Bring Back HUAC

PART 1MANY PEOPLE ALIVE TODAY DON’T REMEMBER WHAT THE HOUSE ON UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES WAS. HUAC WAS AN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THAT LOOKED INTO SUBVERSION OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.

IT INVESTIGATED THOSE ACCUSED OF BEING COMMUNISTS WITHIN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. IT INVESTIGATED THOSE ACCUSED OF BEING COMMUNISTS WITHIN THE U.S. MEDIA, ESPECIALLY IN HOLLYWOOD. AND TO A LARGE EXTENT, IT WAS SUCCESSFUL IN EXPOSING COMMUNIST INFILTRATION. IT ROOTED OUT COMMUNIST OPERATIVE ALGER HISS. IT REVEALED THE EXTENT OF COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE FILM INDUSTRY. IT SERVED AMERICA AND PROTECTED IT FROM WHAT WAS THEN THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – COMMUNISM. BUT AFTER THE 1950S, A GENERATION OF LEFTISTS AND FELLOW TRAVELLERS IN ACADEMIA AND THE MEDIA CLAIMED THAT THE EFFORTS OF HUAC AND JOSEPH MCCARTHY IN THE SENATE HAD BEEN NOTHING MORE THAN A WITCH HUNT. THEY CLAIMED THAT IT HAD DESTROYED PEOPLES’ LIVES WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COMMUNISM.

BUT THEN, IN THE 1990S, THE VENONA TRANSCRIPTS OF INTELLIGENCE INTERCEPTS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION PROVED THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT HUAC HAD BEEN INVESTIGATING HAD BEEN INVOLVED WITH COMMUNIST GROUPS AND MANY HAD ACTIVELY SPIED ON THE U.S. FOR THE SOVIET UNION. THE OLD LEFTIES STILL CLAIM THAT HUAC WAS JUST A BUNCH OF RIGHT-WING KNUCKLE-DRAGGERS, BUT THE TRUTH IS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE.