Word: objectore
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...real issue remains the war itself: do we want not to fight in Vietnam more than we want to avoid going to jail? If so, we must consider civil disobedience. [Of course, one can apply for Conscientious Objector status, but currently so few are actually receiving this classification that it has ceased to be a real option for most.] In any case, before the U.S. Congress will provide alternatives to military service in wartime, it would vote unanimously to withdraw all our troops from Vietnam...
...made steady progress, particularly since the Supreme Court extended the First Amendment to the states in 1925. The right to criticize public officials in print, in speech and in the streets is now firmly rooted throughout U.S. law. The draft cannot be used to conscript critics; a conscientious objector can rely on any God he chooses. The civil rights movement has taught Americans to accept nonviolent demonstrations in pursuit of constitutional rights. The rejection of McCarthyism, the civilizing of U.S. criminal justice-such milestones have moved America ever closer to its professed ideals. Few today would cheer the jingoism...
Bertrand Russell [April 14] was a conscientious objector when far better men were giving their lives in defense of their country. Bertrand Russell has preached that Englishmen should peacefully welcome invaders who might come to take over the land for which their fathers and their ancestors fought and died. I can think of a far more appropriate term than "intellectual" for this kind...
Under current Selective Service rules, seminarians are automatically granted 4-D deferments. Supporters of the plan to turn in draft cards, like Coffin, argue that this move would "make a mockery" of the administration's policy towards conscientious objectors. To be exempt from military duty a conscientious objector must be opposed to all wars. Many divinity students object to the war in Vietnam but are not opposed to war in general. If Hershey refuses them C.O. status, the students would prepare to face prison sentences rather than submit to the draft...
...waking hours, leaving the other 90% free for his "ministering" as a Black Muslim parson. Trouble is, he can't seem to convert his Louisville draft board to the view that his religious vocation entitles him to an exemption. Nor should his claims to being a conscientious objector keep him from serving, the board ruled. Now training in Houston for his Feb. 6 bout with Ernie Terrell, the Greatest conscientiously objected, bawling: "We're gonna take this all the way up to the Supreme Court, man." It may not go that far, but as his lawyer filed...