Word: scapegoatism
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...Generally they argue that the states' new elaborate sentencing criteria mean that the death penalty is imposed inconsistently and unpredictably. Only a small fraction of capital murderers are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actually executed. Thus, those who do die may be a new species of scapegoat: guilty, but no guiltier than those thousands permitted to live. Says American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Alvin Bronstein: "All evidence shows the current system to be highly arbitrary...
...EVEN conspiracy theorists agree that whatever the government may have done clumsily, or done wrong, they chose a good scapegoat when they picked on Moon...
...Vienna this fall on limiting the arms race in space, but he may have run up against opposition from his boss, Ustinov, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who have all but given up on negotiations for the time being. Ogarkov may have also been singled out as the scapegoat for the Kremlin's failure to halt the deployment of new U.S.-built intermediate-range missiles in Europe, or he may have been blamed for the increasingly costly war in Afghanistan...
...there is a Republican victory this fall, the Democratic Party leaders will blame Jesse Jackson. Jackson will also be accused if Jews and others leave the Democratic ranks. If Jesse Jackson becomes the scapegoat because he has spoken out on racism, maybe blacks should also abandon the Democratic Party...
...many supporters, on the other hand, say that the organization has become a scapegoat for reckless spending in Third World countries. All it is doing, they contend, is calling for needed economic reforms, without which many countries would be financially paralyzed. Says John Williamson, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "Right now the fund is more harsh than is desirable, but it is not clear that it has an alternative...