Decent 'Individuals Against the Crime of Silence' - Actors Janice Rule, & Others
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Among the reasons I hold in esteem actress Janice Rule, actors Robert Vaughn, Robert Ryan and others is because they upheld the true meaning of decency at a critical time period in US-World History by signing the petition, 'Individuals Against the Crime of Silence', which protested the US role in Vietnam and The Vietnam War. It may be possible that the real reason Janice left acting was due to her possible disappointment in many of her fellow actor-constituents who chose to stay quiet and tow 'the line'. Perhaps she saw the US 'line' as a line of general, if not total, BULL$H*+.
Adding to the fact that Janice Rule reportedly kept a diary similar to the late Marilyn Monroe diary, her association and treatment with Monroe's fatal pyschoanalyst Greenson, her sudden, curious cerebral hemmorhage appears suspicious at a time after many JFK Assassination witnesses died or were murdered.
Actor Robert Ryan portrays a character in the film 'Executive Action' where he comments to actor Burt Lancaster's character on Vietnam and the data on depopulation - population reduction. Was Vietnam and The Vietnam War the staging ground for a massive genocide experiment which is used and carried out on US soil and in other countries, too?
The times may have changed, but the principles are still the same - keeping quiet over criminal government is tantamount to cooperating with it. "What are you prepared to do?"
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Marilyn Monroe - Kept the diary - murdered (according to a policeman on the scene)
Mary Pinchot Meyer - Kept the diary - JFK associate and alleged lover, murdered (murdered while jogging, CIA perp Jesus Angleton shows up almost immediately at her home looking for diary.
Dorothy Kilgallen - knew Monroe, very suspicious death - written off to pills and liquor - investigating JFK Assassination - had just returned from Jack Ruby interview in Dallas preparing to "blow the lid off"....
Janice Rule - Kept the diary - knew Monroe, treated by Dr. Greenson, left acting to study psychoanalysis - cerebral hemmorhage
The people who signed the petition undoubtedly paid a price to speak out. Even Dr. Greenson signed the petition. Where were all the rest of the notables who kept quiet at such a critically important moment in history?!
Individuals Against the Crime of Silence
Text of the Declaration
The declaration reads as follows:[1]
A Declaration To Our Fellow Citizens of the United States, To The Peoples Of The World, And to Future Generations:
We are appalled and angered by the conduct of our country in Vietnam.
In the name of liberty, we have unleashed the awesome arsenal of the greatest military power in the world upon a small agricultural nation, killing, burning and mutilating its people. In the name of peace, we are creating a desert. In the name of security, we are inviting world conflagration.
We, the signers of this declaration, believe this war to be immoral. We believe it to be illegal. We must oppose it.
At Nuremberg, after World War II, we tried, convicted and executed men for the crime of OBEYING their government, when that government demanded of them crimes against humanity. Millions more, who were not tried, were still guilty of THE CRIME OF SILENCE.
We have a commitment to the laws and principles we carefully forged in the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, at the NUREMBERG TRIALS, and in the UNITED NATIONS CHARTER. And our own deep democratic traditions and our dedication to the ideal of human decency among men demand that we speak out.
We Therefore wish to declare our names to the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations, both as permanent witness to our opposition to the war in Vietnam and as a demonstration that the conscience of America is not dead.
Signatories
The following are signatories of the declaration:[1]
Abe Ajay
James Baldwin
Father J. E. Bamberger, M.D., OCSO
Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Rev. Phillip Berrigan, S.S.J.
Ray Bradbury
Robert McAffee Brown
Rev. William H. Du Bay
James Farmer
W. H. Ferry
Dr. Jerome D. Frank
Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman
Ben Gazzara
Dr. Fred Goldstein
Naomi L. Goldstein
Dr. Ralph R. Greenson
Prof. Abraham J. Heschel
Brig. General H. B. Hester, ret.
Dr. Stanley Hoffman
Teressa B. Hoffman
Charles H. Hubbel
Sander L. Johnson, esq.
Prof. Donald Kalish
Edward M. Keating
Phil Kerby
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Rabbi Richard N. Levy
Louis Licht, esq.
Dr. Robert E. Litman
Victor Ludwig
Herbert D. Magidson
Shirley Magidson
Norman Mailer
Thomas Merton
Sidney Meyer
Eason Monroe
Prof. Hans J. Morgenthau
Henry E. Niles
Dr. Mark F. Orfirer
Ava Helen Pauling
Dr. Linus Pauling
Bishop James A. Pike
Richard M. Powell
Carl Reiner
Janice Rule
Robert Ryan
David Schoenbrun
Lorry Sherman
Prof. Robert Simmons
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Fred H. Steinmetz, esq.
Dr. Norman Tabachnick
D. Ian Thiermann
Bryna Ivens Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer
Dick Van Dyke
Robert Vaughn
Dr. Maurice N. Walsh
Dr. Harvey Wheeler
A. L. Wirin, esq.
