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Since your article "Law Prof Lauds Student Blockade" (May 1) identifies Assistant Professor of Law Randall Kennedy as a member of the Board of Director of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM), the state-wide affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), I find it necessary to make it clear that not only wasn't Prof. Kennedy talking on behalf of CLUM or ACLU, but his reported position is diametrically opposed to our long-held policy on the free speech rights of even the most unpopular speakers...
Official ACLU/CLUM policy in this area provides, first, that while "the right of protest is an essential element" of free speech, the ACLU would object to "private pressure group activities" that would "restrict a free diverse marketplace of ideas." ACLU is pledged in such situations to "call public attention to the dangers of such consequences...
...quite surprised to read of your remarks regarding the limiting of free speech of the South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown. One would not expect that a member of the Board of Directors of the ACLU would come out as the advocate of suppression or ideas...
John Shattuck, a former ACLU lawyer and the University's vice president for government and community affairs, said that confidentiality rules for rape and assault cases are not unusual. Although saying he was not familiar with the details of this case in particular, Shattuck said such agreements are used to protect the rights of victims involved...
SOMETIMES you wonder why we cannot just be little bit more spontaneous and relaxed: why we cannot, in the spirit of the Christmas season, simply overlook a city government's decision to set up a creche, on public ground. Indeed, when lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Council of Churches brought suit against the city of Pawtucket, R.I. for violating the separation of church and state by putting up a creche, public sympathy ran low. Even the local B'nai B'rith group reportedly asked the ACLU lawyer, "it's been there so long...