[Bernard Marx]

I was acquainted with Cleon Skousen at the time "The Naked Communist" was published. He was police chief in Salt Lake City.

Like most anti-Communists of the time (late 50s, early 60s) he was attacked in the media and made to look like an extremist maniac (thinking of Trent Lott, things haven't changed much, have they?)

I'll personally attest to the fact that Skousen at that time was rational, civil, intelligent, pleasant -- and dead right.

[Antoninus]

Like most anti-Communists of the time (late 50s, early 60s) he was attacked in the media and made to look like an extremist maniac (thinking of Trent Lott, things haven't changed much, have they?)

It's funny, even anti-communists today are made to look like idiots chasing will-o-wisps. "Don't you know that the Soviet Union fell 12 years ago?" Meanwhile, we now have marxist totalitarian maniacs like Chavez and Lula de Silva right there in South America.

[Antoninus]

I'll personally attest to the fact that Skousen at that time was rational, civil, intelligent, pleasant -- and dead right.

He was and is. History is showing him to be more right with each passing day. I'd love to get a copy of his book ... I wonder if my local public library would have it (ha, ha).