Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THESE legitimate and traditional means of dissent are important to the arguments throughout the book. And Kennedy defends both the aims and the results of the traditional dissent. He says in a parenthesis, "Indeed, those who confidently assert that direct political action breeds 'disrespect for the law' should look more closely at the facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many...
...Kennedy, "is more than a disturbance of the peace; it is a threat to the invaluable contribution that the disaffected youth have made to their counry." He emphasizes that the system will not tolerate citizens who actively seek to oppose the established order and are intent on breaking the law to oppose' that order. Thus Kennedy, recognizing that those who will oppose the system will always be in a minority, invokes the reasoning of majority power to persuade those who might bring their own demise. Yet Kennedy really fears that the politics of confrontation is a violent threat to society...
...Chicago, or at Columbia. An elected official can choose to use the police, the forces of law, to enforce a regime of order...
...they can also recognize an alternative. One which deals with the intent of violent political protest. If youthful protestors break the law in pursuit of a political objective they do not have to be treated simply as criminals. Kennedy can see this for the civil rights protests; under the new circumstances of 1968, perhaps a wider view of protest is needed...
...Rubinow displays the emotional range necessary to do justice to the hectic script. His Sir Despard Murgatroyd is first exuberantly wicked as the bad baronet who pays for his sins by contributing to the Church. Several abrupt turns of the plot later and on the right side of the law, he is a flawlessly pompous rate-payer who has spared himself the need to repent his sins simply by disowning them...