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...Ferber's CO application also quoted Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. It included letters testifying to the sincerity of his beliefs from ten people (including two combat veterans), statements from his ministers, and a list of the 13 political demonstrations in which he took part--the first during his sophomore year in high school...
...down almost upon receipt; he suspects they didn't even read it. His local board in Buffalo reclassified him 1-A, despite the fact that he was still a full-time student. This was in May, 1967, before the new draft law abolishing graduate deferments was passed. The lawyer Ferber contacted told him that this was a blatantly illegal move, since there was no basis for stripping...
...Seeger decision. My hearing officer was totally unsympathetic. There was little I could do, unless I was a Quaker in the pious, conventional sense. They have an image of what a religious person is, and I'm not that. There's nothing wrong with my case. [Ferber's lawyer assured him they could win in court.] I had all my political and religious activities...
...fundamental distinction between religion and politics. Religion and morality are the same, and politics is an extension of morality. I made that point very clear, but they didn't seem to see it. The very first question at my hearing was, 'Mr. Ferber, what are your political beliefs? They didn't take too kindly to the fact that I had caused all kinds of 'trouble' in high school and college and got arrested in Chester. I couldn't be religious and do that. Apparently, a religious guy just sits off in a corner and meditates. And a pacifist...
...Ferber is out of place in the list of five. All the other men--including Mitchell Goodman, a New York author, and Marcus Raskin, co-director of Washington's Institute for Policy Studies--are charged with sponsoring the nation-wide draft resistance program. Ferber isn't. All the other men, are ineligible for the draft; Ferber is the only one who is draft eligible and has turned in his card...