Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 21. januar 1977 / Time Line January 21, 1977
Version 3.520. Januar 1977, 22. Januar 1977
01/21/1977
Den amerikanske pręsident Jimmy Carter benåder betingelsesløst alle civile
amerikanske dessertører og militærnægtere fra
Vietnamkrigen. Ialt mellem 200.000 og en halv million.
/ The U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons unconditionally all civilian American dessertears and conscientious objectors from the Vietnam War. A total of between 200,000 and half a million.
Kilde: Jordan, Harold: What Happened to Vietnam Era War
Resisters? War Resistance, Amnesty and Exile - Just the
Facts.
- http://www.jelcwcm.com/vietnam/vn_amensty.htm
'President Carter, by Proclamation of January 21, 1977, pardoned
certain persons who, during the Vietnam War era, violated the
Military Selective Service Act by draft-evasion acts or omissions
committed between August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973.'
http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/carter_instructions.htm
THE WHITE HOUSE
GRANTING PARDON FOR VIOLATIONS
OF THE SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT,
AUGUST 4, 1964 TO MARCH 28, 1973
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2,
of the Constitution of the United States, I, Jimmy Carter,
President of the United States, do hereby grant a full, complete
and unconditional pardon to: (1) all persons who may have committed
any offense between August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973 in violation
of the Military Selective Service Act or any rule or regulation
promulgated thereunder; and (2) all persons heretofore convicted,
irrespective of the date of conviction, of any offense committed
between August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973 in violation of the
Military Selective Service Act, or any rule or regulation
promulgated thereunder, restoring to them full political, civil and
other rights.
This pardon does not apply to the following who are specifically
excluded therefrom:
(1) All persons convicted of or who may have committed any offense
in violation of the Military Selective Service Act, or any rule or
regulation promulgated thereunder, involving force or violence;
and
(2) All persons convicted of or who may have committed any offense
in violation of the Military Selective Service Act, or any rule or
regulation promulgated thereunder, in connection with duties or
responsibilities arising out of employment as agents, officers or
employees of the Military Selective Service system.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of
January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
seventy-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of
America the two hundred and first.
JIMMY CARTER
Kilde: http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/carter_proclamation.htm
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11967
RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF THE SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT,
AUGUST 4, 1964 TO MARCH 28, 1973
The following actions shall be taken to facilitate Presidential
Proclamation of Pardon of January 21, 1977:
1. The Attorney General shall cause to be dismissed with prejudice
to the government all pending indictments for violations of the
Military Selective Service Act alleged to have occurred between
August 4, 1964 and March 28, 1973 with the exception of the
following:
(a) Those cases alleging acts of force or violence deemed to be so
serious by the Attorney General as to warrant continued
prosecution; and
(b) Those cases alleging acts in violation of the Military
Selective Service Act by agents, employees or officers of the
Selective Service System arising out of such employment.
2. The Attorney General shall terminate all investigations now
pending and shall not initiate further investigations alleging
violations of the Military Selective Service Act between August 4,
1964 and March 28, 1973, with the exception of the following:
(a) Those cases involving allegations of force or violence deemed
to be so serious by the Attorney General as to warrant continued
investigation, or possible prosecution; and
(b) Those cases alleging acts in violation of the Military
Selective Service Act by agents, employees or officers of the
Selective Service System arising out of such employment.
3. Any person who is or may be precluded from reentering the United
States under 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(22) or under any other law, by reason
of having committed or apparently committed any violation of the
Military Selective Service Act shall be permitted as any other
alien to reenter the United States.
The Attorney General is directed to exercise his discretion under 8
U.S.C. 1182(d)(5) or other applicable law to permit the reentry of
such persons under the same terms and conditions as any other
alien.
This shall not include anyone who falls into the exceptions of
paragraphs 1(a) and (b) and 2(a) and (b) above.
4. Any individual offered conditional clemency or granted a pardon
or other clemency under Executive Order 11803 or Presidential
Proclamation 4313, dated September 16, 1974, shall receive the full
measure of relief afforded by this program if they are otherwise
qualified under the terms of this Executive Order.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 21, 1977.
- Kilde: http://www.usdoj.gov/pardon/executive_order.htm
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