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Toledo Blade Cites McCarthy 'And His House Committee on Un-American Activities'
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| 04/26/09
| Mike Bates
Posted on 04/26/2009 10:24:29 AM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates
Since McCarthy was a senator, HE didn’t have a “house” committee of any kind.
and, they were right to do what they were doing anyway.
i hate dumba** commie lovers
To: Mike Bates
Toledo Blade Cites McCarthy 'And His House Committee on Un-American Activities' Toledo Blade must be populated with awful ignorant Urinalist (isn't that the norm?) Joseph McCarthy was a Senator it was the independent (Joe didn't create it or run it) House UnAmerican Activities Committee that went after all the Commies in Hollywood.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:34:37 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: Mike Bates
Sally, you ignorant Commie slut.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:34:51 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: SendShaqtoIraq
McCarthy also set the communist party back about 60 years. Today, we are letting them build back up with the aid of our own government.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:35:28 AM PDT
by
RC2
(FREEDOM)
To: Mike Bates
I’m not a fan of McCarthy or any other statist, regardless of who they are on a quest against. That witch hunt did more to promote communism than it did to prevent it.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:36:43 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: RC2
McCarthy also set the communist party back about 60 years.
BS. He made it hip and caused public sympathy to the communist movement to rise.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:37:49 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: mysterio
That witch hunt did more to promote communism than it did to prevent it. What Witch Hunt are you referring to? McCarthy was right, and the facts of history have totally vindicated him.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:39:37 AM PDT
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: Ron Jeremy
McCarthy's witch hunt. McCarthy was a disgusting statist. We all agree that Nazism is wrong as well, but what if they started a witch hunt of Republicans and libertarians because they lean right?
Anyone who fears government should look at that debacle and repudiate it. "UnAmerican" activities. You really want the prevailing party at any time to define what "UnAmerican" is? Don't be surprised when the knock on your own door comes.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:45:01 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Mike Bates
From, www.senatormccarthy.com
"The VENONA Project files, declassified in 1995, provided indisputable evidence that nearly all of those McCarthy accused were traitors to America. Not surprisingly, the media ignored these documents completely, instead choosing to run yet another round of anti-McCarthy propaganda. As if that wasn't enough, in 2005 Hollywood released the greatest propaganda film since "Triumph of the Will", an anti-McCarthy slander picture known as "Good Night and Good Luck". Dead for fifty years, McCarthy's body has now been tarred, feathered, crucified, cremated, and his ashes shot into space by a leftist media who cannot handle the truth of their own miserable existence. The anti-McCarthy media claims the Senator wrongly implicated many. Despite their accusations, no critic has ever brought forth a single documented case of someone being wrongly accused by McCarthy. "
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:45:57 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
To: mysterio
You equate NAZIism and Communism with the GOP? Fascinating. An enemy of the state is one who seeks to overturn the Constitution. Enemies of the state actually exist.
Ask some Eastern Europeans if Stalin's minions or the Sudeten Germans were threats to the state or just another political party.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:49:26 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
To: mysterio
McCarthy's witch hunt. McCarthy was a disgusting statist. We all agree that Nazism is wrong as well, but what if they started a witch hunt of Republicans and libertarians because they lean right? No such thing happened. What did happen is that the military was full of communists and McCarthy rooted them out. He was right about over 90% of them.
Anyone who fears government should look at that debacle and repudiate it. "UnAmerican" activities. You really want the prevailing party at any time to define what "UnAmerican" is? Don't be surprised when the knock on your own door comes.
What are you talking about? What do you mean UnAmerican activities? Did McCarthy accuse people of UnAmerican activities?
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:50:25 AM PDT
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: SampleMan
I find it impossible to believe you drew that conclusion after reading my post.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:51:55 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: mysterio
Ironically, it was the CIO(A) that started the communist scare by accusing all the small independent unions of having communist party connections.
When the CIO wanted to take over a union against the will of the members, they just started a campaign against the leaders of the independent union and made an agreement with the company management to take over the union and rid them of the communist leadership. It worked really especially well with companies who had security contracts.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:52:23 AM PDT
by
Eva
(union motto - Aim for mediocrity, it's only fair.)
To: Ron Jeremy
Any government witch hunt designed to weed out a particular political ideology will eventually turn on the hunters. Communism is a complete failure. It has failed everywhere it has been tried. It will continue to fail. Statism does not prevent communism, it aids communism.
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posted on
04/26/2009 10:59:10 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: Mike Bates
In the 1950s, as then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R., Wis.) and his House Committee on Un-American Activities investigated liberal and progressive artists in search of Communist-oriented dissidents, Hellman and Bernstein collaborated on what would become one of several major works fomented by government activities: the play and film Cradle Will Rock, and Arthur Millers play and opera The Crucible are others. There isn't a basis for discussion when one of the potential discussers would write something this stupid.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:02:10 AM PDT
by
stevem
To: mysterio
Any government witch hunt designed to weed out a particular political ideology will eventually turn on the hunters. Communism is a complete failure. It has failed everywhere it has been tried. It will continue to fail. Statism does not prevent communism, it aids communism. If the state department and the military were full of radical muslim networks that were sending secrets to the Taliban you wouldn't have a problem with it?
Also, you did not answer my question about UnAmerican activities.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:04:30 AM PDT
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: Ron Jeremy
If the state department and the military were full of radical muslim networks that were sending secrets to the Taliban you wouldn't have a problem with it?
Please point out where I advocated espionage. I am against statism and witch hunts.
Also, you did not answer my question about UnAmerican activities.
I didn't claim that McCarthy was on that committee, but to insinuate that the two witch hunts weren't related is less that accurate.
As with most issues, zealotry does more to damage your cause than to promote it.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:10:52 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: mysterio
As with most issues, zealotry does more to damage your cause than to promote it. My cause is to destroy those who would violently overthrow the American government. The communists advocated, taught and tried those concepts. Now they practice infiltration and subversion. Zealotry stopped the first. A lack of zeal has caused the second and current situation. A lack of zeal has given us Zero.
To: Lion Den Dan
Zealotry stopped the first.
Really? Because in the history books I have read, communism spread like wildfire immediately after the zealotry.
The only thing that stopped communism in any country was communism. Anti-communist witch hunts just increase sympathy for the failed political ideology.
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posted on
04/26/2009 11:29:10 AM PDT
by
mysterio
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