House Un-American Activities Committee

[rupol2000]

This institution is mainly associated with McCarthy and his glorious fight against communist agents on the eve of the arrival of Eisenhower in the 50s. However, it was created back in the 38th. Were they originally right-wing anti-communists?

 

[The Irish Ram]

McCarthy was nuts and dangerous. Nothing glorious about targeting whomever you please...

 

[rupol2000]

McCarthy was nuts and dangerous. Nothing glorious about targeting whomever you please...

You are lying. He saved America from the communist plague. Now America is dying and there is no second McCarthy and this is very sad

 

[midcan5]

Communism has changed with the internet and their control of media especially in Russia and China. For those who want to learn a bit about propaganda today check out books below. You will learn. First book helps explain the Ukraine war and the propaganda used to justify it. Will blow your mind.

'The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America' Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder - The Road to Unfreedom - Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and Ame...

www.timothysnyder.org

'How Democracies Die' Steven Levitsky And Daniel Ziblatt'

 

[The Irish Ram]

You are lying. He saved America from the communist plague. Now America is dying and there is no second McCarthy and this is very sad

Did it end well for McCarthy? It did not.
This "America last" globalism is an elected official problem. If you want to save America, get rid of them, not us. Start with Putin's friends, Hunter and the big guy...

 

[rupol2000]

Did it end well for McCarthy? It did not.

It was. After him Eisenhower's Golden Years

 

[rupol2000]

Start with Putin's friends, Hunter and the big guy...

Now there is no one in the government except foreign agents

 

[whitehall]

The acronym HUAC will tell you (if you are familiar with U.S. government) that it was a congressional committee. McCarthy was a senator. If I have to explain it any further you are hopelessly ignorant of the American political structure.

 

[sparky]

Communism has changed with the internet and their control of media especially in Russia and China. For those who want to learn a bit about propaganda today check out books below. You will learn. First book helps explain the Ukraine war and the propaganda used to justify it. Will blow your mind.

'The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America' Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder - The Road to Unfreedom - Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and Ame...

www.timothysnyder.org

'How Democracies Die' Steven Levitsky And Daniel Ziblatt'

this Ilyin character was certainly opinionated Mid5......

~S~

 

[Stryder50]

Bitch as you want about using Wiki, but it is a good place to start in trying to get factual;
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The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having either fascist or communist ties. It became a standing (permanent) committee in 1945, and from 1969 onwards it was known as the House Committee on Internal Security. When the House abolished the committee in 1975,[1] its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.

The committee's anti-communist investigations are often associated with McCarthyism, although Joseph McCarthy himself (as a U.S. Senator) had no direct involvement with the House committee.[2][3] McCarthy was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate, not the House.
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House Un-American Activities Committee - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Note that HCUA/HUAC were the ones whom went after the "Entertainment" Industry: ~ Writers, Actors, Movie makers, etc.

McCarthy was focused on Communist infiltration of the Federal Government and USA Military. While chastised by many, especially on the political Left (hint!~hint!) he would later be vindicated in most part by the declassification of the Venona Project.

One facet and consideration;
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What would become known as the McCarthy era began before McCarthy's rise to national fame. Following the breakdown of the wartime East-West alliance with the Soviet Union, and with many remembering the First Red Scare, President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order in 1947 to screen federal employees for possible association with organizations deemed "totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive", or advocating "to alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means." ...
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McCarthyism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service (later absorbed by the National Security Agency), which ran from February 1, 1943, until October 1, 1980.[1] It was intended to decrypt messages transmitted by the intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union (e.g. the NKVD, the KGB, and the GRU).[2] Initiated when the Soviet Union was an ally of the US, the program continued during the Cold War, when it was considered an enemy.

During the 37-year duration of the Venona project, the Signal Intelligence Service decrypted and translated approximately 3,000 messages.[3] The signals intelligence yield included discovery of the Cambridge Five espionage ring in the United Kingdom[4] and Soviet espionage of the Manhattan Project in the U.S.[5] (known as project Enormous). Some of the espionage was undertaken to support the Soviet atomic bomb project. The Venona project remained secret for more than 15 years after it concluded. Some of the decoded Soviet messages were not declassified and published by the United States until 1995.
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Venona project - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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BTW, much of this was already covered in another thread on this Board. Just recently.

 

[rupol2000]

The acronym HUAC will tell you (if you are familiar with U.S. government) that it was a congressional committee. McCarthy was a senator. If I have to explain it any further you are hopelessly ignorant of the American political structure.

Was it like this from the start?

 

[rupol2000]

The problem of understanding this issue lies in the fact that before McCarthy, Roosevelt's communist bedding was in power, so it could not exist in 1938 in the same form as under McCarthyism

 

[Soupnazi630]

McCarthy was nuts and dangerous. Nothing glorious about targeting whomever you please...

He was correct.

He targeted people proven to be traitors and spies.

 

[The Irish Ram]

He was correct.

He targeted people proven to be traitors and spies.

No, they were not. He targeted people. Common sense finally prevailed as it did in Salem. He was stopped. And the commies didn't take over...

 

[rupol2000]

No, they were not

Do not lie. The communists did not even hide that the United States was stuffed with their agents

 

[rupol2000]

Fucking Roosevelt Democrats were generally not much different from Stalin

 

[Soupnazi630]

No, they were not. He targeted people. Common sense finally prevailed as it did in Salem. He was stopped. And the commies didn't take over...

Yes they were. The evidence did not come out until many years later but he was spot on. The list he gave was a list of peopl who were all proven to be traitors.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Do not lie. The communists did not even hide that the United States was stuffed with their agents

It was a witch hunt. About as productive as the ones in Salem, when they got all the bad, bad witches back in the day and saved us...

 

[Soupnazi630]

It was a witch hunt. About as productive as the ones in Salem, when they got all the bad, bad witches back in the day and saved us...

Unlike Salem the evidence proves Mccarthy was correct so no it was not a witch hunt

 

[The Irish Ram]

He accused everyone. He was not correct. We have rights and freedoms in this country...