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...University of Wisconsin incident, a good fraction of the audience consisted of demonstrators, who held up signs and attempted to shout down the speakers. One graduate student even shouted obscenities at one member of the "truth team" and suggested that he go to Vietnam and fight, if he was so thrilled with this war. The University of Wisconsin administration took no action against the demonstrators and would not cooperate with government agencies which wanted to investigate the situation...
...falls short of their full intention, but as far as it goes it seems exactly the case. Like those on the platform those in the audience came to say something. They said it. In the circumstances of a political rally, wherever it happens to be staged, the right to shout down speakers is embraced by the same principle of freedom of speech and expression as protects the speakers in their effort to make themselves heard. The bad judgment or (Barrington Moore's word) "repulsiveness" of behavior among those exercising this right in no way forfeits or imperils the right itself...
Such abstract values very quickly come into conflict with social "facts of life." There are the obvious examples: one is not free to shout fire in a crowded theater. And it gets more confusing. In the past, speaking in favor of socialism was equated with shouting fire in a theater, and it too was illegal. In the same way, one is not "free" to murder, because murder is not in society's interests. But here we face the real dilemma: someone must decide what killing is in society's interests, and what killing is not. So thus it is permissible...
...predicted Muhammad Ali three years ago, after the World Boxing Association, in a fit of moral fervor, stripped him of his heavyweight title because he had been convicted of draft evasion. Ali's prophecy was at least half right. Never more than a scene-stealing shout away from ringside, keeping in the headlines with a flurry of lectures and boasts, the champ-in-exile did indeed haunt the sport. He was a titleholder stripped of his rights?not by the fists of another fighter but by decree of a pretentious body of boxing executives...
...Schwitters' use of junk reflected a Dadaist disgust, a sense of hopelessness and pessimism in the wake of Germany's defeat. In fact, his art was a joyful celebration. "The whole swindle that men call war was finished," Schwitters wrote. "... I felt myself freed and had to shout my jubilation out to the world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country. One can even shout out through refuse, and this is what I did, nailing and gluing it together . . . Everything had broken down in any case...