Returning to the subject of this post, there is also a great deal to be said about the sheer disparity of curiosity historians and journalists (even those who do not think of themselves as left wing) show about left wing villanies versus right wing. Yet I persist in thinking that the truth usually percolates through in the end. Look at Communism, the force than animated all these infiltrators, and to which hundreds of millions sincerely dedicated their lives. Evaporated like a bad smell. Yes, I know other related ideologies are very much alive (alas) but who now would dedicate themselves to that dead thing?

You have no doubt read “Wild Swans” – but it is possible you have not read the larger work.

Or is it politically incorrect to employ such terms in reference to Communists, as is the case with ‘Holocaust’?

To those who say that Joe McCarthy ruined the lives of innocent people, M. Stanton Evans replies: “Name one.” Yes, he used rough language, although not as rough as his antagonists in the media (including Soviet intelligence sources I.F. Stone, Michael Straight and Walter Lippmann), who routinely smeared him as a ‘fascist,’ a ‘Nazi,’ a homosexual, etc.

While McCarthy certainly made mistakes, his opponents actually lied to cover up the facts he got right. What got him in trouble were not his relatively minor errors, but his very important though inconvenient truths.

To get a flavor of how such truths were handled, see this.

Because the communists ran the media, even if the the police officer had been revealed as a spy at the time, the steady drumbeat of the big lie (that the shooting exposed the repression inherent in the Capitalist system) would have overwhelmed all truth. Plus ca change….

One example of this was the Taipei mass shootings.

When the Nationalists came to the island of Formosa (once a Portugese colony, then a Dutch one – and only later part of the Chinese empire) on the defeat of the Japanese Empire (which had ruled the island since 1895) the locals protested against inflation, and other misrule by the new government.

And the protesters were shot down in their hundreds – an event that helped further tarnish the image of the KMT

However, the General responsible for these shootings (his name – I can not remember his name) turned out to be a long term Communist agent, who was soon back on the mainland openly supporting Mao.

The Nationalist Army was full of such agents, they went right back to the terrible judgement of Sun Yat Sen to have the Soviets help set up the Nationalist miltary college back in the 1920′s – Chou en-lai (later foolishly considered the moderate force in Mao’s China – actually he was a lickspittle who went along with Mao’s crimes) was one of the main Communist recruiters of sleeper agents at the college.

A successful Communist takes care to either build up his own military force or to subvert the existing one – or both.

You are simply going along with the B.S. you were taught at school, college and which is backed up by Hollywood and the rest of the media.

It is easy to prove me wrong – show me that you have read M. Stanton Evan’s “Blacklisted by History” (Random House, New York, 2007) and have refuted the generally pro McCarthy case made there.

Although of course Joe McCarthy made terrible blunders – the worst being the appointment of Roy Cohn as his chief assistant rather than Robert Kennedy.

Certainly Cohn was better qualified – but that was not the point. The Kennedy Clan could have protected McCarthy – whereas Roy Cohn was a target.

He was a Jew and a homosexual – which made people like Senator Flanders of Vermont fantical enemies, and enemies of anyone who employed him.

I am not saying that Joe McCarthy should have been antisemitic or a “homophobe” – but he should have shown some common sense (and promoted Kennedy not Cohn). Not put his head down and charged with his normal I-will-do-what-is-right-regardless-of-the-odds-or-the-consequences mantra.

That attitude reminds me of my father – and it also reminds me of me. And it is really dumb to behave the way I do.

Taking on the Communists was hard enough – without taking on Republicans like Senator Flanders as well. A serious politician has to live in the real world (where bigots have to be worked with). It was bad enough (from certain people’s point of view) that McCarthy was Catholic and not from a good family, without him making things worse for himself.

The politicians who supported the Soviet led Western “peace movement” in NZ and elsewhere are still powerful. Helen Clark our ex PM. has recently been appointed No. 3 at the UN.

I abhor those hypocrites, who must have known at the time of their activism that they were working on behalf of the Soviet Union. Today’s green movement is a reincarnation of that discredited 1970/80′s hypocrisy.

The use of the past tense may be considered by some to be overly optimistic.

Subotai Bahadur

Other revelations that have dripped out over the years:

* the russians actually did acquire some of Hitlers remains and I believe still have a bit of skull with his bullet hole in it.

* The Rosenbergs really were spies and really did pass nuclear weapons information to the KGB.

Still interesting to know though!