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Mordechai Vanunu

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Mordechai Vanunu
b. x10-14-1954; Morocco

Former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu is a “whistleblower”, revealing Israeli clandestine seven story underground Weapons of Mass Destruction Facility in the Negev in 1986.

Israel considered him a traitor, drugged and kidnapped him, convicted him in a closed trial, and imprisoned him in solitary confinment for 11 of his 18 year confinment. Since his release, he is denied leaving Israel and his speech is restricted; he continues to be jailed for offenses against the terms of his parole. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience.

Mordechai Vanunu quotes ~
• “Everyone knows that I am in jail not because I raped, robbed or murdered. I sit here because of my ideals. Given my background and the things I knew, it was inevitable that I did what I did.”
• “But the thing that most annoyed me was that I had positive intentions for what I did but the state turned me into a monster. I could not bear the thought that their reason for doing these things was simple revenge. I wanted to save the population of Israel from the disaster of a nuclear war and they turned me into a traitor and a spy. There was no proportion between my act and my punishment.”
• “More and more states are realizing the deficit in possessing nuclear weapons and that nuclear weapons do not promote economic development in most of the undeveloped states. These countries are ready to back and support any initiative that will bring the end of nuclear weapons in the entire world. They know that the abolition of nuclear weapons in Europe, the US and the entire world will only bring help and encouragement to global economic activities, including globalization. So anti-nuclear activists should work in this new field to use economic reasons and alliances to defeat nuclear weapons. This could be done especially at economic summits like the G-8 and WTO meetings where decisions or declarations could be issued to abolish nuclear weapons. Rather than fighting the WTO like anarchist environmentalists, we can recreate the WTO and G-8 to begin working toward zero nuclear weapons.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
b. 11-11-1922; Indianapolis, Indiana
d. 4-11-2007; NY

Kurt Vonnegut blended satire, dark comedy and science fiction in such novels as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. quotes ~
• “We are what we imagine ourselves to be.”
• “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
• “We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”
• “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”
• “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States – and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”

• Essential Vonnegut Interviews CD