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Background
In 1996, the culture war of paleoconservative Pat Buchanan was in full swing. The Presidency of Bill Clinton was beseiged by the 1994 Republican Revolution of Newt Gingrich. The Baby boomer generation had realigned politically toward the Right of the political spectrum during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan. In response, former US President Bill Clinton embraced a third way-style of governance that syncretized socially Conservative policies of the Republican Party.

Three years earlier Reagan-era Secretary of Education William Bennett co-founded and led Conservative advocacy group Empower America (now known as FreedomWorks). Much like the non-partisan Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), they sought to punish record companies for promoting what it deemed objectionable music.

In 1996 Bennett coauthored Body Count: Moral Poverty—and how to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs alongside criminologist John J. DiIulio Jr. and former US drug czar John P. Walters. In the book all three authors argued popular culture of the 1990's had corrupted the Millennial cohort (especially children of color) into an ultraviolent breed of amoral "superpredators"&mdash;"fatherless, Godless, and jobless" youths so "radically impulsive, [and] brutally remorseless" they are said to terrify even hardened convicts. Due to their sheer numbers (40 million below the age of 10&mdash;the largest in decades) the authors warned this cohort would soon unleash an epidemic of crime that dwarf the 1994 spike in the juvenile violent crime rate (despite its freefall before the book's publication). DiIulio predicted America would soon face, "elementary school youngsters who pack guns instead of lunches" with "absolutely no respect for human life and no sense of the future." To combat this perceived imminent threat, the book prescribed expanding the War on drugs, increasing the legal drinking age, stricter prison sentencing, reinstating school prayer, and impeding youth access to entertainment with violent and/or sexual content.

The book sparked panic. Washington DC and Baby boomer parents across the nation responded by

Clinton pledged during his 1996 re-election campaign to tackle the crisis with a law and order-style crackdown on teen behaviour dubbed "Order and Discipline."

The hysteria culminated in the introduction of H.R.3565 - Violent Youth Predator Act of 1996 before the 104th United States Congress by Rep. Bill McCollum of Florida. The bill was cosponsored by 19 Republicans and 2 Democrats.


 * Law and order
 * Clinton tough on juvenile crime speech
 * Proposals include School uniforms an dress codes, curfews, mandatory drug testing, Breathalyzer tests, drug-sniffing dogs going through lockers, metal detectors in schools, allocating millions of dollars in antidrug and anti-smoking PSAs, $500 million planned to combat truancy and minors as young as 14 tried as adults for violent offenses.
 * Getting Your Kids to Say No in the 90s when You Said Yes in the 60s
 * Mike Males The Scapegoat Generation: America's War on Adolescents
 * Goth hysteria of the 90's


 * On January 15, 1996 Time ran the headline "Now for the Bad News: A Teenage Timebomb."

This political climate coincided with the recording Antichrist Superstar. Buoyed by the positive reception of their 1995 Eurythmics cover "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" the band hunkered own in New Orleans to record their sophomore album.