From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 16:10:29 MDT
On 14 Sep 2002 at 15:41, Hermit wrote:
>
> [Hermit] ..."Are you now or have you ever been...
>
> [Hermit] This was the opening of the House Committee on UnAmerican
> Activities (HUAC). "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of
> the Communist party?" Those who refused to answer were jailed, so
> violating the 14th and 5th constitutional amendment rights of their
> victims. Those who did answer were damned as communists and rejected
> by society.
>
And a damned shame it was, too, finally ended by that famous line:
"Have you no decency, sir?"
>
> [Hermit] Joe Dees campaign of painting anyone who opposes him as
> unAmerican, of asserting that they are members of "conspiracies" and
> continuously harassing people in the hope of obtaining a reply which
> seemingly has no purpose other than to establish an invalid bias
> against them, appears indistinguishable from those tactics used by
> Senator Joe McCarthy and his cronies.
>
Hermit's tactic of labelling everyone who disagrees with his quietist
position on Iraq as poodles, fascists and mindless warmongers would
itself seem to be slanderous and Mccarthyesque; his attacks upon list
members' relatives goes far beyond even that.
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