COLUMN: The scared straight strategy

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CST; updated 9:46 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 12, 2010

There is a woman I occasionally run into who never fails to warn everyone she meets of the necessity for Americans to be on constant guard against foreign terrorists. Most people contend that her outcry is the result of her right-wing fundamentalist religious beliefs and associations. Personally, I avoid getting into these kinds of discussions because they invariably lead nowhere.

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