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Originally Posted by Barcey
The Joseph McCarthy trials were before my time but I'm sure he would have loved access to this kind of data. I'm sure that people that lived through it have a strong opinion about it and they probably aren't wearing tin foil hats.
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I'm not so sure about this. I'm certain he wouldn't have liked it if anybody other than him had access to the data-he preferred to make up his 'facts' rather than research them, and absolutely hated it when he was proven wrong. (In fact, IIRC, he never did admit that he was wrong.)
A fairly common mistake is that Tailgunner Joe was trying to root out Communists. No such thing-all he was trying to do was establish a tyranny. You don't need facts for that, all you need to do is claim that you have facts & prevent anybody from proving you wrong. In that case gathering data such as this would work against him-if it got into the hands of his enemies. (IMO the only 'data' that's safe is that which is never gathered.)