Word: dissenter
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...Dissent: Treatment Is Too Harsh
...Zimbabwe, the 77-year-old incumbent Mugabe, is facing his first serious electoral challenge since coming to power in 1980. Not dealing well with dissent, he has created laws making it a crime to criticize him, and effectively eliminated the right to assemble in public. To make things worse, Mugabe is winding up a two-year campaign of violence and intimidation that resulted in 16 political murders last month, according to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum. He has assembled militias, allegedly composed of war veterans, and used them to expropriate farmland from white Zimbabweans. In the past week, Mugabe?...
...Dissent: A Progressive Straitjacket
...dismiss it, says Sonja Biserko, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade, "We are going to be forced to confront things that haven't been discussed until now. The horror of the crimes will become self-evident." And the government of President Vojislav Kostunica may face dissent from within as the misdeeds of insiders - many of them still in office - are publicly aired for the first time and new witnesses are called upon to testify...
...conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.” In Zinn’s mind, the notions of unity and “unconditional support” that Americans are presented with today are “scary and totalitarian.” Dissenters have always held a great appeal for Zinn in his writing, and in practice, he believes that dissent is critical to a well-functioning society. (He notes a certain irony in the fact that first amendment rights are most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments against our military intervention in Afghanistan...