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Lt. Ehren Watada gave a speech at the Veterans for Peace National Convention where he said:

I have broken no law but the code of silence and unquestioning loyalty. If I am guilty of any crime, it is that I learned too much and cared too deeply for the meaningless loss of my fellow soldiers and my fellow human beings. If I am to be punished it should be for following the rule of law over the immoral orders of one man. If I am to be punished it should be for not acting sooner. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

Thank you, Lt. Ehren Watada... for standing up for your convictions. You and all the other soldiers who refuse to fight in this unjust war have my support.