On 16 Dec 2003 05:40:14 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Gunner says...

Yup. But he was indeed correct..that there were Commies in the wood
pile, was he not?

And it was OK to run all over anyone in his way to find
both of them? Is that how you want your government run?
Hypothetical: There's an illegally owned weapon in your
town. The local police decide to round up all the weapon
owners in that town and put them on Joe's witness stand
in public, and sweat them. You are required to testify
about all the weapon owners you know and name names of
possible malefactors. A good idea?

But that wasn't the way McCarthy worked. More like putting them all up
in private to see which ones would crumble, then putting those up in
public.

And just our of idle curiousity, how many American agents do you
suppose were active in the USSR at that time?

Al Moore