By Kyle Frazier
Round Table editor

Suspicious minds have become an epidemic in America. The cause varies with each case.

The media frenzy has taught many people to believe that their significant other is being unfaithful. Tiger Woods with his score of mistresses and Ted Haggard and his male prostitute are two great examples – people I never expected of being unfaithful. I’m not the only one who was surprised.

However, celebrities aren’t accurate examples of everyday people. I have more faith in love than do most of the tabloid magazines in this country.

The gossip is one fuse that has ignited the suspicious behaviors of Americans. All this talk is used to sell magazines while some people use suspicion to spread fear and to control people.

A case of this being Liz Cheney, former vice-president Dick Cheney’s narrow-minded daughter. Recently she produced a video informing and scaring viewers about “The Alqaeda Seven.”

Accoring to Cheney, some of the lawyers who defended prisoners of Guantanamo Bay in court are secretly Alqaeda operatives. What a conspiracy – these people are obviously spies for doing their job that they were assigned.

The Cheneys are famous for depriving rights to people in this country, i.e. torture during interrogations, taking away of basic rights, and this most recent attack on people who merely wished to do their job.

Somehow, there are people that believe in everything they are told. It is a poison in this country that is spreading like bamboo. Fear and suspicion are strangling the country.

People are afraid of the “socialistic” president Obama. The majority of the socialist programs in the country have been around long before him.

Fear is the reason many Americans carry firearms. A life lived in fear is a life wasted. With that being said, a large percentage of Americans are wasting their lives.

I believe that humans at heart are good, but it is their environment that disrupts behavior. People also start out being trusting for the most part. Once again, outside influences change people to be less trusting of everyone, from strangers to lovers.

It is no surprise then, that FDR famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”