Remembrances -- Senator Joseph McCarthy

[RNdaSilva]

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

This would include a third term of Bush. Senator John McCain, have you no shame, sir? (One could substitute McCain for many others.)

“Have You No Shame, Sir?” - by Mary Beth Harrell

http://insighttexas.com/2008/04/blog-post-1/

Boston lawyer Joseph Welch speaking to Senator Joseph McCarthy on June 9, 1954: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

It is my hope, my prayer, that Limbaugh, O’Reilly and their ilk, will have such a moment of reckoning. Perhaps not so much for them, as for their followers. That they will recognize the cruelty and recklessness of their rhetoric. That, in a chilling moment of clarity, their followers will turn their backs on those talk show hosts who spew hatred, fear, ridicule and anger – so much anger.

[zanne]

1. I like to believe in justice, too.

Sometimes it happens, but not publicly if you know what I mean.

[MinM]

2. The Original WMD

The Hiss case was being used as a proxy to justify a broadening of the nascent Cold War

If there were Communists at home and abroad, none of us were safe, and we needed the CIA more than ever, etc. etc. Just as today we are told that we have to give up our liberties to protect us from Terrorism, people in the fifties were told to give up their rights, to inform on their neighbors in the war on Communism. Hiss was the original WMD, used to justify the takeover of foreign policy by the Dulles brothers, aided and abetted by Nixon and other right-wingers who wanted to see Truman removed from office...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29zhXHoMvn0