See what the 1950's Blacklist looked like

For PaisAn

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Thu Mar-11-04 12:16 AM
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See what the 1950's Blacklist looked like

Just click on a few of the red lettered boxes. Look at some of the names and at what their "crimes" were.

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1950s/red_channels/redchannels.html

So now will we have Blacklists for "indecent" entertainers like Stern and Jackson?

Will we have Blacklists for activists who "give comfort" to our enemies?

How about Blacklists for people who dare to speak out against our government?

Do they already exist?

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mhr

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Thu Mar-11-04 12:31 AM
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1. Just Finished Reading Truman by David McCullough

McCarthy Died in 1957 from alcoholism, apparently a bitter defeated old man.

He certainly was burr in Truman's saddle during the early fifties.

Kind of the Ann Coulter of his day.

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For PaisAn

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Thu Mar-11-04 12:43 AM
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2. McCarthy, et al

Edited on Thu Mar-11-04 12:50 AM by For PaisAn

may have been burrs in Truman's side but they destroyed many lives. Those brought before the "committee" went to jail, had their careers and lives destroyed, committed suicide, etc.

I just saw "Guilty by Suspicion" with Robert DeNiro. Not his best acting and the script was somewhat weak but the story is a warning. Have done some research since watching it. These people used fear and divided our country, sounds familiar doesn't it.

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Thu Mar-11-04 02:09 AM
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4. A must read...

... about the McCarthy era is "Scoundrel Time" by Lillian Hellman. Interesting piece about her at http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hellman-per-fbi.html

Hellman gave what was to be one of my all-time favorite quotes to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion. "

A few more Hellman gems:

"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. "

"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."

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Thu Mar-11-04 01:21 AM
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3. Cronkite, on NPR

just did a review of how Edward R. Murrow exposed McCarthy. Probably intended to be a reminder to today's "reporters" of their First Amendment DUTIES. There seems to be no transcript, but the article at the top of this page gives an audio link and some additional material:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/cronkite/

On a related note, Democracy Now! today included a segment with the granddaughter of the Rosenbergs who is working against the unAmerican fascist internments at Guantanamo Bay:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/10/1537259

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