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...quite surprised to read of your remarks regarding the limiting of free speech of the South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown. One would not expect that a member of the Board of Directors of the ACLU would come out as the advocate of suppression or ideas...
...most thoughtful Americans are strongly opposed to the repressive policies of the current South African regime. But surely freedom of speech, if it means anything, means freedom to speak and listen to ideas which do not comport with law professors' subjective assessments of community values. The suggestion that Mr. Kent-Brown's speech is less worthy of protection because it is only political is particularly offensive; taken seriously, it could lead to the effective silencing of any political speech which a small number of students found offensive...
These two students were among those charged last month with attempting to blockade two of three exits from a lecture hall where South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown was speaking...
...disrupt the speech. The vice-consul was free to continue speaking after the blockade was formed, while members of the audience filled the auditorim with a rousing rendition of "We Shall Overcome" and a member of the ANC sollicted the audience for money. No one put a gag on Kent-Brown. No one beat him with a club. It was the fascist Conservative Club and the bubble-headed police who took Kent-Brown out. They should be put before the Ad Board for quashing free speech...
...Crimson: Did you really expect that the Harvard police would allow the vice-consul to leave by the front door and confront a hostile group of protesters? Did you let the police suppose know that the blockaders were there only for symbolic purposes and not actually to blockade Kent-Brown...