Word: dissenting
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...make a point, and this is no exception. It might be reassuring if the Greenpeace case were just a weird outlier. But it’s not. It is emblematic of a concerted effort by the White House and its allies to curb unwelcome dissent...
...Bush administration’s hostility toward much of the NGO community—and toward dissent more generally—is reflected in a new initiative of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies entitled “NGO Watch.” The initiative is motivated by the rather overwrought concern that the “extraordinary growth of advocacy NGOs...has the potential to undermine the sovereignty of constitutional democracies...
...it’s not just NGOs and individual protestors that are feeling the brunt of this current crack-down on dissent. The latest issue of The Nation includes a story that examines what journalists see as “deliberate decisions” on the part of Pentagon officials to restrict their ability to cover some of the more politically sensitive aspects of the Iraqi engagement, such as the repatriation of the bodies of troops killed in Iraq. And remember the case of Valerie Plame, the CIA officer whose cover was recently blown? An ongoing investigation is still trying...
...Dissent: Tyrant Should Answer to World
...Whitney’s account is accurate, the response of Murdock Middle-High School’s administration was far more out of line than its own students. High schools are notorious violators of student civil liberties, and we hope schools learn to better promote the values of dissent and free speech—rather than suppress those qualities in its students...