@plainoldme,
plainoldme wrote:Sorry, but McCarthy did ruin the lives of people.
People who
DESERVED IT.
Fighting against the nazis and the commies, both internally and externally,
was a fine and admirable thing to do and everyone who did it,
including Tailgunner Joe, has my love and gratitude.
plainoldme wrote:While some of the Hollywood crew were able to continue writing
under pen names, not everyone was so lucky.
I have no sympathy for nazis nor commies; we were at war,
defending ourselves from them. We shud have been more aggressive.
plainoldme wrote:I had a friend in Detroit, an attorney who was disbarred
after having been called up before HUAC.
I don 't know his case, but presumably, he deserved it.
If I had been called to testify before HUAC, I 'd have done everything
that I possibly coud to injure the commies, or the nazis before them
(for whom the Committee was formed). Did
HE try to harm the commies?
Did
HE fight against them?
If he
HAD, then he probably woud not have been disbarred.
From what u 've said, I imagine that he was a traitor in the war against communist slavery.
plainoldme wrote:He made his living working in libraries (although he did not have a library degree and was limited to checking books and shelving them) and bookstores. He was hesitant in his mannerisms and spoke with a stutter, that others who had known him prior to the HUAC examination, said was not there while he was practicing.
He was often deeply depressed.
Maybe he
felt guilty for helping the commies.
plainoldme wrote: In fact, I ran into him one day and he invited me to join him for lunch. I felt I could not deal with his depression and so I said that I was dropping off a piece at the South End, WSU's student newspaper at the time. I often wrote for the paper despite being in grad school, so the excuse seemed valid.
He died in his sleep that night and I learned about his death through his obit in the Detroit Free Press. The editorial the paper ran on his broken law career and his broken life spoke volumes that were not allowed by the strict format of the obituary. Joseph P. McCarthy, in his self-serving arrogance, ruined the career of that good man who might have gone on to protect more innocent people than he did.
Another commie-loving William Kunstler, u think?
Fighting against communist slavery is a
GOOD and
ADMIRABLE thing to do.
plainoldme wrote:I regret that my own lack of patience kept me from spending an hour with this man.
Recently, another negative force has risen in America, the Tea Party,
commonly called Tea Baggers by liberals and sensible centrists, but,
because my kids are horrified that I would use a phrase with that sexual connotation,
That 's the first I 've heard of THAT.
plainoldme wrote:I call them Tea Totalitarians.
My phrase is less cruel and more accurate.
That is
oxymoronic.
Thay are
anti-authoritarian,
anti-socialist = pro-
freedom, pro-
Individualism.
Thay support strict interpretation of the Original Agreement,
the Supreme Law of the Land, curtailing and
crippling domestic jurisdiction
(not to imply that it interferes with defense from our enemies, internal nor external)
thereby to enhance freedom of the Individual, and blessedly undermining collectivism.
plainoldme wrote:Members of this group scream socialist at Obama our all too conservative president.
As well thay
SHOUD; its true.
Have u considered the delights of North Korea?
Y not try a vacation there?
Thay have what u like
and no one will call their president anything.
U think Kim Jong-il will let u post from there ?
plainoldme wrote:Had it not been for Joseph McCarthy, few people today would work themselves into such a lather
over a mistaken definition and application of said definition for socialism.
That 's to his
CREDIT that we fight against socialism, fight against collectivism with every bit of energy
that we can raise. To the extend that he helped that, we owe him love and praise.
His family shud get
permanent tax immunity, in consideration of services rendered.
plainoldme wrote:Now, many religious people defend evil in the name of their religion. Although I left the church years ago, the conservative turn Catholicism has taken upsets me. Mine was the church of John XXIII and the Brothers Berrigan. Perhaps, individuals within the Tea Totalitarian movement are not evil, but ignorant and mislead, but there is evil behind their stance.
WHAT "evil" ??
David