Dooleyism

This is an article I copied from: The Yemassee Encyclopedia of Knowledge

Dooleyism (see also; The Dooley Effect)

It's Ironic that what we know today as Dooleyism, the self-protective rationalizing of any government cover-up, should once have had a positive connotation. But to understand the change, we must first remember the circumstances that lead up to the invention of the phrase. The September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center produced a wide retaliation that began with the attack of Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, then Iran, and finally Syria. Having expended so many resources and having doubled the federal deficit within 7 years, anarchy became more than a teenageers angst-filled chant.

It was in the year 2008 that the scientific community discovered what we now call, The Tom Dooley Effect. The famed Criminologist Paul Vaughn brought this variation of the popular Butterfly Effect to national attention in 2009 when he used the song to catch, Toots McCoy, the feared, Midnight Killer." Soon after there were rumors that the Military was using the The Tom Dooley Effect in their war against terror, and it came to public attention when Osama Bin Laden was finally captured in 2011. The effect simply was, that when played at quarter speed, the song, Tom Dooley had a soothing effect that rended those who heard it immobile. It was subtle, but effective, and was widely hailed as the first great discovery of the Twenty-first century.

It was such a success that Time Magazine named The Kingston Trio their 2011 Man of The Year...the first time it was awarded to a singing group. The following year U.S. President Marack Ohama became the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace because of his insistence on using the Dooley Effect in combatting terrorism.

The phrase entered the English lexicon; A Dooleyism was any statement that won it's point convincingly and without affront. In Baseball, a base runner committed a Dooley when the pitcher lulled him into taking too big a lead, thus picking him off the base. Songs were sung praising
it, documentaries lauded it, and comedians parodied it...and all of that was good.

On September 13, 2013, a homeless man was murdered, hung in an alley behind a shelter on Cumberland Avenue in Portland, Maine. (see:Maine: Sensational Murders) It was a local event, and though gruesome, no one in Maine's largest city took much notice, and it would never have become more than newspaper filler except a Hollywood movie director happened to be in the area filming a scene based on a Stephen King novel, he, being a Liberal, thought the murdered man deserved to be buried with a name, and decided to do some research. Within days, everyone from Maine to Alaska knew the name of the victim, it was splashed across newpapers and lead off the television news. It became a big event because the man's name as it turned out was, Tom Dooley.

In the song, Tom Dooley was to be hung for the murder, on a mountain, of a young woman. And immediately the notion of a copycat killer was introduced. Soon, in nearby Westbrook, another homeless man was hanged, and the media swamped the small city, looking for a story. Three days
later, New Hampshire had not one, but two hangings. On each was written the name, "Tom Dooley." and as with the others, these men were homeless.

Within a month, there were three hangings in Texas, two in Colorado and one in 27 other states. Each was a homeless man either named Tom Dooley, (see: Dooley Mania) rhyming with the name, or with the name pinned on the body.

Things became even more bizarre when Mayor Shawn Cooley of Honolulu, Hawaii was found hung in a house of ill-repute, only a block from the birthplace of Kingston Trio member, Bob Shane.

On November 5, Shockjock Aaron Kiles declared the next day, "Try The Trio Night." All over the country, men and women of all ages gathered to destroy Kingston Trio records and to burn them in effigy. Some of the crowds numbered into the thousands, and when anger mixed with alcohol, violence erupted.

Fearing reprisal, the Federal government on November 6, took the surviving members of the Kingston Trio into protective custody. All that day, the network news highlighted the murders and their connection to the Kingston Trio. Foxx News suggested the group members be put on trial.

An emergency Senate hearing pressured the Department of justice to turn over the Trio for questioning. President Ohama, facing the first negative job performance poll of his administration, ordered the Trio be held for questioning. A Grand jury a week later found enough evidence to put them on trial. The Federal Prosecutor declared it an act of terrorism and pushed for the death penalty. A small group of liberal activists protested the hearings, declaring it McCarthyism and another Salem Witchcraft trial, but they were villified by the media, who painted them as Anti-American radicals (see: America, Radicals.)

The current swept the Kingston Trio up and tossed them out to sea, they were convicted and sentenced to death. The Kingston Trio's lawyers appealed but were denied. Congress pushed through new legislation preventing those accused of terrorism from more than one appeal, and the Supreme Court refused to her the case.

Twenty years after the hanging of the Kingston Trio, a drifter by the name of Binford Grayson admitted on his deathbed that he was the man who'd hung the first two homeless man in Maine. He didn't know the eaither man, and was surprised as anyone that the first was named Tom Dooley.

The families of the Kingston Trio asked President Janice Raynes, in the name of the Trio (all of whom had died while in prison) that considering the new evidence, to exonerate the Trio, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation\ quickly dug into the various families affairs and showed their Attorney's the findings...nothing further came of the families' request.