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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: making things up
Message-ID: <8621@duke.duke.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 09:28:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 09:28:39 1986
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References: <8579@duke.duke.UUCP> <1047@frog.UUCP>
Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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In article <1047@frog.UUCP> tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson) writes:
>> IS NOT FAIR NOR IS IT MORAL to make up things, nor take out of context
>> quotations which do not reflect the author's meaning, nor to use your
>> vague recollections as evidence, especially after others have pointed
>> out using the actual text that you are simply wrong, just to argue that
>> someone is a bad and Evil Person.  Joe McCarthy did it, and he was 
>> wrong.
>
>Not that McCarthy deserves defending, but no one he accused of being a
>Communist wasn't.
>
>				David Hudson

I'd love to see a reference for *that*!  Beyond that, there were a number of
people accused of being a communist on the basis of membership in the CP 20
or 30 years before (remember that the CP was a more-or-less respectable
political party in 1935 -- this was when the AFL sang the "Internationale" 
in meetings), which is less than reasonable.

And there were certainly people who were implicated on the basis of such
pearls of logic as "I have no evidence that so-and-so is not a member of
the Communist Party."


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			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)