Put your Dinero where you put your dinner.....name some "innocent Americans whose lives were 'ruined' by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Just did. Learn to read, and that's not even close to how many were caught up in the Red Scare. McCarthy was an power-hungry asshole who died a broken and disgraced man, not a hero as your Queen Ann Coulter says.
Stop playing dumb.
And stop being gutless....name one who you claim to be innocent, and whose life was ruined by the hero, Joseph McCarthy.
Pick one.....doesn't matter who......I'll destroy you.
Go ahead.
Victims of McCarthyism
While you were afraid to actually state it....the name in the link is the communist Owen Lattimore.
Now....watch me slice and dice.....
1. Lattimore had conferred (during the Hitler-Stalin pact) with the Soviet ambassador about Lattimore's upcoming assignment as President Roosevelt's adviser to Chiang-Kai-Shek — then trying to fend off the Communist revolution in his country.
- Credible testimony revealed "five episodes" wherein Lattimore — within the Politburo of the Communist Party — "participated as a full participant in the conspiracy."
- A former brigadier-general in the Soviet military intelligence testified to having been told that "Lattimore was one of our men."
- On page 218 of the McCarran committee's voluminous report of its year-long investigation, this bottom line: "[T]he subcommittee can come to no other conclusion but that Lattimore was for some time beginning in the 1930s a conscious, articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy."
The documented truth about the McCarthy investigations
Oh, man.....this is fun!!!!!!
2. There was
Owen Lattimore, the ardently pro-Communist director of OWI's (Office of War Information) Pacific operations. Chiang Kai-shek conveyed to the FBI in 1948 he believed
Lattimore, while acting as his Roosevelt-supplied wartime adviser, was supplying information to communist forces, and Alexander Barmine knew of Lattimore as a Soviet agent. M. Stanton Evans, "Blacklisted by History," p.393-395.
a. Barmine identified Lattimore, and Joseph F. Barnes, OWI assistant director of overseas reporting.
Lawrence Journal-World - Google News Archive Search
More???
Sure:
3. Now....let's see how "ruined" the communist, Lattimore was:
Lattimore was found to be a “conscious, articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy” by a unanimous Senate committee (William F. Buckley and Brent Bozell,
McCarty and His Enemies, p. 274, quoting the
Congressional Record)
As far as his life being ruined, “When Lattimore was indicted, Johns Hopkins put him on leave with pay. He continued to have use of his office and secretary but taught no classes.” Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China "d0e11129"
He also lectured at Harvard.
Did I just make you eat your words, or what??????
There never was any INNOCENT AMERICAN RUINED BY SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY.
McCarthy's Victims
A few of the people on McCarthy's list were actually spies for the Soviet Union. However, many of the listed suspects were merely left-leaning public figures, liberal Democrats The list also included those who used to or never work for the State Department. Even being drunk or incompetent while working for the State Department could land a person on the list.
During hearings, McCarthy often asked extremely detailed questions involving what the person did 10 years ago. When the accused invoked the Fifth Amendment to protect themselves, McCarthy said this act is "the most positive proof obtainable that the witness is Communist."
Owen Lattimore
Born and raised in Shanghai, Owen Lattimore was the former editor for the Institute of Pacific Relations Journal. He was the United States government liaison to Chiang Kai-Shek before the Nationalists' defeat in their civil war with China. From 1938 to 1950, Lattimore was directed the Page School of International Relations a Johns Hopkins University.
Lattimore's outspokenness, liberal views and acquaintance with Chiang Kai-Shek made him an easy target for McCarthy's anti-Communist campaigns. In 1950, McCarthy accused Lattimore of being the number one spy for the Soviets. After facing 12 days of intense questioning by McCarthy and his committee,
Lattimore was charged with seven counts of perjury. Even though these charges were dismissed three years later, Lattimore's reputation and credibility among people was destroyed. Even after his death in 1989, many still questioned his loyalty to his country.
Val Lorwin
Val Lorwin was a State Department employee who had served in the labor section. When Joe McCarthy first brandished his list of alleged Communists, Lorwin was number 54 on the list. At this time, Lorwin was working as a labor economist in Paris.
Lorwin landed on the government's radar when his old friend Harold Metz testified that Lorwin had shown him a red card for the Communist Party and had hosted some "strange-looking people" at his house.
Metz had actually made a mistake. Lorwin was later cleared in 1952 by the Loyalty Board when he testified that the red card was for the Socialist Party and the "strange-looking people" were Socialists.
Despite this, Lorwin was still indicted before the State Department for perjury. It wasn't until two years later did the Assistant Attorney General dismissed these charges. By then, Lorwin's reputation was tainted and Lorwin even said he felt like "several years of my own and my wife's life" were taken away. He even wrote, "I was thankful that we have no children".
Victims of McCarthyism
1. I just proved that Owen Lattimore was a communist agent...and he was responsible for Mao winning China.
2. Val Lorwin????
Next!
In December, 1945, Lorwin became employed with the State Department. He quickly became Chief of the State Department's European Division of International Labor, Social, and Health Affairs. After that, he became a labor economist for the State Department. On February 5, 1952, approximately one year after the
Tyding's Committee cleared Lorwin, the State Department suspended him. On March 28, 1952, he was restored to full duty, and in June 1952, was formally cleared of all charges regarding security or loyalty issues.
Shortly thereafter, Lorwin resigned, and went to work for the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of social sciences and industrial relations. According to Buckley, "on December 4, 1953, a Federal Grand Jury handed down an indictment of Lorwin, charging that he had lied under oath in claiming (1) that he had never been a member of the Communist Party, (2) that he had never carried a Communist Party card, and (3) that he had never held a Communist Party meeting in his home. (Buckley, Jr., William F. and Bozell, L. Brent (1954, 1995 Printing).McCarthy & His Enemies, The Record And Its Meaning. Regnery Publishing Inc..
ISBN 0-89526-472-2.McCarthy, Joseph (1953).Major Speeches and Debates of Senator Joe McCarthy Delivered in the United States Senate, 1950-1951. U. S. Government Printing Office.
ISBN 0-87968-308-2.McCarthy, Joseph (1952).McCarthyism: The Fight for America: Documented Answers to Questions Asked by Friend and Foe. The Devin-Adair Company. ASIN B0007DRBZ2.)
A friend of Lorwin's turned him in as a communist....so there was evidence.
Lorwin admitted to being a member of the Socialist Party.
This is how "ruined" he was: he changed jobs- "Shortly thereafter, Lorwin resigned, and went to work for the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of social sciences and industrial relations."
3. Senator Joe McCarthy confronted government officials concealing communist involvement and excessively lax security with regards to Communists in sensitive U.S. Government posts.
In many cases he was on target, with over 81 of the names he gave the Tydings committee resulting in resignations or movement of security risks.
Given that over 200 of the spies uncovered in the Venona decrypts were never identified, we can only speculate as to the national security impact of
removing Communists from key DoD and State Dept posts.
Arthur Herman, author of "Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator," says that
the accuracy of McCarthy's charges "was no longer a matter of debate," that they are "now accepted as fact."
And The New York Post's Eric Fettmann has noted:
"growing historical evidence underscores that, whatever his rhetorical and investigative excesses - and they were substantial - McCarthy was a lot closer to the truth about Communism than were his foes."
"....the accuracy of McCarthy's charges "was no longer a matter of debate," that they are "now accepted as fact."
"growing historical evidence underscores that, whatever his rhetorical and investigative excesses - and they were substantial - McCarthy was a lot closer to the truth about Communism than were his foes."
No innocent American was ruined by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
And America knew it.
