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...refer firstly to their statement, "restricting some of [Kent-Brown's] rights is an appropriate method of activism." I am continually amazed at the number of people who list as justification for their methods of protest the exact principle against which they are supposedly protesting. Perhaps the irony of their statement could be illustratred if the dissenters were reminded that the very target of their protest, the government of South Africa, is "restricting some" of the rights of its Black citizens, and that since 1917 the "activists" who took control of the Russian government have been "restricting some...
...second statement that is worthy of response says that "the speech by Kent-Brown tonight is a question of competing rights: the right of the vice consul to speak versus the right of the protesters to have themselves heard." Unfortunately, the dissenters have not listed two rights. No one has the right to be heard. One does have the right to speak. Whether one is heard or listened to is not, nor should be, under the speaker's control. Saying, "I have a right to be heard" implies that you have the right to force someone to listen...
Finally, I refer to the statement, "Kent-Brown has an advantage in protecting his rights, the Harvard University police force. Activists have only their overwhelming desire to make the voices of their protest heard." The only rights that the H.U.P.D. are protecting are Kent-Brown's physical right to the free movement that the dissenters are so willing to "blockade," and his right not to be harmed by the "militant action" that they condone. If they feel that this is an "advantage," and eliminating that advantage means using a police force to "make the voices of protest heard," then...
...keeping with this principle of free speech, we affirm that all viewpoints should be heard as the debate over justice in South Africa continues. Accordingly the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee this week invited Mr. Kent-Brown to participate in debate with a speaker from the African National Congress, a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, during his visit here. Mr. Kent-Brown's hosts, the members of the Conservative Club, publicly heaped scorn upon this offer and refused to arrange for the debate to take place...
...Duke Kent-Brown is an official of a regime that counts among its numerous atrocities the denial of free speech to 23 million of its inhabitants. He is welcome to employ his right at Harvard; we ask that he respect this hospitality by listening here to the position his government violently suppresses in South Africa. We ask, moreover, in this spirit of fair debate, that officers of this University not participate in shielding Mr. Kent-Brown from the real outrage at his presence being expressed by many, both inside and outside the room where he is speaking. While...