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...Ashcroft said. “Your tactics only aid terrorists—for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies, and pause to America’s friends.” Ashcroft’s attempt to associate dissent with terrorism and thereby stifle his critics runs counter to the view that open and rational deliberation should be the cornerstone of both the university community and the wider democratic state, no matter how unpopular a particular viewpoint...
Feinberg is not the first person you would pick to comfort the aggrieved. He has a jagged intellect that does not easily abide dissent; he is a leading candidate for the title of World's Most Competitive Human; he is completely unfamiliar with hushed, conciliatory tones (even in intimate moments, his thick Boston accent and habit of applying verbal italics to every third word make Feinberg sound as if he is in the midst of a perpetual rant). He is, not surprisingly, a very successful lawyer...
...play the patriotism card and invoke the tragedies of last Sept. 11. But true patriotism is not about flag-waving and blind support of the military. Patriotism means standing for the principles this country is supposed to stand for—equal opportunities, civil liberties and freedom to dissent from the ruling government...
...purloined phone book was apparently printed in 1995. And yet a Japanese academic who has scrutinized it over the past month contends that it is of even greater significance than the video. The very fact that it was smuggled out suggests dissent at the pinnacle of North Korean society, says the academic, who declined to be identified for fear of retribution from North Korean agents: "The phone book can only have come from somebody within the establishment?and someone opposed...
...nonlethal-weapons programs are drawing their own fire, mostly from human-rights activists who contend that the technologies being developed will be deployed to suppress dissent and that they defy international weapons treaties. Through public websites, interviews with defense researchers and data obtained in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by watchdog groups, TIME has managed to peer into the Pentagon's multimillion-dollar program and piece together this glimpse of the gentler, though not necessarily kinder, arsenal of tomorrow...