Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...more specialized way. Tatum's Handbook for Conscientious Objectors is also an essential primer. As the continuing war has daily convinced more men that they cannot lend their bodies to the cause, draft boards have become increasingly irritable about claims for Conscientious Objector status-and carefully prepared claims have become imperative...
While the Handbook doesn't pretend to reveal any magical tactics for earning a CO, it does provide nuggets of practical information for the sincere objector. Its extensive citations from court decisions. its quotations on what constitutes a "religious" objection, and its sampling of hostile questions from draft board members may make the difference between a successful CO claim and an unsuccessful resister, mired in the jungle or in jail. A detailed and sometimes gruesome description of court procedure and prison life is also necessary for those who plan complete resistance...
...secret that the quickest way out of the draft is not the ideological battle of a CO claim or the prolonged agony of appeals within the draft system. For the pragmatic registrant who merely wants Out, the Army's physical fitness standards offer the most comforting set of loopholes...
...best tradition of American self-help, these loopholes are open mainly to those who come looking for them. As David Suttler points out time and again in IV-F , no one is so healthy that he cannot fail his draft physical. But woe to the co?? placent victim who assumes that the Army will do his work for him. Unless a draftee knows he's ?? and can prove it, the Army is not going to was?? any effort uncovering his malady...
Suttler's book, which is probably the closest thing to a how-to-escape-the-draft manual that can be legally published, does not stammer about its purpose. As Suttler says in the Introduction...