Funny, McCarthy was a US Senator highlighting a real problem: Communist infiltration of the government, he's not Jack Bauer at CTU.
He's just telling us we had a problem so bad that Gen Patton considered WWII a failure for the USA & GB because of how Eastern Europe fell under the heel of Alger Hiss's (and other at USState) masters
So, you think MCarthy, a politician, had no motive other than "to highligh" communists:
"I have enough to convince me that either they are members of the Communist Party or they have given great aid to the Communists: I may be wrong...... It is possible that some of these persons will get a clean bill of health.”
Apparently, you also think the best way "to highlight" guilty individuals, is to accuse any group, then let the chips fall where they may.
Where were YOU on 9/11/2001?
Please provide witnesses, so that we may interview them in a way that will allow them to connect the dots: knowing YOU will be the common denominator. BTW, we'll be bringing them in for questioning during working hours, and their employers will need to know why they need to leave.
Don't worry because we may be wrong: Its possible you may have a "Clean bill of health."
However, if I were you, I wouldn't expect any Christmas Cards this year.
As you are clearly unfamiliar with the milieu of the war and post-war era attitudes toward Communism, a few indicia:
1. President Truman: “I like old Joe. Joe is a decent fellow.” (“Obituary: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia into Mighty Socialist State,” NYTimes, March 6, 1953) And yet, President Truman, the third Vice President of President Roosevelt, was closer to being the ‘messiah’ of the United States then the current President.
2. If President Roosevelt had died one year earlier, Stalin would have immediately gained control of the US Presidency: Soviet dupe Henry Wallace, the Vice President, probably would have appointed Soviet spy Harry Dexter White to SecÂ’y of the Treasury, and Soviet spy Alger Hiss to SecÂ’y of State.
3. In 1948, at the apex of Moscow-directed subversion of US politics, FDR’s VP Henry Wallace, former Sec’y of Agriculture, to form the Communist-dominated and Soviet-backed “Progressive Party.” Of course, Wallace’s “Progressives” allowed not even the most peripheral criticism of Soviet aggression.(John Patrick Diggins, “Good Intentions,” The National Interest, Fall, 2000)
4. Henry Wallace, Vice President of the United States from 1940-1944: “America’s main enemy was Churchill and the British Empire.” He insisted that peace would be assured “if the United States guaranteed Stalin control of Eastern Europe.” (Ronad Radosh, “Progressively Worse,” The New Republic, June 12, 2000) When Stalin seized Czechoslovakia, Wallace sided with Stalin. Wallace Stalin blockaded Berlin, Wallace opposed the Berlin Airlift. After visiting a Soviet slave camp, Wallace enthusiastically described it a s a “combination TVA and Hudson Bay Company.” Ibid,
5. The progressives received one million votes. The Communist Party USA did not field a presidential candidate, and instead endorsed Wallace for President (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1948)
6. Wallace met personally with KGB agents. (Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, Haunted Woods, p. 119)
“…several prominent journalists, including H.L. Mencken and Dorothy Thompson, publicly charged that Wallace and the Progressives were under the covert control of Communists. Wallace was endorsed by the Communist Party (USA), and his subsequent refusal to publicly disavow any Communist support cost him the backing of many anti-Communist liberals and socialists…” (
Henry A. Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
In his diary, Wallace, whose view of the future of America required Soviet-style Communism, wrote that FDR had assured him that he was a few years ahead of his time, but that his vision for American would “inevitably come.” (John Patrick Diggins, “Good Intentions,” The National Interest, Fall, 2000)
7. This is the political landscape when Senator Joseph McCarthy decided to show America the danger that the Democratic Party found perfectly acceptable. I hope you begin to understand how close we were to the precipice.
