Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirk Jan Struik, professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Saturday that he will fight his indictment of conspiracy to overthrow "by force" the governments of Massachusetts and the United States--to the highest courts in the land if necessary...
Emphatically denying that he plots or even advocates the overthrow of the government, Struik believes that many "abuses have reduced the government to despotism" and that it is the "duty of the people to throw off their fetters through the many ways provided for changing our government." He says he does not believe in change through force and violence...
Dirk Jan Struik, professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Saturday that he will fight his indictment of conspiracy to overthrow "by force" the governments of Massachusetts and the United States--to the highest courts in the land if necessary...
Emphatically denying that he plots or even advocates the overthrow of the government, Struik believes that many "abuses have reduced the government to despotism" and that it is the "duty of the people to throw off their fetters through the many ways provided for changing our government." He gays he does not believe in change through force and violence...
This is the first indictment under the Massachusetts General Law statute, passed originally in 1919, which makes it a criminal offense to "advocate, teach, or incite the violent overthrow of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." It was amended in 1948 to include the federal government...