No, history has condemned Joe as an enemy of American way of life, willing to demogogue (which CF and CC1200 do all the time), and an enemy of free speech and freedom of conscience.
The new definition of McCarthyism: when right thinking Americans make sure the truth is not drowned by the lies and hatred of reactionaries.
All six of you in the country, once again, have a right to your beliefs, but not to your own reality.
PC already swiftly dissected your stupid post like a Biology Class Frog, but let me be clear, we have tens of thousands of pages of freshly released documents by the FBI describing in great detail the extent of the Communist penetration of US State.
All McCarthy had at the time was a memo provided him by a State employee who was also concerned with Communist infiltration of State and POTUS Truman's apparent covering up the extent of the infiltration by refusing to allow Congress to investigate.
McCarthy was asking if Congress should take a deeper look and he was lambasted for it by Communists and their American Progressive Sock Puppets.
Here we are 60 years after the Feb 1950 Wheeling WV Speech that started it and from a evidentiary stand point it like the difference between examining microbes with a magnifying glass or a scanning electron microscope, between gazing at the night sky with a crappy little telescope or the Hubble.
So much new data has come forth that the Progressive McCarthites MUST ignore, because it shatters and make a lie of their core thesis: that McCarthy was something other than a concerned Patriot with his hand on the Communist throat.
Frank, kudos to you for this thread, and the mighty efforts in disabusing our less informed compatriots about this aspect of American history.
If I may expand it just a bit, nothing is more demonstrative as to how cerebrally hog-tied our friends are as the comparison of the ire that they can muster about Senator McCarthy and his revelations, relative to the mute ignorance that they exhibit about actual destruction to America and American values, perpetuated by the first Progressive President.
1. The Red Scare intensified in June 1919, when Attorney General Palmer, who claimed to have
a list of 60,000 subversives, engaged in a series of
warrantless raids aimed at capturing the mostly immigrant red radicals, some of whom were
jailed or shipped back to Russia. With no reproach from Wilson, Palmer trampled on civil liberties and harassed the innocent as well as the likely guilty.
None of the bolded above is true of Senator McCarthy.
2.. During WW I, under the Progressive Woodrow Wilson,
American was a fascist nation.
1. Had the worldÂ’s first modern propaganda ministry
2. Political prisoners by the thousands were harassed, beaten, spied upon and thrown in jail for simply expressing private opinions.
3. The national leader accused foreigners and immigrants of injecting treasonous ‘poison’ into the American bloodstream
4. Newspapers and magazines were closed for criticizing the government
5. Almost 100,000 government propaganda agents were sent out to whip up support for the regime and the war
6. College professors imposed loyalty oaths on their colleagues
7. Nearly a quarter million ‘goons’ were given legal authority to beat and intimidate ‘slackers’ and dissenters
8. Leading artists and writers dedicated their work to proselytizing for the government.
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Classical_Liberalism_vs_Modern_Liberal_Conservatism.pdf p. 9
3. The Wilson Propaganda Ministry
a. George Creel was named to head the Committee on Public Information, the CPI. How liberal was he: “served as police commissioner in Denver, depriving policemen of guns and nightsticks”(
JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie) Fear was a vital tool, “an important element to be bred into the civilian population.” (Goldberg, “Liberal Fascism,” p.109) He recruited about 75,000 "Four Minute Men," who spoke about the War at social events for an ideal length of four minutes, considering that the average human attention span was judged at the time to be four minutes.(
George Creel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
b. The official position of the US government's Committee on Public Information was: "The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false."
Journal of Translational Medicine | Full text | Comments on the nonpharmaceutical interventions in New York City and Chicago during the 1918 influenza pandemic
c. Wilson’s Sedition Act, May 1918 banned “uttering, printing, writing, or publishing any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States government of the military.
d. The postmaster general had authority to deny mailing privileges to any publication: at least 75 were banned. The supply of newsprint was halted by the War Industries Board of any journal that disparaged the draft.
e. The censorship of “The Masses” was prosecuted under the Espionage Act of June 1917, because it carried a cartoon proclaiming that it was a war to “make the world safe for capitalism,” and editorials praising draft resistors. Six editors’ trial resulted in hung juries.
f. He proclaimed that the greatest threat came from ‘hyphenated’ Americans: “I cannot say too often- any man who carries a hyphen about with him carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready.”
CONGRESS CHEERS AS WILSON URGES CURB ON PLOTTERS - Wild Applause Greets the President's Denunciation of Disloyal Citizens. ACCLAIM DEFENSE PLANS Members of Both Parties Express Approval of His Sentiments on Preparedness. UPHOLDS PAN-AMERICANISM Warns
g. “The Nation, on April 17, 1920, recounted how a clothing salesman received six months in jail for saying that Vladimir Lenin was smart.”
"The Most Brainiest Man?" The Red Scare and Free Speech in Connecticut Because the Oklahoma Council of Defense was an extralegal organization, numerous incidents of extreme measures occurred to eliminate dissent. Men were beaten with leather straps and tarred and feathered.
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
4. The Justice Department had its own quasi-official fascisti, the American Protective League, the APL. They has ‘Secret Service’ badges, and were charged with keeping an eye on neighbors, co-workers and friends, including reading neighbor’s mail and listening in on their phones with government approval. Membership exceeded a quarter million. Zinn, Howard, “The Twentieth Century: A People’s History,” p.89-92
a. In Rockford, Illinois, the army asked the APL to extract confessions from 21 black soldiers charged with assaulting white women. Barry, “The Great Influenza,” p. 124.
b. The APL Vigilante Patrol cracked down on “seditious street oratory,” and as ‘head crackers’ against ‘slackers’ who avoided conscription.
And yet, the uneducated in this thread, relying on the liberal media and government schools, have the gall to affront Senator McCarthy for spotlighting lacunae in the Democrat administrations who hired and promoted paid agents of the Soviet Communist conspiracy.
This would almost be understandable, except for the fact they have library cards, the internet, and Amazon.com....
The persistence of ignorance...but, Frank, you will be able to use the words of Admiral Nelson at Trafalgar, "Thank God, I have done my duty."
Again, good work!
