A letter from Tom Cahill to OFAC, July 7, 2004

David H. Harmon
Chief, Enforcement Division
Office of Foreign Assets Control
US Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Annex)
Washington, DC 20220

July 7, 2004

Dear Mr. Harmon,

This is to inform you I was a peace volunteer in Iraq last year from February 19 to March 30, 2003. I traveled there without a license from your office.

This is not a confession; it is a denouncement of you, your office and the entire United States Government for the following:

(1) The war on Iraq from 1991 to present.

(2) Sanctions against Iraq responsible for the deaths of many tens of thousands of Iraqi children of low income families due to lack of medicine for their illnesses that include those due to radiation from depleted uranium munitions dropped or fired on Iraq from 1991 to the present.

(3) Singling out for punishment Faith J. Fippinger of Sarasota, Florida, from among the dozens of us American peace volunteers in Iraq last year.

(4) The utter hypocrisy of punishing one, elderly and frail, woman peace volunteer and using fear of Iraq to extort money from taxpayers to pay defense contractors such as Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellog, Brown and Root and others that kick-back heavily to the Republican Party. Not one of us peace volunteers profited financially from our stay in Iraq while some U.S. firms are receiving corporate welfare for questionable work in Iraq.

Proof of my time in Iraq is enclosed. So come and get me! But send your enforcers at a civilized time between 9 AM and 8 PM or they just might get a pail of cold water splashed on them. I’m a cranky old man before I fully awake and after my bedtime. Since I live on the edge of wilderness, upon request I’ll send you a map to the barn in which I live.

Most sincerely,

Tom Cahill
PO Box 632
Fort Bragg, CA 95437