Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 18:59.
I would like to express my profound gratitude to the anti-war protesters who put themselves on the line against munitions giant Alliant Tech Systems. I would also like to honor the protesters who go to Alliant headquarters week after week in an effort to derail what is truly a war machine.
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the world’s major producer of depleted uranium weapons (“high density penetrators”) and other savage devices. It makes bullets, tank shells, and cluster bombs. Depleted uranium is insidious because it vaporizes and can then be inhaled or otherwise ingested, contaminating people indefinitely. Gulf War Syndrome may be one result of the use of depleted uranium. In an article entitled, “Deaths from Radioactive Munitions Fired in Middle East may Exceed A-Bombing of Japan,” author Sherwood Ross quotes scientist Leuren Moret as saying, “The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.”
ATK is disingenuous when it claims to want to protect its workers because it is needlessly exposing them to radioactivity. It will not release medical studies of the depleted uranium production workers at the facility in Arden Hills.
Depleted uranium is visited upon civilians and soldiers alike. It poisons the environment far into the future.
The Nuremberg Tribunal, Geneva Conventions, The Hague Regulations, and numerous other international treaties collectively require that civilians must not be harmed in wartime and that after the war there cannot be continuing destruction visited upon people or the environment. Alliant Tech is in clear, incontrovertible violation of these fundamental treaties. It must cease and desist weapons production immediately or be brought before the International Criminal Court at The Hague for war crimes.
Alliant Tech System Protesters
I would like to express my profound gratitude to the anti-war protesters who put themselves on the line against munitions giant Alliant Tech Systems. I would also like to honor the protesters who go to Alliant headquarters week after week in an effort to derail what is truly a war machine.
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the world’s major producer of depleted uranium weapons (“high density penetrators”) and other savage devices. It makes bullets, tank shells, and cluster bombs. Depleted uranium is insidious because it vaporizes and can then be inhaled or otherwise ingested, contaminating people indefinitely. Gulf War Syndrome may be one result of the use of depleted uranium. In an article entitled, “Deaths from Radioactive Munitions Fired in Middle East may Exceed A-Bombing of Japan,” author Sherwood Ross quotes scientist Leuren Moret as saying, “The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.”
ATK is disingenuous when it claims to want to protect its workers because it is needlessly exposing them to radioactivity. It will not release medical studies of the depleted uranium production workers at the facility in Arden Hills.
Depleted uranium is visited upon civilians and soldiers alike. It poisons the environment far into the future.
The Nuremberg Tribunal, Geneva Conventions, The Hague Regulations, and numerous other international treaties collectively require that civilians must not be harmed in wartime and that after the war there cannot be continuing destruction visited upon people or the environment. Alliant Tech is in clear, incontrovertible violation of these fundamental treaties. It must cease and desist weapons production immediately or be brought before the International Criminal Court at The Hague for war crimes.