I will be glad to discuss Jackson and Kent
With the "anonymous" scribbler. I think it
ig a mistake to couple them. Kent was an
atrocious blunder ("4“here was no order to
fire"- Scranton Comm. Rep.) of the kind the
radical militants gloat about; the Guardsmen
were as much victims as the students. It
ardéused an enormous outcry, and certainly is
not accepted as part of our governmental pro-
cess.

Jackson was and is a symptom of a serious to-
talitarian disease. It is founded on a racist
dovtrine, including the notion that all blacks
are militant, gun-carrying pig-hunters. We will
end up in a Hitlerian regime if we do not find
a way to contain it. Shoot-outs and bombings
and other provocations will tear apart the fab-
ric of mutual accomodation that makes democra-
tic society possible. It is still true that
police and federal doctrine is to contain vio-
lence wiith the minimum injury to the €rowd; the
exceptions are deplorable and dangerous, and
there will be the more of them, the more we
condone the rhetoric of violence and of its
exemplification.

Joshua Lederberg,