I am reminded of the punchline of that old joke about a busload of lawyers going over a cliff.
If the President suspends habeas corpus, as Hoover asked him to, it would in no way be breaking the law since it is a presidential prerogative explicitly enshrined in the Constitution.
12,000? What’s the point? It’s a drop in the bucket.
I would wonder if J. Edgar would have led the charge in drag or not?
If he had done it and gotten rid of them, we might not have 100 million plus traitors today.
A good place to start would be outside the DNC convention. Just wrap the place in razor wire, put guards on the doors and be done with it ;-)
“paranoia” ?????
You call it paranoia after those people have carried us so deep into Socialism that we can’t even drill for oil on our own land or build nuclear power plants????? You call that paranoia?
They’ve taken over our government so that it won’t even maintain our borders, and you call it paranoia?????
They’ve installed Gorbachev right her in the United States and sent Jimmy Carter, who gave away our very strategic Panama Canal, all over the world encouraging tyrants, and you call Hoover’s concern paranoia? That’s what the Communists call it.
I call it telling the truth when others hid and still hide their eyes and ears.
And there never will be.
So far as I can tell, the direct source is a Croatian(?) site and the date of the report is December 23, 2007. In turn, it appears to be based on an earlier New York Times report.
I suspect this is a pretty bent version of the NYT’s report; certainly we’d have heard about it endlessly if the Times had reported something very much like this.
They would have to bump that number to about 12 million today.
As for Hoover being "paranoid" and a cross-dresser/homo, careful study of the period's history leads me to believe he was just one more victim of vicious lies spread by the anti-anti-Communists to cover their real crimes. It boggles my mind that so-called "conservatives" are so ready to believe lies spread by the Far Left.
I don’t believe a word of this.
There were only 12,000 Communists in America? Or only 12,000 Communists in influential positions.
There are probably 12,000 Communists in Berkeley (or at least FROM Berkeley in Washington DC, NYC, etc. wherever the latest WTO, G8 Summit, anti-American war protest etc. is being held) alone today.
Why no mention of the list?
FOI request anyone?
Is there a reason why the MSM has not jumped at this opportunity?
< /sarc >
1. The most severe wartime news censorship in memory was imposed six months into the Korean War while Truman was president.*
2. The military draft was re-invigorated.
30,000 American lost their lives in 30 months in Korea in a war that would not have occurred if troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949.**
*The press could not criticize the allied war effort. Dispatches were screened to eliminate reports that could harm morale. Correspondents were placed under the jurisdiction of the army and were subject to court martial. Casualties could not be reported and officers could not be quoted without authorization.
**"Most everyone agrees that had the U.S. troops remained, there would have been no war. U.S. troops remained in West Germany and Communist East Germany did not invade. Clearly, the Korean War could have been prevented by an adequate peacetime defense budget." (A Brief Account of the Korean War)
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