Motley Moose – Archive

I watched as family friends lost their jobs.  I remember the witch hunt, the whispers, the children taunting “Oh say can you see..any red bugs on me…”

I remember leaving New York with my parents to hide in obscurity.  Teachers were fired.  Reporters suppressed. Articles censored.  Film director’s attacked.  In 1947, the year I was born,Ronald Reagan led the charge against “communist interests in the movie industry” and was rewarded with the plum – leadership of the Screen Actor’s Guild, and testified against his friends in front of HUAC.  His wife, Jane Wyatt – disgusted with him – the traitor in her home, divorced him in 1948.

I remember those people who committed suicide.

I remember those who refused to testify against their friends, family members and co-workers.

I remember those who did, to save their asses and their careers.

I remember.

It is starting again.  We have to stop it.

We now have the specter of HUAC and McCarthy and guilt by association raised by McCain, and Palin and congresswoman Michelle Bachmann.

Here is Bachmann being interviewed by Chris Matthews today:

To Bachmann, liberal = left = terrorist = Un-American.

Here is  Katrina Vanden Heuvel responding:

This woman does not deserve to be in Congress.

Support her opponent, El Tinklenberg:

http://www.tinklenberg08.com/

We can stop this.

Yes. We. Can