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Coles: Well, how about one of the chiefs of the Klan who was arrested a while back and went through the process you describe-and as a result went to jail? Would you argue that he perhaps should have taken to the underground...
...agree to differ on that, maybe from the point of view of a certain risk that I am willing to take in regard to those young people -a risk that I would be much less willing to take in regard to something as long-term as the Klan. But there is always danger in taking these risks, and the only way in which I can keep reasonably free of that danger is by saying in public and to myself that the Weatherman ideology (for instance) is going to meet up with people who are going to be very harshly...
Coles: You are saying that our institutions are not fit institutions and therefore have no right to exercise their authority as institutions and determine, for instance, how to deal with violence, whether it be from the Klan or from the Weatherman. But if those institutions don't have such authority, which institutions, which people...
...voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the first time around, changed his mind and voted for the final version, and was reelected. He was assigned to the House Un-American Activities Committee and then startled its members by calling for an investigation of the Ku Klux Klan...
Such punishment dates to the twelfth century, when miscreant Crusaders serving under Richard Coeur de Lion were doused with hot pitch and then feathered. It has since been associated with America's Ku Klux Klan, but the fact is that the I.R.A. routinely used it through the 1930s. Disturbed by the rising crime in Falls Road, where the predominantly Protestant police force rarely dares to tread, the I.R.A. decided to revive the punishment for lawbreakers. So did a more militant "provisional" faction of the underground army, which sprang up during the 1969 rioting throughout Northern Ireland...