The New McCarthy Era is Upon Us

All Americans should take note, the new rhetoric that comes from the right are reminincent of the McCarthy Era. Be anti-war (even if it is this war and not every war), have tendencies to lean toward feeling that a little socialism in a capitalist society is a good thing, the C word rears it's ugly head again:

Cindy Sheehan: anti-American communist?

That was the accusation coming yesterday from the Heritage Foundation, which hosted author John J. Tierney Jr. for a forum titled "The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the Anti-War Movement?"

Tierney researched the movement for a book and came up with some choice descriptions. "I have to say it is communist," he told an audience at the conservative think tank, also describing the groups involved as "revolutionary socialistic" and "cohorts" of North Korea, Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro's Cuba. "We're really dealing with . . . a comprehensive, exhaustive, socialistic anti-capitalistic political structure," he said.

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