countercry

One of the radio disc jockeys this morning was chatting about today's latest must have product for parents: little GPS tags that you insert into your child's skin so that you always know where they are at all times, and in typical radio mode they immediately had the countercry of how this is totally invasive of your kid's privacy and will ruin the kid's life because he or she will immediately assume that the world is a horrible untrustworthy place when even your parents won't trust you, and so on.

Whoops! mariness 2005

The Romans, rather ferocious than disciplined, fell butchered in crowds round the ranks of the mercenaries: but as one fell, another succeeded; and still burst with undiminished fervour the countercry of "Rome, the Tribune, and the People!

Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838