So being in the KKK was ok but being a communist was a crime?
So the USA had their priorities straight...
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I'm not aware of anyone saying that the KKK was controlled or influenced by a foreign power that advocated for the violent overthrow of the US Government.
By contrast, everyone in Trumbo agreed that the issue was America vs. the Soviet Union, and Trumbo plus others believed the United States had no right to investigate their actions on behalf of the Soviet Union.
Were it just a matter of American Marxists nominating and running a candidate for President, there would have been no issue. The issue was the USSR's aggressive, revolutionary expansion throughout the world and in opposition to American interests.
I'm not aware of anyone saying that the KKK was controlled or influenced by a foreign power that advocated for the violent overthrow of the US Government.
Yeah, you're right. Believing black people are inferior and deserved to get lynched is not as bad as having different political beliefs.
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You raise an interesting point. If you are loyal to a foreign power that seeks the violent overthrow of the United States, then all your ideals won't protect you from investigation. Trumbo believed that backing the Soviets was not probable cause to justify investigation. He'd be as wrong today as he was then. Merely being a communist who loves Marx and agitates class warfare like a community organizer isn't enough, but, as revealed in the confrontation with John Wayne, the issue was America vs. the Soviet Union.
shareNot all Klan like movements were in the South. Humphrey Bogart made a movie about the "Black Legion." This was an organization of auto workers in Detroit who had Klan like ideas and enforced them with violence. They were especially opposed to blacks working in auto factories alongside them.
They were wrecked as an organization after one of their crimes. They kidnapped a white man who they thought was a wife beater and murdered him. It turned out his wife was in the hospital to give birth to their baby and no wife beater.
Then there was Major General Smedley Butler, a two time Medal of Honor winner and most decorated combat veteran in the service. An attempt was made to recruit him into a plot to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 by rich industrialists. He refused and exposed them. News of the plot was marginalized due to the importance of these men and they were not imprisoned.
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