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1 posted on 04/10/2014 7:24:12 AM PDT by daletoons
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To: daletoons

Tailgunner Barack?


2 posted on 04/10/2014 7:26:30 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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Totalitarians are so predictable.


3 posted on 04/10/2014 7:27:32 AM PDT by daletoons (If you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.)
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To: daletoons

Cooler heads did not prevail; the communists won. But the article is otherwise correct.


4 posted on 04/10/2014 7:31:56 AM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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“Joe McCarthy used the force of government to ruin the lives of communist dupes in Hollywood and elsewhere. Finally, cooler heads prevailed and the witch hunts came to an end.”

This statement is totally untrue and shows the author is ignorant of the history of the era.

Joe McCarthy was a member of and later Chairman of the Senate Committee on Investigations. In his role he investigated Communist infiltration of the government. Communist infiltration of the government was widespread at the time. There were many Communist spy rings within the government working for the Soviet Union. Alger Hiss was just one example. The people Senator McCarthy investigated were later proved to have been Communists or Communist sympathizers. He often backed off investigations when asked. Senator McCarthy had information about the Communist activities of Robert Oppenheimer but did not make them public at the request of President Eisenhower. McCarthy was extremely popular in his day among the American people. The media however continually attacked him.

Those Communists mounted a campaign against Senator McCarthy. They used his homosexual staffer Roy Cohn’s attempt to get special treatment for his gay lover David Schine from the Army as a reason to stage what became known as the Army McCarthy hearings. McCarthy was then attacked on TV and by others in government. He was censored by the Senate. The Democrats regained the Senate in 1954 and McCarthy was reduced to a minority member with no influence.

The term McCarthyism was invented by a communist agent within the Truman Administration. It was used to falsely claim McCarthy was untruthful.

12 posted on 04/10/2014 8:03:31 AM PDT by detective
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Our country is rapidly becoming a mirror of Big Brother's totalitarian state in Orwell's 1984. Our movements are monitored by cameras on every street corner and government drones, the NSA monitors our every phone call and e-mail, bureaucrats will soon be accessing our medical records and deciding what treatments we will be given and even having politically incorrect opinions can now cause you lose your job or have your rights infringed. I expect that we will soon be seeing posters with Obama's image saying that Obama is watching you.
13 posted on 04/10/2014 8:31:14 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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