There is that old, and true, aphorism: one can only find justice in the dictionary, or the cemetery.
Yup....don't look for justice on this plane, because "The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;"
1. Now, take Senator Joseph McCarthy....'The good is oft interred with their bones;'
And any thread defending the Senator will draw scads of self-proclaimed 'informed' individuals who are certain that the Senator was a beast who destroyed innocent Americans.
Yet, when pressed to name even one innocent individual, not a communist or supporter, who was ruined or destroyed by the Senator, the fact that they cannot do so has not the slightest impact on their "thinking."
Isn't that the definition of 'brain-washed"?
2. Of course, McCarthy was correct. There is evidence, old and new. The new is the disclosures of the KGB archives, opened in 1991, when the Soviet Union imploded.
The old would be the tons of government officials ID'd as Soviet agents by Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. In fact, Bentley and Chambers "only knew the half of it....KGB sources of whom they were unaware honeycombed the federal government and its scientific laboratories."
Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev, "Spies," p. 195.
And "The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;"
applies not just to men!
3. Elizabeth Bentley was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. November 7, 1945, she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S. She exposed two networks of spies, ultimately naming over 80 Americans who had engaged in espionage for the Soviets.
Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley."
a. Her defection to the FBI was "the single most disastrous event in the history of Soviet intelligence in America." Her revelations revealed the link between the American Communist Party and Soviet intelligence.
Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev, Op. Cit.
b. Bentley identified around 150 network members or collaborators.
M. Stanton Evans, "Blacklisted by History," p. 124.
c. BTW, the November 7th date of her defection, was the anniversary of Lenin's 1917 takeover of the Russian Revolution.
Coincidence?
4. Even into the 1990's, when Haynes and Klehr exposed the evidence in the KGB archives, the truth was disbelieved in many quarters, and still is today (see item #1 above).
5. I've been to Yale University, and seen the statue of Nathan Hale, a Yale grad. But wouldn't it be appropriate of Vassar have one of their alum, Elizabeth Bentley?
Two spies to whom America owes a debt. So...why no Bentley memorial?
Here's why:
"On the American college campus, hothouse of Marxist pedagogues and incubator of American elites, a spy against the colonial British monarchy merits celebration whereas a spy against the colonial Communist dictatorship is anathema. In that Marxist-influenced outlook lies our greatest problem: the anti-anti-communist stranglehold on the narrative." Diana West, "American Betrayal," p. 80.
6. Not only is a figure like Bentley hated in the academy, but, get this: Bard College in NY has an "Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies."
a. Columbia University has the Corliss Lamont Chair of Civil Liberties."
b. The University of Washington is home to the "Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies."
c. The University of Colorado has the Dalton Trumbo Free Speech Fountain.
7. Refresher: those are memorials to America-haters.
Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy.
a. "[Corliss] Lamont and his wife made a pilgrimage to Moscow and loved what they saw,... the Lamonts returned home to America to report the great deal of happiness, the new human nature they had discovered in communist Russia. [T]he new world of the twentieth century is the Soviet Union, they glowed to their progressive comrades. And no one who is seriously interested in the progress of the human spirit can afford to miss it. Even as the Lamonts wrote those words, Stalin was ramping up his forced famine, his Great Purge, and launching his annihilation of tens of millions of people..... as ACLU Director, Lamont became a key figure in the Communist organization Friends of the Soviet Union..." Corliss Lamont - Discover the Networks
b. "Alfred Renton Bridges was an Australian citizen, a San Francisco labor leader, a secret member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party,[1] and a clandestine Soviet operative.... documentation from the archives of the fallen Soviet Union identifies Bridges not only as a member of the Communist Party USA but also as a clandestine member of the CPUSAs Central Committee....., "was a member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, a perjurer, a lifelong servant of the greatest mass murderer in human history and a sworn enemy of the United States. Harry Bridges - Conservapedia
c. Dalton Trumbo. "Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Dalton Trumbo was a secret member of the Communist Party of theUnited States (CPUSA), which was a secret revolutionary organization loyal to the Soviet Union. Trumbo was a Stalinist, faithfully following every twist and turn in the Party line. And he was a person who participated in the Party's traditional suppression of free expression..... Dalton Trumbo was also part of the savage Communist Party inquisition against the director Robert Rossen in 1949, because of Rossen's film, "All the King's Men." Party Headquarters in New York thought that his film was too much an attack on one-man rule--i.e., Stalin. " FrontPage Magazine - Fountain of Lies
So.....I guess we'll see a statue dedicated to Elizabeth Bentley right after we see the one to Senator McCarthy......
Where are the two places one can find justice?
Not on a college campus today.
Yup....don't look for justice on this plane, because "The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;"
1. Now, take Senator Joseph McCarthy....'The good is oft interred with their bones;'
And any thread defending the Senator will draw scads of self-proclaimed 'informed' individuals who are certain that the Senator was a beast who destroyed innocent Americans.
Yet, when pressed to name even one innocent individual, not a communist or supporter, who was ruined or destroyed by the Senator, the fact that they cannot do so has not the slightest impact on their "thinking."
Isn't that the definition of 'brain-washed"?
2. Of course, McCarthy was correct. There is evidence, old and new. The new is the disclosures of the KGB archives, opened in 1991, when the Soviet Union imploded.
The old would be the tons of government officials ID'd as Soviet agents by Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. In fact, Bentley and Chambers "only knew the half of it....KGB sources of whom they were unaware honeycombed the federal government and its scientific laboratories."
Haynes, Klehr, and Vassiliev, "Spies," p. 195.
And "The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;"
applies not just to men!
3. Elizabeth Bentley was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. November 7, 1945, she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S. She exposed two networks of spies, ultimately naming over 80 Americans who had engaged in espionage for the Soviets.
Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley."
a. Her defection to the FBI was "the single most disastrous event in the history of Soviet intelligence in America." Her revelations revealed the link between the American Communist Party and Soviet intelligence.
Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev, Op. Cit.
b. Bentley identified around 150 network members or collaborators.
M. Stanton Evans, "Blacklisted by History," p. 124.
c. BTW, the November 7th date of her defection, was the anniversary of Lenin's 1917 takeover of the Russian Revolution.
Coincidence?
4. Even into the 1990's, when Haynes and Klehr exposed the evidence in the KGB archives, the truth was disbelieved in many quarters, and still is today (see item #1 above).
5. I've been to Yale University, and seen the statue of Nathan Hale, a Yale grad. But wouldn't it be appropriate of Vassar have one of their alum, Elizabeth Bentley?
Two spies to whom America owes a debt. So...why no Bentley memorial?
Here's why:
"On the American college campus, hothouse of Marxist pedagogues and incubator of American elites, a spy against the colonial British monarchy merits celebration whereas a spy against the colonial Communist dictatorship is anathema. In that Marxist-influenced outlook lies our greatest problem: the anti-anti-communist stranglehold on the narrative." Diana West, "American Betrayal," p. 80.
6. Not only is a figure like Bentley hated in the academy, but, get this: Bard College in NY has an "Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies."
a. Columbia University has the Corliss Lamont Chair of Civil Liberties."
b. The University of Washington is home to the "Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies."
c. The University of Colorado has the Dalton Trumbo Free Speech Fountain.
7. Refresher: those are memorials to America-haters.
Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy.
a. "[Corliss] Lamont and his wife made a pilgrimage to Moscow and loved what they saw,... the Lamonts returned home to America to report the great deal of happiness, the new human nature they had discovered in communist Russia. [T]he new world of the twentieth century is the Soviet Union, they glowed to their progressive comrades. And no one who is seriously interested in the progress of the human spirit can afford to miss it. Even as the Lamonts wrote those words, Stalin was ramping up his forced famine, his Great Purge, and launching his annihilation of tens of millions of people..... as ACLU Director, Lamont became a key figure in the Communist organization Friends of the Soviet Union..." Corliss Lamont - Discover the Networks
b. "Alfred Renton Bridges was an Australian citizen, a San Francisco labor leader, a secret member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party,[1] and a clandestine Soviet operative.... documentation from the archives of the fallen Soviet Union identifies Bridges not only as a member of the Communist Party USA but also as a clandestine member of the CPUSAs Central Committee....., "was a member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, a perjurer, a lifelong servant of the greatest mass murderer in human history and a sworn enemy of the United States. Harry Bridges - Conservapedia
c. Dalton Trumbo. "Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Dalton Trumbo was a secret member of the Communist Party of theUnited States (CPUSA), which was a secret revolutionary organization loyal to the Soviet Union. Trumbo was a Stalinist, faithfully following every twist and turn in the Party line. And he was a person who participated in the Party's traditional suppression of free expression..... Dalton Trumbo was also part of the savage Communist Party inquisition against the director Robert Rossen in 1949, because of Rossen's film, "All the King's Men." Party Headquarters in New York thought that his film was too much an attack on one-man rule--i.e., Stalin. " FrontPage Magazine - Fountain of Lies
So.....I guess we'll see a statue dedicated to Elizabeth Bentley right after we see the one to Senator McCarthy......
Where are the two places one can find justice?
Not on a college campus today.