Re: Witch hunt


Fred Ghadry wrote:
During the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt
that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society. McCarthyism
was much more than the career of the blustering senator from Wisconsin
who gave it a name. It was the most widespread and longest-lasting
episode of political repression in American history.

Dozens of men and women went to prison, thousands lost their jobs, and
untold numbers of others saw what happened to those people and refrained
from expressing controversial or unpopular ideas. McCarthyism remains
all too relevant today; if nothing else, it reminds us that we cannot
take our basic freedoms for granted.

What happened during the Cold War red scare of the late 1940s and 1950s?
How could such a politically repressive movement as the red scare arise
in a modern democratic society such as the post-World War II United
States? Which aspects of domestic and international politics of the late
1940s and 1950s contributed to the rise of the anti-communist furor?
What were the costs of McCarthyism? And, most important, how did it
affect American culture, politics, and the rest of American society?

Today, when there is so much discussion about all the ills of the world,
it mightn't hurt to remember that a repressive regime ruled in this
country not too many years ago.

Andy comments:

What are you, some kind or pinko Neo-intellectual socialist ?
Anyone
who expresses those ideas should be shot !!!! Thank God we have
politicians who protect our freedoms.....

( But I mean that in the nicest possible way )

:>)))) Andy in Eureka, Texas

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