From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie Newsgroups: net.college Title: Re: Jeane Kirkpatrick Article-I.D.: watarts.1714 Posted: Thu Feb 24 13:45:36 1983 Received: Fri Feb 25 09:11:07 1983 Reply-To: bernie@watarts (Bernie Roehl) ----- News saved at Thu Feb 24 13:41:38 1983 I should probably repeat that I know next to nothing about Jeane Kirkpatrick's views, and really couldn't care less. Having said that, I can say that I suspect that *whatever* she's saying is probably the truth, and people should listen. I am basing the above observation on experiences I've had with people who try to prevent someone else from airing their views; the only people who ever try to suppress someone else's right to speak are people who are afraid of being proven wrong. If Jeane Kirkpatrick were wrong about the things she was saying, or if she was lying or misleading people, that fact would become obvious very quickly; thus, the demonstrators would have no reason to prevent her from speaking. Therefore Jeane Kirkpatrick's words (whatever they were) must have at least some strong element of truth in them, a truth that the demonstrators were afraid of letting other people hear. They acted out of fear, a fear of having people hear the truth.