Randy Kehler
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Randy Kehler | |
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Education | Harvard University |
Spouse | Betsy Corner |
Children | 1 |
Randy Kehler (born July 16, 1944) is an American
Kehler was involved in several
Early life and education
Kehler was born on July 16, 1944, in
Opposition to the Vietnam War
In 1969, during the Vietnam War, Kehler returned his draft card to the Selective Service System. He refused to seek exemption as a conscientious objector, because he felt that doing so would be a form of cooperation with the US government's actions in Vietnam. After being called for induction and refusing to submit, he was charged with a federal crime. Found guilty at trial, Kehler served twenty-two months of a two-year sentence.[1]
Resistance of federal income tax
From 1977 onward, Kehler and his wife Betsy Corner refused to pay their federal income taxes in protest of war and military expenditures; they continued to pay their state and local taxes, and donated the money they owed in federal income taxes to charity.[3] This led to the seizure of their house in Colrain, Massachusetts, in 1989, by the IRS, which was then purchased by the federal government, leading to a years-long struggle between Kehler and Corner—who were joined by supporters from the surrounding community—the government, and another couple who attempted to purchase and move in to the home. The events were documented in the 1997 documentary film An Act of Conscience.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Randy Kehler Papers | Biographical Note". Asteria.fivecolleges.edu. Special Collections and University Archives, W. E. B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Archived from the original on April 10, 2010. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
- ^ The Most Dangerous Man in America (documentary film, 2009)
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