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    Default Re: Mc Carthyism another lie by the left.

    Quote Originally Posted by AdrianII
    Because Robert was a fanatic in his youth and only later, gradually, realised some of his major mistakes, as he acknowledged in 1953 when he resigned from McCarthy's Committee because of 'the way that the Committee was being run'. And in those days both Robert and John were heavily dependent on their crook father Joe Kennedy who shared, shall we say, certain interests with Joe McCarthy, ranging from illegal money making schemes to flings with fascism.

    A lot of people grovelled to McCarthy in those days, and the words of the lawyer of someone who made a narrow escape have little to no weight.
    I see, so anyone who had anything good to say about McCarthy must be a bad person or misguided? Or a groveller. Or a crawler, lackey, sycophant, toady, etc.

    Which would make JFK a crook or a fool, or was he a groveller too? What was it he said..."a great American patriot"

    He's a bad man!
    Anyone who say's anything good about him is also bad (or misguided if we like them!)
    All evidence, regardless of accuracy will be accepted to prove he is bad!
    No evidence, regardless of accuracy will be accepted to prove he is not a villain!
    Lastly, Liberals are open minded and always willing to give everyone a fair shake!

    Seriously, does the evidence really show that he was the 1950's version of Darth Vader? I mean...is this it?
    "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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    Default Re: Mc Carthyism another lie by the left.

    Well, I think this means that, officially now, Wisconsin has only produced wonderful Senators

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    Default Re: Mc Carthyism another lie by the left.

    IMO the KKK should have been dealt with, but an expansion of HUAC isn't what most would argue for.
    It's hardly an expansion, it's more in style of letting Homeland Security only investigate Wahabbism Muslisms. It's a failure to do thier job properly.

    The problem with the blacklist is that for whatever reason you were on it (and that doesn't seem to be to hard), it was impossible to get away from it, and you had a hole lot of problems afterwards. A more proper way would be to investigate them to see if there's anything to convict them for, not banned any suspect from thier job and then hardly doing anything checking them out afterwards (they don't seem to have convicted anyone on the blacklist).

    The Hollywood ten is more understandable from the way it developed.
    We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

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    Default Re: Mc Carthyism another lie by the left.

    So now the consevative right is just trying to make Nixon look good -

    Someone needs to get some tin foil and more duct tape - conspiracy abounds to rewrite history in the neo-con image of things.

    Yea right - get real. One first must understand history before they complain of re-writes.
    O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean

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