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...willing to blow the whistle, he's notoriously hard to find. (Just ask the Israelis. Or the Russians who served in Afghanistan. Or any Vietnam vet.) And as Milt Bearden, former CIA liaison to the Afghan mujahedeen (back in the days when Osama bin Laden was still in the "freedom fighter" column) wrote last week, there may be four or five family members ready to sign up with the insurgency to avenge each Iraqi fighter killed. Hence the high-explosive message sent to warn the locals off supporting the bad guys...
...fact, the increasing freedom and progress towards equality that we do see today is largely due to women and minority groups. In persistently pursuing their own convictions these groups were able to throw off the shackles of slavery and subjugation and transform Western society. Particularly in America, the forthright demands of women’s rights and civil rights activists brought about the legislation that now seeks to ensure that freedoms are protected both for minority groups and the American people at large. Thus, most of the changes that have begun to result in equal treatment have not come from...
...woman’s right to choose is a crucial freedom; we strongly believe in abortion rights and stand with those who ardently defend them. But at the same time, no one should try to silence those in this nation and on the Harvard campus who would like to see those rights abrogated. The University community must steadfastly resist the urge to infringe upon the right to speak out against abortion. No matter how infuriating some speech is, open discourse is central to the University...
...present it. But anti-abortion groups still have the right to hold their beliefs and to introduce them into the Harvard marketplace of ideas. Tearing down posters is not a form of speech; it is a form of censorship. Students who rightfully disagree with HRL should exercise their own freedom to speech, not limit the freedoms of others...
Harvard has an obligation to prevent infringement of the rights of its students and student groups. The administration must make it clear that they are ready and willing to effectively punish anyone who defaces a poster or otherwise challenges an official student group’s freedom of speech. Students who do infringe upon the rights of their peers should face the Administrative Board. And because it is easy to vandalize a poster without being seen, the punishments students face when they are caught must be sufficient to effectively deter such an action...