[Elderberry]

How about this paragraph:

Harlan’s draft opinion included a fascinating, extended exegesis on the teachings of the Nation of Islam. According to those teachings, Harlan wrote, in the beginning all people were black, but the white race was later created at the instigation of an evil deity named Yakub, and was given 6000 years – a period that ended in 1914 – to rule the other races. The day of judgment of the ruling white race was expected to occur in the mid-1960s, and would consist of a battle of Armageddon, a physical war not between the races, but between Allah and the white race – a struggle in which Muslims would not participate physically – ending in Allah’s destruction of the white race and the establishment of earthly paradise for Muslims.

First time I've heard of that.

[Bringbackthedraft]

conscientious objection .................................. Not an issue when it come to beating an opponents brains in?

[BenLurkin]

But why did it do so?

Cowardice. Plain and simple

[Tennessee Nana]

Just think

If Cassius Clay was a Mormon like Romney he would have got away with dodging the draft..

too bad he didn’t convert from Christianity to Mormonism instead of Islam...

[NEMDF]

Yet 0bama has ordered flags to half staff tomorrow, in his honor.

[butlerweave]

conscientious objector and his job is BEATING PEOPLE TO A PULP

[Wolfie]

He had an usual job…beating people up. The Government wanted him to change jobs, Government wanted him to kill people. He said, “No, that’s where I draw the line. I’ll beat ‘em up, but I won’t kill ‘em”. And the Government said, “Well, if you won’t kill ‘em, we won’t let you beat ‘em up”.

= George Carlin

[Jack Hammer]

No, Cassius Clay didn’t want to fight to defend the nation that bore and nourished him.

He did, however, feel good about fighting in the ring if it’d make him millions.