Canada: Hippy Relic Couple Doing a Second Tour of Duty Sheltering US Military Deserters....
Is there anything worse than aging hippies who cant let go?....
A St. Catharines couple who harboured a U.S. army deserter are still hopeful he can stay in Canada despite the Supreme Court's refusal last month to hear his and another deserter's appeal against deportation.
Hughey, from Fort Hood, Texas, and Jeffrey Hinzman from Fort Bragg, N.C., sought refugee status in Canada after leaving the United States because they objected to serving in the Iraq war. Hughey came after being ordered to fight in Iraq and Hinzman after being told he'd have to do a second tour of duty in Iraq.
Hughey told his superior officers he didn't agree with the justification for the war. They told him he had no choice, so he headed to Ontario.
He showed up at Cipryk and Alexander's door when arrangements were made through the Quakers to take him in. During the Vietnam War, the peace-loving Quaker couple sheltered about 45 deserters and draft dodgers for six months in Toronto in 1969.
"I so respect the war resisters," said Cipryk, "because it's extremely difficult to swim upstream, to go against the grain. Obviously, there are too many people in the U.S. and Canada who aren't going against the grain, who are letting all of this harm and injury happen ... and the war resisters are in the flow of those people who say 'No, this is wrong. This can't go on.'"
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