defendants could not be barred fromnexercising what it called their constitutionalnright to make political appeals tonjuries and judges. As a result, juriesnhave acquitted many if not most of thenHoneywell blockaders even thoughnvirtually none have denied encroachingnon the company’s property andnharassing its employees. Those notnabsolved by juries generally were releasednwith “suspended sentences” bynjudges.nThe arrogation of a privileged statusnby elite lawbreakers is, of course, a farncry from Henry David Thoreau’s andnMartin Luther King’s philosophy andnpractice of civil disobedience. Far fromneschewing the discomforts of thencounty jail, both afiirmed that thosenbreaking the law must willingly acceptnthe consequences of their illegal conduct.nThe organized pampering of thenHoneywell lawbreakers, usually anmodel of efficiency, does occasionallynbreak down, however. After one of hernarrests in 1983, Mrs. Bouza had thenmisfortune of being tried before one ofnMinneapolis’ only conservative judges,na former Republican state partynchairman, who sentenced her to 10ndays in jail.nMore recently, at an October 1986nblockade of Honeywell, the 70 policenofficers assigned to the demonstrationninexplicably did not bring alongnenough doughnuts to serve all thosenarrested. In a state of some dudgeon,nMrs. Bouza (one of those not fed)ncomplained to Chief Bouza on behalfnof all the protesters so mistreated. Mr.nBouza responded by assigning twonhigh-ranking police officers to investigate.nThe officers, the deputy chief fornpatrols and the police department’sncivil defense coordinator, returnednwith a report revealing that only 60ndoughnuts were procured to beginnwith and, worse, some policemen hadneaten a few. Presumably, the demonstratorsnwill not suffer a similar affrontnin the future. Mrs. Bouza pronouncednherself “partially satisfied.”nQuite apart from the farce of it all,nthe indulgence of the Honeywellnblockaders by the ostensible guardiansnof the rule of law has relegated theirnvictims to the status of forgotten mennand women. Neither the MinnesotanSupreme Court justices nor the Minneapolisnpolice leadership has deemednworthy of mention the rights of Honeywellnemployees prevented from enteringnor leaving their workplace. Andnthey have not been the only victims.nAlong with the losses suffered by Honeywellnand its employees, the demonstratorsnhave saddled local governmentsnwith costs for cleanup, policenprotection, prosecutors, judges, juries,ncourtrooms, and other public services.nChief Bouza himself has estimatednthat the costs of a single day’s blockadencould be as high as $300,000 for Minneapolisntaxpayers.nFinally, while the police chief andntwo top assistants were giving highnpriority to investigating the nowfamousndoughnut shortfall, the policendepartment’s research arm, with ansense of timing which can only havenbeen divinely inspired, released a reportndisclosing that serious crimes innMinneapolis had increased by 14 percentnover the past year and had gonenup for 21 consecutive months.nFar be it to suggest any connectionnbetween the highly publicized policenand judicial winking at some crimesnand the waxing of the rate of others. Itnis, our betters assure us, just a coincidence.nElliot C. Rothenberg is president ofnthe North Star Legal Foundation,nMinneapolis, and legal affairs editornof Public Research Syndicated.nLetter From Collegenby Paul HerronnBrown Shirts in the Ivory TowernThe orthodoxy of Reason is proclaimed,narchconservative turnednarchliberal Garry Wills once wrote,nand it will have its inquisitors.nHe ought to know. Wills perfectlynrepresents a new breed of college Utopiansnwho, losing their power to implementntheir latest brainstorms on anpublic suspicious of statist panaceas,nhave turned their collective energiesninward, hoping to create an academicnEden for all the Knights of the TruenFaith, where they can frolic unmolestednby capitalism, conservatism, or dissent.nAs is the case with the Sovietnearthly paradise, enforcing the matternhas been a messy affair.nnnI ought to know. As editor of anconservative journal at Northwestern—na typical progressive, enlightened,nmodern university—I met withna decidedly illiberal hostility fromncampus liberals, who include the professors,nthe deans, the departments,nthe student newspaper, the studentngovernment—a seamless web encompassingneveryone but the rank-and-filenstudents, who require a tremendousnstrength of mind to emerge from fournyears at our scenic indoctrination campusnas freethinkers. Unfortunately, mynexperience is entirely typical.nOn the day of our organizationalnmeeting, a reporter was sent by thenuniversity-subsidized daily newspapernto join our staff and “find out whatnthose right-wingers are up to” (shensheepishly left the meeting when shensaw that she had inadvertentiy made anconfidante of our publisher!). Sincenthen. The Northwestern Review hasnbeen an organizatio non grata at Evanston,nIllinois, bastion of freenthought. When one of our reportersnpaid admission to an open conferencenon militarism, the assortment of campusnradicals who sponsored the eventnridiculed him, debated whether henshould be forcibly ejected, physicallynintimidated him, and threatened hisnlife. Fortunately, he was able to standnhis ground. Our publisher wasn’t sonlucky. He was physically removednfrom an “open” meeting of the InternationalnCommittee Against Racismn(InCAR), during which the group’snpresident, an English professor namednBarbara Foley, called him a “racist”nand a “fascist” in the process of threateningnviolence against “the fascists.”n(She was later jailed for assaulting anformer member of our umbrella organization,nthe Conservative Council.)nThe colorful Ms. Foley had called forn”a movement of students who are sonturned off by this racist, reactionarynpublication that they take it uponnthemselves to stop the publication ofnThe Review.”nOf course, it is unreasonable tonexpect that any university would benwithout its lunatic fringe. NorthwesternnPresident Robert Strotz spoke fornthe mainstream when he said recentlynthat students should be exposed to an”greater diversity of values and aestheticsnand political views and past experiences,”nand that he wanted to givenFEBRUARY m7 / 31n