Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heavy-duty negotiators. Enter James "Bo" Gritz, former Green Beret colonel and a leading figure in the far right "patriot" movement. After three days of meeting with the remaining fugitives in their cabin, Gritz and Jack McLamb brought back a 26-page document of what Gritz called "legal mumbo-jumbo." The Freemen authored document challenges the constitutionality of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and other branches of government. Gritz announced the Freemen are prepared to surrender, "if the United States government can prove that the documents ... are not the law." The Freemen also sent out a videotape with Gritz...
Minister Farrakhan's performance, playing to a packed house, rose through Washington's sweet October air and bounced off satellites. Farrakhan banged on the American mind with a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom: Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. He went on about obelisks and the intricate, unintelligible meanings of mystical, pseudo-Pharaonic numerologies. He sounded by turns menacing and Rotarian: a salesman in a sharp bow tie, the hallucination of Mussolini channeling Booker T. Washington. Behind him postured his son from the Fruit of Islam, in sunglasses and paramilitary Graustark...
...surprisingly, Vowl must simply vanish from this book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...
...maybe, as its detractors contend, TT is a form of New Age mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine. Leading the attack is Rocky Mountain Skeptics, a group of scientists and other professionals based in Boulder, Colorado, who investigate what they call "pseudo science." Its president, computer specialist Bela Scheiber, charges that TT is "paranormal and religious activity masquerading as science...
Where did all this mumbo-jumbo about "false teachings" come from? I could see it now: Immorality 10a. An introduction to corruption, crime, debauchery, avarice and murder. Readings from "gangsta rap" lyrics, the Marquis de Sade, Adolf Hitler, required of concentrators...