Word: resister
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High-heeled shoes may be in fashion in certain circles, but they throw the spine badly out of line, tilt the pelvis and can lead to trouble. Try hard to resist them...
Local groups also promised to provide counseling, information and legal help for those who decide to resist registration...
Concerned students ought to resist those who wish to bring an actual military draft into reality. At the same time, resistance through breaking the law ought to be the very last step one takes. One should do it only when it becomes certain that one must either defy the law or be immediately forced into losing one's rights. That time has not come...
REFUSING REGISTRATION is not a light decision--currently the law exacts a penalty of up to five years in prison and $10,000 in fines for resisters. And if registration takes place over the summer, as seems likely, it will be hard for many young people to find the support they may need to make a hard choice and live with its consequences. Many will label resisters selfish, but the charge loses its sting in the light of the political selfishness that brought registration back. Those who resist a policy at high personal cost because they find it immoral...
Many will argue that registration is only a first step that there is little need to resist until some civil servant starts pulling draft numbers out of a hat. Those who oppose the draft must continue political efforts to stop its adoption, but resisting once a draft goes into effect may come too late. It is time now to warn the nation that we do not plan to be used as tools in one man's political campaign or as cannon fodder in a war that can claim no moral justification. If the unhappy day comes when a necessary...