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.
Good point. The media throws the HUAAC and McCarthy interchangably. They never forgave Nixon and got him too. Media leftism has gone on for a very long time.
Much of what McCarthy said came out in hearings Congress held shortly after WW2. The long cherished right to desent does not exist in China or Russia, by the way.
Obama must be trying to collect the last bits of evidence that tie him back to the CPUSA which he was a member of.
I didn’t say he did, I said bring it back. They’d soil themselves if anyone even brought it up.
Good, the last one didn’t last nearly long enough.
“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.”
Fauxsheviks.
Exactly.
Just pick 'em up after their meetings, and jail 'em for life.
“Some of the most vicious battles of the last hundred years have been between the various factions of socialism.”
Heh. Barbarossa, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Kursk and Berlin suddenly sprang to mind.
Cry all you want commies, you are going to see a return of the House Committee Against Un-American Activities. We’ve learned from our mistakes and will finish the job this time.
These peons are idiots. Real commies would put them in the camps faster then they could say “camp”! Real Communist were murders.
So ACTUAL Communists think that other communists were subjected to “witch hunts” when McCarthy was right all along?
I thought Lefties had changed their minds about that. Don't they call it "sedition" now?
“Dissent” my a$$. The leftist/communists in this country have been conducting nothing less that a full blown conspiracy to undermine our nation and government for many years. That would make it, not a “witch hunt”, but a long, long overdue investigation, that no doubt would reach all the way to the White House if allowed to run its course.
It is past time to turn up the heat on these people who hate the American way of life.
If you threw a Communist Pig over the fence into a mosque, would that be a HATE crime?
They are the first to go down, in my book. Mass jailings and deportation for the illegals among them. Even more so after a Conservative Republican is elected President in 2012 with both houses of Congress. We will get rid of these bolshevist bastards, the ENEMY WITHIN, once and for all (politically speaking).
2) If *this* regime is seizing computers and paperwork from Communists, it's for only 1 purpose: To hide links from CPUSA to Soetoro, Holder, and the rest of the Politburo and Supreme Soviet.
3) If I ever somehow end up in a position of authority in America, the only thing that will remain of the CPUSA is their seized computers and papers.
Let’s talk what a semi-intelligent Communist, not a doofus like one of these clowns, would do to reach the White House.
1. He would not identify himself as a communist in a (nominally) 2 party system.
2. Heck, why even go on, let’s just look at the fabulous career of one Barry Soetero, a third, yes, 3rd generation Communist, red diaper baby of a red diaper baby.
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