FLASHBACK- 50 Years ago: Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn) calls outlawing of Communist Party a Good Law

The New York Times Archives [NO LINK] | September 11, 1954

[Atlas Sneezed]

Here's another favorite quote from this old-time "liberal":

"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible"

Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Minn.
"Know Your Lawmakers" Guns (magazine), February, 1960, p. 4.

[clamper1797]

He was right ... However the communist party he was referring to now uses the "jackass" as it's logo

[Atlas Sneezed]

Here's another one:

The liberals of the 1960s who led the fight for civil rights laws opposed affirmative action quotas then. The legislative history of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, especially its famous section 703(j), is clear: it was intended to prohibit reverse discrimination and quotas. The Senate floor leader for the Civil Rights Act, Hubert Humphrey, declared that Title VII "would prohibit preferential treatment for any particular group," adding famously that if this proved not the case, he would eat the pages of the statute book where the Act appeared. "Do you want a society that is nothing but an endless power struggle among organized groups?" Humphrey asked. "Do you want a society where there is no place for the individual? I don’t."

http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/hayward/97/affact.html

[dasboot]

I think it was a move to place arms' length space between the communist name and the Dems actions, which were being compared (rightfully)to the classic commie program . "How can you call us Communists if we just outlawed the Party?"

Rope-a-dope.

My big bruddah was canvassing for Goldwater in '64. I remember him talking about that stuff.

[dasboot]

Clinton is on record as supporting the 2nd; so's Flipper. Talk is cheep.

[Atlas Sneezed]

But HHH, unlike all of them, unlike most Republicans, and even unlike the NRA, understood that it was about an armed populace preventing tyranny, not hunting and target shooting.

You wouldn't even be able to get Bush to support Humphrey's view.

[JoeGar]

Senator Hubert Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota, ... address was devoted to a defense of his recent amendment of a Senate bill outlawing the Communist Party.

The Dems voted the bill down -- it would mean the loss of too many of their voters.

[Freedom4US]

"Do you want a society where there is no place for the individual? I don’t."

And that's exactly what's happening - special interest groups, each finding that there is more funding by de-integrating from society. Sen. Humphrey probably said he was a "card carrying member of the ACLU".

[AndyJackson]

Isn't it wonderful when you can get Congress to give you a legal monopoly. After that the Democrats had no competition.

[dasboot]

Then, had he been alive last month, he would've been on right after Zell?

[ladyinred]

They outlawed the communist party and renamed it Democrat party.