"The narrowing of dissent that occurred during the McCarthy period seems to be recurring now," said Ellen Schrecker, a professor of history at Yeshiva University who has written extensively on the cold war.
China's suppression of Catholic Easter services near Tibet was wrong, its exclusion of journalists from all places where dissent might occur is wrong, its continued suppression of the Falun Gong religious sect is wrong, and on and on.
"Prior restraints are not meant to mitigate harms that have already occurred," the dissenting judges said.
Open dissent against the King's decrees occurred in 1640 in objection to the levying of 300 men from the county for the King's campaign against the Scots.
Government harassment to silence dissent on social media has occurred across the region, and in other regions as well — and it often comes hand-in-hand with governments filing takedown requests with Facebook and requesting data on users.
A beautiful part of the world, people there are usually friendly and motivated, though some instances of dissent fueled by alcohol have occurred so please be careful.
The release of the Pentagon Papers stirred nationwide and, indeed, international controversy because it occurred after several years of growing dissent over the legal and moral justification of intensifying U.S. actions in Vietnam.
Third, what Jeffrey Burton Russell, the noted historian of the medieval church, calls "dissent" from "order" in the medieval West generally occurred less on the intellectual plane than as an attempt at moral and institutional reform.
Kazakhstan began cracking down on dissent the same year that its first terrorist attacks occurred -- 2011.
A century ago, US sugar barons raided the island's resources and the political class acquiesced to their masters; when resistance occurred, the political class sided with the US to eliminate dissent.
