Obama Birth Movement Case Study

Fear is motivation America has had many occurrence where social change was brought about some and these social changes have caused the development of conspiracies of all sorts. The Obama Birther movement is most compatible with being a moral panic because the fear of a social change of having an African American as a president is consistent with the characteristics of a moral panic. It lasted a sustained period of time, it was in consistent media coverage and politicians like Donald Trump used it to elevate his campaigning. It was such a persistent problem that Barack Obama felt it was necessary to provide the “Long Form certificate”, a certificate that even the president has no access to, in order to retrieve it lawyers had to jump through hoops. This is essentially the basis of a moral panic, there was a large portion of the population that feared the change, causing conspiracies to derive form the moral panic. There was the one conspiracy that Obama originally traveled through Mars. The Obama panic, shows how the some people benefit from the dilemma was all of the politician who were running against Obama or just the political party that opposed Obama in general.

The 9/11 incident had so many conspiracies it is almost unbelievable. This is certainly more similar to a conspiracy than anything else. There is he blaming happening throughout all

“For 9/11 Case”, it was the backlash against the Islamic community in America after the Twin Towers fell, or better yet said any middle eastern looking face. The fear ran so deep that there was a major protest against the build of a Mosque on what is now called ground Zero. One article stated that 9/11 is classified as a Cultural Trauma, “the was a memorialization of 9/11” and building of the mosque essentially opened up a wounded that should of healed with time