that follows any strike is sickening. Whether this is a bluff tactic by the administration or not, it has already proven stupid and foolish because once the year passes Iran can mock the US for not going through with this idiotic plot.
So don't pay our mortgage and we can collectively do this. That will bring the economy to it's knees, if it hasn't snapped within 30 days of a nuclear strike, I say probably 10-15% not paying would overwhelm the system, liquidity would crash. If the administration wishes to act so recklessly and threaten the world and indirectly my own livelihood, the national and global economy should know that we do hold the power to threaten it. Since our vote and will is being mocked, it is within our rights as citizens to retaliate against immoral, unlawful and the reckless actions of the United State's government.
So I pass the baton onto anyone out there who has the technical expertise to create such a website.
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