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...against the Republic in Algeria (1961) and succeeded in getting junior officers to carry out their orders. To prevent such actions in the future, General Fernand Gambiez and others have spent three years rewriting the French military code. In one of the new provisions, a soldier may refuse to punish prisoners and civilians by "cruel treatment, torture and threats." Indeed, he may be court-martialed for obeying illegal orders...
Congress's power to punish utterances that obstruct military recruiting or war activities was upheld in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), when the Supreme Court sustained the World War I Espionage Acts. In Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information...
Quick Controversy. The hearing was called to gather information for a pending bill that would make it a crime, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, to give, solicit or advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman...
...better question is why anyone bothers to confront Pyne. "It's a masochism syndrome," opines Pyne. "They look to me for approbation, as a father image, but sometimes they feel the need to be punished-and they know that I'll punish them." Many of those who do volunteer are extremist polemicists or plain hucksters who will suffer any indignity for a soapbox. Characteristic guests on his syndicated TV show: Black Muslims, prophets of eccentric sects, American Nazis, champions of free love or free LSD, homosexuals, and Helen Gurley Brown...
...hope the jury is a group of Godfearing people who will be able to overlook the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" and use, as a basis for their verdict, "An eye for an eye," and then punish these creatures accordingly. May I be forgiven for my evil thoughts of wanting a murder...