From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie
Newsgroups: net.college
Title: Re: Michael's question
Article-I.D.: watarts.1748
Posted: Wed Mar 16 09:10:42 1983
Received: Thu Mar 17 09:07:41 1983
Reply-To: bernie@watarts.uucp (Bernie Roehl)

My feelings on the subject are simple, and I've stated them before: the
childish behaviour of the students doing the heckling is pointless, and
will only cause support for their cause to dwindle.  *Regardless* of what
Jeane Kirkpatrick was saying, the students had no right to interfere.  There
were people in that hall who were there to hear what Jeane Kirkpatrick had
to say; they were undoubtedly intelligent enough to draw their own conclusions
about the validity of those words.  Not only were the demonstrators interfering
with Kirkpatrick's right to speak, they were interfering with the audience's
right to listen.  A mob of not-quite-rational self-made rebels should *never*
be allowed to interfere with anyone's freedom of speech, even if that person
is wrong in what they're saying.
By preventing Kirkpatrick from speaking, those students are taking away my
right to hear what the woman has to say; I object strongly to having *any*
of my rights taken away by a mob.
                               --Bernie Roehl
                               ...decvax!watmath!watarts!bernie