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...November four Harvard undergraduates were arrested in Miami for failing to disperse from a protest, although they were walking backwards on a sidewalk, hands over their heads, shouting “we are dispersing.” Only a George Orwell, with his ironic sense of officialspeak, could have conjured such a scene. The students were arrested for following orders...
These four students, all members of my Institute of Politics (IOP) study group on social protest movements, were victims of an extraordinary show of police power which drew sharp criticisms from the Florida Council of Churches, the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter and eyewitness observers like John J. Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO. The police presence cost $8.5 million in federal funds, diverted directly from the Iraq war budget. Miami’s mayor called the preventive arrests and closure of downtown a “model of homeland security...
What the Harvard students experienced may be a harbinger of things to come. The FBI recently announced a resumption of spying on protest movements, a practice that was prohibited after Watergate. The federal forces that brought us Miami overkill are usurping local control to manage protests at the Boston and New York political conventions this summer...
...senior University official said that generally in cases of protest the “Catch-22” is that if the rules are read, protestors may claim they were intimidated, but if they are not read, protestors may claim they had no fair warning of the rules...
Since the protest, Howard said Tibetans from around the world have expressed their gratitude to her for standing up for their freedom...