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To: St_Bill who wrote (30934)	10/4/2001 9:44:02 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 82486

Hope? haha, hope to bring down society in the hopes they can loot it.

To: St_Bill who wrote (30934)	10/4/2001 10:05:55 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I like to remind people that the 1930's were pretty harsh for workers. FDR usurped many of the issues of the Reds (which, IMO, were legitimate). People seem to forget that our greatgrandfathers were bashed on the head by Pinkertons so we could have a 40 hour work week. How soon people forget. FDR's taking of the "progressive" platform prevented communism from getting a wider spread footing in the U.S. I for one am glad for many of the things that were put in place for people that weren't the beneficiaries of private social welfare programs. These were selective, racist and frequently had a religious ideology behind them. work4life.home.att.net

To: St_Bill who wrote (30934)	10/5/2001 1:44:00 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Put yourself in the shoes of the people who, in the late twenties and through the thirties, found hope in communism because there was precious little elsewhere to be found. Were there scoundrels? Certainly. If they had been fasicsts instead of communists would you be similarly unconcerned? I do think people have a right to their political ideas even if they are communists or nazis, and I do think that Mcarthy went too far, but communism is an evil idea. Tim