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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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I think McCarthy is fascinating because never before had a demented alcoholic channeled his obvious disease into such a monstrous power grab. Hitler was crazier than shit, but he wasn't a drunk. To think that McCarthy held the country in a white knuckle grip while simultaneously holding a fifth of Dewars in a similar grip is amazing. I like to drink, and I could never get as far as McCarthy. I'd collapse under the weight of my own indulgences on the way up. I'd sell out and join a lobbying firm and fritter away my days didling secretaries.
