So, perhaps a university is not the ideal setting for this kind of research. However, once Leary had left Harvard, there was no justification at all for hounding and harassing him. The United States put the pressure on every country in the world to not allow Leary to do his research in their country. A wealthy person allowed Leary to use a big estate in Millbrook, N. Y. and do his research there. However, the police were keeping a close watch and Leary and his people had to do things quietly. One day, the police raided the place, but no charges about anything were able to stick. The leader of this police mob was G. Gordon Liddy, later of Watergate fame. This is how Liddy got started and made a name for himself. It figures. Watergate was a disgrace and so was this.

It was said that Leary was corrupting the youth. The same was said of Socrates, the great Greek philosopher. Socrates refused to apologize for his beliefs or actions because he had done nothing wrong. He paid with his life. He may have drunk the poison himself, but this was clearly murder. Being willing to die for his beliefs is what makes Socrates one of the great turn on figures of all time. One of the youths that Socrates was supposed to have corrupted so badly was Plato, who was extremely upset at what they did to his mentor, the wisest man he ever knew. This drove Plato to write The Republic, his vision of the ideal political state where something like what happened to Socrates could never happen again. In Plato's ideal state, the people in charge would be philosophers with the kind of wisdom that Socrates had which is also the kind of wisdom that Timothy Leary had.