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I bet if I search my memory far enough back, I can remember when the FBI was against communists

Posted on 02/16/2018 3:25:43 PM PST by Jim Robinson

I bet if I search my memory far enough back, I can remember when the FBI actually went after communists in America. We even had congressional committees investigating Un-American (communist) activities. I can even remember a TV series in the 50's called "I Led Three Lives" about a guy working undercover for the FBI against communist infiltrators. And I'm pretty sure that J. Edgar Hoover was always going after communist plotters. Say, is it a figment of my imagination or wasn't it once illegal to be a communist in America?

Who dropped the ball?


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1 posted on 02/16/2018 3:25:44 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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Herbert Philbrick was a Boston area advertising executive who was encouraged by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist Party USA between 1940 and 1949. His experiences led to the TV series and book, “I Led Three Lives.”


2 posted on 02/16/2018 3:27:30 PM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: Jim Robinson

Under the stealth communist DingleBarry, they flipped.


3 posted on 02/16/2018 3:27:50 PM PST by bkopto
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4 posted on 02/16/2018 3:27:52 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Jim Robinson

LOL < agreed...


5 posted on 02/16/2018 3:28:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: tomkat
Exactly!

And now they've grown to roughly half the nation.

6 posted on 02/16/2018 3:29:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Jim Robinson

once upon a time, the communists were honest enough to run under their own banner

nowadays, they’ve discovered a far more successful strategy.. they (with the IslamoNazi Soroz contingent and $$$) simply run under the DNC flag

result: they inherit a few very significant ‘voting blocks’
and... can win, take over power in Amerika


7 posted on 02/16/2018 3:30:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Jim Robinson

McCarthy partly poisoned it by going over the top (good capitalism can withstand fair debate and needn’t be shielded from it by brute force); the people partly poisoned it by ignoring God more and more.


8 posted on 02/16/2018 3:31:37 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: faithhopecharity

They are vacuum fillers.

When God is unwelcome, vacuums form.


9 posted on 02/16/2018 3:32:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Same with Ford Foundation:

Once, staunchly arch-Conservative.

Now?

PACKED with commies.

That has been the pattern with a LOT of entities/orgs.


10 posted on 02/16/2018 3:33:01 PM PST by gaijin
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Who dropped the ball?

Dropped hell.

The Commies are simply more motivated and willing to play harder.

The game changed and our side is slower to adapt.

And then there are the dang bloggers...

11 posted on 02/16/2018 3:33:11 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: Jim Robinson

Former CIA Director John Brennan voted for CPUSA for president in 1980
This did not impede his confirmation


12 posted on 02/16/2018 3:33:29 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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Communist Party Goals, 1963

http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

They took the democrat party completely.

Didn’t happen overnight, but they never quit. That’s why they win.


13 posted on 02/16/2018 3:33:31 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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And now the American democrat communists hate Russia because Putin is too conservative for them


14 posted on 02/16/2018 3:34:59 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: choctaw man

“I Led Three Lives.”

= = =

Used to watch that each Sat. afternoon.


15 posted on 02/16/2018 3:35:12 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: gaijin

Because even “arch conservatism” forgot something important.

Without God from the heart as first, we “conserve” trash!


16 posted on 02/16/2018 3:35:14 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

understood.
l believe it is possible for individuals to behave in good ways, even if they do not have faith in a Creator
BUT
it does not appear that entire societies can function well without at least general or widespread faith


17 posted on 02/16/2018 3:37:27 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Jim Robinson
J. Edgar Hoover was a great man who faithfully served under eight presidents.

Libtards should also note that he was the guy who fought a valiant, but ultimately unsuccessful, fight against the plan hatched by California Attorney General Earl Warren (later their hero to turn SCOTUS into a legislature from the bench) to imprison Americans of Japanese descent living too close to the coasts solely because of their race.

Hoover was also the man who sent the FBI to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan after those four little girls were killed in the Birmingham church bombing. His plan was so successful that the KKK was defunct by the time Reagan was president, but the Democrats forced the infiltration program (the only thing then propping up the KKK) to continue until it was quietly discontinued by the Clinton Administration some two decades later.

Yet, the Libtards still revile J. Edgar because he was no friend of Communists.

18 posted on 02/16/2018 3:37:32 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Jim Robinson

I am old enough to remember when the FBI was held in the very highest esteem. When I graduated from High School I received a recruitment letter from the FBI. My father was so proud he told just about everyone he knew. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that every graduating senior received a similar letter, LOL.


19 posted on 02/16/2018 3:38:12 PM PST by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: Jim Robinson
I think part of their Job-like patience is their sense of historical INEVITABILITY:

"The tendency of Gummint is to constantly expand, and ya know what? If we suffer setbacks, SO WHAT..? In the end we're going to win. So WHY rush things, ya know..?"

20 posted on 02/16/2018 3:40:04 PM PST by gaijin
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