Word: dissent
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...spiraling arms race between nations, it is sometimes difficult to tell just who started the flag-waving. Certainly a primary stimulus for the newly demonstrative patriotism came from the much publicized antiwar dissent. Just as the televised image of flaming Vietnamese villages aroused visceral protest, the spectacle of flag burnings and Viet Cong banners detonated a deep patriotic emotion in millions of Americans...
Justice Harlan, well aware of the city's problems, was appalled by the decision, which overturned Baldwin's conviction. In his dissent, Harlan warned that the result may increase the city's court delays by "a factor of eight." Moreover, the present courtrooms do not even have jury boxes. Since the state legislature may be loath to pay for adequate courtrooms and increased personnel, it .looks as though New York City may have to dismiss more cases, encourage other defendants to waive jury trials, or rely on the legislature to cut the penalty for many offenses...
...power to inhibit group formation. It would be unwise to hope that the struggle of right and left can regulate itself. In a capitalist society, such a struggle has only one outcome. Ultimately the state must impose its own law and order. Like it or not. American dissent subsists on creative state intervention...
...piece of social oppression. Liberalism, once again, is seen as retreat or strategic withdrawal. But the protection of civil disobedience depends on the state's ability to respond to changing communal values. It depends on the state's responsibility to power being commensurate with the citizen's responsibility to dissent...
...accommodate the drug-rock epoch of student politics. The student left embraces more than a mind-blown psychedelia-but the offspring of Lenin, the puritanical disciples of collective repression who infatuate Walzer, are fast disappearing. The prospect of an irrational left has chilling consequences for a theorist of responsible dissent...