Wes Vernon
Monday May 12, 2003

While a group called international A.N.S.W.E.R has organized (sometimes violent) appeasement protests throughout the nation leading up to and during the war in Iraq, there is no established committee in Congress assigned to investigate this group.

Such a probe would not abridge anyone’s freedom of speech, but would determine if enemy forces are trying influence U.S. policy.

There is no committee to follow up on documentation by hard-leftist-turned-conservative activist David Horowitz that ANSWER is "a front for the Communist Workers World Party with tentacles stretching around the globe."

Congress doesn’t investigate organizations like ANSWER, though - as NewsMax.com has reported - lawmakers have seriously considered of doing just that.

A probe might also take up Horowitz’s charge that the "anti-war" group NION (Not in Our Name) "is the brainchild of [a] Maoist" who is "a leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, [and] has a close relationship...with the Maoist International Movement."

But the Horowitz list doesn’t stop there. It will be interesting to see if Congress wants to vigorously pursue this, knowing that any lawmaker who steps out front on the issue will bring down upon his head the wrath of the leftist establishment for supposedly engaging in "McCarthyism."

As NewsMax.com Contributing Editor Phil Brennan has noted, the word "McCarthyism" first appeared in the Daily Worker, the official organ of the Communist Party, USA, on orders from Moscow. As has recently been documented, the Communist Party USA was funded by the Soviet Union.

The House Committee on Internal Security (the renamed House Committee on Un-American Activities) was hot on this money trail in 1975. But in that year, the "Watergate babies" added leftist muscle to the new Congress and the committee was abolished.

For years, that panel and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which went out of business shortly thereafter, were accused of "McCarthyism" by communists and their camp-followers.

Now, the communist/terrorist alliance of the early 21st Century is running interference for those who want to kill Americans, as demonstrated in their actions following the 9/11 attacks on the Trade Towers and the Pentagon.

Last week, when the Senate Government Affairs Committee released formerly sealed executive session testimony before the McCarthy committee, the Senate’s associate historian and baby boomer chairwoman and subcommittee chairman echoed the old anti-McCarthy cliches.

Thus it is time to get right to the core of the name-calling and demolish once and for all the myth that the man for whom the word "McCarthyism" was named "smeared" people and "ruined lives"

and was on a "witch hunt" that "never exposed communists." A few examples: