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...Well the book arose out of research I’ve been doing for a number of years. I was a conscientious objector in the Vietnam War, and over the years since then, I’ve found myself rethinking my position many times, often as a result of my interactions with students, who either come from a military background and have helped me to understand the complexity of the professional military today, or who are humanitarians seeking to use force for a variety of different humanitarian purposes around the world, whether in Darfur or Bosnia, or wherever...
Kennedy is a peacenik—a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, in fact (see the interview with him on page B2). But this thin volume reflects two decades of his rethinking on war’s permissibility and the proper role of law—a rethinking that he says was prompted by questions from students who urged military intervention in war-torn Bosnia and Darfur...
...Council President. In his early Crimson years, Foote was a sports writer, reporting on lightweight crew, before becoming managing editor his senior year. As a Quaker, his pacifist beliefs led him to serve two prison sentences during World War II. The first indictment came in 1943, when his conscientious objector status during a draft led to a conviction for violating the Selective Service Act. In 1945, he spent a year in a federal penitentiary for similar charges until he was pardoned by President Truman. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School to further pursue his beliefs...
...measure of deserting without fleeing the U.S. Navy Petty Officer Pablo Paredes, 23, a weapons-control technician who refused on Dec. 6 to board the U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard to help transport 3,000 Marines to Iraq, has been assigned to janitorial work while awaiting a ruling on his conscientious-objector application. Raised in the Bronx, Paredes joined the Navy because he was eager to get an education. Nearly five years later, he says he is ashamed to be a member of the same military responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and claims to be a victim...
Even though everybody who enlists swears that he or she is not a conscientious objector, annual C.O. applications to the military, while still very rare, have nearly tripled since 2002, to 61 in 2003 and 67 last year. Anderson's attorney, Jeffry House, 58, says he gets a few inquiries every day from U.S. soldiers interested in fleeing to Canada. A Wisconsin native who went to Canada in 1970 as a draft dodger, House says he has five American clients applying to be refugees. Extrapolating from those and additional cases he knows about, he estimates there...