Word: scapegoatism
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...Orleans' International Trade Mart and a liberal thinker. Clay L. Shaw, Garrison insisted that Shaw had met with Oswald and master pilot and gun enthusiast David Ferrie, and that the three had planned the killing. Oswald had perpetrated the crime, and was then set up as a scapegoat by his fellow conspirators. Shaw went to trial in highly publicized proceedings, and was found not guilty. Garrison was also convinced of the CIA's hand in the assassination, an accusation which seemed less farfetched when it was revealed that Shaw and Ferrie were contract employees...
...austerity measures, Mitterrand launched a program of Socialist pump priming, at a time when most other industrialized countries found it necessary to cut back. Result: domestic inflation is still 9%. With public support for the Socialists in France slipping badly, Mitterrand is using the U.S. as a convenient scapegoat...
Khomeini finds a convenient new scapegoat: the Communists
...loyalty to Moscow, the widely reviled and politically ineffective Tudeh Party (membership: between 2,000 and 3,000) seemed to be nothing more than a symbolic victim. Many analysts noted that Khomeini thrives on crisis, habitually seeking to dramatize his strength and distract his restive populace by pummeling some scapegoat. Past offenders have included the U.S., which Khomeimi frequently calls the great Satan," the Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas, who oppose the regime, and the army of neighboring Iraq. Late last year, Khomeini added the Soviet Union to his list. It was a startling switch, especially for U.S. policymakers, who have...
...second-degree murder conviction of a man who had furnished an unintentionally fatal overdose of heroin to a friend. "California," said Los Angeles Attorney Robert Sheahen, who has represented Smith, "stands virtually alone in making this kind of thing murder." Says Smith: "They're trying to find a scapegoat...