The State’s Endless Need for Enemies
Posted by Butler Shaffer on March 10, 2011 11:00 PM
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Peter King (R-NY) says there is “nothing un-American in holding these hearings” into the political activities of Muslims. He is quite correct. Ferreting out groups who can serve as scapegoats for the turbulence in society is as American as, say, the Salem witch trials, the Alien and Sedition laws, the Palmer raids, the Ku Klux Klan, House Un-American Activities hearings, McCarthyism, et al. Whenever the state finds itself in a condition of political, economic, or social instability, it will dredge up bogeymen as fear-objects with which to reinforce the herd mentality.
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