Word: lawlessness
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Miss Aylward lead a prayer and Miss Raudenbush read a section of Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country, beginning with the lines: "Have no doubt it is fear in the land. For what can men do when so many are forced to become lawless...
SEVERAL HUNDRED lawless students at Harvard have accomplished what the virulently illiberal forces of the late Senator McCarthy failed to achieve. They have disrupted and suspended the historic rule of reason and academic freedom without which Harvard could never have become the symbol of the nation's quest for intellectual integrity and excellence...
...clearly come to stop pretending that the disruptions are adolescent pranks or justifiable excesses of young idealists. What is at stake now is nothing less that the perpetuating of universities as centers of reason in a free society. To permit them to be paralyzed or subverted by any lawless, coercive force of whatever ideology or objective is to give up on the survival of free society itself. --The New York TIMES
...biggest police problem in the U.S. today, says Los Angeles' Chief Reddin, "is to find ways to equip the policeman so that he won't give in to the baiting and the frustrations." The problem requires more than rigorous discipline and court decisions that ban lawless police practices. Like most tense people, the police could use psychiatric help in discharging hostilities before they explode. The experience of Sausalito, a small city across the bay from San Francisco, offers suggestions. Once a month the entire police department of 29 men joins Psychiatrist Edward Shev for group-therapy discussions about...
Armed authorities usually over-react to civil disorder. But this is no excuse for the behavior of many of the troops this weekend. They should have known that the demonstrators were not lawless thugs, bent on ravagaing the insides of the Pentagon. More important, the troops and officers should have realized that their brutality--and implicitly that of the government--will only spur on further illegal acts of resistance...