Whatever happened to Free enterprise

[Susan]

hehehehe LOL

 

[coastie]

Tell you what Susan... I won't impose on your right to breath oxygenated air as long as you don't infringe on my right to get lung cancer.

 

[Job_38]

Originally posted by Brimshack
I'm just curious as to what McCarthy was right about?

 

  That their were communist and Soviet sympathizers(sp?) among us and doing work for the KGB. Yet, he went around with a witch hunt mentality and lost alot of credibility. Like I said, read the book "Radical Son" which was written by a man who was in the middle of the whole 60's movement, on the side doing it.

 

[Brimshack]

I'm not interested in reading assignments, thank you. If you'd like to paraphrase the relevant parts of the argument, then I will be happy to read your own posts. As it stands, however, that doesn't mean much. Of course there were communist and soviet sympathizers in America. Neither is against the law, btw, and the Constitution protects the right to take such views. Many socialist principles had been mainstream during the Roosevelt administration, and their adherents could hardly be viewed as enemies of the U.S. That was simply the direction that many people thought the U.S. should take. And yes there were also KGB spies in the U.S., but those were not the actual targets of the McCarthy hearings. The witch-hunt mentality was the core of McCarthy's politics; it wsa not simply some excess that ruined an otherwise sincere crusade. If you takethe witchunt mentality away from McCarthy you have nothing left. The fact is that McCarthy wasn't interested in rooting out genuine security threats; he was simply making it up as he goes along, and using the process of scape-goating to build his own political career. He ruined the lives of many an innocent person. That is his legacy, and nothing more.