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Time to resurrect 'Un-American Activities'?
americanthinker.com ^ | 8/31/2015 | James Longstreet

Posted on 08/31/2015 7:25:26 AM PDT by rktman

“The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.”

And

“The work of the committee continued to decline in importance throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s until the committee itself was renamed the House Internal Security Committee in 1969, prefiguring its eventual abolition in 1975.”

We all know of what many believed as overreach and showmanship by Joe McCarthy during the life of this committee. McCarthyism is the term born from that era, and a term that now resides with the usual smears such as homophobe, xenophobe, tin foil hat wearer, ad infinitum.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: commies; libs; marxists; socialists
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Despite his problems in his own life, Joe's ideas sure raised some hackles along the way. Cockroaches don't like it when you turn on the light and expose them.
1 posted on 08/31/2015 7:25:27 AM PDT by rktman
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We all know of what many believed as overreach and showmanship by Joe McCarthy during the life of this committee.

McCarthy was a Senator and not part of the HUAC.

2 posted on 08/31/2015 7:27:12 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Frankly, I think the taxpaying citizens, we the people, should be holding our own “Un-American Activities” trials for members of Congress and our Federal Government.

You cannot trust these people to do anything moral, ethical, honest or trustworthy. It is completely beyond them.


3 posted on 08/31/2015 7:27:58 AM PDT by Gaffer
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And the Venona papers proved McCarthy was right all along - and had to be destroyed.


4 posted on 08/31/2015 7:28:18 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: rktman

The entire concept of an “un-American activity” was so utterly discredited, I doubt it will ever be looked at again.

At least until a major Blue city is hit by a nuclear explosion.


5 posted on 08/31/2015 7:29:23 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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That’d be one way to clean out Congress...


6 posted on 08/31/2015 7:30:13 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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Time to resurrect 'Un-American Activities'

No way. It's not possible to indict the entire Democrat party.

7 posted on 08/31/2015 7:31:01 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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Make it simple - For a good start just outlaw the democrat party


8 posted on 08/31/2015 7:33:13 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Sure it is. If the political Will is there.

It isn’t. Both PArties are playing a game of 3 card Monty.


9 posted on 08/31/2015 7:33:28 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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How many trees would have to die to process all that paperwork?


10 posted on 08/31/2015 7:34:19 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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It’s been time for a long time.


11 posted on 08/31/2015 7:42:22 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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McCarthy was a Senator and not part of the HUAC.

True. The chairman of HUAC was Rep. Martin Dies, a Democrat.

12 posted on 08/31/2015 7:43:24 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Very bad idea.

Think of what the Democrats will do with it when they get the chance.

13 posted on 08/31/2015 7:45:39 AM PDT by Salman
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LOL. WAY passed time for resurrection.


14 posted on 08/31/2015 7:48:16 AM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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Should have never stopped the program.


15 posted on 08/31/2015 7:50:36 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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That’s what I am talking about.


16 posted on 08/31/2015 7:57:25 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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How many trees would have to die to process all that paperwork?

Welcome to the paperless office ...

Mass storage is dirt cheap these days. Ask Hildebeeste. She'll tell you all about it.

17 posted on 08/31/2015 7:59:33 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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True. “UnAmerican” would be defined as not embracing homoism or denying global warming. Off with their heads!


18 posted on 08/31/2015 8:02:25 AM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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McCarthy has long been proven right about his concerns regarding communism. There were and still are communists in America. However, he was over zealous in his Senate committee and ruined some reputations/careers that didn't need to be.

The Communist Party of the USA is a subversive organization, but they also have their right to free political speech protected by the 1st Amendment. Thankfully, no one listens to them other than other hard core statists.

Communism: State control/ownership of production/services and equal distribution to the masses. A Utopian dream until the communes find that not all work as hard, but yet get same benefits, not to mention corrupt leaders always live affluent lives;

Socialism: Privately owned production/services, but State mandated distribution to the masses, through taxation, regulations, and social programs like welfare. Another killer of human incentive.

The continuing problem is liberal/socialism which is one step away from communism and has been slowly killing our free-enterprise capitalist system that once made this Nation the envy of he World. Europe is a prime example of the failings of socialism. Think Greece, and so many others.

19 posted on 08/31/2015 8:08:21 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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LOL! For the last, oh, probably, 15 years before I retired, my former employer kept pushing the paperless systems. Don’t know if they ever achieved what they were after. Some times, you gotta have the paper. Of course a lot of folks adhered to the paperless routine, but, most printed out a hard copy of their stuff anyway to CYA.


20 posted on 08/31/2015 8:10:59 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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