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That trust deficit comes up in conversations with Tea Partyers everywhere. In Arlington, Va., Kevin Murphey said he would love to see a better health care system but has no confidence that the government can deliver one. "I can't trust them, and we can't afford it. They haven't proven to me that they can do anything efficient," he said. Murphey's recent Tea Party meeting consisted of just five guys in a bar, but that's not so bad for Arlington, home of the Pentagon. Protesting Big Government in Arlington is like disdaining microchips in San Jose...
...countless students who feels he can trust the all-knowing Charlie, confesses that he has always wanted to go to Paris and study painting. (Wait, are we watching “High School Musical?”) Soon after, Charlie’s bully-turned-BFF Murphey laments his misled life by recalling his role as Linus in a grade-school production of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.” This is almost exactly what Ryan once told Seth on an episode...
Robb, who is based in Arkansas, insists the insurgents have taken no more than 15 of his members. He claims that Neumann and his accomplices, Troy Murphey of North Salem, Indiana, and Dennis McGiffen of Wood River, Illinois, do not have the standing to vote him out of office. He threw them out of the Knights immediately after they ousted him. "As far as I'm concerned this is just a blip on the radar screen," says Robb, 48. "It's like me putting out a letter dismissing Bill Clinton as President...
Curiously, the real thing, nuclear war, was mentioned hardly at all. Federal Signal Corp. did push its big civil-defense sirens ("The wavering sound," explained Salesman Jerry Koster, "is when there's an actual attack"), but / only Walter Murphey came to Indianapolis eager to talk about war. Murphey, 73, is executive director of the American Civil Defense Association, an 800-member group that agitates, without much success, for federally funded bomb shelters. "That's our hang-up," he said. "Our reason for being is nuclear attack." Despite a voice just like Jimmy Stewart's and an utterly genial manner, Murphey...
...vast, whom to rescue and whom to mend? Where to erect the police barricades? Theirs is not so much a fascination with disaster as it is a half-religious, half-martial hankering to see what they can do to help. Nuclear holocaust would be too big to handle. Murphey, for all his quixotic zeal, understands perfectly the indifference to his brand of civil defense. "The idea of a huge disaster, a war -- that just floors people. They really won't think about it. But a fire, a flood, a tornado . . . Well," he said, "there you've got something...