Word: consulate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SASC Leader: It depends how you define freedom of movement. We think that as long as the consul had at least one way of leaving the room, he maintained his freedom to move. We kept open the way that would force the vice-consul to engage the protesters outside and defend his country's policies. Don't forget though, that the consul merely had to ask, and the blockaders would have let him leave by the lower doors...
...Crimson: If you wanted to confront the vice-consul, why didn't you take advantage of the question and answer period which was scheduled to occur after the speech, but which your actions prevented...
SASC Leader: We saw no value in the question period because we have no confidence that Harvard students could formulate the right questions to appropriately challenge the vice-consul...
SASC Leader: We believe that even if we asked the right questions, the vice-consul would have answered cleverly enough such that Harvard students would believe what he was saying...
SASC Leader: But we didn't do anything, so we don't have to take responsibility for anything. We didn't disrupt the speech. The vice-consul was free to continue speaking after the blockade was formed, while members of the audience filled the auditorim with a rousing rendition of "We Shall Overcome" and a member of the ANC sollicted the audience for money. No one put a gag on Kent-Brown. No one beat him with a club. It was the fascist Conservative Club and the bubble-headed police who took Kent-Brown out. They should be put before...