MLK & Direct Action (was Re: racist opinion a crime?)

[Dennis]

> Our heckling -- which local liberals & conservatives criticized then
> & later as evidence of our "lack of respect for free speech," etc. --
> was much more effective than polite questions with no disruptions
> would have been.  People all over the world heard it.  I'd like
> LBO-talkers to remember that we were just *a minority* at this fake
> "town meeting," unsupported by the rest of the audience who probably
> hated us temporarily for being loud, disrespectful, & generally
> obnoxious, even aside from our criticisms -- inside & outside the St.
> John Arena -- of U.S. foreign policy.  So, my message to the Brown
> student activists is, "Don't be afraid of being a minority that
> alarms the majority.  You may succeed, you may fail, but don't let
> others cow you into submission to what is acceptable to the
> proverbial general public.  We always start as a very small minority."
>
> Yoshie

You may find this surprising, Yoshie, but I wrote and read a commentary on
that event for the FAIR show "Counterspin,"  that supported the "hecklers."
Glad to know you were among them.

www.webactive.com/webactive/cspin/cspin980220.html

Scroll down and listen. You'll hear the voice that's given you grief the
past few days.

DP