Have you no decency, sir? (A Hermit History lesson)

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In the spring of 1954, McCarthy picked a fight with the U.S. Army, charging lax security at a top-secret army facility. The army responded that the senator had sought preferential treatment for a recently drafted subcommittee aide. Amidst this controversy, McCarthy temporarily stepped down as chairman for the duration of the three-month nationally televised spectacle known to history as the Army-McCarthy hearings.

The army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch to make its case. At a session on June 9, 1954, McCarthy charged that one of Welch's attorneys had ties to a Communist organization. As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy's career: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." When McCarthy tried to continue his attack, Welch angrily interrupted, "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?"

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[zombie3785]

Is he drinking moonshine?

[symboy]

McCarthy and Richard Nixon learned how to red bait from Lyndon Johnson the master when LBJ used first used the tactic against Federal Power Commission chairman, Leyland Olds during his re-confirmation hearings in 1949. Johnson falsly accused Olds of being a card-carring communist - because Olds was causing problems for LBJ's rich Texas right-wing oil millionairs who helped LBJ, the mob, and the CIA assassinate JFK. ("LBJ - The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination" by Phillip F. Nelson (pub 2010)

[caffingdu]

@happyuk06 and you sound like a viewer and listener of the likes of Glenn Beck, brainwashed by Faux News who blame socialism/communism/Muslims/ga­ys/atheists/liberals/unions/th­e poor/the govt/Mexicans/etc/etc/etc for all of our predicament...

[juliegrimme]

Watch Noam Chomsky and learn .

[happyuk06]

DavisFleetwood

You believe in class warfare, obviously. You are a tribalist who sees everything through the prism of class, race and gender. You think the job of the state is to punish the successful for being rich, and that the masses will hoot and cheer like medieval peasants.

You sound like a politics student efficiently brainwashed by the leftie educational establishment who blame capitalism for all of our predicament.

[RDJ1109]

Saying theres different degrees of communism is as silly as saying theres different degrees of facism. Besides, Communist ideology might look perfect on paper, but at the end of the day it's still ran by human beings and therefore doomed to fail. The fact that it gives so much power to so few only means it will fail faster then other systems. And to prove the point, I don't see many people flocking to Communist countries in search of a better life. If you go, let me know how it works out 4 u.

[allenshepard]

@RDJ1109 of course there was different degrees of communism depending on the persons philosophy and of course its nothing now what it was back then, I had a few family friends that were communist card holders way back in the day and they were proud supporters of pete seeger and peoples songs ect. I grew up with all that music.

[RDJ1109]

@allenshepard Well a ton of people have been sensored, persecuted, imprisoned, and slaughtered by communist regimes. But I guess if in return you get bread lines, free health care, and a pro union government it's worth it.

[revhowardgoss]

It is the people who would take from those who earned it and give it to those who refuse to work that have no sense of decency. It is those who sneer at morality who have no sense of decency. It is those who don't appreciate the founding of our country who have no decency. They don't even believe in decency, because that implies a higher standard of truth to which we all are obligated by God. There is no such standard found in atheism or moral relativism.

[allenshepard]

@RDJ1109 alot of people joined the communist party because there wasnt a party that would support civil rights and segregation and unions ect.