He had a phalanx of lawyers seeing to it that he did not go to jail, He was rich enough to afford it. He chose to evade the draft and joined the racist Nation of Islam to provide an excuse.
Didn’t see Trump going to Vietnam either. He managed to weasel out of it just like Bush, Clinton, and a thousand other of the privileged.
And they should be castigated for it as well. Bush did join the service and flew jet fighters.
Yet, Trump is the big man of FreeRepublic right now. Hypocritical? You tell me.
I doubt he will be held account for it any more than Clinton was. And our community organizer ran against POW who spent five years in prison. Service in the military is becoming rarer and rarer in our government whether it is Congress or the WH. Not a good thing IMO.
yeah, and i’m not seeing anyone here calling Trump a draft dodger. He hid behind deferments. Ali at least had the guts to state his beliefs and deal with the consequences. And the consequences were severe.
Which one is the coward again?
And Ali wasn’t rich in the mid 60’s. Hardly. in fact, Joe Frazier had to lend him money.