VANITY: The Insurrection Act Explained

I admit… when you said it,it was a novel thought for me to think that Germany would surrender its sovereignty in order to escape its heinous crimes and reputation in of the 20th century by allowing itself to be subsumed into the European Union. I had never even considered that before, but if the left over there is anything like the left over here, That is entirely possible.

I am a student (albeit an amateur one) of the period in American history from about 1930 to 1955. I believe that the Communists of the world were making a serious effort to infiltrate the West and hollow it out from within in order to consume it.

I believe they came very close to achieving it in an overt way. The amount of communist agents they had installed in our government at all levels up to an including people like Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White are prime examples of people who, even though they didn’t run those particular departments, they were widely considered to be “the right hand man“ for the people in charge, whose suggestions were taken wholly at face value and implemented for the most part by Democrat office holders, who were lazy, incompetent, or overworked.

I have always been particularly interested in Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the activities surrounding him, because I have come to believe over the years he was spot on, he was getting intelligence (possibly back channel via Venona) and have always thought he should’ve been canonized as an American hero and patriot, instead of what the left Managed to do to him via character, assassination, slander his name, and salt the very ground he walked and breathed on.

I think it’s a terrible sin that that happened, and I like it to what was done to our Vietnam veterans who returned home to the United States and were slandered and villainized by the left as “Baby Killers” and such.

There is a Freeper on this forum who has the tagline “McCarthy was right“.

One of my favorite tag lines.

Yes, Senator McCarthy was a true hero.

If you haven’t already done so, try reading a great book by Ann Coulter, Treason.
She provides an accurate account of what transpired back then, and it’s not what’s been published elsewhere.
McCarthy said that there could be as many as 50 communists in the US government, specifically the Department of State. Turns out it was more like 250.

Also, consider looking at the JBS website.
Their organization is named after the first American killed by Chinese communists in 1945, Captain John Birch. Like McCarthy, he was a courageous American.

Communism was trendy and Avant Gard in leftist circles in the 1920s. It wasn’t until later, when the excesses of Stalin became known that it was widely discredited. Oddly enough, not in left wing circles, though.

Many of these radical communists left government after the death of FDR, and the last days of Truman.
Many of them found positions as tenured professors in academia, and were waiting for the baby boomers entry about 18 years later.
This accounts, at least in part, for the radicalization of America’s youth in the 1960s.

Taking over academia was the first step in a long journey to corrupt America.
The universities began churning out left wing journalists, who then began shaping American opinions, and so on.

Anyways, I’m glad that you read.

So many do not, and it makes a huge difference in understanding how we got here.

I can see we are simpatico on this.

I read two books that turned the worm for me on the issue of Communist infiltration: “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers, and “Treason”, by Ann Coulter.

“Witness” had the pure ring of authenticity, and showed fully how the Left back in the late 1940’s was engaging in the sophisticated means of character assassination that we see even more fully formed from the Left today.

Same thing.

In “Treason” she described in detail how McCarthy had been slandered and defamed, culminating in the famous quote from the Army-McCarthy Hearings “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” where it was characterized by the Left as a poor bullied Joseph Welch standing up to the bully Joseph McCarthy.

Ann Coulter described it quite differently from any account of it I had read in books or been taught in school.

She characterized this encounter as an hourlong session of sarcastic bullying and attempted humiliation of McCarthy’s assistant Roy Cohn by attorney Joseph Welch complete with falsetto voice, facial expressions, and theatrics by Welch with McCarthy simply patiently and placidly absorbing it for a while, then when it became ridiculous and time consuming, he might appeal to the Chair of the meeting to put a stop to it, often getting no further than “Mr. Chairman...” before being cut off.

These two versions were so mutually exclusive that one of the two versions was wrong.

So, I did what I could never do before in my life, I went on the Internet, to the Library of Congress, and downloaded in PDF format all the Army-McCarthy hearing transcripts, and when I went right to that part of the hearings, it was exactly as Ann Coulter had described it.

You could see it right there. The proof. I couldn’t see or hear the people recorded, but the transcripts left no doubt.

It was then that I really began looking at that era. Read a lot of books. The best one, by far, hands down, is:

“Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies

It was written by M. Stanton Evans, someone there at the time as a cub reporter and who did his own research on his incredible book (instead of relying on the flawed, Leftist “Historians” of the day who salted the earth McCarthy had walked on)

It was a real political turning point in my life, reading those two books, and then examining the political world we have been living in during my life.

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