[Cael]

I've been lurking around for awhile. I think I had an account earlier but I forgot the name and password or whatever email account it was attached to...so yeah, I know a little of how you guys can go on the attack ;). I don't know if I'll buy this book yet, but I'll page through it next time I'm at the B&N.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I've been lurking around for awhile. I think I had an account earlier but I forgot the name and password or whatever email account it was attached to...so yeah, I know a little of how you guys can go on the attack ;). I don't know if I'll buy this book yet, but I'll page through it next time I'm at the B&N.

Please feel to lurk away

[Darksheare]

"How you guys can go on the attack"
That's troll talk, and I don't like trolls.
Last person I heard speak like you, they were from DUh.

If that's the case...
Heads up.

[BlackVeil]

I think that there was a lot of injustice in the McCarthy era, and irrational bullying, but the problem is that it is always seen "on its own" - no context at all. When you look at the post-war situation, with what dissidents were suffering in the Eastern Block, and Hungary in 1956 etc., you realise how mild McCarthy's campaigns were, and many of the concerns were quite valid.

Those who were targetted (fairly or unfairly) by the Red Scare in America, often just moved on, and had distinguished careers in some other field of work. Their Polish and Hungarian compatriots were taken outside and shot.

[presidio9]

While I don't agree with your view on McCarthy, I think that people who pay unnessessary attention to when you signed up to FR have no life and no imagination. The idea that the date on which you became a computer-nerd validates your point or opinion is idiotic. I did not read the rest of the thread, but I see that a bunch of pilers-on got you suspended. A word of advice: Write a big check to FR at the next fundraiser. Then you can say whatever you like and get those who disagree with you gagged.