{"id":2755,"date":"2002-12-28T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2002-12-28T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2002-12-28T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2002-12-28T20:18:20","slug":"dissent-commentary-old-woody-allen-joke-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"DISSENT & COMMENTARY (OLD WOODY ALLEN JOKE, FOLKS…)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Rough & Tumble, another column on the silencing of dissent.
\nMarjie Lundstrom<\/a>, in the Sacramento Bee, writes about three instances in which dissent was silenced.
\nThe New York Times\u0092 spiking of columns critical of it\u0092s anti-Augusta stance; the new Berkeley mayor Tom Dean\u0092s trashing of student publications critical of him just before his election; and the generalized \u0091silencing of dissent\u0092 on the coming war in Iraq.
\nThere\u0092s just one problem…
\n…only two of the three are real.
\nI\u0092m the poster child for ambivalence on this coming war. I need to write something about it, and have trashed about six false starts. But I\u0092m certainly not feeling like the voices opposed to the war are being silenced. Not in the L.A. Times, not in the New York Times, not in the Washington Post, not in the Chicago Tribune.
\nFrom the Bee:<\/p>\n

Letters
\nPublished on December 21, 2002, Page B6<\/b>.
\nStriking first
\nRe “Bush sanctions strike-first plan,” Dec. 11: It makes no sense that the U.S., a sovereign nation, is “allowed” to have weapons of mass destruction, while other sovereign nations are not “allowed.” It is both ironic and terrifying that this country may use such weapons to prevent another country from producing its own. On the day that President Bush pushes the nuclear button, will you be proud to be an American?
\n–\tMatt Nelsenador<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Tribune:<\/p>\n

Protesters denounce U.S. Navy presence<\/b>
\nItems compiled from Tribune news services
\nPublished December 27, 2002
\nMARSEILLE, FRANCE — With chants of “no blood for oil,” about 1,000 people marched through this southern French port city Thursday, protesting the presence of a U.S. Navy battle group and the prospect of an American-led war against Iraq.
\nDozens of police kept order during the rally, which was peaceful even though demonstrators briefly shouted at a small group of U.S. sailors…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the New York Times<\/p>\n

THREATS AND RESPONSES: DISSENT; Protests Held Across the Country to Oppose War in Iraq<\/b>
\nBy LYNETTE CLEMETSON (NYT) 911 words
\nLate Edition – Final , Section A , Page 22 , Column 1
\nLEAD PARAGRAPH – From a morning blockade of a federal building in Chicago to a lunchtime march to the White House to an evening discussion at a Y.W.C.A. in Detroit, a cross-section of activists, celebrities and everyday Americans held more than 150 events across the country today to oppose a war with Iraq.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n

December 27, 2002
\nCOMMENTARY
\nA Fight for Freedom of Speech<\/b>
\nDissent doesn’t mean a lack of patriotism.
\nBy Eric Foner and Glenda Gilmore, Eric Foner is a professor of history at Columbia University. Glenda Gilmore is a professor of history at Yale University.
\nWe are two of the professors to whom Daniel Pipes refers when he asks: “Why do American academics so often despise their own country while finding excuses for repressive and dangerous regimes?”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These took me three minutes to find. So help me out here…
\nWhy exactly are the opponents of the war acting like the Ministry for Prevention of Protests is about to beat them back into the burning building?
\nSadly, the examples of repression she cites that appear real…the New York Times and Berkeley stories…represent the casual use of repression by the left, not of it.
\nHonesty, folks. It all starts with honesty.
\n(cleaned up some wording)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Rough & Tumble, another column on the silencing of dissent. Marjie Lundstrom, in the Sacramento Bee, writes about three instances in which dissent was silenced. The New York Times\u0092 spiking of columns critical of it\u0092s anti-Augusta stance; the new Berkeley mayor Tom Dean\u0092s trashing of student publications critical of him just before his election; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}