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...Heping is well aware of these seasonal crackdowns. As a prominent human rights lawyer, he is far more familiar than most Chinese with the way the country's authorities ensure that "troublemakers" don't interrupt the Communist Party's carefully managed productions. But as he walked to his car after leaving his law office on September 29, Li had little idea he was about to get a firsthand demonstration of how jumpy the police can be. It may not be spring, but something else was on the calendar...
Graduates will have doubtless noticed that when campus progressives fight the Man, the Man always turns out to be Harvard, or possibly, the United States government. In the last year, protesters deemed it necessary to interrupt a speech by the FBI director—but not one by the former president of Iran. Never mind that one’s administration oversaw the hangings of two teenage boys convicted of sodomy, and of a 16-year-old girl for “acts incompatible with chastity:” Wiretaps are just a step...
...Then the professor pauses. “Any questions?” A stony silence ensues. The scribblers stop scribbling. The surfers interrupt their surfing. The professor looks around, waits a few seconds, but as no questions are forthcoming, he exclaims “Good!” and resumes lecturing...
...just find it most interesting that these sort of interruptions occur from those with left-leaning politics. Why is that? I believe it is because many on the left are quite arrogant in thinking their views are the only correct views. Debate is about listening to both sides and both sides having their time to speak. Mr. Mueller’s time to speak wasn’t honored by some who believe they have the right to interrupt or attempt to shout down anyone that disagrees with their particular politics. Think about it this way. If these leftists...
Last Thursday, Kelly L. Lee ’07, Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, Maura A. Roosevelt ’07 and J. Claire Provost ’07 had planned a coordinated protest in which each would consecutively interrupt the speaker, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, by yelling specific complaints from the audience. They were arrested by members of the Harvard University Police Department and charged with disturbing a public assembly...