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To: tejek who wrote (165953)	3/27/2003 3:19:40 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1583798

Ted, Mr. McCarthy was a perverse gay man who exposed others probably for many reasons but probably an important one was to divert attention from his own private life which he probably considered to be very dirty. Somewhat weak conspiracy theory. The main goal was to expose communists. He destroyed the careers of a lot of good people through clever manipulation of the media. He destroyed careers of mainly bad people because communists are bad people. My experience has been to question anyone who wants to control or restrict our freedoms. Well, you should see what communists do when they gain power. On 9th February, 1950, Joseph McCarthy, a senator from Wisconsin, made a speech claiming to have a list of 205 people in the State Department known to be members of the American Communist Party. The list of names was not a secret and had been in fact published by the Secretary of State in 1946. See, he was doing a good thing. Or do you disagree, and think it is a good ideas for communists to work in the State department? Some had been communists but others had been fascists, alcoholics and sexual deviants. Well, I admitted he wasn't perfect, which was his undoing. While not as dangerous as communists, it is probably not a good idea to have fascists, alcoholics or sexual deviants work for the State Department. Joe