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Old 09-20-2010, 05:34   #13
Richard
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McCarthyism/the "Red Scare"

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/R...documents.html

Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954: Witch Hunt or Red Menace?

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=689

"Fire!"

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/fire.html

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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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