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2003-06-01 19:16 | User Profile
Joseph McCarthy: Hero
by Alan Stang May 30, 2003
There are so many heroes these days. There are movie heroes. There are sports heroes. I have read many times that John Wayne, for instance, was a "hero." There is no more dedicated John Wayne fan than I - even now I still watch his movies again and again - but a "hero?" For making millions of dollars enjoying the adulation of millions of fans? It is important to add that John Wayne's work is still important, not just because it is so entertaining, but because it helps preserve the American culture our enemies are conspiring to destroy. Still, it isn't heroism.
The sports "hero" is generally a man who plays a game with a ball a few hours a week, before a screaming audience that includes many fanatics who have painted their faces purple or whatever, wear bizarre headdresses and have managed to elude their wives. These "heroes" too are paid many millions - which we certainly don't begrudge them if that is what their fanatics want to spend their money on. But the men who play these games are not heroes.
At the same time, we read all the time that the "age of heroes is past," that there are "no more heroes." One reason for the confusion certainly has to be the fact that if you use the word indiscriminately - if you insist on calling people who don't deserve it "heroes" - after a while the word doesn't mean anything.
The word "liberal" used to mean someone who wants to restrain the government. It was such an appealing word that the collectivists stole it. Now it means someone who wants the government to restrain the people. The word "gay" used to mean someone who was straight and happy. Now that the sodomites have stolen it, it means someone who is glad to be in hell.
No, a hero is someone who willingly enters great danger and takes great risks, for a purpose that will not enrich him. A military hero throws himself on a live grenade to protect his friends. He lays down his life for his friends. A moral hero undergoes calumny and ostracism - even mortal, physical danger - because he holds his ground, because he will not recant.
My dear friend, physician and fellow author, James R. Privitera, M.D., of Covina, California, with whom I wrote Silent Clots: Life's Biggest Killers, about a suppressed lifesaving test, is certainly a hero, who has been thrown into jail more than once for giving his patients the treatment they elect. As it stands now, he has won, but the same totalitarians still control California medicine.
And if ever the word "hero" meant anything, it certainly applies to Senator Joe McCarthy, whose very name the enemies of our civilization desperately perverted until it became an epithet. It turns out that Joe was wrong. After almost half a century of revelations like Venona, we now know that he was much too modest, too fair, too restrained in his assertions of Communist penetration of our government. If only Joe hadn't been such a gentleman.
Not only was everyone he called a Communist exactly that; we now know that the problem was much worse than he said. Only two of the many Soviet spy rings in the government were uncovered. The ones that remained undoubtedly metastasized, with the devastating results so obvious today. Today's breathtaking treason would be impossible without traitors to commit it. Intelligence agencies of the time knew McCarthy was right; had they said so they would have revealed to the Soviets how they knew, thereby putting our agents in danger.
There were no "victims." J. Robert Oppenheimer was a traitor. He was a Communist who paid Party dues and hosted Party meetings. No "innocent lives" were destroyed. So foul and so obvious are the latest revelations that in recent years even "liberal" commentators like the Washington Post's Nicholas von Hoffman have been admitting that Old Joe was not the monster they said he was; that the Communists really were there.
But, at the time, McCarthy stood alone. One can only imagine the courage that took. The people with the power did what they could to destroy him. Among them was Dwight Eisenhower, for whom the Rockefeller Reds had stolen the Republican nomination from Senator Bob Taft. Eisenhower had done everything he could for Stalin in World War II; now his job was to keep the lid on, to prevent the exposure of the Communists a President Taft would have conducted.
Even Joe McCarthy's colleagues in the Senate officially condemned him. It is not an exaggeration to say that no one in American history has been denounced as long and as much as Joe McCarthy. He still is. How many people can you think of whose names have been made a curse, whose military service and heavy beard were made cartoon subjects of ridicule? The Communists have done such a good job that even today, after all the revelations proving how right McCarthy was, perfectly sound patriots will unknowingly disparage "McCarthyism."
You will know that Americans once again control our federal government, when the Senator Joe McCarthy Memorial is dedicated in Washington. The Memorial will include photographs of the Communists he nailed, along with photographs of the Communists he didn't. There will be a statue of Joe pointing an accusatory finger. Schoolbooks will describe McCarthy as a hero, which of course he was. Fat slob Alec Baldwin, slimmed down for the part, will play Joe, in a movie directed by Oliver Stone.
Why have the Communists devoted so much time, energy and money, so long, to the destruction of McCarthy? The question is so na?e I am embarrassed to ask it. I do so in reluctant recognition of the fact that there may be somebody out there, maybe even somebody painted purple who has managed to elude his wife, and who can't figure it out for himself.
The Communists hated McCarthy because he was exposing them. There was and is a Communist Conspiracy. A conspiracy by definition, by its nature, must operate in secret, because it is implementing an evil end, in this case the enslavement of our people by a dictatorship. The best way to destroy a conspiracy is to expose it.
The most fascinating and revealing aspect of the attempt to destroy McCarthy is the overwhelming support it enjoyed from people who certainly were not Communists; who in fact were eminently respectable. Why would such people go out of their way to help the Reds? Why didn't they want Communists in government exposed?
These are some of the questions that gradually led us to understand the cabal that is conspiring to destroy our country. It is a conspiracy that includes the Communists and at the same time competes with the Communists, a conspiracy the goal of which has always been world government. I have no doubt that Eisenhower, for just one example, was not a Communist; did not have a Party card; did not pay Party dues. The reason a man like Eisenhower would do everything he could to destroy McCarthy and protect the Communists, was that he and the Communists wanted the same thing: world government.
In the conspiracy for world government, the Communists have always played the same part the head buster plays in Cosa Nostra. When dirty work - what the Soviets call "wet affairs" - needs to be done, the Communists do it. Look at Hillaroid, the nation's leading cause of proctologic discomfort. Is she a Communist? I don't know. We do know that she actively supported the Communist Black Panthers. But one certainly can't imagine her leading a Communist riot. It would ruin her manicure; maybe mess up her hair. For Communist riots, there are Communists.
Sometimes the Communists get out of control, like Dr. Strangelove't right hand. Then there is a gang fight, in which the world government conspirators usually suppress the Reds. The conflict means nothing; it is merely a fight within the family, a disagreement among siblings about how something should be done. Always, the different elements in the conspiracy come together to advance the common goal.
Today, the monster McCarthy fought is much worse than it was. Half a century ago it had infiltrated the government. Secret Soviet agents like Alger Hiss - the top State Department official who was the first UN Secretary General - were everywhere. The government was already rotten, but Americans still controlled it.
Today, that is no longer true. Americans no longer control our government. An American is someone whose loyalty lies with the independent United States the Founding Fathers left us. Anyone whose loyalty lies elsewhere is not an American. George Bush is not an American because his loyalty lies elsewhere, because he is conspiring for world government, which is treason because it would destroy the United States.
We need Joe McCarthy now, more than ever, a McCarthy who is finally willing to take off the gloves and name names.
2003-06-01 19:21 | User Profile
Imagine if we had statesmen like him today...there's a list of organizations they could profitably investigate...Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith....
2003-06-01 20:23 | User Profile
Joseph McCarthy was an American Patriot.
As was Robert Welch (founder of the John Birch Society...a great personal friend of McCarthy), as was the late Congressman Larry McDonald (assassinated aboard Korean Airlines 007, September 1, 1983), as was/is the great Alan Stang, who was the key friend to and link of Welch and McDonald.
Add to this the late Dr. Antony Sutton, and the (still-living) G. Edward Griffin, and the trail of disciples of the aforementioned, and you'd have a living/breathing monument to the anti-federalist Jeffersonian impulse.
But only if you wann'it.
My counsel, herein, will be rendered until I die. Am wondering how many still give a sh*t.
2003-06-01 21:09 | User Profile
toddbrendanfahey,
A great article!
"We need Joe McCarthy now, more than ever, a McCarthy who is finally willing to take off the gloves and name names."
2003-06-01 21:24 | User Profile
Faust:
Alan Stang is the greatest political philosopher alive today.
To toot mine own horn (&, f*ck it, at this point, why not....), I brought the guy out of nearly 2-decades' exile (he'd served time for tax-evasion and had been cast out of the John Birch Society's hierarchy), into EtherZone.com.
He wasn't reaching any readership past mebbe 50 followers. I'd known of his legend from my days as a JBS chapter leader in the mid-80s, but he'd been rendered obscure even at that date. When I assumed the role of Strategic Director of EtherZone.com, I immediately pitched him to the owner/publisher of EZ, who immediately issued a: "F*ck YEAH!"
& the rest is history. Alan Stang is back. After nearly a 20-year long absence.
The bitter note is that I--having launched Alan Stang's resurgence, as well as that of several other critical voices--was banished from EtherZone.com for being "too controversial."
Paul Fallavollitta, Max Shpak (and, if he's honest) SARTRE will attest to this.
Selah.
TBF
2003-06-01 21:40 | User Profile
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2003-06-01 21:46 | User Profile
toddbrendanfahey,
I remember the first time I read The Politician by Robert Welch and that book Dan Smoot wrote. They tell the truth about our government's aid of the Marxists. Both shocking and sickening to read.
And The Politician seems to be back in print(I had looked and not seen it for sale before):
**The Politician - $16.95 Originally intended by Robert Welch to be an unpublished letter to friends, The Politician became one of the most vilified books in American history. Handsome new 2002 edition, completely re-typeset. A timely foreword by The John Birch Societyââ¬â¢s CEO G. Vance Smith explains the continuing significance of Welchââ¬â¢s exposé of the forces that propelled Dwight D. Eisenhower into the presidency. (2002, 544pp, pb)
url: [url=http://www.robertwelchuniversity.org/rwupress/]http://www.robertwelchuniversity.org/rwupress/[/url] **
I often tend to think of tax-evasion as a moral act of a hero. After all: "A moral hero undergoes calumny and ostracism - even mortal, physical danger - because he holds his ground, because he will not recant. " After all just look what they did to Gordon Kahl.
2003-06-01 22:01 | User Profile
Robert Welch, who sacrificed $65,300,000, of HIS OWN FORTUNE (--via the Welch's Candy Company- his invention, of the SugarDaddy carmel candy-stick) funded the John Birch Society from 1958-1983.
I can't say what was Revilo Oliver gripe, nor any other entity, unto Robert Welch. But I don't know of a single other human being who poured 63-large into an anti-communist organisation, wherien was exposed Dwight David Eisenhower's communist complicity (including the very compex machinanations of the Dulles brothers and, later, the sum-total of the Council on Foreign Relations infiltration into the State Department).
Welch was villified by Willliam F. Buckley (CFR/Skull&Bones), the National Review (funded by the CIA) and the rest is history.
Any OD members who are either ignorant/contemptuous/suspicious of Robert Welch's accomplishments shd either try to disprove his achievements or "get yr learn on," as it were.
2003-06-01 23:47 | User Profile
*Am wondering how many still give a sht. **
Hereââ¬â¢s a few who do:
Pat Buchanan devoted a chapter of his autobiography --"As We Remember Joe" -- to defending Senator McCarthy.
Buchanan recalls that in 1954, at the 15th reunion of his class, a McCarthy hater toasted Harvard College for never having produced an Alger Hiss or a Joe McCarthy. John F. Kennedy stood up and walked out, roaring, "How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!" - the words of later president JFK judging the worth of Joe McCarthy. [All of the Kennedyââ¬â¢s liked and admired McCarthy. JFK was one of the minority of senators who voted NOT to censure; old Joe donated generously to McCarthyââ¬â¢s campaigns, RFK was employed for a time as counsel to McCarthyââ¬â¢s Committee, and two of the Kennedy sisters dated McCarthy.]
[url=http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/23/31338.shtml]http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2.../23/31338.shtml[/url]
*[The following quotes are from a very left-wing site. Of course, theyââ¬Ëre outraged at what they sneeringly refer to as the ââ¬Årehabilitationââ¬Â of Senator McCarthy]: *
An example of the current vogue for McCarthyite apologetics, William F. Buckley Jr.'s recent "The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy," deserves special--and contemptuous--notice. The novel is an open, unabashed effort to turn McCarthy into a misunderstood, unappreciated hero. [Buckley, surrounded and stifled by loudmouthed Likudniks, still somehow managed to defend Joe McCarthy! Maybe thereââ¬Ës hope for the old boy yet.]
But to take in the full political spectrum of the new scholarship on McCarthyism, we must begin by looking even further to the right, at Arthur Herman's "Joseph McCarthy: Re-examining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator."
Herman, a professor of history at George Mason University in Virginia and the coordinator of the Western Civilization program at the Smithsonian Institution, has written the academic equivalent of Buckley's novel The Redhunter. His book is an unabashed 400-page effort at rehabilitation. For Herman, McCarthy may have occasionally exaggerated and even lied in hounding down suspected Communists, but he was fundamentally "more right than wrong in terms of the larger picture."[18] Herman wears his right-wing political bias on his sleeve. McCarthy, he says, "is part and parcel of what modern conservatism is all about"; he "fed the rebirth of American conservatism" at a crucial moment in its effort to challenge New Deal liberalism.[19]. [An honest academic!]
Most prominent among the academics who have specialized in studying the Cold War archives are John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. Their most recent book, "Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America," has received a great deal of attention.
Haynes, a historian at the Library of Congress, and Klehr, a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, have been turning out books on Soviet spies and the CPUSA right through the 1990s. In 1995 they published "The Secret World of American Communism;" in 1998, "The Soviet World of American Communism." All of their recent books are published by Yale University Press, apparently the upscale publisher of choice these days for anticommunist, anti-left academic wisdom.
In their most recent book, Haynes and Klehr focus on the recently declassified Venona Project transcripts. Venona was a top-secret government operation. Started in the 1940s, it involved cryptanalysts, linguists and mathematicians who were dedicated to decoding some 3,000 intercepted Soviet intelligence cables sent to supposed agents and sources in the United States. Truman himself seems to have been unaware of Venona. Drawing primarily on the Venona files and cross-referencing them with the recently and selectively opened KGB and CIA files and archives of the CP of the Soviet Union, Haynes and Klehr claim to have confirmed a vast network of U.S. citizens (most of them CPUSA members or fellow travelers) working as Soviet spies.
*[McCarthy was right, which is why he had to be censured, hounded to death and vilified non-stop for the past fifty years. But no more. Truth is the daughter of Time.] *
[url=http://www.isreview.org/issues/12/mccarthyism.shtml]http://www.isreview.org/issues/12/mccarthyism.shtml[/url]
2003-06-02 09:33 | User Profile
Comparing the non-stop 50-year jew/commie crapping on the memory of McCarthy to their dead silence about the now forgotten German-American witchunter, commie traitor & all-around loathsome zhid Samuel Dickstein is always good for a day-long sneer.
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