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Originally posted by Mobycat:

Personally, I regard the HUAC just like I regard the term "politically correct" - that is, they are BOTH about as un-American as you can get. Diverse views are to be cherished here - HUAC spits on that, and "politically correct" is about as UN-politically correct as one can actually be. Politically correct SHOULD mean that people can have whatever *beliefs* they want without fear of the government, however distasteful they may be to others.

(Oh, and just to clarify for everyone - McCarthy actually had nothing to do with HUAC - he was a Senator, and worked with the Senate Committee on Government Operations.)
Yes, McCarthy was chairman of the Government Committee on Operations. That committee worked along the same lines as HUAC only that the GCO was supposed to weed out subversion in the government. Without the HUAC there probably would not have been a GCO. Also the HUAC was formed in the 30's.

McCarthy's list that you mention was not HIS list. It was a list comprised by the State Dept. some years before.

McCarthy did expose communists. Didn't a bunch leave the country?

Communists have been rounded up for many years. Woodrow Wilson had many arrested and jailed. Communist subversion was nothing new in McCarthy's time. It certainly is nothing new today. It's back and bigger than ever.

The HUAC didn't spit on anything. They were formed as an investigative arm of Congress to enforce existing laws. People in America can have whatever beliefs they want... yes that is true. However they cannot act on some of those beliefs. There is something called "sedition" and "treason" regardless of how much the left tries to spin or play it off.
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