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mamabearCali wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:Does the name Joseph McCarthy ring any bells? You should have been around in the late 40's and early 50's.

Having a BA in history is useful for somethings. I have heard of McCarthy and have even written reports on that era. Never thought I would be living it out again. We remember McCarthy as a nut that got a bunch of people killed/blacklisted for literally no reason whatsoever. You would think we would learn.

Sorry, only partially correct. One of the people McCarthy accused was Alger Hiss. Declassified Soviet documents in the 90s revealed he was in fact spying for the Soviets. Was everyone he accused working for the communists? No. But some certainly were, and his broad allegation about communists infiltrating the state dept and other levels of the federal govt were spot on, as has been shown by the flood of soviet era documents we're now able to access.

I saw a documentary one time where police got very concerned about what a guy was taking pictures of. They even threatened to deport him for taking pictures in a public area of a statue.

Just gotta think for a minute...where was that...

Ah! It was a documentary on North Korea. We definitely want our police to emulate theirs, right?