I am not with the United States!

This document is a call to world wide civil disobedience.

The Bush administration in its latest act of consolidating it

the downfall of imperialism is the inevitable.

What will it take before people stand up against these imperialistic oppressors -- the US government?

Will it happen when the US supports corrupt regimes around the world? That's been happening for years. Last May, the US gave the Taliban millions of dollars for killing poppy plants and executing the innocent civilians who grew them.

Will it happen when the US directly murders innocent civilians in other countries? That's been happening forever, but most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Will it happen when the US starts enslaving its own people? That's been happening for years too, with the War on Some Drugs that unfairly imprisons mostly people of color who are forced to sew clothes for the Gap in conditions worse than its sweatshop factories in Saipan, and its happening all the time with people who are poor and not white, no matter what the supposed crime is.

Will it happen when the US starts taking away the rights of its own citizens? That is happening with all the new anti-terrorism legislation being passed.

So what exactly will it take before people start standing up to this oppression they are funding with the taxes they pay? Will it take a firing squad with the guns aimed at them directly? Because that is what is coming if people don't stand up for human rights soon, and if people wait too long, it will be too late.

First they came for the Communists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,

and by that time no one was left to speak up.

-Pastor Martin Niemoller