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From: jxxl@huxley.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Jesus
Keywords: McCarthy, witchhunt, analogy
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Date: 1 Nov 90 16:25:19 GMT
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Reply-To: jxxl@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke)
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In article <> clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) writes:

> Um, David, I think Eric was making a reference to Joe McCarthy's list of
> "214 Communist agents in the U.S. Government," from the speech that started
> the whole organized Communist witchhunt in the '50s.

McCarthy's original statement: "I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were
known to the secretary of state as being members of the Communist Party and
who, nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State
Department." Thus was born the syndrome that bears his name.