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Nichols, James, 279
Nichols, Terry, 279
Night of the Living Dead (film), 99, 100
Night Moves (film), 176
9/11, 9, 45, 152, 271, 294, 299–302, 307, 326, 327–28, 333–35, 409, 334
9/11 truth movement, 300, 318, 346, 409, 415
Nipmuc warriors, 30
Nissenbaum, Stephen, Salem Possessed, 52
Nixon, Richard M., 10, 161, 164, 165–67, 261–62, 386
enemies list, 163
and Watergate, 24, 163, 166, 172, 174, 254, 261, 319
Noble, Kerry, 208
Noriega, Manuel, 254
Norris, Chuck, 267-68, 403
North, Oliver, 269
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 313
North by Northwest (film), 173
Notes to Mary, 331–32
Nye, Russel B., 8
Oath Keepers, 313–14
Obama, Barack, 307, 311, 312, 316, 317–20
Odum, Howard, 104
Oklahoma City bombing, 277–78, 279–80, 290, 292, 320
Oklahoma Constitutional Militia, 289
Old Man of the Mountains, 241–42
Oliver, Revilo, 200
Olmsted, Kathryn, 164, 175
Operation CHAOS, 161–62, 171
Operation Mindfuck, 239–48, 326, 398
Order, The, 278, 279
Order of Assassins, 297
Order of the Quest, 134–36, 140, 152
orgone, 236–37
Orwell, George, 221, 248
Osler, Zach, 321
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 168, 232, 254, 257–58, 346, 395
Packard, Vance, The Hidden Persuaders, 71, 203
Paine, Thomas, 134
Paiute Indians, 37, 64–65
Pakula, Alan J., 173–74
Palin, Sarah, 320, 321, 415
Pappas, Tom, 169
Parallax View, The (film), 174, 175, 176, 177, 262, 293
paranoia, 8–22
anticult agitation, 213
benevolence as antidote to, 152–53
conspiracies, see conspiracy theories
critical-paranoiac method, 336
elite panic, 306–9
fusion, 222, 276, 280–81
Hofstadter’s style of, 9–10, 12–13, 14, 19, 44, 205, 222
imitation of the enemy in, 13, 44, 117
ironic style of, 17, 221–22, 229, 234, 243, 246–49, 254–56, 296–97, 326, 336–37
of minority movements, 9, 10
moral panics, 10–12
use of term, 18–19
Paranoia, 283
Paranoid Style, The (game), 336
pareidolia, 335–36
Paris Commune (1871), 103–4
Parker, William, 107, 108
Pasley, Jeffrey, 29
Patriot movement, 278, 313, 316
Patz, Etan, 211
Paul, Ron, 304, 419
Pedrone, Dino, 189, 385-86
Pegler, Westbrook, 75
Pelley, William Dudley, 141, 142, 144, 198, 377
Pendergast, Tom, 165
Penn, Arthur, 172, 176
Pentagon Papers, 163
Peoples Temple, 170–71
Pequot War, 29
Perliger, Arie, 315–17, 414-15
Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm, 14
Perot, Ross, 284, 406
Peroutka, Michael, 82
Perron, Steve, 169
Peters, Peter J., 278
PhenomiCon, 284, 328, 407
Philbrick, Herbert, 73–74
Philip, Wampanoag sachem, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36
King Philip’s War, 27–28, 29–30, 87
Phillips, Mark, 333–34
Pike, Otis, 165
“Pine Bluff Variant, The” (TV), 294
Pinkerton Detective Agency, 102
Pipes, Daniel, 131
Pius IX, Pope, 33
Plains Indians, 35–36
Plato, Republic, 134, 140
Playboy Forum/Advisor, 239, 241–43
Plowman, Edward, 192–93, 194
Plot 49 (game), 325
Poindexter, George, 4
police brutality, 103, 105, 106, 108, 130, 264, 279, 286
Pollack, Sydney, 175
Populists, 12, 140, 199, 200–201, 270, 271, 277, 278–79, 376
Portis, Charles, 375
Posey, Tom, 270
Post, Ted, 267
Potok, Mark, 313, 321, 322
Pound, Ezra, 396
Powers, Tim, 337
POW/MIA rescue genre, 267, 268, 269
pranksters, 222, 227–31
President’s Analyst, The (film), 173
Presley, Sharon, 398
Principia Discordia, 231–33
Prinze, Freddie, 169
Procter & Gamble, 203
Prodigy, 329–30, 419
pronoia, 136
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, The, 141, 197, 198, 208–9, 288, 291, 376
Pulling, Pat, 206–7
Puritans:
forsaking the fold, 31
and Indians, 24, 25, 31
and New Jerusalem, 152–53
and witch hunts, 53
Pynchon, Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49, 325, 397
Quaker conspiracy, 34
Quarantelli, E. L., 360
Quasi-War (1798–1800), 117
Qautermass serials (TV), 71, 358
Queenborough, Lady (Miller), 199, 201, 408
Quitman, John, 5
Radio Free America, 275
Radio Free World, 275
railroads, 124–25
Rambo series, 262–73
First Blood (film), 262–66, 278
Rambo: First Blood Part II (film), 266–69
Rambo (2008 film), 271–73, 404
Rambo and the Forces of Freedom (TV), 269
Rambo III (film), 269, 404
Rand, Ayn, 71, 192, 236, 387, 396
Atlas Shrugged, 187–88, 190
Randolph, P. B., 137
Rauh, Joseph, 13–14
Reagan, Ronald, 151–52, 153, 166, 261–62, 266, 405
Realist, The, 227–29, 237, 238, 256, 327
Red Dawn (film), 265
Redman, Brian, 284–85
Reeves, Keanu, 323, 417
Reich, Wilhelm, 236–37, 238, 281, 284, 396-97
religion:
and cafeteria spirituality, 276–77
as mass hypnosis, 57–58, 61–62, 72
and unseen power, 224
see also specific groups
Reno, Janet, 212–13
Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, 229–30, 254
reptilian shape-shifters, 346
Reuther, Victor, 13–14
Reuther, Walter, 13–14
Revere, Paul, 151
Ribuffo, Leo, 76
Rich, Frank, 308
Right:
birthers, 317–20
grass-roots, 317
Jewish, 200
libertarian, 125
paranoid, 308
populist, 270, 279
racist, 278, 289
radical, 13–14, 19, 158, 278, 280, 293, 308, 309–10
religious, 202
rhetoric of, 13, 309–10
talk-radio, 292
and violence, 307–8, 310, 315–16, 320
Rimbaud, Arthur, 262
Rivera, Alberto, 205
Rivera, Geraldo, 216, 217
Robinson, Frederick, 124
Robinson, Sara, 308
Robison, John, Proofs of a Conspiracy, 118, 197
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 165
rogerSPARK, 241
Rogin, Michael Paul, 23
Rolling Stones, 171
Romero, George, 99, 100, 364
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 365
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 76, 152, 165, 199, 235, 375
Rosemary’s Baby (film), 213
Rosenkreuz, Christian, 136–37
Roshaniyya, 117<
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Rosicrucians, 136–40, 146, 150–51, 199, 219, 374-75, 376, 379, 389
Rothschild family, 187, 189, 200, 288
Rovere, Richard, 75
Ruby, Jack, 250
Ruby Ridge, 209–10, 277, 279, 286
Russian Revolution, 103–4
Ryan, Leo, 170, 171
Sacred Fire, 282, 283
Salinger, J. D., 133
St. George, Katharine, 80
Saint Germain, Count of, 138, 143
Salem witch hunt/trials, 49–55, 69, 87, 90
Sanchez, Rick, 311
Sandifer, Philip, 275
San Francisco Chronicle, 170
Sarfatti, Jack, 150
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 71
Sassamon, John, 24–27, 29, 30
Satan:
and child abuse stories, 213–16
Christian conspiratists vs., 141–42, 196
Indians as disciples of, 23–32
and mass culture, 202–7, 303, 335
and moral panics, 11
and 9/11, 333–35, 334
in “Young Goodman Brown,” 47–50
Savitt, Todd, 128
scapegoating, 79
Schrader, Paul, 405
Scientology, 228–29, 250, 256–57
Scorpio (film), 176, 183, 184, 383–84
Scorsese, Martin, 405
Scott-Heron, Gil, 157
SEALs, U.S. Navy, 45
Searchers, The (film), 272, 273, 405
Second Bank of the United States, 123–25, 131
Second Great Awakening, 56–57, 58, 61, 94, 170
Seconds (film), 172, 176
Secret Chiefs, 146
Secret Honor (film), 383
Secret World, The (game), 325
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 421
sedition trial (1944), 76
Seinfeld (TV), 409
Semple, Lorenzo, Jr., 175
Seneca Indians, 32
Serling, Rod, 77, 173
Servants of Cthulhu, 248
Seven Days in May (film), 173
Seward, William, 122
Seymour, Horatio, 101
Shaffer, Gwen, 302
Shakers, 55–56, 58–59, 61, 62, 142, 357
Shambhala, 139, 375
shape-shifting, 16–17, 88, 140, 201, 277
Shea, Robert, 234, 243, 249, 396, 397, 401
Shelley, John, 108
Shermer, Michael, 337
Shiner, Lewis, 419
Siberian beetle, 159–61, 160, 239
Siegel, Don, 68–69, 71, 173
Silkwood, Karen, 246
Silver Shirts, 141, 144, 198, 377
Simmons, William, 28
Simon and Garfunkel, 203
Simpson, O. J., 16
Sioux tribes, 35–40
Sirhan, Sirhan, 200, 228–29, 256, 389
Sirota, David, 384
Sitting Bull, Sioux leader, 36–40
sixties counterculture, 171–72
Skolnick, Sherman, 285, 407
Slacker (film), 252, 400
slave insurrections, 83–96, 98–99, 101, 121, 132
Slave Power, 4–8
slaves, and Enemy Above, 126–31
Slotkin, Richard, 24, 31, 272–73
Smith, Doug, 250
Smith, George H., 114
Smith, Joseph, 59, 61
Smith, Pastor Chuck, 191, 193, 202, 389
Smith, Rex Alan, 36
Smith, Sam, 16
Smith, William, 91
Smith Act (1940), 76
Snedeker, Michael, 212
Snow, Jack, The Magical Mimics in Oz, 70
Society of the Cincinnati, 111–12, 115, 123, 369
Socolow, Michael, 20, 21
Soros, George, 132
Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia (SMVM), 314–15
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), 278, 313–14, 315, 316–17, 320, 406
sovereign citizens movement, 276, 284, 316, 405, 419
Spain, at war with Britain, 89, 92
Sparkman, Bill, 310
Special Study Group, 229–30
Spielberg, Steven, 178, 325, 384
Spirit Guardians, 150
Sponsors, 141
Springmeier, Fritz, 391
Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The (film), 173
Stack, Joe, 310–11
Stallone, Sylvester, 262, 266, 268, 271–72, 273, 403, 404
Stang, Ivan (pseud.), 250, 252, 253, 255
Steamshovel Press, 283, 409
Stepford Wives, The (film), 178, 180, 384–85
Stern, Kenneth, A Force upon the Plain, 290–92
Stevens, Thaddeus, 122
Stewart, Virgil, 97
Stiles, Ezra, 28
Stone, Oliver, 400
Stono Rebellion (1739), 87, 93
Sturgis, Frank, 168
Sullivan, Mark, 311
Sumner, Charles, 122
Sunderland, La Roy, 58
Swastika Club, 104
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 117, 144, 378
Symbionese Liberation Army, 169, 172
Tavibo (Paiute Indian), 37
Taxi Driver (film), 405
Taylor, Zachary, 4, 5, 6–7
Teamsters Union, 165
Tea Party movement, 317, 321
Telefon (film), 173, 418
television, 72, 180–84
terrorists, 12
bin Laden, 45, 300–301, 332
CSA, 208–10
lone wolf, 45
and 9/11, see 9/11
War on Terror, 297, 299–307
Theosophy, 137–39, 140–41, 151, 219, 248, 375, 376, 378
Thornley, Kerry, 252, 256
and Discordians, 231–33
and JFK assassination, 257–59
and Operation Mindfuck, 239, 242–43
Oswald, 232
Thirteenth Floor, The (film), 322
Three Days of the Condor (film), 175
Thomas, Dorothy and William, 3
Thurmond, Strom, 218
Tibet, 136, 137, 138
Tierney, Bryce, 322, 412
Tierney, Kathleen, 306
Tiller, George, 307, 308
Time Masters (comic), 419
Tituba (Indian slave), 51, 354
Todd, John, 185–97, 201, 202, 205, 207–8, 209, 213, 216, 217–18, 220, 328, 385-86, 388, 389, 391, 411
Todd, Sharon, 194, 201, 391
Todd, Sheila, 207, 391
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings, 324
Tompkins Square Riot (1874), 103
Toole, Ken, 291, 292
“Top Secret” (TV), 180-81, 183
Tramp Scare, 101–2
transactional analysis, 327
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (film), 252–54, 400, 253
Trilateral Commission, 251, 290
Trochmann, John, 278
Trotskyites, 76, 235–36
Trotsky, Leon, 198
Trott, Jon, 204
Truman, Harry S., 165
Truman Show, The (film), 322
Trumbo, Dalton, 175
truthers, 300, 321
Trystero, 397
Tucker, Benjamin, 236
Turner, Nat, 94, 98
Turner, Patricia, 129
Twain, Mark, 63–64, 96
20/20, 212, 213–16
Twilight Zone, The (TV), 77–79
UFOs, ufology, 10, 146, 223–26, 250, 276, 284, 288, 296
Ungar, Rick, 310
United Auto Workers, 13–14
Universal Zulu Nation, 286–87
“Unrequited” (TV), 294
Ury, John, 91–92, 95
USA PATRIOT Act (2001), 303–4
Us versus Them, 222
Utah War, 64–65
vampires, 143, 206, 295, 330, 337
Vanilla Sky (film), 322
Vatican, 56, 57, 91, 92, 103, 330–31
Venus, visitors from, 144–45
Ventura, Jesse, 296, 409
&nb
sp; Vidal, Gore, The City and the Pillar, 79, 80, 360
Vietnam War, 159, 162, 163, 175, 256, 262–63, 265, 266, 270
Vincent, Harl, “Parasite,” 70
Wabanaki Indians, 32, 51
Wachowski, Andy and Lana, 323
Waco: Branch Davidians, 210–11, 213, 270, 276, 277, 279, 285, 286
Waco: The Rules of Engagement (film), 270
Waking Life (film), 322, 323
Waldeck, Rose, 80
Wallace, George, 246
Wallace, Henry, 138, 375
Wall Street Journal, The, 312
Walsh, Adam, 211
Wampanoag tribe, 25–27, 29, 36
Warnke, Mike, 209, 213, 216, 390
The Satan Seller, 201, 204–5
War of Jenkins’ Ear, 89
“War of the Worlds, The,” 19–22, 202, 232
War on Terror, 297, 299–307
Warren, Joseph, 110
Washington, George, 111, 115, 124, 151
Washington Post, The, 44, 45, 162, 166, 168, 174
Watergate, 163, 166, 172, 174, 246, 254, 261, 319, 216
Watts riots, 105–8
Wayland, Francis, 101
Wayne, Bob, 419
Wayne, John, 272, 273, 405
Weather Underground, 242
Weaver, Randy and Vicki, 208, 209–10
Weberman, A. J., Coup d’Etat in America, 168, 258
Webster, Nesta, 197–98, 199, 233, 234, 244, 336
Weed, Thurlow, 122
Weiner, Jonah, 329
Weird Tales, 70
Weishaupt, Adam, 117, 140, 198, 199, 200, 242, 244, 329, 369, 375
Weisman, Richard, 53
Welch, Cedric X, 287–88
Welch, Robert, 199, 240
Welles, Orson, 19, 21, 22, 202, 358
Wells, H. G., 19
Star Begotten, 70
Wertham, Fredric, Seduction of the Innocent, 72, 237
Westworld (film), 178
What Dreams May Come (film), 323
Whig Party, 114
Whip Hand, The (film), 73
Whiskey Rebellion, 116
white-slavery rings, 11, 199
White Zombie (film), 99
W.I.C.C.A. Letters, 216–17
Wikipedia, 325–327
Wilcox, Steve, 250
Wiley, Malcolm, 311
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 41
Wilkerson, Ralph, 191, 193
William Volker Fund, 14
Wilson, Arlen Riley, 237, 397
Wilson, Christopher, 88
Wilson, Henry, 8
Wilson, Jack (Wovoka), 37–38, 40
Wilson, Mick, 235–36
Wilson, Peter Lamborn, Angels, 146, 147, 149, 379
Wilson, Robert Anton, 221, 234–49, 252, 254, 259, 284, 327, 331, 335–36, 393, 395, 396, 397, 399-400, 401, 417, 419
and Illuminatus!, 234, 243–44, 248–49
and Operation Mindfuck, 239–48
Wilson, Woodrow, 42
Winner, Michael, 176, 383–84
Winrod, Gerald, 199
Winslow, Josiah, 25
Winter Kills (film), 176
Winthrop, John, 152
Wirt, William, 371
witchcraft: