Attorney General John Ashcroft has been sounding a lot like former Senator Joseph McCarthy, infamous for starting the “Red Scare” of the 1950’s, finding communists at every turn, especially in people who disagreed with his witch hunt.
Test your knowledge of history and the present. See if you can tell Ashcroft from McCarthy in our “who said it” test. To make it more difficult we’ve replaced words like “communist” and “terrorist” with “___”.
And The Progressive has a New McCarthyism Watch. Read what happened to a nonviolence activist who went to a post office in Chicago and asked for 4,000 stamps for a political mailing they were putting out — but didn’t want stamps with the American flag on them! And, to make matters worse, he wanted to pay cash!
