Word: extremists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were tragedies in early April that affected innocent civilians. On April 9, joint extremist Irgun and Lechi forces captured the village of Deir Yassin and killed over 250 Arabs, mostly women and children. Already at the time, without waiting for 50 years, without American pressure and with no need for letterhead faxes, the official Zionist bodies expressed their execration of this act, which in their view went beyond the intrinsic savagery of war. Indeed, due to the singularly aberrant nature of the event, whenever the Arabs henceforward had something against the Jews, the banner `Deir Yassin' was raised...
These guidelines were put in place in the aftermath of the COINTELPRO scandal of the early 1970s, when it was revealed that the bureau was not only infiltrating but disrupting and harassing extremist organizations. First issued in 1976 by Attorney General Edward Levi and later modified by Attorney General William French Smith, the rules give the bureau authority to investigate by means that include, if necessary, "recruitment or placement of informants in groups, 'mail covers,' or electronic surveillance," provided the "facts and circumstances reasonably indicate" that a group "is engaged in an enterprise for furthering political or social goals wholly...
Like other political movements before it, the radical right in America today has its extremist component, which plainly was a force in the 1994 elections. For instance, George Nethercutt, the giant-slayer Congressman who knocked off former House Speaker Tom Foley in Washington State, drew strength from radio shows where callers talked about sightings of black helicopters and U.N. plans to set up a secret compound in the state. In neighboring Idaho, Helen Chenoweth upended an environmentalist Democratic incumbent in part by saying that the only endangered species was the "white Anglo-Saxon male...
...this is common stuff in many parts of the country. It is several giant steps from this movement to the extremist-fringe thinking that seems to have bred the Oklahoma City bombing. That frame of mind appeals to a hard-bitten and alienated segment of society that has found a voice lately in millennial movements like the Christian Patriots and the state "militias," largely in the Middle West and West. The militias may be--as they strongly claim to be-composed largely of yeoman states'--righters energized over the threat to the Second Amendment. But they have also fostered viciously...
...scholarly and popular dissatisfaction with a historically unpopular group will present a very appetizing meal to any number of politicos. Though I do not believe that all politicians are fools and idiots, a fair number are. More frighteningly, recent history shows that the counsel of the most foolish and extremist figures tends to be given the most attention (though fortunately such ideas are not always heeded). So if Orenthal James Simpson is acquitted or let off by a hung jury, we should expect to see talk-show hosts and Congressional firebrands call for an end to jury trials. This returns...