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...DISSENT. Middle Americans associate black militancy with white students' dissent?university revolts that the white Middle, brought up to cherish education as an almost sacred instrument of self-improvement, find incomprehensible. "San Francisco State is being destroyed by a bunch of crummy punks." says Eric Hoffer. "Who the hell would have dreamt that a thing like this was possible? Ignorant, bedraggled, illiterate punks! Our institutions are tremendously vulnerable. What are we afraid of? Of the Government? Of the police? Of Congress? No, for God's sake, we're afraid of the individual, of the beast masquerading as man." Some less...
...expresses the ideology of the Nixonian nation on dissent better than Historian Daniel Boorstin, whose book, The Decline of Radicalism, Nixon sometimes studies in a secluded den in the Executive Office Building. For an academic, Boorstin is almost ferocious about dissent: "Disagreement is the lifeblood of democracy, dissension is its cancer. Disagreers seek solutions to common problems, dissenters seek power for themselves." In a section on the "Rise of Minority Veto," which must be Agnew's text, he writes: "Small groups have more power than ever before . . . We are witnessing the explosive rebellion of small groups, who reject the American...
...witness what seems to radicals?and many others?to be a systematic police slaughter of Black Panther leaders. They point to John Mitchell's wiretapping policies, preventive-detention program and no-knock raiding techniques. They see harsh drug laws as political instruments by which Middle America means to destroy dissent and counterculture. In Danville, Va., last July, an 80-year-old judge sentenced a 20-year-old student to 20 years for possession of marijuana...
...Worcester. He fought as a Marine in World War II in the Pacific and can still do 400 sit-itps. He lives with his father-in-law, his wife, who also works at G.E., and his eleven-year-old daughter. His concern with such issues as welfare and dissent impelled him to seek, and win, a seat on the Pittsfield city council...
...Madeleine Winter, 47, a newspaper librarian in Pittsfield, Mass., is angered by student unrest: Dissent is disgusting. If you have a complaint, write your Congressman or the President. School is to get an education. Nobody asked the student dissenters to go to college, so what right do they have to dissent? Every time I see protesters, I say, "Look at those creeps." But then my 12-year-old son says, "They're not creeps. They have a perfect right to do what they want...