From where else?...

This Doll Is 'Un-American'

The irony is that if he tried to pull this crap and make an "Un-Communist Doll" in the Soviet Union, he'd still be breaking rocks and sleeping in a gulag...

America...Land of the free and home of those who trash it...

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really
lighten up
it's an editorial about the McCarthy hearings
are you in FAVOR of the McCarthy communist witch hunt?

why is it that if people actually use the freedoms that are guaranteed by living n the U.S., they are told to they should be living someplace else?

IF the McCarthy hearings WERE a witch hunt, I would've been against them...

But they weren't, and Mccarthy was justified in his actions...

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OMG

I can only hope that you are writing that to stir the pot and create controversy ... and not ignoring decades of proof to the contrary

You can't say "decades of proof" without considering that the Venona Project destroyed the myth of McCarthyism...many like to keep it going...why....I have no idea...

Maybe it's just too infused into the lexicon...But, for whatever reason, it's still a myth...

MCarthy was right all along...

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If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

Sorry redd, but you're incorrect darling. The majority of those charged during that administration, the verdicts were reversed. Even history itself recognizes and called it a witch-hunt, known as the 'Second Red Scare'.

Not near as scary as Charlie Chaplin and Orsen Wells. Then there was Bernstein and Copland with their communistic music to worry about...Gypsy Lee Rose was using her sexual wiles to convert good Americans over to the communist party...Ohhh, and Arthur Miller...He probally was the worse of them ya know.

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.'