[Hugin]

My understanding was that the "hunt" for communists may have exceeded what we today might have considered acceptable (like screening all Middle Easterners today for terriorist connections wouldn't be, but heck, that was yesterday).

A better comparison would be if the FBI had information that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah had agents working in the Pentagon and State department, but the adminstration refused to do anything about it. So a Senator tries to expose it to the public, and is attacked by the the media and censured by the oppostion party.

[budwiesest]

A better comparison would be if the FBI had information that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah had agents working in the Pentagon and State department, but the adminstration refused to do anything about it.

Sounds like the beginning to a great novel or movie. Could communist rescilliency (sp?) have lasted this long among those who remained here or have we cultivated another version of our own, homegrown, so-to-speak?

Have they (the Greens and Democtrats) mutated into a form of collectivism that we may have a harder time eradicating?