From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!gnu
Newsgroups: net.college
Title: Re: J. Kirkpatrick at U.C. Berkeley
Article-I.D.: sun.203
Posted: Thu Feb 17 07:10:50 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 20:55:27 1983
References: cbosgd.3130

I, for one, side with the hecklers.  It's clear that people in positions of
power created by the structure of the government are (1) almost always out
of touch with what we peons feel, and (2) even when/if they find out, are
usually inclined to go on doing whatever they think is the correct thing to
do.

This would be well and good if it didn't have such a disproportionate effect
on our lives.

If it took years of riots and demonstrations and heckling to get Richard
Nixon out of power (and one of the most satisfying things was finding out
afterward just how worried he was by all of it), a disrupted speech by our
current mealymouthed Ambassador to the Ignore Reality in favor of Public
Relations Club is strictly minor league.

If we don't make life hard for these people, they'll keep on destroying our
chance at a good life and a more just world.

	John Gilmore, Sun Microsystems