Do you think the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens?”
When Gallup pollsters asked that question of 1,008 Americans a few days after the bombing in Oklahoma City, they tapped a deep, roiling well of fear and loathing: 39% of conservatives answered “yes.” And even more liberals (42%) perceived that the government was out to get them.
Have we become a nation of paranoids hunkered down in dread of a jackbooted Big Brother? Not yet, but a definite weirdness is loose in the land. . . .
Didn’t you hear about the seismology records that showed there were two explosions in Oklahoma?
“Black helicopters” are everywhere, the shortwave reports.
They’re building detention camps for gun owners, according to e-mail from the underground.
And you can’t trust CNN and the newspapers–they’re…
