Word: nya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rhetoric that foments clash continues to grow, especially from NYA. The "Right Power Program" is built on four points: "(1) To oppose the use of dangerous drugs and narcotics and to run those who push them off the campus.... (2) To neutralize and overcome Black Power.... (3) To restore law and order to the campuses and to America by stamping out anarchist groups and movements, such as SDS.... (4) To bring peace to America by resisting any attempt to involve us in foreign war...." Behind this action program lurks a set of-at the least-controversial ideas...
Reading the NYA newspaper Attack!. one finds in the group's mentality an awesome witch hunt; the devil is red and black, and recognizably utopian. The witches are trose who teach that "paradise is a place where hominoids with full bellies live in a perpetual rut," devoid of "honor, loyalty, race and Western man's will to conquer...
Behind conquest-the proof of superiority and inferiority-is the idea of inherent inequality. "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free," is the motto of Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it. The teaching of eugenics, NYA authors feel, will help students learn of white supremacy; and that recognition, their reasoning goes, will give whites the will power to assert their superiority...
...good." He goes on to reason that if the government won't enforce the law, then the people "not only have the right but the obligation to enforce the law themselves!" This vigilante mentality rejects efforts to work with the courts, as many moderate conservatives are attempting; the courts, NYA declares, "are PACKED with liberal judges" who are assumed to be unwilling or unable to deal with the evil in our society...
...NYA is symptomatic of a reactionary element in America, young and old. How much it will be fed by public reaction to radical leftist violence remains to be seen, but the potential is there and it is dangerous...