US nuclear arsenal menaces world, foreign and domestic

Editor,

The U.S. nuclear bombs designed for decades at Sandia and Los Alamos laboratories terrorize many whole nations. U.S. nuclear bombs threaten to incinerate many times more moms, dads and children than Hitler and the Nazis killed in gas ovens, concentration camps and World War II. U.S. nuclear bombs are prepared to slaughter far more people than all of the wars in human history combined. U.S. nuclear bombs are prepared to commit mass murders worldwide, thousands of times larger than the atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. nuclear bombs are aimed to murder far more human beings than murder all the street gangs, drug dealers, drunk drivers, rapists, deranged spouses, serial killers, the Ku Klux Klan and the Mafia combined.

Even if the U.S. never again drops nuclear bombs on cities, those bombs are murdering millions of poor people now, because the billions of dollars, vast resources and brain power invested in bombs could provide clean water, decent shelter and nutritious food for millions of poor people dying worldwide.

Even if the U.S. never again drops nuclear bombs on cities, the radioactive and chemical contamination from the making and testing of these weapons can sicken and kill millions of people for thousands of years. Many children will be born deformed or retarded. Many people will be ravaged by cancers or ruined immune systems.

Even if the U.S. never again drops nuclear bombs on cities, these bombs are a constant threat against many nations worldwide to keep them under the bloody terrorist control of the U.S. empire and multinational corporations, robbing them of their labor and natural resources and keeping the poor in perpetual economic slavery.

How can anyone who abhors murder on our own streets and in our homes pay one dime of federal income tax for this international nuclear terrorism by the U.S. empire?

Sadly, most politicians, preachers, priests, rabbis and community leaders do not have the conscience and the balls to damn nuclear bombs.

I have paid no federal income tax for 33 years. I refuse to pay for war and nuclear bombs. I have no right to pay tax that will do to other people what I do no want done to me.

Albert Einstein said, “More and more I come to value charity and love of (others) above everything else … all our lauded technological progress — our very civilization — is like an ax in the hand of a pathological criminal.”

Never work for Sandia and Los Alamos laboratories, Lockheed Martin or other war industries.

Don Schrader
Daily Lobo reader