Word: speech
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...fall of 1969 because it was used only against students involved in political protests. Moreover, the committee was only used against protesters sporadically, in attempts to intimidate and disrupt successful protest movements. The University ostensibly created the CRR to afford extra protection for cases involving rights of free speech, assembly and movement. In reality, it provided extra repression...
Take, for instance, former Delaware Governor Pierre S. Dupont IV, who recently declared his candidacy for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. It seems fair to assume that he used his announcement speech to express his vision of an America under a Dupont Administration. If that's so, his vision is an ugly and ignorant...
...centerpiece of Dupont's speech was a clarion call that all public high school students be tested for drugs. That's a comical proposal, and what's almost as funny is that it came from a man whose family runs a conglomerate with the slogan "better living through chemistry...
...here lies the value of Reynold's speech. It confirms what we suspected all along--that Reagan could care less about the independence and integrity of the judiciary so long as it rules...
...substance of Reynold's speech is shallow and easily refuted. But the precedent which Reynolds sets is far more frightening. Supreme Court Justices are not ordinarily the subjects of personal attacks. Merely by singling out and attacking an individual Justice, Reynolds reveals his contempt for judicial independence...