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...consider expanding the board to seven members, as their critics have suggested. And they resist the idea of creating a new, predominantly Latino district, which is what the plaintiffs are asking U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon to do. Such a plan, says Supervisor Peter Schabarum, would be "fundamentally un-American" and "racist." He adds, "I have real trouble with a Voting Rights Act that says ethnic groups ought to have a district fashioned just so they can have one of theirs representing them...
WHAT would you call an agency that reserved one-fifth of the highest stations in life for people of privileged birth? You might call it archaic and aristocratic. You would probably call it unjust. You would certainly call it "un-American...
...this Saturday by the National Security Archive show that the FBI began to check librarians to discover "whether a Soviet active-measures campaign had been initiated to discredit the Library Awareness Program." Implicit in this request is the FBI's belief that any criticism of its programs is downright un-American...
...Call me un-American for likening cars to trinkets -- it's un-American not to take cars very seriously. But consider the irony as you call me un-American from behind the wheel of your $45,000 Porsche...
...cries of "un-American" are as genuine and as frequent on either side. Everyone is protecting the country. Zappa accuses Gore of undermining the moral fiber of America with the "sexual neuroses of these vigilant ladies." He argues that she threatens our freedoms with "connubial insider trading" because her husband is a Senator. Apparently her marital status should deprive her of speaking privileges in public -- an argument Westbrook Pegler used to make against Eleanor Roosevelt. Penthouse says Rakolta is taking us down the path toward fascism. It attacks her for living in a rich suburb -- the old "radical chic" argument...