In the 1950's Sen McCarthy could prosecute communists....

[Ringel05]

He was an alcoholic who consistently violated citizen's Constitutional rights, was eventually disgraced, made politically impotent and died not long afterwards from acute hepatitis due to his alcoholism. He was able to get away with it for so long because of the Red Scare but eventually he went after the military, that's when public opinion turned against him.

Really?

Myth aside, name an American that Joe McCarthy violated the constitutional rights of? I would really like to see something other than slander on this?

Public opinion turned against him when America's own Josef Goebbels, Edward Murrow engaged in a prolonged smear campaign against him without the need for actual evidence. Kind of like you are doing here.

Obviously you're grasp of documented history is seriously flawed. He ultimately got into a feud withe the Army and accused one of Joseph Welch's attorneys of having communist sympathies. In a televised encounter where McCarthy made his accusation Welch famously responded "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy continued his attack Welch angrily responded "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" This was the straw that broke the public support's back and since he had already been ostracized by even his own party his power was over. He died three years later a broken man.

 

[ScienceRocks]

The OP doesn't know what a communist is....

In the 1950s the rich paid twice as much in taxes and the government was a bigger part of funding infrastructure, science and society in general.

Communism for the idiot doesn't allow for a private sector and controls all of production.

 

[Ringel05]

That has nothing to do with what kind of ass McCarthy was.....

but the kind of ass you think McCarthy was, was a very very very trivial matter. It takes a heroic ass to confront the entire establishment and point out the obvious, to say the Emperor has no clothes.
Trump has similar qualities, and thus is only one crazy enough to perhaps save the world from nuclear proliferation.

Oh so you think McCarthy was a hero........... Have a nice day.........

Speaking truth to power is very heroic.

I know, the Communists are heroes, any who oppose them should be destroyed...

The communists are heroes? I'm sure you can find a few who believe that, I'm not one of them though. Care to try for strike two?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Communism for the idiot doesn't allow for a private sector and controls all of production.

Isn't that the verbatim DNC platform?

 

[Uncensored2008]

He was an alcoholic who consistently violated citizen's Constitutional rights, was eventually disgraced, made politically impotent and died not long afterwards from acute hepatitis due to his alcoholism. He was able to get away with it for so long because of the Red Scare but eventually he went after the military, that's when public opinion turned against him.

Really?

Myth aside, name an American that Joe McCarthy violated the constitutional rights of? I would really like to see something other than slander on this?

Public opinion turned against him when America's own Josef Goebbels, Edward Murrow engaged in a prolonged smear campaign against him without the need for actual evidence. Kind of like you are doing here.

Obviously you're grasp of documented history is seriously flawed. He ultimately got into a feud withe the Army and accused one of Joseph Welch's attorneys of having communist sympathies. In a televised encounter where McCarthy made his accusation Welch famously responded "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy continued his attack Welch angrily responded "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" This was the straw that broke the public support's back and since he had already been ostracized by even his own party his power was over. He died three years later a broken man.

So, you CAN'T document a single American he violated the constitutional rights of? Yet you are more than willing to repeat the slander and libel that has floated from the Goebbels of the Bolshevik press?

Welch was a pile of shit, if not an outright Soviet agent. He went on to a career in Hollywood, what a ******* surprise,,,

 

[Ringel05]

He was an alcoholic who consistently violated citizen's Constitutional rights, was eventually disgraced, made politically impotent and died not long afterwards from acute hepatitis due to his alcoholism. He was able to get away with it for so long because of the Red Scare but eventually he went after the military, that's when public opinion turned against him.

Really?

Myth aside, name an American that Joe McCarthy violated the constitutional rights of? I would really like to see something other than slander on this?

Public opinion turned against him when America's own Josef Goebbels, Edward Murrow engaged in a prolonged smear campaign against him without the need for actual evidence. Kind of like you are doing here.

Obviously you're grasp of documented history is seriously flawed. He ultimately got into a feud withe the Army and accused one of Joseph Welch's attorneys of having communist sympathies. In a televised encounter where McCarthy made his accusation Welch famously responded "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy continued his attack Welch angrily responded "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" This was the straw that broke the public support's back and since he had already been ostracized by even his own party his power was over. He died three years later a broken man.

So, you CAN'T document a single American he violated the constitutional rights of? Yet you are more than willing to repeat the slander and libel that has floated from the Goebbels of the Bolshevik press?

Welch was a pile of shit, if not an outright Soviet agent. He went on to a career in Hollywood, what a ******* surprise,,,

Off hand Owen Lattimore and Val Lorwin were just two of his innocent victims that had their reputations and careers destroyed. Granted, given your less than unbiased responses so far you'll just claim they were commies who got what they deserved........ Still missin' the point ain'tcha. As for your hilarious Hitleresque reference........ Really?

 

[Uncensored2008]

He was an alcoholic who consistently violated citizen's Constitutional rights, was eventually disgraced, made politically impotent and died not long afterwards from acute hepatitis due to his alcoholism. He was able to get away with it for so long because of the Red Scare but eventually he went after the military, that's when public opinion turned against him.

Really?

Myth aside, name an American that Joe McCarthy violated the constitutional rights of? I would really like to see something other than slander on this?

Public opinion turned against him when America's own Josef Goebbels, Edward Murrow engaged in a prolonged smear campaign against him without the need for actual evidence. Kind of like you are doing here.

Obviously you're grasp of documented history is seriously flawed. He ultimately got into a feud withe the Army and accused one of Joseph Welch's attorneys of having communist sympathies. In a televised encounter where McCarthy made his accusation Welch famously responded "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy continued his attack Welch angrily responded "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" This was the straw that broke the public support's back and since he had already been ostracized by even his own party his power was over. He died three years later a broken man.

So, you CAN'T document a single American he violated the constitutional rights of? Yet you are more than willing to repeat the slander and libel that has floated from the Goebbels of the Bolshevik press?

Welch was a pile of shit, if not an outright Soviet agent. He went on to a career in Hollywood, what a ******* surprise,,,

Off hand Owen Lattimore and Val Lorwin were just two of his innocent victims that had their reputations and careers destroyed. Granted, given your less than unbiased responses so far you'll just claim they were commies who got what they deserved........ Still missin' the point ain'tcha. As for your hilarious Hitleresque reference........ Really?

Again, you made the claim that the Senator violated the Constitutional rights of people. While the left loves Mao's little ***** Lattimore, there is no constitutional protection from being exposed. Lattimore suffered FAR less than Jared Kushner does at the hands of the little Goebbels at CNN every day. You think he was treated unfairly, that is your opinion, but it still fails to support your claim of violating Constitutional rights.

 

[Ringel05]

He was an alcoholic who consistently violated citizen's Constitutional rights, was eventually disgraced, made politically impotent and died not long afterwards from acute hepatitis due to his alcoholism. He was able to get away with it for so long because of the Red Scare but eventually he went after the military, that's when public opinion turned against him.

Really?

Myth aside, name an American that Joe McCarthy violated the constitutional rights of? I would really like to see something other than slander on this?

Public opinion turned against him when America's own Josef Goebbels, Edward Murrow engaged in a prolonged smear campaign against him without the need for actual evidence. Kind of like you are doing here.

Obviously you're grasp of documented history is seriously flawed. He ultimately got into a feud withe the Army and accused one of Joseph Welch's attorneys of having communist sympathies. In a televised encounter where McCarthy made his accusation Welch famously responded "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy continued his attack Welch angrily responded "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" This was the straw that broke the public support's back and since he had already been ostracized by even his own party his power was over. He died three years later a broken man.

So, you CAN'T document a single American he violated the constitutional rights of? Yet you are more than willing to repeat the slander and libel that has floated from the Goebbels of the Bolshevik press?

Welch was a pile of shit, if not an outright Soviet agent. He went on to a career in Hollywood, what a ******* surprise,,,

Off hand Owen Lattimore and Val Lorwin were just two of his innocent victims that had their reputations and careers destroyed. Granted, given your less than unbiased responses so far you'll just claim they were commies who got what they deserved........ Still missin' the point ain'tcha. As for your hilarious Hitleresque reference........ Really?

Again, you made the claim that the Senator violated the Constitutional rights of people. While the left loves Mao's little ***** Lattimore, there is no constitutional protection from being exposed. Lattimore suffered FAR less than Jared Kushner does at the hands of the little Goebbels at CNN every day. You think he was treated unfairly, that is your opinion, but it still fails to support your claim of violating Constitutional rights.

Wow, you just went from 0 to hyperpartisan in two seconds!!!!!! That must be a new record there ScienceRoc........ Uuummmm, what was your name again?
Read how and why individuals were selected by him for interrogation, mostly because they were liberals. When was the last time you were subpoenaed to defend yourself against accusations of being hyperconservative, the subpoena being a clear violation of your 1st Amendment rights............ Oops......

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

...But damn near EVERY ************ he named turned out to be a ******* COMMIE. He was right.

We need a Joseph McCarthy-style inquisition and execution panel.

Then, after we have exterminated the commies, we can go back to living free.

It may be a sad testament to the way things are.....
It may not be the way we WANT things to be....
It may not be an easy thing to do......
BUT......

It's EITHER.....that....or become slaves to a socialist, hard left, madman dictator like Venezuela's Maduro (or NK's Kim Jong Un).....CHOOSE

Those are the only two choices. Denial, ignorance and lack of action did not save Venezuela's common sense party on the Right.

People like Ringle05 are Dictator boot lickers and crave totalitarianism.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Really?

Myth aside, name an American that Joe McCarthy violated the constitutional rights of? I would really like to see something other than slander on this?

Public opinion turned against him when America's own Josef Goebbels, Edward Murrow engaged in a prolonged smear campaign against him without the need for actual evidence. Kind of like you are doing here.

Obviously you're grasp of documented history is seriously flawed. He ultimately got into a feud withe the Army and accused one of Joseph Welch's attorneys of having communist sympathies. In a televised encounter where McCarthy made his accusation Welch famously responded "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy continued his attack Welch angrily responded "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?" This was the straw that broke the public support's back and since he had already been ostracized by even his own party his power was over. He died three years later a broken man.

So, you CAN'T document a single American he violated the constitutional rights of? Yet you are more than willing to repeat the slander and libel that has floated from the Goebbels of the Bolshevik press?

Welch was a pile of shit, if not an outright Soviet agent. He went on to a career in Hollywood, what a ******* surprise,,,

Off hand Owen Lattimore and Val Lorwin were just two of his innocent victims that had their reputations and careers destroyed. Granted, given your less than unbiased responses so far you'll just claim they were commies who got what they deserved........ Still missin' the point ain'tcha. As for your hilarious Hitleresque reference........ Really?

Again, you made the claim that the Senator violated the Constitutional rights of people. While the left loves Mao's little ***** Lattimore, there is no constitutional protection from being exposed. Lattimore suffered FAR less than Jared Kushner does at the hands of the little Goebbels at CNN every day. You think he was treated unfairly, that is your opinion, but it still fails to support your claim of violating Constitutional rights.

Wow, you just went from 0 to hyperpartisan in two seconds!!!!!! That must be a new record there ScienceRoc........ Uuummmm, what was your name again?
Read how and why individuals were selected by him for interrogation, mostly because they were liberals. When was the last time you were subpoenaed to defend yourself against accusations of being hyperconservative, the subpoena being a clear violation of your 1st Amendment rights............ Oops......

A subpoena is a violation of the 1st Amendment?

Have you ever READ the Constitution?

Oh, and we have a MASSIVE witch hunt underway as we speak. While your claim is absurd, how would it differ from the subpoena of Sessions, Manafort (who was actually spied on by Obama and his thugs) , Kushner, et al.

 

[Camp]

McCarthy did not have the authority to prosecute. He did, however, have overwhelming power to persecute, and that is what he did, maliciously. The country rejected him as he was judged to be an unethical, cruel fake and a buffoon.

America had just recently come out of a World War that pitted them against authoritarian fascist regimes. The generation that sacrificed so much was still young when McCarthy grabbed the spotlight. Many of them were still in their 20's and 30's. It took a while, but in time, the American population determined they did not want to go down the road McCarthy was trying to take them.

 

[Uncensored2008]

...But damn near EVERY ************ he named turned out to be a ******* COMMIE. He was right.

We need a Joseph McCarthy-style inquisition and execution panel.

Then, after we have exterminated the commies, we can go back to living free.

It may be a sad testament to the way things are.....
It may not be the way we WANT things to be....
It may not be an easy thing to do......
BUT......

It's EITHER.....that....or become slaves to a socialist, hard left, madman dictator like Venezuela's Maduro (or NK's Kim Jong Un).....CHOOSE

Those are the only two choices. Denial, ignorance and lack of action did not save Venezuela's common sense party on the Right.

People like Ringle05 are Dictator boot lickers and crave totalitarianism.

A few facts about McCarthy:

1. Number of people executed for treason due to his investigation: 0
2. Lead Counsel for his investigation: Robert (Bobby) Kennedy
3. Number of people sent to prison: 0
4. Number of people with civil rights violated: 0
5. Number of people who lost jobs as a result of his investigation: 0
6. Alger Hiss turned out to in fact be a Communist

The left LOVES to slander McCarthy, but as with most of what is claimed by the left, very little in the way of facts is used.

 

[Uncensored2008]

McCarthy did not have the authority to prosecute. He did, however, have overwhelming power to persecute, and that is what he did, maliciously. The country rejected him as he was judged to be an unethical, cruel fake and a buffoon.

America had just recently come out of a World War that pitted them against authoritarian fascist regimes. The generation that sacrificed so much was still young when McCarthy grabbed the spotlight. Many of them were still in their 20's and 30's. It took a while, but in time, the American population determined they did not want to go down the road McCarthy was trying to take them.

Oh, the way you Stalinists persecute Manafort, Kushner, Trump, et al?

McCarthy was right, history has LONG ago proven it. You Communists continue to slander the man, but he was right all along. Fact.

 

[Camp]

McCarthy did not have the authority to prosecute. He did, however, have overwhelming power to persecute, and that is what he did, maliciously. The country rejected him as he was judged to be an unethical, cruel fake and a buffoon.

America had just recently come out of a World War that pitted them against authoritarian fascist regimes. The generation that sacrificed so much was still young when McCarthy grabbed the spotlight. Many of them were still in their 20's and 30's. It took a while, but in time, the American population determined they did not want to go down the road McCarthy was trying to take them.

Oh, the way you Stalinists persecute Manafort, Kushner, Trump, et al?

McCarthy was right, history has LONG ago proven it. You Communists continue to slander the man, but he was right all along. Fact.

Nothing in you post "Fact". It is nothing more than opinion. A poster on this site that constantly relies on name-calling, attempts to insult and declarations that their opinions are "Facts" cannot be taken seriously.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

That has nothing to do with what kind of ass McCarthy was.....

but the kind of ass you think McCarthy was, was a very very very trivial matter. It takes a heroic ass to confront the entire establishment and point out the obvious, to say the Emperor has no clothes.
Trump has similar qualities, and thus is only one crazy enough to perhaps save the world from nuclear proliferation.

The government has no right to persecute people over their political believes and anyone who thinks they should is not a true American

 

[CrusaderFrank]

McCarthy did not have the authority to prosecute. He did, however, have overwhelming power to persecute, and that is what he did, maliciously. The country rejected him as he was judged to be an unethical, cruel fake and a buffoon.

America had just recently come out of a World War that pitted them against authoritarian fascist regimes. The generation that sacrificed so much was still young when McCarthy grabbed the spotlight. Many of them were still in their 20's and 30's. It took a while, but in time, the American population determined they did not want to go down the road McCarthy was trying to take them.

McCarthy persecuted genuine Commies. Wahhhhhwahhjjj

 

[Uncensored2008]

McCarthy did not have the authority to prosecute. He did, however, have overwhelming power to persecute, and that is what he did, maliciously. The country rejected him as he was judged to be an unethical, cruel fake and a buffoon.

America had just recently come out of a World War that pitted them against authoritarian fascist regimes. The generation that sacrificed so much was still young when McCarthy grabbed the spotlight. Many of them were still in their 20's and 30's. It took a while, but in time, the American population determined they did not want to go down the road McCarthy was trying to take them.

Oh, the way you Stalinists persecute Manafort, Kushner, Trump, et al?

McCarthy was right, history has LONG ago proven it. You Communists continue to slander the man, but he was right all along. Fact.

Nothing in you post "Fact". It is nothing more than opinion. A poster on this site that constantly relies on name-calling, attempts to insult and declarations that their opinions are "Facts" cannot be taken seriously.

Actually, I always stick to the facts.

I get that to you "truth" is that which serves the Communist party, I avoided the word knowing that you are a Bolshevik drone. But facts remain facts, You and your fellow Stalinists have yet to establish doublethink newspeak

 

[Camp]

Think of what the revisionist try to promote. They try to convince today's generation that the generation often called America's greatest generation had it all wrong.

The generation that defeated America's worst economic depression, called The Great Depression, defeated two of the worlds most militarily powerful empires in world history and came out of it building the most efficient and powerful economy in world history, built and produced one of the greatest public works projects in American history, the Interstate Highway System and brought so much prosperity to the American public that is was tagged "Happy Days".

The generation of today is mostly talkers who produce very little in comparison. They argue and debate about mostly irrelevant issues, leave behind messes for future generations to fix and have little to show in the way of accomplishments.

 

[whitehall]

That's simply not true. Senator McCarthy was a republican in a democrat senate majority. He had no power to try anyone for crimes or alleged crimes and he wasn't even a member of a committee. Democrats created HUAC which had subpoena power only. The U.S. government never blacklisted a person because they didn't have the power to blacklist anyone. Hollywood blacklisted it's own because they were afraid of losing money during the backlash against communism. You almost gotta laugh that they didn't blame president Truman for the anti-communist rhetoric even though he was in charge, the bigoted media blamed an obscure republican.

While McCarthy was never with the HUAC (he was a Senator) he actively (and virulently) "investigated" alleged accusations while chairman of the Government Operations Committee and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. At the time he was so powerful that even a hint of accusation from him was enough to cow anyone into blacklisting members or employees. Eventually even Truman later turned on him.

How was it possible that McCarthy was "so powerful" when he didn't even chair a committee and democrats were in the majority? The dirty little secret is that the media created the image of power and McCarthy was just a stooge of the media. If you want to be historically accurate the era could honestly be called "Trumanism" rather than McCarthyism since Truman was in charge. When the media decided that commies weren't as bad as republicans and the democrat party actually evolved into something close to "communism lite", the media and Hollywood managed to blame the misunderstanding on a republican.

 

[Camp]

McCarthy did not have the authority to prosecute. He did, however, have overwhelming power to persecute, and that is what he did, maliciously. The country rejected him as he was judged to be an unethical, cruel fake and a buffoon.

America had just recently come out of a World War that pitted them against authoritarian fascist regimes. The generation that sacrificed so much was still young when McCarthy grabbed the spotlight. Many of them were still in their 20's and 30's. It took a while, but in time, the American population determined they did not want to go down the road McCarthy was trying to take them.

McCarthy persecuted genuine Commies. Wahhhhhwahhjjj

You don't even know the definition of the word persecute.