Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Reliving Ghosts of a Free-Market Past

By Lawrence Davidson
April 12, 2011

In Charles Dickens’s 1848 story, A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley roams the earth weighted down by chains symbolizing the wrongs he committed in life.

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Peter Loeb said...

THE SAME ROPE

As in a traditional proverb and
blues refrain, "The same rope that
holds you up, sure can hang you!"

I remember Joe McCarthy and recall
watching his hearings on tele-
vision (against the U.S.Army).

But if one is to overlook the
values of Manifest Destiny, one
must certainly be specific in
an in-depth examination of the
Wilson Administration with its
"Creel" Commission and FBI and Palmer Raids. A "Democratic"
Administration to be sure.

One must look with the greatest care at the same attitudes during
the Truman Administration.

Secretary of State Dean Achesan,
co-writer of NSC 68 ("National Security Council") in 1948 and
signed by Truman in April of 1950,
Acheson's commonly use of the
word "commie"...

We must look at the loyalty oaths during the Truman Administration (My Dad signed one).

One must also look at
the "Attorney General's List" during the Democratic Truman
Administration and its effects on
scholars, dissidents, actors, "for-
eigners" etc.

(For a resource see: Richard M.
Freeland, THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND
THE ORIGINS OF McCARTHYISM:FOREIGN
POLICY, DOMESTIC POLITICS AND
INTERNAL SECURITY 1946-1948
(New York University Press,1985)

The relationship of the Kennedy
Administration to Joe McCarthy
(including the work of Bobby
Kennedy) should be duly noted.

For all of us it is much too easy to attack only Republicans as our
progressive models consistently advise us.

Life is far too complex for that.

email:peterloeb@yahoo.com

Wed Apr 13, 04:37:00 PM 2011

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