... Commission on Human Rights. Three days before Christmas 2000, President Bill Clinton commuted Smith's sentence of 24.5 years for [a] drug conspiracy charge. If Clinton had not done so, Smith would still be in federal prison, to be there until the year 2016. If her parents had not waged a campaign in the news...

...In this chapter, the author recalls the time she was in prison for nine and a half years for a drug conspiracy. She feels like her life has been interrupted, and now she seeks some semblance of “catching up” and making the pieces fit, to live a life of normalcy and do the little things that would...

...Belief in conspiracies is central to millennialism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The essence of conspiracy beliefs lies in attempts to delineate and explain evil, and has implications both for the role of secrecy and for the activities a conspiracy is believed to undertake...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the rhetoric of conspiracy among Attic orators. This book investigates why charges of conspiracy are so common in the Attic oratorical corpus, and analyzes what their prevalence can tell us about the ancient Athenians...

...This chapter focuses on the notions of conspiracy against legislative initiatives and decrees in ancient Athens. It suggests that litigants who depicted legislative proposals and decrees as scheme-shares with other practitioners and consumers of the rhetoric of conspiracy received a fundamental...

... creative “autobiography” of Huineng, one that circles around an involved conspiracy supposedly orchestrated by master Hongren. As the details of the conspiracy come into focus, the reader learns that Hongren's chosen heir was not Shenxiu, but rather Huineng. With that startling “history” newly revealed...

...“The Manchu in the Mirror” examines the extremely elaborate network of conspiracy theories promoted by Han Clothing Movement participants to explain the disillusionment of the present: the distinction between the real, actually existing China and their image of “the real China.” According...

...This chapter examines the use of plotting and conspiracy in disputed inheritance and cases involving people's possessions in ancient Athens. It explains that plots to appropriate possessions are commonly alleged in speeches and suggests that accusation of conspiracy against proprietors or rival...

... of the rhetoric of conspiracy, particularly in relation to Philip of Macedon's design to control Greece, and to men who colluded with him. It also describes, and provides commentaries on, the relevant works of Demosthenes. The accusation of being an agent of a foreign power seems to have been commonplace among...

...Superconspiracies tend to be structured in the form of plots nested within plots, each layer more evil, powerful, and inclusive than those beneath. Hence the architects of conspiracy scenarios are free to place Jews at any of a number of points in the hierarchy, at the pinnacle, in a subordinate...

... fathers as mediators Sorensen Patsy criminogenic society criminal justice systems Sicilian mafia brokes “bridge builders” “core group ” Hierarchy Alien conspiracy Criminal organization Organizational learning Clans Albanian organized crime Sicilian mafia Alex Rudaj Naser Kelmendi...

... is particularly impressive about these three texts is that they take the trope of conspiracy and shift it from a direct charge leveled against the competition—Shenhui's strategy—and turn the accusation into an objective-looking history in which an invisible and omniscient narrator gradually gets the reader...

...This chapter examines the way Attic orators used conspirational notions in trials involving both premeditated and unintentional killings. It explains that the popularity and usefulness of the rhetoric of conspiracy in homicide cases is evinced by its use by both prosecutors and defendants...

...This chapter focuses on the rhetoric of international conspiracies in ancient Athens. It highlights Demosthenes' portrayal of Philip of Macedon as constantly interfering in Greek affairs and another speechwriter's charge that Cleomenes of Naucratis in Egypt was attempting to control...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the rhetoric of conspiracy among Attic orators. It argues that accusations and fears of political plots should be viewed in the larger context of the Athenians' anxiety about conspirational activity in general. The chapter concludes...

...This chapter provides a discussion on the treatment of Clement VII and the Sack of Rome. It is suggested that the events in Rome caused Clement to relive the tragic assassination of his father, Giuliano de' Medici, during the Pazzi Conspiracy of 1478. Clement's diplomacy after the Sack of Rome...

..., and disinformation well before Trump’s rise. Spurred by the Tea Party, Republicans routinely made ludicrous claims about Obama’s fake birth certificate and Islamism, “socialized medicine,” “death panels,” the “hoax” of climate change, the federal government’s “tyranny,” and other conspiracy theories. Such political...

... dualism (self versus other; us versus them) and demonization of the “other.” They claim their opponents threaten the very existence of the nation. In the Tea Party movement, these views are intertwined with long-standing right-wing conspiracy theories about liberal betrayal. In an effort to mobilize its...

... masculinity.” Next, the chapter studies the policing of feminist public talk on intracommunity violence, which is based on the hierarchical ranking of oppression. The term “conspiracy of silence” and the early feminist intervention in the area of jurisprudence are discussed. The chapter concludes with a study...