Re: Alger Hiss

On 6/26/2011 18:26 PM, Brian wrote:
From the article.


The article to which Brian refers is not described until a third of the way through his post. www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-backstory26-20110624,0,4187420.story

Brian posts the article backwards. Why? Because what he wants you to read are the words of one person, Dick Martiny, who wrote to the author of the article. Who Martiny is or whether he has any knowledge is never stated. This is what Martiny is quoted for.

>
> "A major part of Hiss's allure, at least to his more liberal
> colleagues among the political elite, was that he was just like them,
> same type of background, same type of education, same type of life
> style," wrote Dick Martiny.
>

So why has Brian chosen to post about Alger Hiss at all? And why has he reorganized the article so that that paragraph comes near the top of the article? Brian has chosen this indirect way of saying that liberals are traitors.

Of course, Brian, I am sure, has never harbored any doubts that Hiss was guilty. But the only evidence against him was the improbable story of Whittaker Chambers, an admitted perjurer, and weak corroborating evidence from a woman trying not to be deported. The first jury could reach no verdict. The second jury was allowed to convict on an 8 - 4 vote, which was rather unusual to say the least.

In any case, Brian is not concerned with Hiss's guilt. He sees us as guilty. That is his case.

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Francis A. Miniter

Mesure is Medicine þauh þou muche ȝeor[n]e.
Al nis not good to þe gost þat þe bodi lykeþ,
Ne lyflode to þe licam þat leof is to þe soule.

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
Passus I, lines 33 - 35
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