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Posted on 10/17/2010 6:19:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
US communists called for unity against McCarthy-style witch-hunts at the weekend.
Their appeal came in the wake of a series of raids on the homes of 12 peace activists during which computers and photographs were seized.
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) said the September 24 raids had nothing to do with protecting the US people against terrorism and "everything to do with chilling the long-cherished tradition of the right to dissent."
FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents ransacked the activists' homes across the Midwest for evidence of "material support" for organisations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia which are on US terror blacklists.
None of those whose homes came under investigation were charged with any crime.
Trade union organiser Joe Iosbaker and his teacher wife Stephanie Weiner were surprised to find officials standing on the front porch of their Chicago home shortly before 7am.
Ms Weiner said up to 25 agents "turned the house upside down" for 10 hours and rummaged through boxes from the '70s and '80s in the couple's attic before removing items.
The Chicago home of Arab American Action Network executive director Hatem Abudayyeh was also searched.
And in Minneapolis-St Paul six more homes of anti-war activists were searched, along with the offices of the Minnesota Anti-War Committee.
The CPUSA said the raids resulted from the repressive set of laws and institutions developed since the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act in 1996 and the Patriot Act rushed through Congress by President Bush after September 11 2001.
The party stressed that it did not ignore the "real danger" of terrorism but said the raids had nothing to do with protecting the US people against terrorism but "everything to do with quashing these activists' right to free speech."
Drawing a parallel with the McCarthy period when CPUSA leaders and members were jailed or fired from their jobs and blacklisted, it said the hysteria and persecution "severely curtailed democracy and free speech, stained our constitution and distorted political discourse for a generation."
It called on the US people to be vigilant in defence of their constitutional rights.
And it urged the Justice Department to end the harassment of peace and justice activists and Congress to repeal the undemocratic and repressive aspects of the Patriot Act.
Any communist living in the United States of America is NOT a communist. They are mentally undeveloped communist wannabes. They could impress me by moving to Havana, North Korea or Red China. THEN they could be REAL communists. These maggots are nothing but a bunch of frauds.
Communists they can go the hell,they need searched everyday these worms are trying to bring about our downfall.
....now we have one in the White Hut.
Unbelieveable.
Does “McCarthyism” even register for anyone under 40?
Communists should be arrested for shear stupidity alone.
Dam straight, extremely well said!
Yup, we are going to name names and get all the commies blacklisted at Hop Sings!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaTbErVDQ40
That’s the only time he’s been on the “far right” of anything. What a loser he is.
Stalinists vs. the Trotskyites.
Nothing new under the sun.
Some of the most vicious battles of the last hundred years have been between the various factions of socialism.
Communism doesn’t belong in America. It is as antithetical to American principles of governance as Islam is and should be shunned and derided at its every appearance in public discourse. McCarthy was proved right about everyone he investigated.
I read that McCarthy was correct in identifying Communists in the USA. If it is true that McCarthy was correct then nothing was curtailed and justice was accomplished. Is that not so?
Communism should be illegal.
GOOD!
See also Ann Coulter's Treason, which hits a lot of the high points.
The Venona Papers revealed that the old senator largely had it right. Sulzberger at the NY Times shrugged, refused to report it, and continued to squall about “McCarthyism.” I’m amazed at how often people like Glenn Beck still buy into it.
Any group dumb enough to call themselves Communists these days doesn’t deserve to be heeded.
Second that! Only the ignorant and willfully subversive distort the truth about McCarthy. Evans’ book is meticulously researched and written. The facts speak for themselves.
Exactly.
Only question for the Commies: did you want this televised or on closed-circuit TV this time around?
Being a Senator McCarthy had nothing to do with HUAAC. But the left would like everyone to think he did.
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