Why is dissent seen as being treacherous?

Question

Where are we now, as a country, when open dissent it stepped on, and any criticism of our president and the war is seen as a personal attack on our troops?
I would like to direct interested people in Bill Moyer's fascinating and disturbing PBS documentary called 'Buying the War' (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html).

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

is the link. please check it out. it is TO THE POINT.

I'm not talking about radical or unreasonable dissent either . In the so called 'liberal' media, the suppression of dissenting views is widesprerad, and most of this suppression goes unreported! Most of our journalists today are either corrupt, or incompetent, or weak minded and afraid of corporate retribution and the loss of their jobs if they don't 'fall in line'. This documentary is DAMNING proof of that. This isn't some home-made conspiracy theory vid either, this is some dead serious and frightening waters. The press briefings leading up to Iraq were even scripted as if the press corps and the president were assuming roles in a play! Nobody was allowed to disagree!

Answer 1

Bush should be taken to task, and exercising your rights is not treacherous. It may be to those who are for the war, but many of them have a vested interest in the war!

Our constitution says this. I agree with it and I believe Bush should be removed, along with Cheney!

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

June 2, 1784

Answer 2

very few see dissent as treason in the way described here. In fact, reasonable, rational dissent is a wonderful thing! What is "treacherous" is dissent that does not include factual information or that advocates for policies that would be damaging to our national interests. For example, someone who objects to the speed limit on a highway and advocates minimum speed limits of 80mph is rightly viewed as reckless and foolish. Smae thing goes for most of the criticism we hear about the current administration. it is laced with half-truths and advocates policies that help nobody but those who wish to mobilize the uninformed for their own ends. THAT kind of dissent IS a problem.

Answer 3

Not everyone sees it that way, just overzealous conservatives. I believe the majority of the American population believes in the right to free speach, but they are more laid back than the minority that demands to make itself heard.

Of course, this minority has a right to voice its thoughts just like everyone else, so try not to be too harsh to them.

Answer 4

Dissent is being described as treason and treachery by people who wish to become or who perhaps who already are -- tyrants.

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