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...about the Communist Menace in Massachusetts. The Legislature set up a Committee to Curb Communism and gave it the task of finding the best anti-red legislation in the country and a way to graft it onto Massachusetts law. Meanwhile, Representative Paul A. McCarthy and Court Clerk Thomas H. Dorgan could not wait for such a study; they presented two bills to the General Court just before the 1950 legislative session came...
...bring it before the courts. "Subversive" was defined as anyone who aids or teaches violent overthrow of the government. The other bill instructed college presidents and school principals to expel all communists or communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs on pain of losing their charters. McCarthy and Tom Dorgan were too late; they had to file their bills anew at the next session...
When everybody laughed, Iannello said, "Mr. Chairman, when I spoke at your last hearing (on the McCarthy-Dorgan bill to outlaw the Communist Party), they booed me when I went out--me, a member of the General Court...
...Dorgan shrugged. "You know the old saying, a wink is as good as a bow to a blind horse." The representative, who was half-blind, sat back...
...most significant remark of the day went unnoticed by the opposition. "Freedom," Thomas H. Dorgan had said, "is freedom to do what you ought to do." Freedom, to repeat, is what is left after Dorgan and McCarthy decide what you ought to think and do. If they keep repeating that long enough and loud enough, some day a legislative committee might start believing them...