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...African students gathered last week to hold a demonstration against apartheid and specifically against segregated university education. As a student picked up a loudspeaker, a policeman stepped forward and warned him not to speak. The meeting was peaceful but illegal because the students had not obtained permission, under the Riotous Assemblies Act, to hold a demonstration...
...that he ever says just how things might be. His whole point about teaching, and writing a book about schools and teaching, is that it's all improvisation. Herndon refuses to number his points and draw lines of methodology. He only provides some riotous scenarios in which you'll find the intelligible course of action unstated, but more than obvious. Without formalizing a philosophy here. James Herndon is espousing one which goes: keep loose, fly kites and be nice to salamanders and lizards, but while you're reading this book, man, keep an eye out for bees flying...
...which the prosecution has so far failed to win a conviction. Most notable among those freed: seven Panthers tried in Chicago after a Shootout with police (the state dropped its case for lack of evidence); the "New York 13," who survived an eight-month trial that set records for riotous disturbances and duration; Bobby G. Seale and Ericka Huggins, charged with ordering the murder of a fellow Panther in Connecticut; and twelve New Orleans Panthers found innocent by an all-male jury (ten blacks, two whites) of attempting to kill a squad of police...
...SUMMER is settling in on the North Slope, and the Arctic yellow poppy blooms in riotous abundance at Prudhoe Bay. Near a lone British Petroleum Co. rig, indifferent caribou graze. At the base camp, oil workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles...
Both the opinion and the dissent, however, indicate that for a charge of incitement to be plausible, the expressed hostility of the audience must be a consequence of the speaker's words, not merely his presence. And these words must be shown to have been the cause of the riotous behavior of the audience. The possible provocation of the speaker by the audience, one might also add, must be taken into accountsince "fighting words" can presumably be hurled in either direction...