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Distorting Dissent. The cleanup bill came to $12,000, but that was only a pittance. In all, the demonstrations cost $1,078,500. The Pentagon spent $149,000 to airlift military policemen and paratroops to Washington, the Justice Department $190,000 in overtime for U.S. marshals, the D.C. government $176,000 in overtime for policemen and another $5,000 for those who ran the workhouse at Occoquan...
...prospect is for more and more massive demonstrations against the war. However, if they merely replay the romantic and potentially tragic script of the march on the Pentagon, they will impair not only the cause they hope to represent, but the cherished American tradition of dissent as well. "The whole thing ended so meanly," Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz said almost sadly before the Yale Political Union. "There must be a great many people who feel they were discredited by a few who distorted dissent into obscenity...
...Some of them never even knew what was going on in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, had no idea that force was being used against an individual. Some of them were in fact picketing outside in an orderly way, which is one of the ways we hope students will express their dissent...
...with a considered recommendation of the Administrative Board that this action was sufficient to have real deterrent effect and yet did take account of some of the confusions of the students involved, not just sincerity, but the difficulty in judging the moment when they were crossing the line from dissent into quite unacceptable use of force...
GLIMP: Well, as has been indicated, I think the first point the Administrative Board felt very strongly about is the difference between dissent and even vigorous dissent and use of force on another individual. That was the basic feeling. As we began to try to figure out what action might be appropriate, it seemed to us that it was important to weigh the educational considerations, gains that might accrue from moderate but severe action. I suppose in a sense we were saying we'd like to keep the students here and talk to them some more...