Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissent was unusually bitter. Condemning the "blunderbuss fashion" in which the majority acted, Justice Tom Clark blazed that "no court has ever reached out so far to destroy so much with so little." The argument of vagueness is flimsy, he continued, since the language of Feinberg "obviously springs from" such federal statutes as the Smith Act, which the court has previously upheld. He added that the decision's wording is so broad that henceforth no state will feel safe in making loyalty requirements. "The majority has swept away one of our most precious rights- the right of self-preservation...
...growing numbers of our contemporaries are deeply troubled about the posture of their government in Vietnam. We believe the state of mind of these people, although largely unreported, is of great importance, because there are many who are deeply troubled for every one who has been outspoken in dissent...
These critics have chosen the middle road. Their efforts represent an attempt to establish a respectable posture of opposition, an alternative to the shrill dissent of the left wing, a course of moderation which may yet attract many of their elders and dissuade the President from upping the ante. It is a desperate effort. But it might work. It could still bolster the doves within the Administration. It just might convince the President that Americans will stand behind him in efforts to negotiate or at least limit the conflict. The President--caught in a tightening vise between those who want...
There is some limited dissent even from this almost univer sally held view. According to Lateran University's Monsignor Ferdinando Lambrushchini, the destruction of military objectives with nuclear weapons might be morally more justifiable than the bombing of cities with TNT. However, the moral condemnation of nuclear war is relatively obvious and easy. What is often overlooked is the fact that the very horror of using nuclear weapons may have inaugurated a new era in which limited, conventional wars are likelier than before. It is precisely in such limited conflicts that the old just-war principles seem pertinent again...
Moreover, there are dangers in the renewal concept itself -- possibilities that too much control would damage the eventual character of the Square almost as much as uninhibited private development. A plan should be published early enough to allow for discussion and dissent on details, as well as the central concept. If delay is too long, those who support renewal in principle but disagree with parts of a proposal may be forced to abandon their criticisms, or to go to the other extreme by opposing the plan in its entirety. Neither prospect is very pleasing...