McCarthyism Watch

[Malachi151]

Interesting comilation of news pieces.

http://www.progressive.org/mcwatch03/mcwatch03.html

I found this one particularly interesting:

http://www.progressive.org/mcwatch03/mc060403.html

John Fleming owns the Roost and Coyote's Den, an activist book and record store in Alamosa, Colorado. On the day that Bush began bombing Iraq in March, Fleming hung an upside-down flag in his store window.

"The upside down flag is a sign of distress in the Boy Scout Manual," Fleming says. "And I set out to express my distress over the war."

Some outraged residents complained to the police.

"I had a half dozen calls in thirty minutes," Alamosa Police Chief Ron Lindsey says. Lindsey came over to the store and told Fleming that he couldn't legally have an upside-down flag on display.

Fleming's nickname, by the way, is Coyote. The day after an article by Sylvia Lobato appeared in the Alamosa Valley Courier mentioning that nickname and the flag controversy, he found an unwelcome sight waiting for him at the office.

"Someone went out and shot a coyote and threw the bleeding carcass up against the front door of the Roost," Fleming says. "I can't get the blood off the concrete. They took the ears off so they could claim the $5 bounty. I took it as a death threat."

[Tricky]

I have a McCarthyism watch. Instead of having a beeping alarm, it goes "Commie! Commie! Commie!"

[AmateurScientist]

Originally posted by Tricky
I have a McCarthyism watch. Instead of having a beeping alarm, it goes "Commie! Commie! Commie!"

LMAO

[Mr Manifesto]

Originally posted by Tricky
I have a McCarthyism watch. Instead of having a beeping alarm, it goes "Commie! Commie! Commie!"

I had a Jedi Knight watch that was like that. I had to throw it out because it went off every thirty seconds.

[rikzilla]

Originally posted by Tricky
I have a McCarthyism watch. Instead of having a beeping alarm, it goes "Commie! Commie! Commie!"

:D :D :D

So...a McCarthyism watch huh?? So what do we do? Guard his grave? Lock up the Quija boards? Kidnap JE?? :)

[Nie Trink Wasser]

don't call a communist a commie !

it's not pc !

*looks in book of textbook buzzword cliches* It must be McCarthyism !


oh wait...this thread has nothing to due with McCarthy besides the title of it.

wow.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by Mr Manifesto


I had a Jedi Knight watch that was like that. I had to throw it out because it went off every thirty seconds.
As opposed to an NTW watch that makes an obnoxious "Liberal! Liberal! Liberal!" sound every thirty seconds.

[Nie Trink Wasser]

Originally posted by Tricky

As opposed to an NTW watch that makes an obnoxious "Liberal! Liberal! Liberal!" sound every thirty seconds.

oh please.

there are hardly any real "liberals" around anymore.
get a new shtick.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by Nie Trink Wasser
there are hardly any real "liberals" around anymore.


So when you say things like:
Originally posted by Nie Trink Wasser
you liberals and your little social experiments.
You're not really talking to us?

[shemp]

This is actually a valid question. What do we do if Joe McCarthy comes back as a Zombie? We must be ever vigilant against Zombieism!

[Sundog]

Oh phooey. I misunderstood the thread title. I wanted to buy one.

[Malachi151]

Here is another good one.

http://www.progressive.org/webex03/wxmc0318e03.html

Stephen F. Downs, the chief lawyer for New York State's Commission on Judicial Conduct, was arrested on March 3 for refusing to take off a peace T-shirt in a mall near Albany.


The shirt said "Peace on Earth" on one side and "Give Peace a Chance" on the other. He had just purchased the shirt in Crossgates Mall, the same mall that ordered him to remove it.


When the mall's security guards told him to take the shirt off or leave the premises, Downs refused. They called the police, and he was handcuffed, arrested, and charged with trespassing.


Downs pleaded not guilty, and the mall later dropped the charges.

[Nie Trink Wasser]

Originally posted by Tricky

You're not really talking to us? [/B]

if you're humorless and willing to lump yourself under the giant stinking moomoo of "liberal", then sure thing. Take it personally.

[jj]

Originally posted by Nie Trink Wasser


if you're humorless and willing to lump yourself under the giant stinking moomoo of "liberal", then sure thing. Take it personally.

As you have noticed
I do not lump myself there.
You keep saying that!

[Malachi151]

Here is another major one:

http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc032302.html

Stephen K. Jones, 34, is a graduate student at the University of Maine at Orono, where he's getting his teaching degree.

As part of his program, he was required to do a 12-week internship.

The administrators placed him at Old Town High School and Middle School, though he never did get to the middle school.

For his tenth-grade high school class on world history, Jones developed a lesson plan on Islam and Islamic civilization. He says that the university approved it ("I got an A on that"), as did the principal and the tenth-grade world history teacher, Marty Clark, whose class he would instruct.

March 1 was Jones's first full class.

"The very first thing I did was ask, 'What do you think Islam is?' " he says. And his students responded, he says, with the following words: "crazy, terrorist, uneducated, poor, dirty, oppresses women."

"I wrote all those things on the board, and I said we're going to take a look at these depictions, and we're going to see what are some other ways to look at Islam, Muslims, and Islamic civilizations," he says he told the class, which "seemed to go OK."

But at the second class, "people began to get worked up when I said let's look at the various monotheisms--Judaism, Christianity, Islam." Jones provided excerpts from the Torah, the Gospel of Matthew, and the Koran, and he asked the students, in a handout, to consider the following questions:

"Who is God?"

"What happens to those who are not faithful to God and who break the rules?"

"What is the purpose of life?"

"How does God wish to be worshipped?"

"How are family and society valued?"

The next day, Clark told Jones he had gotten a call from a parent, who said Jones was trying to convert her kid to Islam, Jones recalls.

[Zep]

You can't go around telling kids stuff! They might actually listen and learn something!

:D :D :D