Word: wings
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Many unfortunately influential people, such as the ultra-right-wing demagogues who have the gall to accuse the federal government of plotting the tragedy in Oklahoma City, would call such a plan paternalistic or plain propaganda. Daily political news coverage can't consitute propaganda if the government only sets the floor for the time period of coverage...
...James are being held as material witnesses, their friend and associate McVeigh was charged, under Title 18 of U.S. Code, Section 844, with bombing a government building. According to the complaint filed by the FBI on Friday night, McVeigh was known by a co-worker to hold "extreme right-wing views ... and was particularly agitated about the conduct of the Federal Government at Waco, Texas, in 1993"--so agitated, in fact, that he had visited the site. Indeed, as more details emerge, April 19--the date of last week's bombing and the anniversary of the apocalyptic fire...
...Arizona connection when they tracked the paperwork on his 9-mm Glock handgun. McVeigh had filed a complaint against the manufacturer and documents there provided a Kingman listing as his return address. Areas around the Arizona town have been used for explosives training by the Arizona Patriots, a right-wing group that produces radio shows and tapes denouncing the Federal Government...
...Immediately after the Oklahoma blast, some politicians and commentators had fingered Islamic terrorists as the most likely culprits, fueling anti-Muslim sentiment and triggering calls for tougher anti-immigration measures. The feds suggested that the Does, as McVeigh seems to bear out, were members of a right-wing citizen militia targeting government agencies housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Although Oklahoma police authorities were schooled in the hate groups blooming like some deadly nightshade on the fringes of society, they had always had a hard time seeing these loose organizations as a danger. "People just weren't willing...
Specter attacked the extreme right wing of the party for attempting to infringe upon America's historical separation between church and state and for trying to abolish religious freedom...