Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty thousand people demonstrated their opposition "to violence as a means of political dissent" and their support for America's involvement in Vietnam at yesterday's "Wake Up America" rally at Government Center...
Similar civil libertarianism has led Douglas to oppose legal curbs on pornography-not, as he reiterated in a recent dissent, "because I relish 'obscenity' but because I think the First Amendment bars all kinds of censorship." The court, he believes, is not constitutionally required to take on the dilemmas of acting as a board of supercensors. Strictly interpreting the constitutional walls between church and state, Douglas concurred in the court's 1962 decision banning public school prayers, but would have gone farther and erased "In God We Trust" from coins, and ended the prayers that begin sessions...
...building Communism than the Russians. In his own country, he is the Lenin who said, "Communism equals Soviet power plus electrification," who thought Russia's main duty to international Communism was to transform itself into a mighty industrial society, and who was profoundly intolerant of any dissent from party policy...
Scorn for the administration of U.S. justice may be an article of faith for some of today's protesters. Yet a remarkable number of others choose to defend their dissent in the courts rather than the streets. Moreover, the courts usually respond to reason. Among recent cases...
Whatever the tactics, the results have all been the same and the war continues. Of course some things have changed since 1965-Lyndon Johnson is no longer President, the Paris peace talks have been going on now for two years and dissent has gradually become fashionable, if not politically effective...