Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was before last week, however, when Long and the Senate began to get flak from the anti-protectionist side. Angry protests poured in from Britain, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and 14 Latin American nations. The six Common Market members sent six separate notes of protest. The complainers intimated that if the U.S. insisted on being protectionist, they would refuse to ratify the Kennedy Round agreement. Moreover, under present GATT regulations, they are free to put quotas of their own on imports from...
...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...
...demonstration were merely an irrelevant, isolated incident, it could be dismissed without too much difficulty. But unfortunately it reflects a shift in the protest movement away from rational dissent, and into the realm of resistance and violence...
Most of the demonstrators probably would have been content with picketing or some other form of non-obstructive protest. That would have been acceptable. But some of the leaders were determined to take more radical action. There is nothing sacrosanct about this country's laws, but only a transcendent moral issue can justify their violation. The Administration's policy in Vietnam may be futile and indefensible, but it is not so immoral as to justify the obstruction of an individual's right of free speech and movement...
...even if the Administration is acting immorally in Vietnam, the traditional, legal methods of protest and persuasion are far from bankrupt. Cambridge's November 7th ballot will contain a resolution opposing the war in Vietnam, and many anti-war advocates are campaigning for the resolution. An increasing number of Congressmen and Senators have abandoned their pro-Administration viewpoints. And the latest Gallup Poll indicates that 46 per cent of the population now believes it was a mistake to become involved in Vietnam...