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Ungar's reformist bias leads him to emphasize the transgressions of the Hoover regime: its blatant disregard of privacy through illegal wiretapping and surveillance; its history of domestic surveillance, including the successful endeavors to stop sabotage during World War II; and the bureau's gratuitous entries into foreign espionage. In his most documented chapters Ungar details the outrageous violations made under the name of COINTELPRO, the counter intelligence program, to harass left-wing groups. Still, Ungar did not embark on this mammoth project with a master design. He wasn't out to prove that the FBI has been a source...
...Anonymous's" politics definitely tend toward the center, however, despite any appearance of universal skepticism and total detachment. This hidden political bias becomes clearer when one compares the portrait of Leone, where the satire is deflected from its supposed object and diffused over undefined groups, with the caricature of Berlinguer...
...which insists on chastity and monogamy, is for women the most oppressive book ever written." She smiles almost proudly then and says, "Hookers escape the double standard," adding simply, "and they get punished for it." The prostitutes sitting around the jailhouse coffee table know all about the pro-male bias of the prostitution laws; "the trick is never prosecuted," they point out, but one of them adds that she doesn't see anything illegal in an exchange between two consenting adults. Oppression has not made revolutionaries out of these women. They are not asking to overhaul the system...
Brian J. Mcmenimen, Hussey's attorney, said yesterday that Hussey was not promoted because of a personal bias against Hussey on the part of the late Chief Francis A. Pisani and others within the "power structure...
This basic political bias is what Mother Jones will probably be offering in its articles in the future. What's effective, what will coalesce into a new majority of slow reform based not on what people envision, but what they can work out in a compromise with unstated beliefs working beneath their packaged statements. Mother Jones has lots of reprint though, a T.V. Quiz from The Real Paper, and what "some of the wisdom of the American working class" says about "which clothes to buy" from San Francisco's City magazine...