From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:ucbesvax!turner
Newsgroups: net.college
Title: Re: Re: Jeane Kirkpatrick - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ucbcad.737
Posted: Tue Mar  1 02:32:11 1983
Received: Wed Mar  2 06:10:31 1983

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ucbesvax!turner    Feb 28 21:28:00 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.