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Howard Zinn — Part 3
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On Wednesday, June 17, 1970, Selective Service files were destroyed at Local
Boards #1 and 2 in Dover and Georgetown, Delaware. Anti-pexsonnel weapons were dis-
rupted as well at the Georgetown National Guard Armory where Local Board #2 was
located, Simultaneously, the State Headquarters of the Selective Service System. at.
Prices Corner in Delaware was "bleached away"; Portable wading pools and wastebas~
kets, placed on the floor of the Dupont Company Office, were filled with a bleach
solution, into which draft xvecords were dumped, Located on the same floor as the
Selective Service Office, Dupont was specifically chosen as the site for the des-
truction of the death papers because of that corporations active role in the destruc-
tion of human life,
We, the undersigned - SECOND CONSPIRACY TO FIND AMERICA = accept responsibility for
these actions,
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We are people who seek a future of Peace and Brotherhood. This future will never
be realized if America continues in its present direction, We ask the people of
America to listen to the erties of the People of the World ~- cries of hunger and thirst
and death and despair ~ eries which echo not only in far-off lends, but also in
. What Mr. Nixon chooses to call the "richest most powerful nation of the world."
We are people Like you, people who want to live in Peace with all of our brothers and
sisters, But peace is not built with military might, the burden of which is borne
by the poor of the world, Thig property was destroyed not out of hate, but with love;
not out of anger, but with hopé. Our hope is to find America, Not the Amerika of
John Mitchell or Richard Nixon or even Spiro Agnew. No, we seek the America which
declared: “that all men are created equal;" that they have God-given rights to "life
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,"
We hope to find the America which proclaimed that-it is the duty of governments to
protect these rights, and that "whenever any form of government becomes destructive
of the Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute
new government,"
These are the words of revolutionaries; revolutionaries Like ourselves; revolutiona-
ries who had a vision of a better world as we do, These are the words of the FIRST
CONSPIRACY FO FIND AMERICA as they declared theix independence.
And so we return to the First State of the Union and form the SECOND CONSPIRACY TO
FIND AMERICA. We conapire to "form a more perfect Union (and), establish justice."
For justice is wanting in Amerika today. People are hungry and naked and honeless
while a milti-billion dollar war continues, The cities get poorer and the weapons
get larger and more deadly and more costly, People are intimidated and freedoms com=
promised or removed. "The rights of the people to peacably assemble and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances" is repressed, The right of the people to
be secure in their persons, homes, papers and effects against tnreasonable searches
and seizures" is violated, In short, the Bill of Rights exists no longer. Greed
fox private power and profit stand in its place,
The greatest injustice of all, however, is that men without wealth or power are indon-
tured in the armed forces to kill and be killed to preserve this "way of life,"
The defiantly seditious utterances of Thomas Jefferson are our inspiration.
We invite others to join us in Conspiracy. To this, "we mutually pledge to each
other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor,"
WE WILL FIND AMERICA,
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