Joe McCarthy

Let’s talk about Joe McCarthy.

Since so many negative things have been written about Joe McCarthy, we should try to talk about these in no particular order of importance

First of all, he was an alcoholic. That is undisputed. But tell me why that is important. Spencer Tracy was an alcoholic. Do we think less of Spencer Tracy? I didn’t think so, so let’s move on.

His detractors criticize his war record by calling him Tailgunner Joe. I am not sure why this name is important, other than it conjures up some fuzzy notion of cowardice, but it shouldn’t be important. What is important is that Joe McCarthy did not have to serve in World War II. He was a judge and was there for exempt from military service. Thank you very much.

Third, Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with the Hollywood black list. He wasn’t a Hollywood producer, a director, an actor, or even a mogul. If Hollywood blacklisted people, that was something that Hollywood did all on its own.

Furthermore, Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Joe McCarthy was a US Senator, not a member of the House of Representatives.

Fifth, Joe McCarthy is often criticized because he said, “I have a list of names.” Well, he did have a list of names, and he didn’t make those names up. Those names were often collected by other congressional committees, the FBI or investigative agencies of institutions, such as the State Department.

Sixth, he had good reason to call out the people who he suspected of subversive activity. Wouldn’t you want a US Senator or a congressman to point out people who might be betraying the United States of America? I would.

What is the problem here? If the people did nothing wrong, they had nothing to fear.

Well, apparently they did have something to fear because Joe McCarthy‘s allegations were not baseless allegations. There were witnesses who were willing to come forward and testify as to the veracity of his allegations.

And they did.

Seventh, Joe McCarthy was not the first person to call out communists lurking in the highest levels of our government. Martin Dies in the 1940s chaired a congressional committee, which looked into this situation.

Richard Nixon looked into the case against Alger Hiss prior to Joe McCarthy, coming into prominence in 1950. This was important, because communists in those days took their marching orders directly from the Kremlin.

Whittaker Chambers testified that both Alger Hiss (Johns Hopkins, Harvard) and his brother Donald Hiss (Johns Hopkins, Harvard)were members of the communist party with whom he had interactions.

Not only did Joe McCarthy have reliable witnesses, the Venona tapes, which were intercepts, of Soviet communiqués, to their agents in the, United, States have to a large degree vindicated Joe McCarthy.

There indeed were Soviet agents working in the United States in high-level positions – in the State Department in the CIA, and in the Army.

Fort Monmouth, New Jersey was a veritable beehive of espionage activity.

What Joe McCarthy did was pull the curtain back on our ruling class to show that their interests did not necessarily dovetail with the interests of average Americans.

Most Americans then, and now are not interested in a globalist agenda. And it is important to note that we use the term globalism today instead of communism when discussing threats.

Most people today, anymore don’t care about the term communist; it doesn’t get a rise out of them. But if you called someone a globalist today, you would get a completely different response.

So when we evaluate Joe McCarthy, let us substitute the word communism with globalism to get a better evaluation emotionally speaking of how we would feel now and how people felt then.

Joe McCarthy was not a globalist. He was what he would call today an America Firster – anathema to the entitled elites, who live in Cambridge, New York and Washington DC.

Joe McCarthy was an average American. He was not an elitist. He did not graduate from an elite school. He was a hard, drinking poker playing average Joe.

That is why he had to be destroyed.

And he was destroyed principally by Dwight Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, CD Jackson and other agents of the ruling elite.

Their goal was to malign him through history, and they so far have succeeded.

If you throw enough dirt at a person, some of it will eventually stick.

One of the most salacious pieces of dirt thrown at Joe McCarthy was that he was gay. Well, maybe he was. It’s possible he was. But if he was, so what? Well his detractors will say, he was going after gay people in the government and casting aspersions upon them. Well, that is certainly true that he did, but so did many other Congressmen including the very ones who were going after him.

In the end Jie McCarthy was censured by the Senate, so we should talk about that. What does it mean to censure a senator? Well, various terms have been used over the years to describe censure. These terms include denounce, and condemn.

Censure only means that the rest of the Senate by majority vote disapproves of your actions. Censure does not kick you out of the Senate, nor does it deny you any of your rights. It only means that the rest of the Senate disapproves of what you did.

Indeed, there have been nine total censures of United States senators since 1789. Joe McCarthy was hardly the only senator to be censured, and he was not the last Senator to be censured.

Let the record state that Joe McCarthy was not censured for stealing money, engaging in violence, or releasing sensitive top secret information concerning the United States of America. Joe McCarthy was censured for not cooperating with a Senate investigation.

In the end, looking back at what has transpired in our country in the last 75 years, it can be safely said that Joe McCarthy was correct.

America the Republic was under attack.

It was under attack by the enemy from within, and those enemies were the very people who worked to destroy Joe McCarthy.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

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