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...contradictions are apparent: we would not go to Washington to disrupt non-violently this fascist imperialist government if we did not ourselves still believe that it is a liberal state, not fascist-still believe that the war is a horrible mistake which does not in itself mean that American society is really what it seems when we think about the war. We go to Washington believing that the government will respond to our acts of outrage and defiance in a non-fascist...
...forefront of the community's consciousness, for it included Bui Diem, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States, Dolf Droge, a White House advisor on Indochina, and Anand Sandering Ham, Royal Thai Ambassador to the U. S. Campus radical groups-particularly SDS-had made half-hearted attempts to disrupt a liberal antiwar teach-in a month earlier. The stage seemed set for a massive demonstration by radical groups...
...regardless of the speakers' list, the lines had been drawn, and when the doors to Sanders Theatre were opened, most of the 1200 people who flooded in were antiwar students who had come to disrupt or to see what would happen. More than half of the crowd-which included delegations from SDS, Radcliffe-Harvard Liberation Alliance, and Youth Against War and Racism, a radical group with no Harvard chapter-would participate, to some degree, in the disruption...
...students brought before the CRR on charges of helping disrupt the "Counter Teach-In" were acquitted, as was one student from whose room harassing calls were made to a student who testified for the prosecution in several disruption cases...
...often, overzealous advocates seem to think the zeal and effectiveness of a lawyer depend on how thoroughly he can disrupt the proceedings or how loud he can shout or how close he can come to insulting all those he encounters, including the judges...