I don't wish to compromise the case of Jessica Stern and myself which is currently in progress, or the upcoming case of Tim Fasnacht, but I must respond to the specious accusations of Mr. Solga in the February 1, 1989 Daily Collegian.

To keep it brief, I will accept with pride all of the actions in which I actually engaged in opposition to the CIA recruitment on November 21st of last year. I hold my political convictions, based in fact, very dear and believe that my actions against the CIA recruitment presence here were a moral imperative to any who oppose the rape, murder, torture, and political repression of that agency.

However, I will not accept responsibility for crimes I did not commit, including all of Mr. Solga's hearsay accusations that we were involved in violence to person or property. I have asserted publicly before that no one at the demonstration to my knowledge engaged in assault vandalism or the attempt to gain information to later harass interviewees for the CIA.

I would ask Mr. Solga to wait until the hearing, which is supposed to determine the actual facts of the case, is over before he starts asserting that we engaged in certain acts. As to the fairness of that hearing, we will have plenty to say about that when the hearing is over.

Finally, I respect deeply the sentiments of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his contributions to the legacy of civil disobedience in our society. But I must assert that Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in the front of the bus, the sit-ins which began at Woolworth counters in North Carolina, or even the March On Washington in 1963 could all be argued to have "violated the civil liberties" of white people at the time if one were to use the same regressive logic that Mr. Solga attempts to use to lambaste our actions.

Protest is not a neat and easy process. It involves deciding when one must step over courtesy "laws" in order to stop a greater crime from being committed. I must ask Mr. Solga which he holds more dear: the lives of one million Indonesians, two and a half million Southeast Asians, a hundred thousand Guatemalans and on and on, or the "rights" of individuals to join the group which murdered them, the CIA? Mr. Solga, I hope that you'll answer that question with a clear conscience.