Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/State Crimes Against Democracy
as mere promotion of an neologism that has not caught on.  By his own account, Lance deHaven-Smith coined the term in his 2006 article "State Crimes Against Democracy." (DeHaven-Smith, Lance. "When Political Crimes Are Inside Jobs: Detecting State Crimes against Democracy." Administrative Theory & Praxis 28, no. 3 (2006): 330-55. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25610803.)  His coinage  has had a decade to catch on, and it has gotten little traction despite the fact that the conspiracy theories deHaven-Smith peddles are very popular.  Check out deHaven-Smith's website http://dehaven-smith.com/faq/default.html ''"What are some examples of SCADs in recent U.S. history? :  the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King; the attempted assassinations of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan; the election breakdowns in 2000 and 2004; the numerous defense failures on 9-11-2001; the anthrax mailings in October 2001"''   There's more, but you get the drift.  9/11 conspiracy theory.  JFK assassination conspiracy theory.  Anthrax mailing conspiracy theory.  Good grief.  Original deHaven-Smits 2006 article defines a SCAD as :"concerted actions or inactions by public officials that are intended to weaken or subvert popular control of their government."    Note also that this page was started by an SPA in 2014, and has seen little in the way of expansion or incoming links in the years since.  This seems to parallel the lack of resonance in the world at large, at least in my searches.   The hits on the term in a books google search are a mix of conspiracy theory books,  books about conspiracy theories, and a book by deHaven-Smith.  If DeHaven-Smith's original article, or his book  ''Conspiracy Theory in America''  were a Wikipedia article, we would delete it as mere , he piles one example after another with little to connect them, an dvirtually nothing in the way of evidence that these events were in fact conspiracies.   ''Conspiracy Theory In America'' did garner a positive review on the  website: Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination'' http://www.ctka.net/reviews/cta.html, but was ignored by the political press and scholarly world.    Delete as per 
— User:E, 01:38, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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