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...Your "Thanksgiving 1968: Mixed Blessings" [Nov. 29] commentary upon the American scene is far, far too optimistic. The materialistic clamor all about us has just about stilled the human spirit, and the only way the human spirit can now be heard above this deadening din is by way of dissent, protest and demonstration-peaceful and violent...
THESE legitimate and traditional means of dissent are important to the arguments throughout the book. And Kennedy defends both the aims and the results of the traditional dissent. He says in a parenthesis, "Indeed, those who confidently assert that direct political action breeds 'disrespect for the law' should look more closely at the facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many...
...book, Kennedy describes last fall's Pentagon demonstration "a disturbing symbol of developing trends among our dissenting youth"; the trend veers toward divisive and disrupting dissent opposed to the ideals of democracy. "The threat posed by the tactic of disruption," warns Kennedy, "is more than a disturbance of the peace; it is a threat to the invaluable contribution that the disaffected youth have made to their counry." He emphasizes that the system will not tolerate citizens who actively seek to oppose the established order and are intent on breaking the law to oppose' that order. Thus Kennedy, recognizing that those...
...political protest movement has also undergone a change in this process. For whereas the early sixties might have had as an object the highlighting of certain political wrongs when they protested, the aim of dissent is now to force change upon the system...
...bars-or expect to find more compliant replacements for them. On the other hand, if "this attempt to help bring about a varying of opinion and the democratic evolution of the country," as one Deputy put it, is allowed to succeed, it could well become the focal point of dissent against Franco's rule...