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...some argue that this organization has just simply hijacked the old SDS name. "SDS in the 1960s was real; SDS in 2007 is a fraud," says Maurice Isserman, a professor of history at Hamilton College and a former SDSer at Reed College...
...today is a virtual organization, utterly dependent on the web, with no national office, no newspaper, unable to muster more than a few score followers at other people's demonstrations, controlled by a small clique of non-student 'elders,' and hollow at the center," Isserman points...
...right to keep your opinions to yourself has been destroyed by FBI agents who join organizations to spy on the members," Isserman stated. "What is being built up in America is a secret police . . . and where there is a secret police, you can't have a democratic society...
...Isserman has recently been sentenced to four months in jail for contempt of court, on the basis of his behavior during the Communist trial...
Osmund K. Frankel, a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, proceded Isserman on the platform and discussed the constitutional aspects of the Smith Act, under which the 11 Communists were convicted, and prophesied a reversal of the conviction...