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Originally posted by Not Bob
Yes, I recall that.
No (Republican) and no (Texan). That's why I listed them. Seriously, you should read the Nizer book (I just finished it -- saw it in a used bookstore on vacation, and since I am always looking for slick trial lawyer techniques to assist me in denying compensation to the injured, I grabbed it). I'd be happy to send it to you.
But let's assume that you run a law firm in 1955. You find out that one of your 45 year old partners contributed to a fund set up for the legal fees of the Scottsboro Boys when he was in law school in the 1930s. It turns out that the fund was administered by the CPUSA (who liked to make propaganda points against the capitalists by using lynchings and the like to make a point). Does he get fired? Or the bookkeeper who, in the depths of the Great Depression, thought that communism might work?
These are the type of people that lost their jobs, spouses, etc. during this time. People who had made the mistake of signing the wrong petition, attending the wrong rally, or working for Henry Wallace. It wasn't like most of them were ever communists, and that the ones who were actually in the party were still involved after the war.
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As I stated before, if someone said that they had made a mistake, and didn't support the communist party then it would be wrong if they got fired. Do you have an actual example of this?
But it seems to me the only people that got nailed were people that refused to critisize the communist party. Here is a party that is being financed by the Soviet Union and is trying to overthrow the US government.
Now if people were still getting fired and other bad things were happening to them because they unknowingly donated to a group they did not know was communist and pointed out it was a mistake. That would suck. But so far no one has shown me this has happened.
