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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4 Num. 74
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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 4  Num. 74
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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IT'S HYSTERIA TIME IN AMERICA
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Yes, it's that time again: hysteria time in America. Time once 
more for one of those good, old-fashioned hysterias that we love 
so well in this country.
 
Our first big hysteria occurred in Salem during the 17th century. 
At that time, certain persons saw that some others had land. 
These persons coveted that land. What to do? Why, create a 
hysteria! So they got a witch hysteria whipped up, got the 
property owners hauled away and killed, and then they took their 
land.
 
You remember that other great hysteria, don't you? The USS 
*Maine*, sunk in Havana harbor by those dirty Spaniards? 
"Remember the Maine"? So the dirty Spaniards torpedoed the 
*Maine* so naturally we were forced to go down there and grab 
Cuba. Of course, when the hysteria had cleared, it turned out 
that we weren't actually sure just *who* had sunk the *Maine*.
 
Then there were the Palmer raids, that other great hysteria of 
the post-World War I era. Wasn't that a fun time? Of course, a 
lot of innocent people got rounded up -- but who cares?! Hey! It 
wasn't me!
 
Oh and let's not forget that great WWII Japanese-American round- 
up: Yahoo! Round up the "Japs" and put them in concentration 
camps! Just don't deny to us our fu**ing baseball!
 
And who can forget that other great hysteria of hysterias, the 
McCarthy era red scare hysteria? Yep, commies are everywhere so 
vote for me and I'll take charge of the matter.
 
Then there was the Waco hysteria, with those evil cultists: get 
those tanks, surround the building, blast the sound of rabbits 
being slaughtered -- all this "for the sake of the children". The 
press can circle their recreational vehicles, relax, and have a 
cook-out! And the FBI will feed them all the "news" they need -- 
just like they are doing now with the Oklahoma bombing!
 
The Oklahoma bombing; here comes the next hysteria: one Timothy 
McVeigh, not yet tried and found guilty in a court of law, had a 
tenuous connection to a militia group -- one militia group. (Of 
course, that group didn't want anything to do with him and soon 
expelled him.) And that's it! McVeigh, not yet tried, has a slim 
connection to one militia group. That's all we know so far!
 
Have you been noticing what I have? That night after night, we 
are getting juxtaposed, on the evening news shows, stories of the 
tragic Oklahoma bombing *immediately* followed by militia 
footage? Night after night, by "coincidence", stories about the 
Oklahoma bombing are being followed by stories about so-called 
"hate groups". Guilt by association; trial by mass media. It is 
indeed true what Sherman Skolnick says:
 
  Many people sit there, passively, in front of the TV. And the 
  thing goes into that portion of the brain which is not the 
  intellectual portion. And that, of course, has been 
  documented by others, other than me. It is not like reading a 
  newspaper: the images from the television go into the 
  subconscious portion of the brain and create different types 
  of reactions than reading a book.
 
In the old days, the unthinking public went to the Nuremberg 
Rally; now, just by turning on the television, the Nuremberg 
Rally comes to you! Right into your living room! And Billy Boy 
Clinton can huff and he can puff and he can do the old "zeig 
heil" Billy Boy right at you, right in your living room! And 
he can hint that there is this thing which he calls "hate speech" 
that *you'd* better not say anymore! And then *you* can sneak 
around and turn in your neighbor -- just like somebody turned in 
John DiNardo!! And, just like in all those other fun mass 
hysterias we've had in the past, most people are going to look 
the other way. I mean, even the elaborate *poseurs* that we find 
on the college campuses are being strangely silent on this one.
 
Billy Boy Clinton, the boy who stood up to his drunken father and 
defended mama; Billy Boy Clinton, who when Jerry Brown mentioned 
the "Mena word" became very angry and yelled that Brown had 
better stop picking on his wife; Billy Boy Clinton, who now 
bravely tells his opponents to shut up because they are baby 
killers -- Billy Boy Clinton, perhaps not the veriest scumbag I 
have seen, but for sure the slimiest one. And yes, Billy Boy, I 
*do* hate you.
 
So here we go, just like in the past, another mass hysteria. 
 
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