Word: dissents
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Lyndon Johnson, who has been the target of much of the protest, issued an unwontedly graceful statement allowing that dissent was a sign of political vigor and would help establish that the basic U.S. policy in Viet Nam had been framed and tested in a climate of "free discussion and openness." The President, while emphatically affirming the right to protest, reminded the protesters that their efforts could only strengthen the conviction in Hanoi and Peking that the U.S. is so riven by internal dissension that in time it would be forced to quit the war. "The fact remains," Johnson said...
...signed a statement supporting the march according to Paul K. Deats, professor at the Boston University School of Theology. Written by the National Council of Churches, the statement calls for an end to the bombing of North Vietnam, a cease fire and negotiations. It also supports expressions of "patriotic dissent...
...Under pressure, the march's organizers have reluctantly allowed SDS members to carry signs advocating an immediate cease fire and withdrawal of American troops. We hope this unfortunate concession will not be repeated with factions even further to the left. For if it is, a promising attempt at creative dissent will distintegrate into just one more exercise in defiance and frustration...
What perhaps was most pathetic about the Morrison and LaPorte suicides was the futility of such attempts at martyrdom. Where dissent is harshly silenced, spectacular means of protest may be needed; within the ample means and methods of U.S. democracy, a human voice means more than a human torch. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once said, "while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...
Unmoved Majority. In troubled dissent, Judge James R. Browning argued that the Fourth Amendment "protects such privacy as a reasonable person would suppose to exist in given circumstances." The ranger invaded that privacy, said Judge Browning, by cutting peepholes that "constituted actual intrusion," and the resulting surveillance without a warrant created what the Fourth Amendment condemns-"a general exploratory search conducted solely to find guilt." Not moved, Judge Browning's brethren refused to extend the right of privacy to a public toilet. There was no actual intrusion, said the court. "All appellants complain of is that they were seen...