Posted on 06/23/2003 10:38:33 AM PDT by DPB101
WASHINGTON – "Historians" have lied to Americans for decades about the threat from this nation’s enemies.
Ann Coulter's new book, “Treason,” sums up the mountains of misinformation shoveled out to Americans for decades. Ideologues disguised as historians have consistently covered up treason with their “No enemies on the left” mentality, as Coulter clearly shows.
Much of her research is backed up in the five-volume release to the public, for the first time, of the closed-door hearings by the McCarthy Senate committee 50 years ago. They were made public last month after “Treason” had gone to the printer. Put the book and the hearings together, and you have the damning evidence.
“History” tells us that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., “did not discover a single Communist anywhere.”
“History” in this case lies. Coulter identifies Soviet operatives named by McCarthy. NewsMax.com has reviewed the 80-page McCarthy segment of Coulter’s book and hundreds of pages of the newly disclosed hearings. The record backs up her charges in spades.
Among the Soviet operatives in government jobs who were named by McCarthy, Coulter informs us, were T.A. Bisson, Mary Jane Keeney, Cedric Belfrage, Solomon Adler, Franz Neumann, Leonard Mins, Gustavo Duran and William Remington. From this sample list (the author mentions many others), let us look at a small part of the hearings record.
Leonard Mins had contracted to write manuals for the armed forces. In that pursuit, he handled sensitive material. “Oh, yes, much of it was classified,” he told Sen. McCarthy’s committee. He had also worked for the OSS, the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mins pleaded the Fifth Amendfment when asked if he were a member of the Communist Party, either at the time he was working for the government or at the moment of the hearing; whether he had discussed classified material with a member of the Communist Party or turned any of it over to an espionage agent; whether he had engaged in espionage or illegal Communist activity; whether he had been on the payroll of Soviet military intelligence, either at the time he prepared the pamphlet or when working for the OSS; whether he attended the Lenin School of sabotage and espionage; and whether he believed in the overthrow of the United States by force and violence.
Cedric Belfrage, also mentioned by Coulter, had worked under Army occupation officers. In that capacity, he had been instrumental in setting up newspapers in Germany after World War II. Before the McCarthy committee, he pleaded the Fifth on whether he had been a Communist then or at the time of the hearing; whether he advocated overthrow of the U.S. or British government (he was a British citizen) by force or violence; whether he would fight in the U.S. or British Army if “drafted” to fight Communist aggressors.
Mins even took the Fifth when asked by McCarthy if he had gained his government jobs in part by using as references Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds - the consummate New Dealer - and CBS newsman Quincy Howe.
These are just samples of what the McCarthy committee uncovered. Ann Coulter's “Treason” and the newly released hearing transcripts dash to smithereens “History’s” falsehood that McCarthy did not nail treason within government.
A classic example of historical distortion emerged when the hearings surfaced. A Senate “historian” on May 5 put his own spin on the newly revealed McCarthy hearings before others had a chance to see them.
Associate Senate historian Donald Ritchie, in his “Editor’s Note,” quotes one committee witness, William Marx Mandel (who had taken the Fifth Amendment when asked about his Communist affiliations) as publicly declaring McCarthy “murdered” a prospective witness, Ray Kaplan, an alleged suicide.
Ritchie doesn’t bother to inform researchers that Kaplan was expected to be a friendly committee witness, eager to tell McCarthy of his frustration that some with whom he worked had placed a Voice of America transmitter in such a way as to prevent VOA from reaching the freedom-loving people behind the Iron Curtain, thus rendering it useless.
Nor does this “historian” add that some of Kaplan’s colleagues told McCarthy afterward that they suspected Kaplan’s “suicide” actually resulted from foul play. Nor is Mandel’s credibility questioned, even though behind closed doors he had openly threatened to give the committee a public-relations black eye.
Coulter sums it up: “History is an endless process of liberal brainwashing.”
Badda bing, badda bang, badda COULTER.
FMCDH
. . .the contempt is the same as the Clintons demonstrated and continue to demonstrate with their disregard for truth, the Law; our Legal system. . .our Constitution et al;
. . . as did and still do. . .the entire cadre of the Clinton White House apostles. . .
The contempt is the same that we see from the Leftwing as it bends the truth; refuses to acknowledge the truth; as they rewrite and re-invent truth on a day-to-day basis.
The 'Left' are 'the people of the lie' and they ARE contemptible. Then. . .and now.
Look back over time, and see if history's version of the McCarthy era, Kennedy years, Nixon inquisition, Ford public image desecration, Reagan derision, Bush I economic crisis, Clinton impeachment, and George W intellectual deficiencies all stand the scrutiny of reality.
In light of the complicit Liberal media and the immoral tactics of the Left, it is impossible to believe anything they have ever said or done.
We are in a street fight.
No more pious wimps ala National Review.
Warrior Freepers now rule the earth.
Are you an admirer of M. Scott Peck MD (author of the books "The People of the Lie", "The Road Less Traveled" , etc.)?
I read People of the Lie as a college student roughly 25 years ago and remember it well today.
Those who lie to themselves eventually burn out their moral compass and open themselves to very dangerous influences. While this moral failure exists among adherants to all political ideologies, it seems clear that Liberalism stands apart with respect to the degree that it facilitates and encourages the "people of the lie."
(steely)
Lying to ones self and believing it is almost a definition of insanity.
Ayn Rand said that one has to be insane to "believe" in liberalism.
yitbos
BUMP!!
The ones Ann Coulter referred to as "girly-men?" Wonder what they think about Coulter receiving a 7 figure advance on her book. Who were those "girly-men" at National Review who gave Ann such a difficult time? Forget their names. Do they still make a living writing?
Don't know about Ann's book. Don't recall anyone lying during the executive session but I'm not expert enough to know . There was much dodging of questions and taking the fifth. By that time everyone was lawyered up. That upset the committee. People had lawyers their salaries indicted they could not afford and they were all taking the same line (similar to what we saw under Clinton which the joint defense agreements). What is most interesting is the number of people who were afraid to testify for fear the retribution. One anticommunist Russian lost his Army job after testifying against Owen Lattimore (who was a Soviet agent).
McCarthy went out of his way to tell everyone they would be protected as far as he could. If they were homosexual, no one would even know about it from him if they cooperated with his committee or not. If they were a member of the CPUSA, likewise, no one would know (there was a professor at MIT who had been in the party and wanted it kept secret. It was).
Send a private reply if you want to see some of the testimony. The arrogance of those who took the fifth is stunning.
hhmmmmm... ah, picture posting rules when posting Ms. Coulters name still in effect? Hmmmmm?
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