J.Knaebel [WWP477+]:

When actions of State harm living beings, it is one’s duty to withdraw support.

One must altogether reject even indirect support for a military state.

Unbearable became the inner moral conflict and despair arising from the knowledge that my labor—through the income tax—was supporting murder of innocent women and children at many places around the world. In order to save myself from internal disintegration, it became imperative to act.

The destructive activities of the military-industrial-political complexes are so systematically embedded that withholding the “war portion” of a tax is ineffective. It would be like trying to distinguish blood corpuscles which serve the liver from those that serve the lung.

It is incomprehensible that any government has a moral right to force a person to kill, or through taxation to finance murder and even mass extermination of innocent human beings. How can I support war crimes, human rights violations, crimes against humanity? ... My choice was to participate as an automaton in the organized, systematic destruction of life or to withdraw from participation in the corporate controlled society. The only safe and honorable course for me to keep my self-respect was to disobey and willingly face the penalties.