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:::::::: I think you should lay off drugs, "pal" - http://readsettlers.org/ch10.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
:::::::: I think you should lay off drugs, "pal" - http://readsettlers.org/ch10.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
:::::::::Do you read your own commie rot? Don't see no "murders of thousands". [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 11:07, 9 April 2018 (EDT)
:::::::::Do you read your own commie rot? Don't see no "murders of thousands". [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 11:07, 9 April 2018 (EDT)
:::::::::: 1. It's actually funny how you call me a commime when in reallity I'm not even a socialist. Watch your language, or you can justifiably be called a fascist. 2. Do not pretend that the Communist Control Act of 1954 has never been, you know this just perfectly
{{Quotebox|"There were no death squads, no shoot-outs, no long prison sentences - the CPUSA wasn't even outlawed, and published its newspaper and held activities throughout this period.
{{Quotebox|"There were no death squads, no shoot-outs, no long prison sentences - the CPUSA wasn't even outlawed, and published its newspaper and held activities throughout this period.
The CPUSA at the time usually called this repression a "witch hunt," because it was a Government campaign to promote mass political conformity by singling out "Communists" for public abuse and scorn. It was not repression of the usual type, in which the Empire tries to wipe out, to eliminate through legal and extra-legal force an entire revolutionary movement. In 1949 some 160 CPUSAers were arrested and tried under the Smith Act for advocating "the overthrow of the U.S. Government through force and violence." Of these 114 were convicted, with 29 CPUSA leaders serving Federal prison sentences of 2 - 5 years. Two obscure CPUSA members, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed ..."}}
The CPUSA at the time usually called this repression a "witch hunt," because it was a Government campaign to promote mass political conformity by singling out "Communists" for public abuse and scorn. It was not repression of the usual type, in which the Empire tries to wipe out, to eliminate through legal and extra-legal force an entire revolutionary movement. In 1949 some 160 CPUSAers were arrested and tried under the Smith Act for advocating "the overthrow of the U.S. Government through force and violence." Of these 114 were convicted, with 29 CPUSA leaders serving Federal prison sentences of 2 - 5 years. Two obscure CPUSA members, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed ..."}}