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2006-11-29 Fifth Column

Bush Can't Designate Terror Groups: Judge

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-29 08:58|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ..Y'know, if I hear 'McCarthyism' one more freaking time, I'm going to get seriously bent.

1. There WERE no blacklists created by the government - they were created and ENFORCED by the industry and academic leaders who were every bit as lefty as the people blacklisted, but had no inetntion of going down with their more outspoken friends.

2. Those same people (for reasons listed above) never spoke up, never publicly fought back. They waited for Edward R. Murrow to stick HIS neck out and pull off the first real counterattack against McCarthy, followed by McCarthy's public humiliation at the Army hearings - then and only then, once he was defanged, did those brave souls come out and start the legend of the resistance.

3. Last of all - and you'll NEVER hear this brought up - McCarthy wasn't that far off the mark. Soviet and KGB archives (detailed in Sword and Shield and The Haunted Tree ) document beyond any possible doubt that the State Department was riddled with Soviet spies - not sympathisers, not fellow travelers, but SPIES - at mid and higher levels. Haunted Tree is especially forward on this, and it's all the more powerful for its scholarly and emotionless examination and detail. I urge anyone interested in the subject to read it, especially the chapters concerning Alger Hiss. Had he not been exposed through his own arrogance, he would have stood a very good chance of becoming SecState in a Stevenson or Kennedy/Johnson administration.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-29 09:21|| 2006-11-29 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Primne target for being overturned.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-11-29 10:50|| 2006-11-29 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 BULLSHIT.

This judge has apparently never heard of the role COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

And this stupid bitch has not realized there is a WAR on. I think she needs a trip to Baghdad to wake her ass up. Or maybe wintess the hangings in IRan, or the mass death in Darfur to wake her ass up.

Posted by OldSpook 2006-11-29 11:13|| 2006-11-29 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Send her ass to see for her self the Tamil Tigers or the PKK, don't send security, they are not terrorists. She will come back a changed woman, if she comes back at all.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-11-29 12:13|| 2006-11-29 12:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Collins, a Clinton appointee,

No need to read further.

Posted by Raj 2006-11-29 13:06|| 2006-11-29 13:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Traitor and sympathizer. 'nuff said.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-29 13:21|| 2006-11-29 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree with Mike & have read the 2 books he cites. I think their story is quite relevant in the current WOT. Every Rantburger should read these, for the background information on the US track record with respect to espionage and infiltration of our own diplomatic and defense organizations. We're still hopelessly naive: Richard Feynmann told about innocently lending his car to Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs drove from Los Alamos to Santa Fe or Albuquerque to meet his Soviet contact during the Manhattan project.
--- Nowadays, McCarthy is used as a bogeyman, a rhetorical device, to divert the electorate's attention.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-29 23:01|| 2006-11-29 23:01|| Front Page Top

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