Word: obstructiveness
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...essential and inseparable aspect of the free movement of ideas. To stage entirely peaceful and non-disruptive protests against individual comings and goings, either against individuals as such or as symbols of disapproved activities or organizations, is an aspect of the freedom of students and citizens; to obstruct such individuals and interfere with their movement or their discussions, is an unjustified interference with their freedom, with that of the University, and that of students and faculty who wish to converse with them or to hear them. Most students, including many who engaged in the sit-in against the Dow Cemical...
...many participants, however, there were other reasons to obstruct the Dow representative. For one thing, a sit-in open defiance of University rules would let the Administration and Faculty know that at least a few students were outraged by Harvard's willingness to cooperate with companies and agencies linked to the American war effort. These students, many of whom started the sit-in are certain that "free expression or movement" are not the paramount issues...
Rather, as students morally committed against the war, they must oppose--and even obstruct--complicity with the war where they have the most power, in the University. Their decision to adopt what many Faculty members call "McCarthyism of the left" doesn't bother them. They care about Vietnam, and U.S. foreign policy in the 1960s not the repressive atmosphere of more than a decade...
...demonstartors were symbolically protesting against America's so-called war machine and against Dow, which supplies most of the napalm used in Vietnam. But the protest was irrelevant and inappropriate since a change in Dow's policies will not stop the war or even obstruct the use of napalm. If Dow suddenly refused to manufacture napalm, there are dozens of companies that would vie for the government contract to carry on production...
Base officials tried to obstruct his leafleting, Israel said. "One sergeant ran along behnid me and grabbed the leaflet from people before they could read it." He also claimed they threatened to induct him immediately if he did not stop agitating...