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American Friends Service Committee — Part 20
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SHEET 2 oF 3
23 July 1968
launched into a lengthy dissertation on the Selective Servi
Act, the several classifications applied to draft-age mon under it,
and ended with this statement: ~!'If you. can’ tido,anything- else, you
can'’at the very least be a conscientious objectors% To substantiate
this, you have to claim it on the basis of a commitment to a religic
thet prohibite violence, or you can claim it on the besis of a atric
religious upbringing. Of course you don't have t pe religious, but
“you had better be able to prove that_you are.’*” He then advised ths
pote it is easy to get what he termed '’olassification as an undesirabis'
8 He said, '"Il think you know some of the. things that make-@ zan un-~
desirabie to the military. also, there will be some friends (Friend:
aground who can tell you ary you have missed,'*
A member (male) of the sudiense rade some pusrile remarks adout ths
necassity of avoiding the draft, but ended by saying, ‘'Of course
Communism is, 93 we all know, a very tad thing ard I cuesa 9 rave
-to oppose 1t somshow.'' : said, in reply, ‘'How do wa xnow tha
Communism ta not gccd? To Shink we will find that ‘+ 43 very zood, &
1% Will triuoph and we should not oppose it. I wa do net nat
Communista, Americana should atep hating Cc aiats; thay will find
tnat is better. In Norsh Vietnam the gover as is good. The pecri
love Communism because & giise it is good. fhe ocrnuniatea con
An3 wAnt war secauss J are
‘
.
want war and fizhtine,. Uhs azeric
er countries cwn. If the
BY
iaperialistsa and want th that oth
Americans sould stop fis there would be poacs.''
said, ''we held war guilt trials at Murenburg after World ar
cted @ great uany sar criminals and executed them. The sans
in anerica, and all of you sho submit to crart
Banh VY govern ars ia ¢anzer nc
2 nS ar sfolaing orlil and
scutec lor orines against numanity.''
Ptmug cane
Tho fact that you are ac
lonot seve you Lf you submis
ting uncer criera from ;
& to oraft and vein
atin
° 32u law has mace it powaible for
t 5 2 and auudue al] the sative peccles
. elise who trisa to atcp us. we probably can't get the draft
ao: while the war is (gces?) on, but we can. sure-stop the draft if enoush
of ue refuse to go.'!
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