Nineteen people were hanged as a result of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. The reasons may be very familiar to 21st century Americans.
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0:00.0 | From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
0:08.0 | Unfictional is a program of stories and personal documentaries and today on the program a |
0:17.0 | story of fear and in particular it's the kind of fear that has no clear source. It's a dread that feels like you're in danger from a powerful, |
0:26.9 | unstoppable, unseen enemy. It's said that the most contagious affliction is hysteria and when you feel threatened by an invisible enemy that you can't control |
0:37.7 | One that might be anywhere or be anyone your family your a town, a country can be driven crazy by paranoia and distrust. |
0:48.0 | And what makes sense at a time like that is to find someone who at least seems guilty, who must be guilty, and |
0:55.2 | make us feel like at least there's something being done. |
0:58.6 | There is that small, closely knit group of administration Democrats who are now the complete prisoners |
1:05.2 | and under the complete domination of the bureaucratic, communist, Frankenstein which they |
1:11.0 | themselves have created. |
1:12.0 | They shouldn't be called Democrats, they themselves have created. |
1:12.6 | They shouldn't be called Democrats. |
1:14.0 | They should be referred to properly as the comi-crack party. |
1:19.6 | In 1953, playwright Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in protest of the Joseph McCarthy anti-communist hearings of the early 50s. |
1:27.0 | In it, Miller used the Salem witch trials as a stand-in for what was happening in Congress and across the country. |
1:34.0 | His point was that the false accusations and the casual removal of due process in a witch hunt |
1:40.0 | can happen not just to a group of Puritans living in colonial America, but anywhere at any time, even today. |
1:50.0 | You know, the first thing I would say to Governor Christie is that I wish that he would be more careful about his statements. |
1:57.0 | I am not as he said quote unquote obviously ill. |
2:02.0 | I am completely healthy and quote unquote obviously ill. |
2:02.6 | I am completely healthy and with no symptoms. |
2:06.4 | You might have heard Casey Hickox in the news lately. |
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