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Clark pleaded for a halt to dissent that might impede our effort in Vietnam. "We shouldn't present General Abrams with problems here; he's got enough there." Clark suggested that everyone write Abrams a note that night to tell him that we were behind him. "He deserves all the help we can give him, and he doesn't deserve proclamations from the State of Massachusetts stating that Massachusetts boys won't fight!!" They went crazy when he said that. It took backbone to say it, and the people appreciated backbone...
Twenty thousand people demonstrated their opposition "to violence as a means of political dissent" and their support for America's involvement in Vietnam at yesterday's "Wake Up America" rally at Government Center...
Similar civil libertarianism has led Douglas to oppose legal curbs on pornography-not, as he reiterated in a recent dissent, "because I relish 'obscenity' but because I think the First Amendment bars all kinds of censorship." The court, he believes, is not constitutionally required to take on the dilemmas of acting as a board of supercensors. Strictly interpreting the constitutional walls between church and state, Douglas concurred in the court's 1962 decision banning public school prayers, but would have gone farther and erased "In God We Trust" from coins, and ended the prayers that begin sessions...
...building Communism than the Russians. In his own country, he is the Lenin who said, "Communism equals Soviet power plus electrification," who thought Russia's main duty to international Communism was to transform itself into a mighty industrial society, and who was profoundly intolerant of any dissent from party policy...
Scorn for the administration of U.S. justice may be an article of faith for some of today's protesters. Yet a remarkable number of others choose to defend their dissent in the courts rather than the streets. Moreover, the courts usually respond to reason. Among recent cases...