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FREEDOMWAYS
FOURTH QUARTER 1966

young generation, the influence of regimentation on everyday life will be reinforced. These are reasons enough to advocate abolition of the military draft.
  Nor are we diverted from making such an analysis by all of the rosy reports (some appearing rather regularly in the Negro press!) about how "integrated" the Armed Forces have become. The uniformed society is just a stride away from the garrison state. That reality is fundamentally in conflict with freedom, civil rights, civil liberties and world peace.
  Given the serious implications of the Johnson-McNamara doctrine of policemanship over most of the world's people, the youth of America are confronted with the choice of either struggling to end the  military draft (in their own self-interest) or allowing themselves to be transformed into a "generation of killers." There are ample evidence that for many the latter leads to an early grave. For the entire nation it inevitably leads to a death of the national morality and conscience of the kind which an earlier generation witnessed in the rise of Hitler Germany.
  The youth of Nergo America have one overriding need in common with white youth of their generation; that is the need to be able to live, to develop their talents and to make and carry out their plans for a creative, fulfilling life. That means being free from the arbitrary interference of the military.
  It is encouraging to see the growing concern among large sections of the youth population for their future and the future of a nation.They are the backbone of the anti-Vietnam war movement; they have raised before the nation such vital questions as the disproportionate use of black American troops in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic; they sought alternatives to the draft. Even those who have tried to solve their problems as individuals by moving to Canada are acting out of a civilized sense of conscience or out of self- preservation, either of which is certainly preferable to killing some Vietnamese family on behalf of the power rulers America.
  In this regard special tribute is due Pvts. David Samas, James Johnson and Dennis Mora, three young G.I.'s who have refused orders to go to Vietnam. These young heroes have been courtmarterialed, tried, sentenced and sent to federal prison in Leavenworth because of their determined and courageous stand against the "dirty war" in Vietnam. The physical tortures to which they have been subjected speak clearly to the point: there is not a single humane or noble goal to which the youth of America can successfully aspire as long as

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