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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...
...freedom of speech is considered a liberal principle, than it appears that the Conservative Club is embracing a liberal ideology in its desire to allow Kent-Brown to speak, while campus leftists, lost in all of their self-righteousness, appear to be embracing an almost racist ideology--an ideology that discriminates against and denies basic human rights to a man based on his status as a white South African...
Assault of a police officer is a felony in this country, but even this fact did not deter the protesters from attempting to attack police officers at Kent-Brown's speech. The protesters have made it clear that they have no qualms about employing terrorist activities to accomplish their goals. They believe in a "holier than thou" philosophy in which their ends justify their means. And in adopting this stance, they are in effect challenging the Constitution of the United States of America. Indeed they have a right to do this, but they do not have a right to employ...