Ersan Ugur Gor

15 May 2004:

I loathe the taking up of arms that threaten living beings and human life in the world. I loathe every mine awaiting its victims, every uniform, which symbolises murder, every single bullet that kills. All wars are assassination and all states are assassins. I want a world, which is without class, border, exploitation, violence, hierarchy and authority. I want the world. I do not accept geographies, which have borders or the existence of states. I reject the hegemony on individuals, collaboration with any states, to rule or to be ruled, to command or to be commanded, to kill or to be killed, every kind of authority practice by states on individuals, conscription and all its alternatives. Hereby, I declare my total conscientious objection. I shall not kill or die. I will not be anyone's soldier.