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Does it put the label of un-American or subversive on everyone with whom it disagrees politically??

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

" In terms of her moral character, Abraham Kuyper argues that Abigail's conduct indicates " a most appealing character and unwavering faith ," but Alice Bach regards her as subversive.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

It became the focus of criticism from social conservatives, such as Michael Medved, while others, such as David Letterman, and the conservative magazine National Review, defended it as a cleverly subversive vehicle for social criticism and a particularly creative and intelligent comedy.

" Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.

A vehement campaign against " Titoism " was immediately started in the Eastern Bloc, describing agents of both the West and Tito in all places engaging in subversive activity.

Throughout her career, Love's wild stage antics and subversive feminist attitude have polarized audiences and critics, with Rolling Stone once calling her " the most controversial woman in the history of rock.

Over the years Love gained considerable notoriety for her unpredictable live performances, distinguished by subversive, confrontational behavior and verbose interaction with the audience.

In the book Rockin ' out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock, one instance of Love's culturally subversive stage antics was noted at a 1995 concert:

Love is also self-identified feminist, and has been noted throughout her career for her subversive feminism and " self-conscious parody of female sex roles ".

At a time when comic books were coming under fire for supposed sexual, violent and subversive content, Kelly feared the same would happen to comic strips.

But they counteract or eradicate the more subversive elements of culture ( exclusionary aspects of religion, language, and political / ideological beliefs ).

* Lucky Bastard ( 1999 ) A comic novel in which a likable but amoral, devious and oversexed politician ( meant to invoke Bill Clinton ) is controlled by a female eastern-bloc subversive.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

The security service ( MI5 ) has carried out surveillance of CND members it considered to be subversive.

From the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, MI5 designated CND as subversive by virtue of its being " communist controlled ".

She said that her work was determined more by the political importance of CND than by any security threat posed by subversive elements within it.

It was fully recognised by the service that she had no subversive affiliations and therefore should not be recorded under any of the usual subversive categories.

Many of these spent years in open or subversive rebellion.

In typically subversive, perverse style, the band became the talking point of the ceremony when after about 15 seconds into the song, Biafra said, " Hold it!

""), with an anti-war, anti-violence (" Rambozo The Clown ") bent, moving away from the violent imagery of their early records, while remaining as subversive as ever (" I Spy ", " D. M. S. O .").

Discordians use subversive humor to spread their philosophy and to prevent their beliefs from becoming dogmatic.