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Old 02-09-2011, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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Ahh my pathetic hate filled Congressman is at it again.....
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Old 03-07-2011, 07:08 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Peter King to take up the McCarthy Gavel. Watch out, if you ever looked up into the sky and saw the moon and a star at the same time, you got some splainin to do.

Congressman King to open Congressional inquiry into Muslim "radicalization" - Jihad Watch

Congressional hearings that actually solve probelms are rather rare but good for publicity and gives the perception of doing something while doing little. I think this may actually have the opposite effect and help terrorist recruitment. I guessKing had to find something else since the Mosque in lower Manhattan went away.

My how times have changed with Peter King since the days he supported the IRA.
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Old 03-07-2011, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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Ahh my pathetic hate filled Congressman is at it again.....
A pathetic hate filled Congressman living off a lot of hate and fear filled people.
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Old 03-07-2011, 07:24 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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I wonder if he really believes, or even hears, what he is saying.
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Old 03-07-2011, 07:57 AM
 
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McCarthy methodology? You mean his mimicry of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's "A lie told often enough becomes truth"?

And just WHAT "50s guys" are you talking about? Usually lost in the right wing blather supporting the lying drunk is he would accuse large groups of being COMMIES! and if one or two proved so they claim he was 'right'.

Peter King for President? Lusting for more witch hunts in the US?
Before you further embarass yourself with stupid comments perhaps you should read some history. I suggest "Blacklisted by History" by M. Stanton Evans. McCarthy did not accuse large groups. You may be confusing the work of his Senate committee with that of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) which held hearings on the communist penetration of various groups, including labor unions and Hollywood. By contrast McCarthy focused exclusively on communist infiltration of government agencies--particularly the State Department. Early on his work was broadly supported. You may not know this but Bobby Kennedy was one of his staffers and McCarthy was godfather to one of Kennedy's kids. McCarthy was brought down because he over reached, launching an investigation into the Army. Of course, Eisenhower, having spent his life in the Army, was protective of that branch and turned against McCarthy at that point. That gave the media and feckless politicians carte blanche to demonize the senator. The bottome line, however, is that McCarthy was more right than wrong and the Verona Papers, revealed after the fall of the Soviet Union, confirm that.
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Old 03-07-2011, 09:44 AM
 
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the HCUA hearings did "out" many people that had been members of the american communist party. my personal favorite being sterling hayden, american hero, great actor and briefly....... a communist. one big problem tho.... it has never been illegal to be a communist in this country. during the depression communism was a moderately popular concept so it's not surprising that in the 1950's the HCUA were able to find people that had been members.
I think it's an interesting historical note that Sterling Hayden later played General Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, the general who launched his base's bombers into attacking the USSR on his own authority out of a fear that through flouridation the commies were sapping and impurifying his "precious bodily fluids."

I bet he had a blast with that role, minor pun intended.
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Old 03-09-2011, 05:05 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Default Peter King

Now this is the right man to run an investigation on terrorist activity.



A judge in Belfast threw him out of an I.R.A. murder trial, calling him an “obvious collaborator,” said Ed Moloney, an Irish journalist and author of “A Secret History of the I.R.A.” In 1984, Mr. King complained that the Secret Service had investigated him as a “security risk,” Mr. Moloney said. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us...cs/09king.html
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Old 03-09-2011, 10:00 AM
 
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Default Terrorist Sympathizer to Investigate Terrorist Sympathizers.

Sen Peter King of New York has scheduled hearings to investigate the "radicalization" of American Muslims, only problem, the same Sen Peter King openly expressed sympathy of Irish terrorist often in tones much more questionable than American muslims.

In the 1980's Senator King traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with members of the IRA.

In 1982 Senator King stated, “We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry.”

In 1985 Senator King stated, 'As we march up the avenue and share all the joy,' he declared, 'let us never forget the men and women who are suffering and, most of all, the men and women who are fighting.'"

The same year Senator King stated, "If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the IRA for it.

During King's numerous visits to Northern Island, King was known to stay at the home of convicted IRA terrorist Michael McKevitt, who attempted to smuggle arms into Northern Ireland acquired from Muammar Gadaffi.

During this period the IRA was responsible for over 600 civilian deaths in Great Britain, including 5 attacks where the explosives used by the IRA were directly linked to Libya.

8 November 1987 The Enniskillen Poppy Day massacre. An IRA bomb containing Libyan supplied Semtex explosive goes off at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. Eleven Protestant civilians are killed in the explosion in the Co Fermanagh town.

15 June 1988 Lisburn fun run slaughter. Five British soldiers are killed in an IRA bomb during a charity race.

20 August 1988 Ballygawley bus bomb. Eight British soldiers die in an explosion in Co Tyrone, the single biggest loss of life for the army since the Narrow Water massacre in 1979.

23 October 1993 The Shankill bomb massacre. Nine Protestant civilians and one bomber die in a botched IRA attack on the UDA's headquarters in west Belfast. The atrocity sparks a wave of loyalist counter-violence and pushes Northern Ireland almost to the brink of civil war.

9 February 1996 Canary Wharf bomb. Two Londoners die and hundreds are injured as the IRA signals the end of its first ceasefire. The bombmakers used Semtex as a booster charge to set off a massive quantity of homemade explosive mix.


Makes you wonder who should be investigating whom.
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Old 03-09-2011, 10:40 AM
 
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It must be too close to St. Patrick's Day.
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Old 03-09-2011, 10:40 AM
 
Location: North America
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Peter King to take up the McCarthy Gavel. Watch out, if you ever looked up into the sky and saw the moon and a star at the same time, you got some splainin to do.

Congressman King to open Congressional inquiry into Muslim "radicalization" - Jihad Watch

I love his statement to the AP that the IRA and al-Qaida are very different and that the IRA never attacked America.

I guess the IRA were "good terrorists" and that it only counts if the dead people are American. If memory serves, he came out for the IRA before he was against them.

Joe McCarthy would have loved this guy.
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