Word: protester
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...Maddox-to preclude any repetition of 1948 or, for that matter, of 1964. So far, Lurleen is the only Southern Governor openly wedded to Wallace. As Virginia's Mills Godwin puts it: "I see no evidence that his methods or his candidacy offer a really effective means of protest...
...Spoiler. Less sophisticated folk, North and South, are not so likely to be concerned about the effectiveness of a protest vote for Wallace. He has every hope of carrying Alabama and Mississippi. He could take Louisiana and Georgia as well, and might make a strong showing in South Carolina. All five of these states went Republican in 1964, and might be expected to do so again in normal circumstances...
Just as the Government should replace cant with candor, so the dissenters need a strong dose of realism and responsibility. Among the great legal lessons of the civil rights movement, for example, is the rule that a demonstration must be reasonably related to a specific target of protest. Demonstrators who glorify the Viet Cong, burn flags or draft cards, urge the world in general to "make love, not war," are indulging in dissent for dissent's sake. They are staging a mindless happening devoid of rational ideas...
...matter that power and politics are vital necessities in a troubled world. As they see it, the U.S. is evil if it uses violence-even to combat violence. Dropouts from the body politic-to say nothing of reality-they have been beguiled by constant reminders of their freedom to protest. The right to dissent is subtly reworked until any dissent becomes right. And any criticism of that dissent is exaggerated into a wrongheaded, repressive attack...
Editor's Protest. For the moment, the King and his subjects were stuck with the junta. When an earthquake leveled villages in the Pindus Mountains, some 150 miles north of Athens, King Constantine flew there to comfort the 16,000 homeless people-accompanied by General Pattakos. The trip buttressed the impression the junta wishes to convey: that the King is on their side. Actually, many Greeks, including the King, feel that the junta as it now exists is not likely to endure, and that one strong man will eventually emerge as dictator. It is with that man that...