Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DRAFT...
...Catholic pacifists on trial in a Baltimore federal court last week knew that they did not have a prayer. Defense Lawyer William Kunstler conceded immediately that the nine, who included three former missionaries, a nurse, an artist and two priests, had broken the law by taking 378 files from Draft Board 33 in suburban Catonsville last May and burning them with homemade napalm...
...Catonsville Nine did, however, use some highly unusual arguments. They contended that "some property has no right to exist," namely the draft files, because they were instruments of an illegal war. They argued that they had broken one law in order to halt what they believed was a greater act of outlawry. But Chief Judge Roszel C. Thomsen underlined the distinction between the pacifists' motives and their admitted intent to commit the crime of destroying government property and interfering with the administration of the Selective Service system. It was of no legal significance, Thomsen told the jury "that...
...nine are already appealing six-year federal-prison terms for pouring duck blood on Baltimore draft files. Appeals are also planned against last week's verdict. "It was a defeat from the legal point of view," said Kunstler. "But it was a triumph from the emotional, moral and ethical point of view. I have nothing to regret...
...families, schools, colleges, corporations. All ought to be doing more to spur individual initiative. A case could be made for pitting every teen-ager against physical hardships that build self-confidence, as in t country's several Outward Bound camps, which put boys through summer survival courses. If draft laws are ever changed, dropping out for useful social action would do wonders for jaded collegians. If more U.S. corporations imitated the smartest ones, thousands of executives woi get periodic leaves for intellectual recharging, and spend their lives in creativity rather than conformity...