Word: hysterias
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...must recognize that restrictions that are put in place now will last for decades, long after the hysteria toward Afghanistan is over. Since the restrictions of 1959, the ostracized island of Cuba has become a popular beach destination, yet travel there remains illegal. Though our coming together in the wake of Sept. 11 is admirably patriotic, don’t throw away our freedom to go the ends of the earth in the name of patriotism, just because we may not want to venture into the wilderness of Afghanistan or Iran for the time being...
Emergencies have always been a time when the niceties of law have been most vulnerable to the demands of national security or national hysteria. As Senate minority leader Trent Lott said last week, "When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently." World War II produced the internment camps for Japanese Americans, a development upheld in 1944 by the Supreme Court but later repudiated. After the bombing at the federal building in Oklahoma City, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was authorized to establish a new court to consider the deportation...
...terrorists targeted ordinary civilians traveling in the air, working in their offices, walking on the streets. Then, unlike today, we faced discrete, known enemies. But Pearl Harbor, and America's larger history, teaches us that at these crucial junctures, resolve and unity are powerful weapons against despair and hysteria...
Eleanor, visiting the West Coast after Pearl Harbor, bore witness to the hysteria directed against Japanese Americans. Government officials swooped down upon Japanese banks, stores and houses. Swimming against the tide of prejudice, Eleanor antagonized many Californians when she called for tolerance and posed for a picture with U.S.-born Japanese Americans; the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times reacted angrily and called for her forcible retirement from public life. The First Lady responded that more than fairness was at stake: "Almost the biggest obligation we have today is to prove that in a time of stress...
...been attacked, so had Camp David in Maryland, Pittsburgh and somewhere in Florida. Additionally, we heard that a car bomb had exploded outside the State Department in Washington. Obviously, we had no access to real-time information and the entire area was filled with a sense of panic and hysteria...