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A Letter to Citizens of the World from Dr. Doug Rokke
To all recipients: Please broadcast, distribute, publish, and send out to every web server list that will accept the following comments for the citizens of the world.
Thanks, Dr. Doug Rokke
If. as indicated in the following press report that DOD officials are ready to use force against the residents of Vieques, then the citizens of the world must band together to help the residents of Vieques. This started because U.S. Marine Corps pilots willfuly fired depleted uranium in violation of laws and regulations, as admitted by U.S. Navy officials, into Vieques and then a Navy pilot dropped a bomb that killed one and injured others. The claim has been that the bomb went off course. Funny thing about physics and Newtonian mechanics, bombs only go where you place them. Therefore the claim that the bomb was errant is pure rubbish. The pilot killed that guard and injured the others because he was wrong and was not careful with the bomb release.
That is pure negligence!!!!! This is also an issue of environmental justice where U.S. Department of Defense representatives refuse to provide medical care for all exposed individuals and also complete environmental remediation.
U.S. Forces have contaminated the island of Vieques for too long causing health and environmental damage. It must stop now. In a direct quote from:
031-503-1017 Respond to Depleted Uranium/Low level Radioactive Materials (DULLRAM) Hazards (new) U.S. Army Manual of Common Tasks the Department of Defense authors state that:
"NOTE: Contamination will make food and water unsafe for consumption. ".
Seems that Navy officials know that the use of DU causes willful harm because it is in the required DU training that all DOD personnel must complete by order and law. Thus disregard of this information probably violates RCRA (42 CFR901) and is a crime against humanity.
Next: The U.S. Navy cites that Vieques is needed for training our forces, yet, the Navy has advertised to any nation for a fee that Vieques can be used for as quoted "Mission: consistently provide professional customer services, conduct real world anti-submarine warfare training for aircrafts, ships, and submarines of U.S. and foreign navies...Live-fire capability for most non-conventional weapons inventory...to provide airspace, surface, and subsurface water space for developmental and operational testing of new and existing weapons systems."
In case anyone has missed the most important part of this advertisement it is that "non-conventional" as cited has historically referred to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. If that has occurred over the years that is why the residents of Vieques are sick. Conventional weapons residues will also cause health and environmental problems.
It is time for everyone to support the residents of Vieque and demand that the U.S. Navy withdraw and cease all actions on that island. Just remember if the Navy willingly fired DU to prepare for battle in Kosovo then the next preparation with "non-conventional weapons" as advertised may be for use against you!
"NOT ONE MORE BOMB"
For additional information see: http://www.viequeslibre.org/
As always: For GOD and the Citizens of the World.
dr. doug rokke