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Richard L. Barkley is as straight as they come. An Annapolis graduate who retired as a Navy commander after 15 years of service, Barkley, 56, is president of a small manufacturing company, an active Republican, and has lived in Palo Alto, Calif., for the past 30 years. Unlikely as it seems, Barkley last week was arrested for rioting at a Palo Alto rock festival...
...Barkley showed up late in the evening. "I walked through the plaza," he recalled, "and talked to some of the kids. They were all wiggling with the music and hollering about Ho Chi Minh, and generally acting like perfect asses." Then he overheard an older man giving instructions to a young audience about how to disrupt the proceedings. Citizen Barkley promptly trotted over and told the police, who thanked him warmly...
Raised Truncheon. As he headed for his car to go home, Barkley noticed a crowd beginning to stampede, followed by a surging blue line of helmeted, jump-suited riot police. He tried to leave, but a young cop raised his truncheon to strike him. "Son, if you touch me with that," Barkley warned him, "you've touched the wrongest man in Palo Alto...
...club was lowered, but Barkley was nonetheless barred from departing and pushed back into the crowd. He was about to find out more about "what really happens" than he expected...
Apparently without audible warning, the police blocked all four streets around the plaza and corralled Barkley and 362 others-including at least a dozen other over-30 straights who had also accepted the merchants' invitation-into a compact mass. For four hours they were kept standing there, and then, at 3:30 a.m., the entire crowd was bused off to jail...