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Alan Dershowitz: Are investigations of Trump the new McCarthyism?
The Hill ^ | May 22, 2019 | Alan Dershowitz

Posted on 05/23/2019 7:38:22 AM PDT by billorites

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1 posted on 05/23/2019 7:38:22 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

No, it’s the initial steps in building a second fascist Chavez/Maduro Utopia.


2 posted on 05/23/2019 7:40:31 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: billorites

I used to totally hate Derh’s guts.

These past 5 years or so?

He has totally transformed and is almost tolerable.

I even catch myself liking him.


3 posted on 05/23/2019 7:40:59 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Paladin2

Time to stomp it out right here and now.


4 posted on 05/23/2019 7:41:27 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: billorites

The ‘Rats prefer that Congress be the Judicial Branch and the [Roberts’] Courts be the Legislative Branch.


5 posted on 05/23/2019 7:42:37 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: billorites

Grrrrrr!!!! Despite his issues in his own life, McCarthy was right then and right now. Abuse of power in CONgress does need to be carefully monitored to prevent those abuses, but who can be trusted to do that monitoring? At this point, certainly not the DOH-J.


6 posted on 05/23/2019 7:43:02 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Paladin2

No is right.

At least McCarthy had the right motives in his efforts to expose Communism.

These rotten democrats are petty, vindictive, bitter, angry and hostile that their coup d’état failed.

So they are trying for Plan B.


7 posted on 05/23/2019 7:44:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: gaijin

Dersh.

Of all the democrats I hate - I hate him the least.


8 posted on 05/23/2019 7:47:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: billorites

No. McCarthy was right.


9 posted on 05/23/2019 7:47:32 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: gaijin

I think his “pals” on the left turned on him a time or two when he voiced the tiniest disagreement with them, I can’t remember the exact circumstances.

He seemed to have soured on the idea that his mission in life was to help the left push their agenda. Perhaps because he’s not immersed in the left-wing hive (isn’t he semi-retired, on “emeritus” status at Harvard?) every day, he doesn’t feel the need to go along to get along.

I’ve always thought he was smart and a fairly independent thinker. At Harvard, like at all universities, if you want to have friends you have to push the liberal line.

Deviate even by a millimeter, and you get the Bret Weinstein treatment.


10 posted on 05/23/2019 7:47:58 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: billorites

Answer? NO

McCarthyism was a beneficial, Pro America, Pro Constitutional thing.

The hard part of balancing McCarthyism with our rights is our spelled out freedoms. The left used those freedoms to destroy those freedoms. So you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t go after those who are trying to destroy our freedoms as those very freedoms protect those who would destroy them. It’s a fine line.


11 posted on 05/23/2019 7:48:04 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: billorites

that’s good!

We should use that.


12 posted on 05/23/2019 7:51:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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Bret Weinstein

He was physically PRISONER in his own office at Evergreen..!

The campus cops knew exactly what was going on.

They did NOTHING.

13 posted on 05/23/2019 7:52:57 AM PDT by gaijin
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“McCarthy was right.”

He was. Ann Coulter has gone off the rails in so many ways but she deserves credit saying this first. When she said it the world gasped. But when you looked close she was absolutely right. Joe had those Hollywood Marxists number and has been vilified ever since.


14 posted on 05/23/2019 7:53:44 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Responsibility2nd

Tail GunnerJoe always got a bad rap, IMO!
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15 posted on 05/23/2019 7:55:22 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Considering BJ’s wife’s failure and Strzok’s insurance policy, this would be Plan C.


16 posted on 05/23/2019 7:58:04 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: gaijin

And he’s as much a lefty as any of them. He completely believed in the Evergreen culture, right up until they tried to ban white people from the campus, including professors. That was too much for him. He refused, and was hounded out of his job, after being physically threatened, along with his wife, also a professor at Evergreen.

It’s amazing how these intelligent people are able to go along with liberalism and not think it through to the end stages. Maybe because they’re not good at mathematics, which teaches you to be able to scale things up and down past the limits of comprehension.


17 posted on 05/23/2019 8:01:23 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: billorites

Actually, harrying communists from all positions of trust was a worthwhile goal.

Had it been better pursued we’d not have nearly the vile, loathsome Left (for whom nothing remains of the old extreme Left that’s extreme to them anymore) that we do.


18 posted on 05/23/2019 8:04:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: billorites

The trouble is the Communist infiltrated progressives and media succeeded in destroying McCarthy for telling the truth as proven when the KGB files were thrown open when the Soviets fell.


19 posted on 05/23/2019 8:04:43 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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No, Alan.
McCarthy only went after actual Soviet agents in the U.S. Government.
After the Soviet collapse the Venona project proved they were who Joe said they were.

You’re a douche, Alan.


20 posted on 05/23/2019 8:13:32 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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