Word: discreditment
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Radicals frequently assume that they know the Justice Department's purpose in prosecuting a given case-the government is trying to intimidate the Left, or discredit the Left with the Middle, or satisfy the Right. No one can know for sure what the government's purpose is. But it pretty clearly is not the pursuit of justice...
...order" disposed of six students last May-four whites at Kent State and two blacks at Jackson State. Immediately after the shots were fired, in each case, the killers and the officials who dispatched them began covering up the crime and preparing to use the legal system to discredit and punish "ringleaders...
According to one Faculty member, Kissinger deliberately spread the impression in Washington after May that "Harvard would never ask him back and was treating him like a pariah." Kissinger's purpose in doing this, he said, was to discredit the professors who had criticized him and to gain political mileage among Washington Republicans who would regard a snub by Harvard professors as a sign of status and reliability...
Kunstler compared the Harrisburg conspiracy trial to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933. Just as the Nazis were determined to discredit their main opposition, the Communist Party, he said, the Federal government is trying to convince the American public that a widespread threat of terrorism exists within...
Berrigan and four others-the Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, the Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, former priest Anthony Scoblick, and Eqbal Ahmad, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of Public Affairs in Chicago-accused the Government of using the charges to discredit opposition to the Vietnam...