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Abbie Hoffman — Part 19
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YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY (YIP) CONFID*® x TIAL
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We the People, gathered here today in a peopla’s tribunal, hereby accuse Richard M. iixon
of the following high crimes and misdemeanors, in violation of the United States Constitu-
tion; the duly enacted laws and principles of the United Stctes, the United Nations Charter
United Nations Resolutions, the Geneva Accords, the Hague Convention, the Nuremberg treaty.
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Count I, Violations of International Law and Crimes against the People of Indochina as
Committed in the following overt acts: .
~Massive aerial bonbardment of civilian targets
~Ecological and penetic varfare through the massive use of chenicel and gern
weapons, defoliants and cloud-seeding chenicals .
~The deploynent and use of veapons oytlawed by the Geneva CSnventions~ weapons
which are designed to kill, main and terrorize civilian populations, such as
éun-dum bullets, plastic pellet bombs and other fragmentary devices
~Widespread uses of incendiary devices
-Other acts of warfare directed at civilian populations, including the estab-
listuent of free-fire zones, forced relocation of non-combatants into con-
centration camps, and the planned destruction of the dikes and dams of
Vietnam to effect the flooding of the Ped River Delta which would result in
the nassive destruction of crops and the death by drowning of countless
thousands of civilian farmers and their fanilies. :
Let it be noted that the use of the above weaponry and tactics is demonstrative of a
deliberate policy of genocide, cited as an international war crime by the Nuremberg Tri-
bunal.
In violation of the United States Constitution and the-lawe-of the-United States: ~ - :
1- The committance of unauthorized acts of war in usurpation of constitution-
al powers vested exclusively in Congress to authorize var in Article I,
section 8, clause 2 of the United States Constitution. H
2- The continuation and expansion of the war in Southeast Asia in flagrant
defiance of the repeal on January 12, 1971 of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution,
and also in defiance of the Nansfield Amet-iment calling for the prompt
termination of such a var.
Violation of the laws of che United States and crimes against the people of the United
States as committed in the following overt acts; ‘turder and conspiracy to commif murder
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in the first degree: :
l- Murder of black freedom fightere including Pred Hampton and 27 other
members of the Black Panther Party
2- Murder of prisoners including the scores at Attica, George Jackson at
San Quentin and wany others at barbaric institutions across the country
3- Uurder of students at Kent State and Jackson State
4- Murder of protesting citizens, including James Rector of Berkeley, during
the liberation of People's Park .
S- Murder of countless American G.1.'s and civilians by heroin addiction
financed by C.1.A. Mafia~-varlord activity in Indochina
6- iiurder of countless American women by forcing them to receive improperly
administered, unsanitary, illegal abortions.
In Viev of these actions corsitted by the Unired States Military Forces, of which Presidczt
tiixon is Commander in Chief, and the various and several adninistrative branches of the
U.S, Governnent, of which Presidnet !dxom 4s the Chief Executive, we thereby call for-an
irmediate cessation of the agg-essive acts of criminal warfdre in southcast Asia, and the
blatant violation of domestic rights to justice and freedom here in the United States,
and for the sake of mankind and to raise the dignity and purpose of the office of the
president of the United States above the level of mockery and deceit to which ‘fr. *ixon
has degenerated the position, ve are requesting the Unitcd States Department of Justice,
U.N., Human Rights Commission to bring the appropriate indictments against Richard i.
Nixon as circuastances, the law and basic human decency cal) for.
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This 4s what we say: The laws and ervaties and moral code of any human nation would con-
denn Richard Nixon forthwith for his cruel, amoral barbarism and so vill the laws of
the United States, sooner or later, call Milhaus Nixon to his hour of reckoning.
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