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Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam — Part 1
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ESISTATN DE - “OCT
On “ot ober is, thousends of young nen ell acress the pation wil .
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ep cease to edoverate ‘With the Selective Service System and the draft, _.
es Dur complicity sill no loger Isgitinatize the draft and the monstrous.
eae war .of penceiéc which our nation ywaeces in Victnen, Unitcd, we will =
Ot _ resist the wer.iachincry which fceds on our silencc, on our fezr, on
‘4 our civisicn, Each ene of us will begin to frec hinself, Our collect=
ive act of rcsistance will besin to free America and the ere i TIAL
Victnan fru. the militery onpressicn which now destrays our li
end meel:s our ¢omnon huwnity.
- Our resistonee begins with a belief that yrung ancricans should
not be cocnelled tz sleuchter othcr hun bcines in Vietnan, We heve
fa setvered thet our rulers he ve Tied to us about the nature ef thie
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unjust war and rcalize that the Sclective Service System end the dreft
arc néccesayy for the continuetion fer our nation's arincs apeinst
huminity, Men of us oppose ecnseription itsclf bseause of its denial
of personal frcedo.: and all of us arc aware of the unfairness of the
system ef cconserintion now in usc. The militcry mecncss of om sceicty
. is desrcyince both Victnan and Ancrica and poses a proving threat to °
the existanec of huzan life, We wish to act cffeetively, to publicly
ehallansc the lesitinagy of the var and the draft, and eventually
to deny tho wernzkers the youn: bodics they nied for the yer,
Meny ef us new have é.fern GMb Sac vail rencunce the WM, We realize
that the student acformunt, the conreicnticus cbjcetcr status toa
Sclect few, doforrcnis for the eclerzsy and civinity students, the I-¥
elascificcticn, ene the other fovers ¢ cispensed th the Sclce¢tive
Service System, arm: the tocls of the waremekers that are uscd to”
silenec, raninulate end divide yrunt men and prevent the growth of
united ooptsitiin fo censcrip ticn anc the war, The student dcferments
Aare their best weap, The caupus, when youns pe ople have acecss to
the truth, is the esntur ‘of tae nost votnl oppcsitieon to the wer, The
Vermekers, knew thet seny stidonts woulc rcfuse inducticn and thet
reesive resistanec vould crupt if studcnts were ersfted, They weit
until th. studint hac left the ernpus, and 4f he hes net yet been
chonslled “ints an aroreved cccuntticn, then he is teken, einsly,
and if he rcfuscs, sadlid, eloncsYhen it is casy fer there when
ther is ne exsswiith cf yount pewle to rettet, Ther ssteratieally
divide th tceslthy frea the nocr, the student fron the worger, the
inferned fren the densrant. 4112 in the intersst of the rer m rrehine,
62 tht 4t wtil function silently, smoothly. Defcracnts are 6 taeiie
of th s:stui, eassurcnec thet it vill continue te enslav end kill,
sclectivels, sriccthly and cilcntly,
We have crostitut tcd oursclycs to the nenstrot as desircs ‘of the
war michin:s, Tech of us earrics a card, token of their parrent for
our ¢7liusi«n, sy bol of cur hope tht vx vill continu: to please. -
our miéstcrs en? reecive their favors, Scekine enly to cseape the
écagh nachinis with our civ hands, we have vermitted oursclves to
be propieancizud, cocrecd, end divided,
“4 NO WE GILL BE UNITED IN ova RESISTANCE
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