Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee methods, which seek, by threats and pressures, to secure confession of unpopular beliefs and associations, are identical, in their own legislative field, with those of the 'third degree,' in the criminal field," he maintains, and pledges himself to the fight to legitimately "abolish" investigations which use such tactics...
...committee methods, which seek, by threats and pressures, to secure confession of unpopular beliefs and associations, are identical, in their own legislative field, with those of the "third degree," in the criminal field, as that practice was defined in 1931 by the Report of the President's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. In section 11 of that report, which studied Lawlessness in Law Enforcement, and for which Mr. Chafee had some responsibility as legal consultant, the practice is defined as follows...
...Aside from several curious non-sequiturs in your editorial on Friday, your "practical" argument seems to ignore the fact that McCarthy is not interested in finding whether persons are guilty of violating the law. His only aim is to profit by the current hysteria through victimizing people who hol unpopular beliefs. To give him more names is merely to provide him with more fuel and to aid him in destroying the lives of men and families. The fact that those named would protest their innocence of criminal activity would not hinder McCarthy; his genius lies in distortion and innuendo. Further...
...they challenged in the 1948 elections. The bulk of the questioned ballots are known to be legally pro-De Gasperi, entitling the democratic coalition to about 70 seats held by the Communists, and some scattered others. But the electoral reform law itself (called everywhere the "fraud law") was so unpopular, the risks and difficulties of trying to oust 70 well-entrenched and improperly seated Communists from power so great, that the Christian Democrats feared to press their legal right, and concealed their own triumph. To this day. the facts of the ballot recount have not been mentioned in any Italian...
...forefathers wrote into the constitution the privilege of the Fifth Amendment to provide for protection which good citizens may sometimes sorely need. Innocent people who feel the threat of false, mistaken, or overzealous prosecution because of unpopular opinions have every right to invoke this protection...