EDITORIAL
Guest Editorial:
American Peace Test follows Gandhi, King
by Vip B. Short
The American Peace Test is a national or
ganization, now based in Las Vegas and
Washington, D.C., which had its origins in
Eugene. APT's purpose is to bring about an in
tentional suspension in U.S. nuclear testing
(matching the Soviet gesture of the past 17
months) as a first step out of the otherwise fatal
nuclear arms race.
APT participants believe that our means must
be consistent with our goal. We therefore de
signed and implemented a nationwide, non
violent direct action campaign as the vehicle to
achieve our purpose. Our focus is self
empowerment for meaningful action. Required
elements are a commitment to truth and hones
ty about our actions, an attitude of complete
harmlessness, and the willingness to shoulder
personal sacrifice in the pursuit of our goal. In
this way, we believe our opponents’ hearts will
be changed and nuclear testing will stop, as a
larger truth becomes apparent to all concerned.
We try to carry on the high spiritual/political
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they crack down. Then you win.
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tradition set out by such “truth force” pioneers
as Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, the Suffra
gettes, the Abolitionists, and the founders of this
country—to name a few.
More than 900 people have been arrested for
civil disobedience at the Nevada Test Site since
Hiroshima Day 1985, when the USSR began its
testing moratorium. Among those willing to go
to jail over this issue have been scientist and
writer Carl Sagan, actor Martin Sheen, former
defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg, and the top na
tional leadership of Physicians for Social Re
sponsibility, the American Public Health As
sociation, and the National FREEZE Cam
paign.
Gandhi, speaking of the normal life-cycle of
nonviolence campaigns, said, “First they ignore
you, then they laugh at you, then they crack
down. Then you win.” A recent sign of APT’s
effectiveness and momentum is the indictment
by Nevada officials of several Peace Test staff
members for conspiracy charges. We are told
that the maximum penalty of one year in prison
will be sought if these people are found gulty
of conspiring to commit misdemeanor crimes.
This is an outright attempt to crush a success
ful and growing national movement of cons
cience by putting away its perceived leadership.
Just like the United States' continuing refusal
to entertain a no-risk, temporary moratorium
on nuclear testing, this attempt to crush dissent
is much more in keeping with what we have
been taught to think about aggressive totalitarian
societies. Perhaps the first “enemy” we need
to deal with is the deliberate trampling of our
own country’s sacred principles.
Please write the President and your legis
lators, urging an immediate suspension of U.S.
nuclear testing. Also write District Attorney Phil
Dunleavy, P.O. Box 593, Tonopah, NV 89049,
to protest this move to eliminate citizen dissent.
(A copy of your letter should be sent to Justice
William Sullivan, P.O. Box 188, Beatty, NV
89003.)
Finally, you can make this pre-emptive and
selective prosecution more difficult by obtain
ing and signing a “co-conspirator statement”;
write the American Peace Test, P.O. Box 26725,
Las Vegas, NV 89126.
The nuclear arms race is everyone’s problem
and one which, if not resolved successfully, will
render all other issues moot.
[Vip Short is a Eugene chiropractic physician who
helped to found the American Peace Test.]
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