Word: paranoia
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Perhaps the militias' paranoia comes not so much from Waco as from the wave of crime in this country. We are all tired of feeling unsafe on our streets. Our country is rapidly deteriorating, and it may soon be too late to do anyting about it. In a way, one cannot blame the militias for their beliefs...
...could care less what Stokes or anyone else thinks. Browse through its venomous mailings and you quickly realize why it's sometimes easier to defend free speech when no one hears it. The N.R.A. is about power. It gets it by whipping its members to a frenzy of antigovernment paranoia. It holds their attention and picks their wallets by flaunting its control over politicians who crave its approval or fear its wrath or just want its campaign money. And it very clearly won't relinquish even an iota of its influence without a fight...
...Mass paranoia flourished in this country long before it dressed up in camouflage and stockpiled assault weapons. During the 1980s, hysteria lived in comfortable homes with jungle gyms out back and family vans parked in front. In a number of highly publicized cases-in places such as Maplewood, New Jersey; Edenton, North Carolina; Chicago; and Los Angeles-hordes of parents accused nursery-school and day-care-center workers of sexually abusing children. Spurred by public outrage, prosecutors charged staff members with horrific crimes, often based solely on the claims of youngsters whose tales ranged from gropings in the classroom...
...urge the government to fix the real problems that cause people to get this angry. If we eliminate the true violation of our rights, then all we have to fight is right-wing extremist paranoia, and we can save a lot of lives...
Philip Weiss's article on extremist movements, "Outcasts Digging In for the Apocalypse" [COVER, May 1], while attempting to alert your readers to some of the darker elements in our society, ironically generates its own form of paranoia. Most disturbing is the simple insertion of "Christian home-schoolers" into the list of members of the far-right coalition. Of the families I know who educate their children at home, all do so with the goal of providing the best possible education for their children, not as a contribution to some seedy plot. Come...