Nugent To Meet With Secret Service, May Have Dodged Draft During Vietnam

By Chuck Sudo in News on Apr 18, 2012 9:00PM

Rocker Ted Nugent defended himself for his vague remarks about being either "dead or in jail" this time next year if Barack Obama is re-elected.

Speaking with Glenn Beck, Nugent said:

"I don't threaten, I don't waste breath threatening. I just conduct myself as a dedicated 'We the people' activist because I've saluted too many flag-draped coffins to not appreciate where the freedom comes from. The Nugent family is a totally nonviolent, peace and love, rock and roll, working-hard, playing-hard American family."

A dedicated, "We the people" activist who, in 1990, told the Detroit Free Press that, if he fought in the Vietnam War, he "would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd kill all the hippies in the foxholes … I would have killed everybody."

Nugent was also apparently a dedicated, "We the people" activist may have gone to great and unusual lengths to avoid serving his country during the Vietnam War. Here's what the Rutland Herald reported in 2006 about Nugent's military deferment.

(Nugent claims) that 30 days before his Draft Board Physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days he ingested nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and a week before his physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether, virtually living inside his pants caked with excrement and urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment.

Nugent later gave an interview to High Times magazine where he denied shitting his pants to avoid Vietnam, and instead received a student deferment.