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...Nixon 1974 budget cut of $277 million is in my mind a sadistic act. It seems unjust, does it not, to take more away from our returning and present veterans? Is it not enough that these men have fought for their country? Must they come home and find that there is not enough help for their broken and maimed bodies? It makes one think that the war protesters were right in asking, "What are we doing in Viet Nam; why are we there...
...Haag contended that a war, whether just or unjust, represents a decision made by the government; he said that those who reject that decision cannot expect to be welcomed back as soon as the war has ended. "People who violate the law must not profit from that violation," he said...
...majority of those who testified at the hearing said that the existing laws were not only unjust, but a corrupting influence in society...
...feel strongly that legitimate protests by students for the abolition of unjust and unfair laws is a freedom that should be guaranteed by every government. To sentence students to jail terms without a fair trial for verbal insults to police officers is a mockery of the heritage of democratic principles which originated in Greece...
True, one may suspect that it is unjust for Calley to be the only man imprisoned for the My Lai affair. True, one may wish that clemency eventually be shown to the draft evaders. One may wish, in addition, that both the righteous right and the righteous left soften their positions. Yet the Coffin proposal smacks as much of an ill-considered trade-off as it does of Christian forgiveness. The two situations are really unrelated, both legally and morally. Each therefore deserves to be judged on its own merits, not as part of a jubilee...