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Originally Posted by cnredd
As stated, the Venona Project documents released in '95 was specific enough for "names, dates, places, and deeds"...
Information nor available at the time of the reversals...
Here's the problem with the people who kneejerk McCarthy negatively...
Were there false accusations made?...Yes...
Was there evidence that didn't pan out?...Yes...
But what the naysayers do is try to show that it was ALL just some fabricated hunt for beings which did not exist...
But that is so false is hurts me to see people still believe it...Communism WAS infiltrating US politics...McCarthy DID make the public aware of it...McCarthy DID attempt to stop it...
You may not like HOW he did it...You may not like how brazen he was in doing it...
But to think he was going after ghosts is completely a myth...
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Here's what you're missing redd, and what makes your statements incorrect...
THOUSANDS were charged during that era. They summise in the tens of thousands, since a large majority were put to the ax just because of sexual orientation or being 'sexually permiscouis'. Just being accused/suspected resulted in people losing their jobs, their homes, and destroying their lives. But the CONSERVATIVE number is in the thousands.
Out of those thousands of people falsely accused and set upon, only a handful were guilty of anything...And even the administration says that of that handful, it's still questionable, because the accussers weren't made public, so they couldn't be requestioned to determine IF what they said happened actually happened...
Pretty much anyone and everyone could be accused and tried for suspicion of being a communist, which is exactly what happened. And those who accused you of suspected communistic acts? Their identities were kept hidden and unrecorded...They weren't even called upon to testify against those they accused.
So, out of thousands of lives destroyed, perhaps 5-6 'might' be guilty...The accusers were never questioned legally, thus assuring no way for the accused to defend themselves. That defines a witchhunt, period.
Even Truman himself, was against those trials and boards. Because the only reason those thousands of innocents were put into those positions, was because they didn't 'conform' to public ideals...
Here's some famous words by Truman during that error that sums up what was happening...'In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have.'