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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 12. januar 2005 / Time Line January 12, 2005
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01/12/2005
Marine Jailed for Refusing to Pick Up Gun
By ESTES THOMPSON
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A soldier who re-enlisted with the Marines
after becoming a Seventh-Day Adventist has been jailed for refusing
to pick up a gun.
Cpl. Joel D. Klimkewicz, 24, of Birch Run, Mich., was sentenced
last month in a court-martial to seven months in Camp Lejeune's
brig. He also received a reduction in rank to private and a bad
conduct discharge.
Klimkewicz was charged with refusing to obey order two years to
draw a weapon from his unit's armory for a training exercise in
preparation for an Iraq deployment.
In refusing the order, Klimkewicz told his superiors he was a
conscientious objector and cited his new status as a member of the
Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
The church supports noncombatant status for its members who serve
in the military, but leaves such decisions to a member's individual
conscience.
Klimkewicz joined an Adventist church in Jacksonville in 2003, a
year after he re-enlisted. He sought conscientious objector status,
which was rejected in last March.
Useful Links:
http://www.peacenowar.net/Iraq/News/April%2004-Photos/Abu%20Ghraib.htm
Los Angeles Times has a complete biographical Information on U.S.
Soldiers Killed:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/fmmac2.mm.ap.org/war2/adv_search.php?SITE=CALOS&SECTION=MIDEAST
For more photos and Videos from Iraq, visit:
"Report from Baghdad" July, 2003
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/intro.html
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01/12/2005
Martin Sheen signs the Manifesto against conscription and the
military system
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/manifest.htm
On 5 January 2005, famous US film actor and producer Martin
Sheen (born 1940) signed the "Manifesto against conscription
and the military system". He played characters in the classical
anti-war movies "Catch-22" (1970), "Apocalypse Now" (1979),
"Gandhi" (1982), "In the King of Prussia" (1982) and "Nightbreaker"
(1989). For many decades, he has been committed to the cause of
Peace and Justice. He has frequently been engaged in peace
protests, e.g. several acts of nonviolent civil disobedience during
the last decades, most of all against the nuclear industry and
nuclear weapons. You find a comprehensive website on Martin Sheen
(with filmography):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000640/
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