Word: subverter
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...disturbed at Mr. Nixon's attempt to equate the abuses associated with Watergate with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The actions of the 1960s were public breaking of laws by marchers and demonstrators willing to go to jail for their actions. The purpose was not to subvert the law but to openly demonstrate its injustice. The burglary, perjury, obstruction of justice and illegal wiretapping connected with Watergate were done in secret with the purpose of subverting the democratic process. When the President of the U.S. is so ethically blind as to be unable to distinguish between...
...leaks, this sort of thing." That was inherent, for instance, in the President's sworn duty "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution," Wilson said, adding the words of a Supreme Court decision: "Implicit in that duty is the power to protect our Government against those who would subvert or overthrow it by unlawful means...
Nevertheless, the Cultural Establishment persists in playing pigeon to an enemy art, an art that would subvert its reason for being. It welcomes the abuse applied to it under the name of art. It dictates old conditions for apprehending the new in art. And then, under a front of generous tolerance, it feeds its own preeminence. But what an empty, empty game it plays...
...name they had been compiled, the government wanted so badly to punish him that it tried to bribe his judge. When antiwar Democrats began denouncing the war, the Democratic Party added VVAW, the Panthers and the Communist Party to the list of organizations against whom it was proper to subvert democracy to defend it. Nixon never went as far as Thieu in making criminals of his opponents; but then the necessity for Nixon's struggle was born in his imagination. When Thieu threw his opponents in jail, as we have seen, he had good reason to believe he was taking...
...Congressman John Brademas of Indiana agreed. "The secret plan to use federal money and federal power to harass critics is further evidence of the contempt for law and common decency that has characterized the Nixon White House. The real 'enemies' Americans must fear are those who would subvert the rule of law and the institutions of freedom...