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Word apparently had been passed to the troops that the last charge by the group of demonstrators who rushed the Pentagon doors was sufficient reason for cracking down on the protestors. The Marshals began to push the MP's forward until they were pressed against the sitting demonstrators. Then they would tell an unfortunate protestor to move--an absurd request because the seated crowd was packed knee. When he didn't move, they clubbed him and anyone who tried to hold onto him. Many of the demonstrators pleaded with the soldiers to drag people out instead of clubbing them...
...that they are "draft dodgers." It is unfair to level this criticism at all the demonstrators, just as it would be naive to assume that those who did not march would cheerfully accept a military future. It is true that several demonstrators may have breached specific draft laws. One protestor publicly burned his draft card, and it has been alleged (and denied) that Berkeley Students for a Democratic Society circulated literature urging illegal methods of draft evasion. For these crimes there are stiff penalties, and objectors who resort to civil disobedience must be prepared to accept the consequences...
Charging to the front of the platform, Coordinator Berry shook his hairy fist, bellowed: "You're another liar and I'll make you eat that!" Through the seething crowd plunged a flying wedge of policemen to stand guard around Protestor Haake & friends. Boos, roars, catcalls sounded through the hall as the first session of Coordinator Berry's promotion party for Government & Business co-operation broke up in confusion...