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Why don't you address the fact that you are now in day one of realizing that SENATOR McCarthy had NOTHING to do with the HOUSE UnAmerican Activities Committee. That's been pointed out to you above, but it seems you've chosen to ignore it. Another lesson you might wish to learn is that the blacklist did NOT come from the HOUSE UnAmerican Activities Committee. There was no force of law behind it. That was the decision of the studios, in reaction to the overwhelming public support for the hearings and the general climate of disgust for these Communist bastards. A business decision. The Hollywood Ten were actually punished by the government, but that was because they actually violated the law. And, truth be told, with a little more will on the part of the government, some of these individuals could have been prosecuted for their associations. You are free to hold communist beliefs, but you are not free to join the Communist Party of the era when it has pledged to work to overthrow the government of the United States of America.

So, tell me . . . are you as worked up about the HOUSE UnAmerican Activities Committee investigating the Ku Klux Klan? Was that wrong?

..."the blacklist did NOT come from the HOUSE UnAmerican Activities Committee. There was no force of law behind it."

Have you seen the movie the great american hypocrite Bobby DeNiro starred in as a director who refused to cave in to HUAC? The FBI through Hoover directives, hounded anyone and any company or union that it perceived as communist leaning. The force of law was that organized and perpetal harrassment. If you want to worry about the internal threat commies in this country pose and crucify people like me who disagree with your assessment of "Gadge" fine, but where were you when I was hitting the streets every week countering the latest "A.N.S.W.E.R." bs? (I remember one 12 year old girl in Stockton holding an "ANSWER made poster and her reaction when I questioned why she was there and did she know that sign had come from the Socialist Workers Party. She listened intently until her mother literally had to drag her away.) That's my job, not the government's. Next time there's a big rally in SF sponsored by the SWP maybe you'll join me (I was there with 700 watts of Bogen PA mounted on the top of my car with 2 minutes of an Iraqui women countering their lies with the truth). But should anone ever drag me to some commitee, maybe headed by Schumer or some other puke, and asked me who loaned me the speaker system, I'll take their contempt of Congress award and wear it like the badge of honor it is.