Ted does it again!

[Deerthug]

Well stated Doc!

[NFA-ADK]

You drove the nail through the wood on that one Doc!!!

[WNYBuckHunter]

Gotta agree Doc.

[Grouse]

As far as the Draft Dodger label goes, many young men opposed the Vietnam war, with good reason. Many were war resisters, more than they were draft dodgers.

If you want to hold all who avoided the Vietnam War up as cowards, you need to include Geo W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, Pete Seeger, Muhammed Ali, etc.

During the years when the draft was in effect, you could legally avoid being drafted by volunteering for any branch of the military, including those that (back then) had little chance of ever seeing combat. That included the reserve component of all branches, plus the National Guard and Air National Guard units of every state, plus the Coast Guard.

Thousands went to Canada and were eventually pardoned, because it turned out the entire war was immoral and unjustified and no one would argue any longer with any man's desire to resist fighting in Vietnam.

My uncle was a Lt Col jet fighter pilot in Nam in the USMC when I turned 16 during the Vietnam war, and once told me if I got drafted to go to Canada. When I asked how he could say such a thing, his reply was, "I don't think there should be a single boot on the ground over there. The only way to fight that war is the way we do it. Drop out of the sky from 50,000 feet, unload all of the ordnance and hit the afterburners the heck outta there!" He had three tours in Nam at that point and he was dead serious. "Any man who wants to go to Nam to fight is a Goddam fool!" he said. He was a brilliant USMC officer, with a geat deal of war experience from WWII, Korea and Nam. Today, I believe more than ever before, that he spoke great wisdom then.

[MountainHunter]

Yes, the Nuge was lining his pockets with Cash while playing 300 concerts a year while on a student deferral. Two student deferrals and a medical deferral. Did he get a degree from the school he was supposedly attending? You have the stamina to play 100's of high activity rock and roll concerts but you secure a medical deferral? What's up with that?

As it relates to the Alaskan game law violation and the violation of the Lacey Act. That Law couldn't have possibly been any more obvious,yet he repeatedly insists that it was or is an obscure law that no one knew about.

The Heading of the page in bold print says Important Information for all Bear Hunters, the specific law is high lighted in yellow. How more obvious did it need to be?

The prevailing belief by many is that he pled out on the Lacey act to not put at risk a conviction would have taken away his ability to own firearms. Yet he plays many who are unwilling to do the research for fools. Now his story is that his hit on the bear he wounded was a graze. A story he authored around the time of the hunt said he put a good hit on the bear and had a very good blood trail for 100 yards. So which story is true? What he first said or what he is saying now in an attempt to minimize the negative publicity?

Time up to wake up and smell the coffee!

Edited May 11, 2012 by Scot