Whoops! He Did It Again
Well! Apparently there were two protests occurring during the recruiting visit of the CIA and Department of Homeland Security last week at Harvard. One was staged civilly enough outside the Science Center, where the recruitment meeting was held. Another, less civil action took place inside. According to this letter-writer in the Crimson, protesters repeatedly coughed during the recruiters' talks, staged a mock arrest of an ethnic minority, and wore black shrouds to invoke Abu Ghraib. One protester even made himself vomit—which, the correspondent says, couldn't have been very nice for the Harvard maintenance staff.
Since I'm of the mind that the nation's tolerance for torture and unjustified detentions by our military and intelligence apparati has been depressingly high, I think the black shrouds are kind of a nice touch. (When I graduated from Yale, protesters carried small coffins to the front of the Commencement stage, to symbolize the children who died under apartheid. Grim, and somewhat disconnected to the proceedings at hand, but great theater.)
Still...vomiting is a bit much. Shouldn't that be saved for the final clubs?
On a more serious note, there's never any excuse for abridging anyone's right to make themselves heard.
