David Miller Burns His Draft Card<\/strong><\/p>\nBack in the day on October 15th, 1965 Roman Catholic Pacifist David J. Miller publicly burned his draft card at a rally against the Vietnam War. The move was an act of civil disobedience as President Lyndon Johnson had recently signed a bill into law that prohibited anyone from carrying out the gesture of protest. Miller, a member of Catholic Worker, decided he would challenge the authority of the new law in New York when he was invited to speak at a demonstration organized by the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Before a crowd of supporters, Miller said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to give my prepared speech. I am going to let this action speak for itself.\u201d With that, he struck a few matches unsuccessfully in a number attempts to set his draft-card ablaze before someone lent him a cigarette lighter to get the job done. <\/p>\n
Miller was arrested three days later by the FBI. Facing five years of imprisonment for his act, the pacifist was found guilty and served twenty-two months in jail.<\/p>\n
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