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SDR
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 Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: The last time America had witch-hunts. . . |
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What were the conditions which led to the Colonial-era witch-hunts, in Massachusetts? Did the stress of living in the uncertain conditions of the fledgling American Colonies, lead to the paranoia that fed this social aberration?
I propose that a new wave of this same aberration is underway now. Does the stress of living in a faltering, war-torn, criminally self-indulgent America, lead some into the arms of the fundamentalists?
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/050905A.shtml
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Richard Haut
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a good introduction to the tangled subject of witch-hunts is on the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
of course the basics for this sort of moral panic are a combination of ignorance and an inability to accept responsibility for ones own conduct.
however in a society like America today ignorance is not an excuse - whether under American or international law.
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