Gingrich: Let's Create New Version Of House Un-American Activities Committee

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Gingrich: Let's Create New Version Of House Un-American Activities Committee



Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich proposed the creation of a new version of the controversial House Un-American Activities Committee to root out American citizens who plan to commit terrorist attacks in the U.S.

“We originally created the House Un-American Activities Committee to go after Nazis. We passed several laws in 1938 and 1939 to go after Nazis and we made it illegal to help the Nazis. We're going to presently have to go take the similar steps here,” Gingrich said in a Monday appearance on “Fox and Friends.”

Originally founded in 1938, the committee investigated suspected threats of Nazi subversion and anti-government propaganda. During the Cold War, its activities sprawled, leading to the blacklist of Hollywood stars and left-wing activists, writers, and academics accused of having Communist ties.

In 1959, former President Harry Truman infamously called the committee “the most un-American thing in the country today.”

Gingrich also suggested that the U.S. will inevitably “declare a war on Islamic supremacists” living here due to the number of terrorist attacks that have been committed by American citizens, such as those in San Bernardino, California and at the Fort Hood military base.

“We're going to say, if you pledge allegiance to ISIS, you are a traitor and you have lost your citizenship,” Gingrich said.

Under current law, the U.S. cannot revoke the citizenship of natural-born U.S. citizens against their will.

Gingrich: Let's Create New Version Of House Un-American Activities Committee

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Make America Great Again, eh! Well now we know what year all these OLD WHITE POLITICIANS want to take America back to.. 1938

McCarthyism suggested by Gingrich

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Z5aYU6x0o
 

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The first one went so well that, according to the KGBs own archives, they found exactly zero spies ... ruined a whole lot of innocent lives, though. That's not to say that there weren't Communist spies, it's just that the McCarthy commie hunt didn't come remotely close to them.
 

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The first one went so well that, according to the KGBs own archives, they found exactly zero spies ... ruined a whole lot of innocent lives, though. That's not to say that there weren't Communist spies, it's just that the McCarthy commie hunt didn't come remotely close to them.

Yeah, now they want to attack the Muslim Community.. :roll:
 

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Such a committee would tie up Congress and delay the creation of needed legislation that would keep the country rolling along. Gingrich and his pals would have to show some compelling need for this committee and prove that it would be effective in removing the problems as he sees them. Further, he will also need to demonstrate that innocents will not get caught up in the cross fire as happened in the past.

It will be interesting to see how he demonstrates this if he ever does.
 

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Good idea. It worked so well last time. Who'll be McCarthy, and who'll be Nixon?

"Trust you! If you want people to trust you, don't quote Nixon, you f*cking idiot!"
-- Mr. Archer, Slings & Arrows
 

Danbones

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The first one went so well that, according to the KGBs own archives, they found exactly zero spies ... ruined a whole lot of innocent lives, though. That's not to say that there weren't Communist spies, it's just that the McCarthy commie hunt didn't come remotely close to them.

That's because it was about ruining people for gain and creating the current communist bent we see occurring there now (Obama the communitarian...jeez!)
"Exclusive – Van Jones: Inaugural Address Proves Obama's a 'Communitarian'
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/01/24/van-jones-obama-is-an-unabashed-communitarian/

just like every other war on whatever just creates more what ever
 

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“We're going to say, if you pledge allegiance to ISIS, you are a traitor and you have lost your citizenship,” Gingrich said.

Under current law, the U.S. cannot revoke the citizenship of natural-born U.S. citizens against their will.

What's the point of revoking citizenship? Treason is a capital offense in the United States.
 

Danbones

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What's the point of revoking citizenship? Treason is a capital offense in the United States.
a citizen has some rights
like to a trial
a non citizen can be so disappeared

think Stalinist Russia
raise that to the nth power