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...four-year campaign of FBI surveillance and INS harassment. In 1975 the INS chief counsel on the case resigned his position, telling Rolling Stone that the U.S. government was being more vigorous in its attempts to deport John Lennon than it was in its attempts to expel Nazi war criminals...
...what little money they managed to raise, opponents crafted an ad to air during the Nebraska-Oklahoma football game. Because it featured a swastika, TV stations refused to let it run, thereby adding censorship to the list of legal discriminations gays in Nebraska share with Jews (and gays) in Nazi Germany. The spot opened with the state's motto, "Equality before...
...then, the crown jewel of the voting fiasco, the ineptly designed Palm Beach "butterfly" ballot, a ballot that caused thousands of primarily minority voters to wail that they may have given their precious vote to (gasp!) Pat Buchanan. Even Pat "The Nazi" Buchanan admits that these votes were not for him (probably out of some sort of desire to keep all of his votes "ethnically pure"), but we need not just take his word for it. Statisticians put the probability that fewer than 1743 (the margin between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Gore before this first recount...
Slather on the epithets--Food Nazi, Twinkie Taxer, Nutrition Nanny. Michael Jacobson, nemesis of the multibillion-dollar U.S. food industry, relishes the attention. In the three decades since the soft-spoken microbiologist co-founded the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, he has enraged the restaurant industry (fettuccine Alfredo: "a heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels...
Krauthammer's comparison of Ehud Barak with Neville Chamberlain, implicitly equating Arafat and the Palestinians with Hitler and Nazi Germany, was ludicrous. Were British forces occupying Germany at the time of Chamberlain's negotiations? Was Hitler the leader of fighters armed primarily with rocks, bottles and handguns? The two situations are not parallel in the least. The Palestinians are frustrated with the ongoing occupation. They have been given only symbolic aspects of statehood. JEFFREY DAVIS Durham...