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To: Amy J who wrote (165676)6/3/2002 9:13:29 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Amy,

re: In history, we learned about the McCarthy list and how some innocent people were targeted, but there really wasn't too much information on what specifically happened to people on the list. (What did happen to people on the list?)

They were blacklisted. No one would hire them for fear of being labeled a communist.

re: CNN had an article quoting a Republican that said the FBI was spying on Martin Luther King back when the rules for spying were too loose. Basically, the Republican implied a person with an opinion different from the majority, could have been at risk of being spied upon, back in the old days. That's a bit of a damper on freedom of speech for those that aren't strongly-enough opinioned.

It's been argued that J. Edgar Hoover had more power than any president has ever had, he could use information as a political weapon. The fact that he was a racist and very far right, politically, is beside the point.

John
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