Word: paranoia
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Whether the Michigan Militia's activities are quite this innocent is arguable. While dressing in camouflage gear and holding training retreats and rallies may be their main pursuits, it is clear that the members, along with those in similar groups throughout the country, nurture a profound paranoia about the Federal Government even as they express their deepest patriotism. Bureaucrats, militia members believe, are responsible for gun-control laws, like the 1994 Brady law and assault-weapons ban. The militias especially blame the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the movement's twin tragedies: the deaths...
There aren't many adherents of these ideas. Experts suggest they number somewhere in the low tens of thousands. But with the right ingredients of paranoia and store-bought chemicals, it takes only a few to make the most bizarre world view come true for a blazing moment...
...shipments, beards and unfiltered cigarettes have nothing to with revolution. He's probably reading Marx for Social Studies 10. Has he lost his sense of humor? He's not speaking in Cuban, is he? Have you seen any little red books? Don't worry, everything will be just fine. Paranoia is so bourgeois! You ought to be ashamed of yourself...
...less this trust exists, the more the quality of life degenerates. Paranoia replaces goodwill, and the time and energy we must expend to protect ourselves from malefactors saps our individual and collective strength. This is true no matter what type of society we discuss...
...University at Long Beach who argues that such prohibitions "infantilize" students, has formed a loosely knit group of about 100 professors and students called Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity. He believes the spread of campus rules on romance will leave professors less accessible to students. "It's creating a paranoia that is really affecting whatever is left of an academic community," he says...