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.

Always interesting to find someone on the same wavelength.

Yes, Coulter’s account of Senator McCarthy was illuminating, to say the least. It dispelled decades of vile lies about a true patriot.

I too read a lot, books mostly, or at least I used to. My vision isn’t what it once was, but I’ve read almost exclusively history.

Most folks, particularly the young, prefer the internet, which is a shame. So much of what they read is absolute nonsense.

While I’m on the subject of books, two that I usually recommend (because I like them) are;

The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman.

A definitive account of the origins of World War 1, truly worth the time. Won the Pulitzer Prize, early 1960s I think.
There’s an account of a race between a British and German warship that is just astounding. This little known incident changed the entire globe, and was actually the origins of our Cold War. Absorbing account.
JFK had his staff read it, around the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle. He pointed out that the ‘misunderstanding of the intentions of others’ was at the heart of what had happened in the prelude to war in 1914.
The following year he dealt with a similar experience during the Missiles of October.

The other book I would recommend is The Discoverers, by Daniel J Boorstin.
It’s a little dated, also, from the 1980s, but it is another outstanding read.
A compelling and comprehensive ‘who’s who’ of history, who did what, when they did it, and very importantly, why it was them and not someone else.

I must admit that I’m very impressed with your efforts to get to the truth about Senator McCarthy.
I’ve researched various websites, mostly the US Patent Office, but nothing like your efforts.
Bravo.
I certainly wish more folks had that strong streak of inquisitiveness and determination.
Maybe there are and I’m just not aware.

I’m old school, retired, and not as quick on the uptake as I once was, but I found the election of Trump very encouraging.
It’s nice to find out that you’re not on your own.

The two most important points I try to impress on young folks, and I’m sure you know this already, is the difference between individualism and collectivism, and the murderous nature of communism.

These two issues used to be part of every American’s education back in the day, and we never hear a word about either any more.

As I say, the election last November is encouraging, as is the late Charlie Kirk’s organization, TPUSA.

I’m beginning to think there’s hope yet, fingers crossed.

Ah. We share a common issue as well, I too have read history almost exclusively (I can count on less than one hand the mystery novels I have read) and I have eye issues as well.

I used to read ferociously, when I went on vacation, I would bring four or five books with me and burn through them, but I have great difficulty reading books now. Darn it. I can't read for more than about ten minutes straight before my eyes start burning and watering.

I really miss reading like that. I would often read until 4 AM, not knowing what time it was, until blinking, I would look up and see the clock!

So I resorted to audiobooks, and now have a library of thousands of them.

Because of that, I think I know a good audiobook reading from a bad one, and I have even begun dictating audiobooks for Librivox, with 7 books under my belt and I am gearing up to do James Otis' book The Rights of The British Colonies Asserted and Proved

They are books that are out of copyright (I think anything before 1928 is fair game now) and they can be downloaded for free.

I am getting better at it as I go. You can see the books here (LINK: rlmorel books read for Librivox)

I particularly enjoyed doing Joseph McCarthy's ghostwritten book (LINK: America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall) followed by the John Hancock and the Joseph Warren books.

I did one book to "get into the system" (The American Newspaper) and one as a favor, but it very obvious was not an area I would have done had it been on my own, (The History of The Fabian Society) which was interesting, but...more about people I regard as enemies rather than those I would wish to emulate in life!

You can see where my interests are...:)

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