David Harsanyi Quotes
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
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In a particularly acrimonious House debate on the largest military appropriations bill in the history of the country, the speaker limited an opponent to 45 seconds to argue against the pending bill. Jacobs shouted his protest:
In 1974 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was investigating the wiretapping of American citizens. An FBI witness, Bernard Wells, testified that the wiretaps had demonstrated no disloyalty but they had identified some "loose talk:"
He was writing on behalf of a VA nurse who had been accused of sedition for publicly criticizing the government. See {589454}.
This became a critically important quotation a half century after it was made. Judge Hand articulated the majority Western and Judeo-Christian value proposition between dissent and heresy. However, for the majority of the Islamic world, the reverse represents the majority value that is held. There is a minority in the West that agrees that avoidance of heresy is paramount and a minority of the Muslim world that agrees that the protection of dissent is the more important value, but the two civilizations were at odds in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, Islam is about 600 years younger than Christianity. 600 years ago, the Christian world agreed with the Muslim society and prevention of heresy was the more important value. The Reformation and the enlightenment followed by the world example of America produced a transformation and this may occur in the majority of the Islamic world in time.
David Harsanyi is an American conservative writer, opinion columnist, and author.
