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Originally posted by Spanky
What I find so interesting about the McCarthy era is:
1) The house of unamerican activities was originally started to ferret out Nazi and Nazi sympathysers. How come no ones has ever complained about any Nazis that were "Blacklisted".
2) The people that were investigated were never thrown in jail. When they were blacklisted that meant that certain employers, if they knew they were communist, would not employ them. But would anyone complain if they did that with Nazi's? Would Warner Brothers be condemned today if it had fired anyone it suspected of being a Nazi in the 1950s?
3) During WWII thousands of Germans were throwin into camps without trial because they might have ties to the German government. How come no one complains about that?
4) If it was OK to throw Nazi sympathysers in jail without a trial during WWII, why was it not OK for the US to throw communist sympathisers in jail during the Korean War when we were fighting communists?
In my mind the term Nazi and Communist are interchangeable. When people complain about Communist witch hunts, I won't ever take them seriously unless they also talk about Nazi witch hunts.
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It really is great to see you defending ole tail gunner Joe. I always thought he was misunderstood. And even if some of those pinko ACLU types did stand up for some marchers at Skokie and some principaled types like Ezra Pound, they just can't stop this unjustified caterwailing about a few pinkos like the Hollywood 10, who, after all, got pretty short sentances, and the Rosenbergs who, even if they were executed, probably deserved it just because they were foreigners.
Now, could I ask you to do me a favor and defend George Wallace and Strom Thurmond, too?
And don't get me started about that Kennedy fellow-traveler sending troops down to protect trouble-makers trying to do subversive things like go to school at Ole Miss.
