Word: laws
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...HARVARD community took a second look at its University Police last week after an officer shot and wounded an escaping thief. Over-night, the benign guardians of the sign-in book became lethal protectors of law and order, and not surprisingly, the incident left the University wondering whether those cops on the corner should really be fooling with guns. While violence is always regrettable, the doubts should not go too far. Weapons are clearly essential to the effectiveness of the University Police...
...true that, until last week, the University force had not fired a shot for at least six years; but that statistic doesn't prove they don't need weapons. Some professional law enforcers go through whole careers without discharging their weapons--while the same guns save the lives of their buddies. Most professionals also insist that arms have a crucial preventive effect. Trouble-makers are less likely to challenge an armed officer even in dark and remote surroundings...
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Wall maintained that the defendants' actions had been performed with the intent to break the law, not to exercise free speech. He added that direct incitement to illegal acts was not covered by the First Amendment...
...description of the conspiracy "astounding." According to the government, Boudin said, "The co-conspirators consist of every person in the United States of draft age." Homans claimed that if the government was saying that every male of draft age in the country had been counselled to defy the law, then the indictment was clearly "overbroad...
REPLYING for the government, Wall scoffed at the defense's insistence on knowing who the co-conspirators were and which men had been enticed into breaking the law. "All Mr. Boudin has to do is go to the Bureau of the Census and ask for the name of every male person between 18 and 35 and he'll know who's been counselled," Wall said...