However, when asked again about those comments in the interview for this article, he said no, he was perfectly comfortable as a dissenter from the majority view on a number of questions.
A dissenter from the court's 1972 decision that struck down all existing death penalty laws, he ended his career in 1994 with a ringing denunciation of capital punishment that left him as the court's sole categorical dissenter on the issue.
It's because anyone who might become known inside the country as a dissenter from the tyrannical Kim Jong Il and his gang would have to immediately flee or face oblivion.
"He's clearly not a whistle-blower," MacBride said, noting that Kiriakou did not emerge as a dissenter from inside the C.I.A.'s interrogation program.
A contrary stance was taken by Howard Goodall in a recent article and on the South Bank Show where he argued that the musical state of the country was in fine fettle and implied that any dissenters from this line were ignorant whingers.
Geoffrey Ashe is one dissenter from this view, believing that Geoffrey's narrative is partially derived from a lost source telling of the deeds of a 5th-century British king named Riotamus, this figure being the original Arthur, although historians and Celticists have been reluctant to follow Ashe in his conclusions.
Mad Mel has a gentle rebuke for dissenters from this nuanced viewpoint.
His Ben is a dissenter, even from the family he loves, and you realize that he sees them more clearly, particularly their self-regard, than they in their affectionate condescension see him.
Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, a climate expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been a prominent dissenter from the view that human activity is altering climate, helped write one chapter of the assessment but is skeptical about the importance of the human contribution to any future warming.
The political dimensions of this controversy are apparent from the fact that a leading dissenter from the Emperor's doctrine was his nephew Alexios Kontostephanos.
