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Rosenwald

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Larry Rosenwald WWP216+:

As a Jew, I have a deep fear of being a docile citizen, meekly acquiescent in state violence, and think often of the Nuremberg principles as warrant for my civil disobedience.

 

[WWP219]:

To pay war taxes is to acquiesce in building weapons of mass destruction, i.e., in what international law as derived from the Nuremberg principles arguably defines as a crime; it is also to acquiesce in whatever state violence an administration may manage to commit. It is, simply, a wrong act for any pacifist, any adherent of international law, any person fundamentally opposed to American policy; and I do not understand what keeps such people from refusing taxes...  Someone might say, “I do not acquiesce, even though I pay taxes; I protest.” I honor such protest, but clearly it is not enough, and maybe it isn’t even what should come first; “let them protest all they like,” said Alexander Haig, “as long as they pay their taxes.”

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