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Edward Abbey — Part 1
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in gemnection with any Commnist Party activities.
OTHER ACTIVITIES INDICATING FURTHERANCE OF THE PROGRAM
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=~ \ Bureau of Investigation, a typewritten notice on plain white, notebook paper, -sise -
aan 8-1/2" x 11", unruled, which he found posted on a bulletin board at the ‘collages == 5
eo notice is signed in ink by ABBEY, and reads as follows: ES
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Tomorrow, the anniversary of Abrahan Lincoln's birthday, several. -
' ‘thousand American men sre going to attempt to emancipate theaselves -=S5;:.
-- - from peacetime conscription by publicly ridding themselves of their ===-...
-- draft credentials, either by mailing them to the President or ‘porning =":
eT ete them in poblic bonfires. This sounds like a foolish, crackpot scheme =>.
“ bat it's not. It is mech worse than that—-it is a form of civil © 0°
“lw . ..)”*t« Obedience. That's somthing rather old-fashioned but in times like -
sss ehese, when America's government is diverting the major portion of ite
tl. “expenditures to armaments and our military leaders are trying to fasten
Se peacetime conscription on the nation, then, ¢ es Thoreau said,
"Jt is not too soon for an honest man to rebel." Es
mo - fhese mon are certainly hohest and sincere, and they are Febr
_~imot only against what they consider a violation of personal liberty,
; beat against the slow and deadly drift towards World War IIT which a
<-§nternational armament race and universal conscription make
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