I WAS A TEENAGE SUBVERSIVE (Part 4) Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You

I WAS A TEENAGE SUBVERSIVE  - (Part 4) Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You

 

 

"ALEWITZ is willing to serve in the US Army if inducted and attempt to become a model soldier. HE indicated that HE would attempt to further HIS views and beliefs to the maximum extent possible under HIS constitutional rights- afforded HIM while in the US Army.

ALEWITZ was not responsive nor completely cooperative during the above interview. HE insisted that HE did not have to answer any questions. HE did not wish to answer under HIS legal rights, and volunteered nothing without first being questioned."

              

  - US Army Intelligence Command Report (their emphasis)

 

Photo: 1971 Socialist Campaign Poster, Austin, Texas

(Recently I received the first 1,033 pages of my FBI files.  Most of this is highly redacted (censored) material–information is blocked out that would actually reveal the secret methods and dirty tricks of the government. It is also safe to assume these thousand pages represent a fraction of what they actually possess.

 

Nonetheless, as I go through these documents, I will post some, in somewhat of a chronological order. Given the recent FBI attacks on antiwar activists, some people may find this of interest).

(Click Here for Part 1)

(Click Here for Part 2) 

(Click Here for Part 3)

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

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Part 4/ Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You:

In July, 1972 I was ordered to appear in San Antonio, for induction into the Army.

After refusing to sign the loyalty oath, I stated my intention to accept induction into the armed forces, to obey all legally given orders, but that I would fully and enthusiastically exercise my rights as a citizen to organize my fellow GIs against the war.

In July, 1973 I received notification that I was classified as a subversive and could not serve in the US Army. These documents relate to that decision.

Attached are:

• Army memo to J. Edgar Hoover requesting information

• Report on my interview with Army Intelligence

• My unsworn testimony

• Designation as unacceptable for military service

• Lists of anonymous snitches contributing to FBI reports

• Report on GI participation in a Student Mobilization Committee conference.   (Note how particular reference to debates over strategy. This was in regard to SDS and some others advocating civil disobedience and individual resistance to mass actions and legal peaceful demonstrations). 

• Rejection letter I received in 1973.  I was deemed subversive by being placed on the Atty. Gen.'s list. I found this to be somewhat ironic when I went to Iraq as part of an anti-war delegation challenging the US economic embargo, between the two Gulf wars. I traveled there with former US Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark.