MCCARTHYISM RESISTS EVIL “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1908 November 14, Saturday: Emperor Kuang-hsü of China died. After the dust settled he would be succeeded by Hsüan- T’ung (Pu-yi), aged two years, under regency. In the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm at a dinner in Donaueschingen, Count Dietrich Hülsen-Haeseler, head of the German Imperial Military Cabinet, collapsed and died. On a farm in Wisconsin near Grand Chute (which is near Appleton), Joseph Raymond McCarthy was born into an Irish Catholic family. As a cradle Catholic, one might suppose that one of the things little Joe would learn early on was that his Savior had warned him not to build his life around resisting evil. Matthew 5:39: “Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Well, no, little Joe would not learn that. MCCARTHYISM NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project McCarthyism and McCarthywasm HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1935 George Smith Patton, Jr. was promoted to permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He studied the feasibility of a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.1 WORLD WAR II Joseph R. McCarthy received a degree in law at Marquette University (a Jesuit school) and was admitted to the Wisconsin bar. In college he had boxed as a heavyweight. During his years as a practicing attorney, he would make money on the side like Richard Nixon, in all-night poker games. NO-ONE’S LIFE IS EVER NOT DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY HAPPENSTANCE 1. He concluded that “During a period of profound peace,” shielded by darkness and preceded by submarines, a sneak air attack would be a distinct possibility, that this would be entirely in accordance not only with Japan’s capabilities but also with its likely objectives, and commented that “It is the duty of the military to foresee and prepare against the worst possible eventuality.” HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1939 Joseph Raymond McCarthy was elected as a circuit judge in Wisconsin, in part by visiting farms and businesses and persuading voters to suppose that his opponent, who did not campaign at all, was a rich old man (he had no more respect for truthfulness than did, for instance, that Quaker Richard Nixon). MCCARTHYISM UNAMERICANISM LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project McCarthyism and McCarthywasm HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1941 Joseph Raymond McCarthy accepted an officer’s commission in the United States Marine Corps. During World War II he would be in the Solomon Islands and Bougainville as an intelligence debriefer for a dive- bomber squadron. He would beg to go along on 12 missions as a “gunner/observer” and then aver falsely that he had fired more bullets than any Marine in the history of the Corps (if any such bullets actually got fired, they would have fallen on islands already abandoned by the Japanese). He would leave the service after promotion to Captain. Later he would aver falsely that he had enlisted as a “buck private.” He would claim a “war wound,” that was due sometimes to an airplane crash and sometimes to antiaircraft fire — although the wound had been a foot bone, broken aboard a troop transport while being hazed for crossing the equator for the 1st time. He would forge a “letter of recommendation” for himself, which he would claim had been signed by his commanding officer and then countersigned by Chief of Naval Operations Chester W. Nimitz. He would achieve a Distinguished Flying Cross by claiming falsely to have flown 32 combat missions. UNAMERICANISM MCCARTHYISM At a monster “America First” rally at Madison Square Garden in New-York, another recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Charles Lindbergh, was urging us to decline to join in Britain’s struggle against our friend Der Führer Adolf Hitler. (In all probability at this point Chuck was being sincere — for he hadn’t yet met the German and Russian mistresses by whom he would be producing a number of illegitimate children.) WORLD WAR II HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1944 Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. had at first during World War II been a “CO” or Conscientious Objector, but at this point he enlisted. He would serve in US Army medical units in India and Burma. At a dinner sponsored by the War Resisters League, Milton Sanford Mayer, although a conscientious objector, denied that this amounted to being a “pacifist.” He would promote the need for a moral revolution of anti- materialism in his regular monthly column in the Progressive, a column he would continue for the remainder of his life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s THE STEEP ASCENT. In the war stories told by Joseph R. McCarthy, he had flown 14 bombing runs over enemy territory. That must have been so brave. UNAMERICANISM MCCARTHYISM THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project McCarthyism and McCarthywasm HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1946 In Wisconsin, Joseph Raymond McCarthy was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate. In the primary election he had defeated fellow Republican Robert M. La Follette, Jr., who was a “coward” who had failed to serve his nation (when the Japanese had struck at Pearl Harbor, La Follette had been 46 years of age), and then in the general election he had defeated Howard McMurray, in part by alleging that this Democratic candidate was being supported by Communists. UNAMERICANISM In the Senate, McCarthy would achieve an exceedingly bad reputation, with angry colleagues accusing him of lying, and of insulting them — eventually the Republican leadership would exile him from the Banking Committee to the District of Columbia Committee, their doghouse where they considered that he would be able to do little harm. MCCARTHYISM A reading room set up in Bad Homburg, Germany by the Psychological Warfare Division of the US Army was at this point relocated to Frankfurt am Main and redesignated as the first of what would become 27 Amerika- Häuser. The US Army issued to General Electric a contract for “Project Vulcan.” GATLING’S MACHINE GUN The federal government of the USA secretly cut a deal with Dr. Shiro Ishii and other leaders of the Japanese Army’s infamous Unit 731 by which we were to be provided with hands-on germ warfare experience gained largely from human experimentation, in exchange for us forgiving their war crimes (it would take the following couple of years for this deal to be formalized — but while the Tokyo War Crimes Trial of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East would be going on, between April 29, 1946 and April 16, 1948, none of these people would be being suggested as defendants). WORLD WAR II SECRET MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project McCarthyism and McCarthywasm HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1947 In the war stories told by Joseph Raymond McCarthy, the number of bombing runs he remembered having flown over enemy territory during World War II had risen from 14 to 17. UNAMERICANISM Our CIA began its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) would be used both with and without their knowledge. SECRET MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS (Although we do not have any indication that the CIA experimented specifically upon Joe McCarthy with its LSD, it must be noted that his memories did keep improving and improving.) MCCARTHYISM DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project McCarthyism and McCarthywasm HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1948 December 24, Friday: General Douglas MacArthur ordered the release of all “Class A” war crimes suspects still in custody, when their cases were similar to those who had recently been acquitted. The United Nations Security Council called for an end to hostilities in Indonesia. US Attorney General Tom Clark announced that an FBI investigation had verified Laurence Duggan to have been “a loyal employee of the US government” (Duggan had fallen to his death on December 20th). WORLD WAR II CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project McCarthyism and McCarthywasm HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1949 April 20, Wednesday: Richard Boyer had recently been summoned to be interrogated before the Un-American Activities Committee for having mailed “subversive literature” to A-bomb scientists. According to the New York Herald Tribune for this date, what he had posted had been copies of Henry Thoreau’s “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.” MCCARTHYISM WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project McCarthyism and McCarthywasm HDT WHAT? INDEX MCCARTHYISM MCCARTHYWASM 1950 When I was in 7th grade in Wabash, Indiana, by name “John Paul Smith,” there was a girl in my class who judging by her appearance must have earlier been through some horrific illness. She limped, her hair was scanty and stringy and you could see her scalp all over her head, her body was gnarled and weak. She looked like an eleven-year-old version of the Wicked Witch of the West in the Oz movie. She was the butt of the school playground jokes, the girl that all the other girls picked on. She had one redeeming virtue, she did not shun me on account of my deformity.