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THREE YEARS ago, Dr. Benjamin Spock was a defendant in the first conspiracy trial involving protesters against the war. Today he remains gleefully absorbed in urging political dissent...
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...
...better if the heckling had been controlled and if an anti-war speaker had made it to the podium to denounce the YAF and their cronies. But all this moral outrage about freedom of speech is totally unjustified, and I can only see it as an attack on radical dissent launched defensively by a guilty university...
Junior Chris Wilmot also felt the meeting had expanded the issues beyond that of a personal disagreement. "The fact that we came before the Faculty Committee indicated that we were very unhappy." he said. "The point I emphasized was that dissent had been brewing for three or four years...
...hours devoted to each type of program listed, and whether they carry any political program. As originally written, the questionnaire had also asked for a representative sample of editorial topics. This question was removed, according to an FCC staff member who wished to remain anonymous, because of Johnson's dissent...