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Veterans Day: American Dissent and Muhammad Ali ~ An Abens Review on the Bryan William Brickner Blog
The Virtue Dissent
“American
dissent is not descending,” opened Ew Publishing’s Bryan W. Brickner, “rather,
it’s one of America’s highest virtues.”
In Veterans Day: American Dissent and Muhammad Ali ~ An Abens Review on the Bryan William
Brickner Blog, author William Abens takes a good look at dissent via the movie Muhammad
Ali’s Greatest Fight. Abens, part of the pen name Publius used for The Cannabis
Papers: A citizen’s guide to cannabinoids (2011), notes the Supreme Court technical
victory Ali achieved – while also becoming a voice of dissent in troubling and turbulent
times.
“Whatever
being an American veteran means,” Brickner observed, “the discussion always
centers around the flag and our freedoms, our liberties.”
Brickner,
publisher of The Cannabis Papers, a book banned in 2012 by the Illinois
Department of Corrections, drew comparisons between Ali’s religious freedom
fight and Publius’ forays; for example, Julie Falco’s dissenting amygdala (essay
30) and Dianna Lynn Meyer’s recalcitrant drug-testing of professionalism (essay
19). Abens contributed a dissenting essay as well, number 21: “Hi, my name is
Publius and I’ve been an alcoholic since 1972.”
“With
Muhammad Ali and William Abens,” continued Brickner, “you have two Americans
who were born into an ill-fitted world. With Ali it was the draft or religious freedom;
with Abens it was alcohol or his life.”
“Dissenting
voices are a Spirit of ’76 virtue,” closed Brickner, “and veterans tend to
honor and defend that spirit and tradition: you know, those things that make us
Americans.”
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Tomorrow,
11 November, Ew Publishing’s Veterans Day run wraps-up with Robert E. Lee’s
Nemesis, the Gallant Fourteenth.
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