In France, Marine Le Pen has been at her most puffed-up lately, riding a wave of fashionable blanket fear of immigrants, of bearded men in skull caps and of any French citizen who disagrees with the limited National Front party platform.
Under a blanket of fear lies many variations of the same paralyzing tune - fear of failure, fear that you can't pay the bills, that you don't have what it takes, that you will lose the respect of your peers, of your family...your husband...your daughter.
So I can't… But the problem is that my breakdown put such a blanket of fear and distrust and shame over everything.
I wrote about the torture of Manning, the violations of the Geneva Convention, the way Manning was kept naked in a cell constantly lit, the morning searches (what can be hidden in a naked body?), the refusal to give Manning a pillow or a blanket for fear of... what?
Moments later, Anna sees a body under a blanket, and fears it might be her husband's corpse.
The Bush administration, like the Clinton administration before it, has resisted a blanket prohibition, fearing that it could impinge on future efforts to provide covert military aid in foreign conflicts where overt American assistance would be diplomatically untenable.
For the next 20 years, until the downfall of communism, a blanket of grey fear covered the picturesque spires of Prague's cathedrals.
But when they are unsupported by the bulk of the evidence they can perpetuate a blanket knee-jerk fear that results in all sorts of opposition to all sorts of things that could do us a lot of good.
"Once again, it feels like living with a blanket of constant fears—I'm fearful for my undocumented friends, my family, my black and brown friends, my visibly Muslim friends, my QTPOC [queer trans people of color] friends".
"Once again, it feels like living with a blanket of constant fears—I'm fearful for my undocumented friends, my family, my black and brown friends, my visibly Muslim friends, my QTPOC [queer trans people of colour] friends".
