Austerlitz, August 12th 2003

PROCLAMATION OF AUSTERLITZ

 We protest against the intent to build the NATO military radar site on the Prace (Pratzen) heights. We protest against any construction activity which would in any way disturb the appearance of the locality and the surrounding landscape. We consider this intent as the act of the clerical arbitrary rule. For thousands of people who consider the history as something more than just a blink of the past the Prace heights and the Piece Monument are the place of the highest piety, the place which honours hundreds of thousands dead of the Napoleonic Wars 200 years ago. The heights and the Monument must continue to serve as place of piety and meditation and not as the radar site for which there are certainly many more suitable localities in the surrounding landscape than the preserved monument zone.
 We call everybody to support our endeavour to change the decision and to stop any construction activities of the similar character in the area of the preserved Austerlitz battlefield zone and its close proximity.

Ivan Vystrcil
President
C.E.N.S.

Dear friends, fellow napoleonic re-enactors!
 
In the attachement of this message you will find the text of the Proclamation of Austerlitz against the NATO radar site construction in the close proximity of the Piece Monument on the Austerlitz battlefield. If you wish to support our fight for stopping this inconsiderate intent, please express your approval by simple “I agree” at info@austerlitz2005.com with the message subject “Proclamation of Austerlitz” or sign it personally at the Napoleonic days in Austerlitz this weekend (August 15th-17th). Feel free to further distribute the text of the Proclamation and ask your friends and comrades to support us. Let’s allow our children not to look at the Piece Monument with the military radar cupola in the background. It would mean a humiliation for all of us.
 
Ivan Vystrcil,
President
C.E.N.S.