Word: speech
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...Science Center (to be followed up by a 40-minute blockade of the building by the police), and the Houdiniesque sneakings-in and whiskingsout of the South African Vice Consul through the secret catacombs of the Science Center, was not enough to secure his rights of free speech on this campus. He had to cut loose in mid-speech and flee like a petty thief. I hope the lesson is not lost on the Conservative Club and the Harvard Administration. The next time they are smitten with the urge to confer freedom of speech on Pretoria's spokesmen, they should...
...Crimson contained a typographical error. A sentence in the third to last paragraph should have read, "Instead, the University appears to have acted according to a predetermined plan which left no scope for any legitimate and peaceful act of civil disobedience which would not have prevented the speech from continuing...
...second statement that is worthy of response says that "the speech by Kent-Brown tonight is a question of competing rights: the right of the vice consul to speak versus the right of the protesters to have themselves heard." Unfortunately, the dissenters have not listed two rights. No one has the right to be heard. One does have the right to speak. Whether one is heard or listened to is not, nor should be, under the speaker's control. Saying, "I have a right to be heard" implies that you have the right to force someone to listen...
Assault of a police officer is a felony in this country, but even this fact did not deter the protesters from attempting to attack police officers at Kent-Brown's speech. The protesters have made it clear that they have no qualms about employing terrorist activities to accomplish their goals. They believe in a "holier than thou" philosophy in which their ends justify their means. And in adopting this stance, they are in effect challenging the Constitution of the United States of America. Indeed they have a right to do this, but they do not have a right to employ...
...principles which they profess to hold. We recommend that those who engaged in Tuesday night's protest be removed from this university as just punishment for their unlawful and outrageous behavior and as an example to those who condone violence and infringement on freedom and infringement on freedom of speech at Harvard. Marci Bobis '88 President, Harvard-Radcliffe Conservative Club