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Originally posted by jibeho
reply to post by Indigo5
The issue has already been brought up in this short thread had you actually read through it.
Drew just seems to be a little foggy with his dates. Just like Obama. Prerequisite to attend Occidental I guess.
Originally posted by Algernonsmouse
Originally posted by 46ACE
Originally posted by Atzil321
Whats wrong with communism exactly? I can never understand why americans hate marxism so much. Why not take the time to read The Communist Manifesto and try to understand it? Rather than just hate on it because that's the american way......
Because it looks great on paper on campus; but somehow just never seems to turn out that way in application.
Capitalism looks great on paper too. Can you show me an example of a place where it is working?
"( wait for it.... wait ..for ..it)
"but thats' not "real communism"the book smart apologists all shout back in unison .
Originally posted by vox2442
reply to post by jibeho
So what if he was an "ardent" (fill in the blank) in college?
Are we all supposed to adhere strictly to the ideology we embraced at 20 years old, unquestioningly and unthinkingly until death?
That's a pretty unrealistic bar to set for your leaders.
Originally posted by Atzil321
Whats wrong with communism exactly? I can never understand why americans hate marxism so much. Why not take the time to read The Communist Manifesto and try to understand it? Rather than just hate on it because that's the american way......
Originally posted by vox2442
reply to post by jibeho
So what if he was an "ardent" (fill in the blank) in college?
Are we all supposed to adhere strictly to the ideology we embraced at 20 years old, unquestioningly and unthinkingly until death?
That's a pretty unrealistic bar to set for your leaders.
Originally posted by mastahunta
Joseph McCarthy is alive and well
When you are down and out, drag out the old Communist punching bag!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Joseph McCarthy was right after all
Joseph McCarthy said in the early 1950s that he suspected there were over 50 Soviet/ communist sympathisers in the FDR and Truman White House. He was laughed at and scorned to an early death.
The media still talks about McCarthy in a negative way.
In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. released secret documents it didn't want to release during the Cold War for fear of hurting any efforts of winning the Cold War. These secret documents were the Vinona Accords.
The Vinona Accords showed -- proved -- that not only was McCarthy right about there being 50 soviet spies working for the FDR/ Truman administrations, there was over 300 spies.
Still, you don't hear much about this outside the conservative sphere. This is just more proof of how powerful the liberal media was before the end of the Fairness Doctrine.
One can only wonder how many communist sympathizers are working in Washington in 2009. The way our government is headed, it appears there may be lot more than 300.
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: history; mccarthy; roosevelt; venona; venona intercepts
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him." Cicero