No, he cannot be prosecuted. With that knowledge, my son returned more
than a dozen years ago after seventeen years in Canada, and has simply
led a normal life: gardener, independent landscaper, student, grad
student, college teacher, university administrator. No sweat.
Bill Mandel
sixties@lists.village.virginia.edu wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: emh777@webtv.net
> To: sixties@lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: [sixties-l] Representation of Vietnam draft dodgers/deserters
> in Canada (fwd)
>
> i know of someone who refused to sign up for the draft to 'nam.....that
> made him a deserter in 74' He was 17...he said hedidn't have to sign
> up.... As I recall the draft was in effect at that time.Is there a
> standing law that he can be prosecuted under? Or perhaps accountable for
> such action? Please respond. Many thanks a loyal American Major's
> daughter. Time is of the essence
-- ======================================================== My autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER (Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999), is written for the general reader. However, if you teach in the social sciences, consider it for course use. It was written as a social history of the U.S. for the past three-quarters of a century through the eyes of a participant observer in most progressive social movements (I'm 84), and of the USSR from the standpoint of a Sovietologist (five earlier books) knowing that country longer than any other in the profession. Therefore it is also a history of the Cold War. Positive reviews in The Black Scholar, American Studies in Scandinavia, San Francisco Chronicle, forthcoming in Tikkun, etc. Chapters are up at http://www.billmandel.net ========================================================
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