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...Alien Roundup...
...field expedition for earth flora. One of these figures wanders off and encounters the threatening glare of headlights and the honking of car horns. Before the errant extraterrestrial can return to his comrades, the spaceship abruptly ascends and little E.T. is left, alone and friendless, in an alien climate, where he can never flourish and may not survive...
...same time, such a broad social conviction will almost immediately come into conflict with what you call "basic rights." These rights, though embodied in the Constitution, are not immune to limitation or even total abridgement. We've seen at before in the United States with the Alien and Sedition Act, with the century-long dormancy of the Reconstruction Amendments, with the imprisonment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, with the Red Scare, and we've seen it elsewhere to an even greater degree. The existence of basic rights is in fact predicated on a consensus opinion in favor...
...Louie!?" Murray snorted. "That malevolent little fireplug? That broken toilet of a man? That Rumpelstiltskin sadist to whom everything human was alien? Who was happy only when he could make everyone else miserable-which was most of the time? Who gave new meaning to the phrase old meany...
...given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback on his (or her) language will tend to speak not of feminists but of fern-libbers. People with only limited commitments to environmental preservation will tend similarly to allude not to environmentalists but to eco-freaks...