Blacklist

 

Blacklist by Oliver North and Tom Kilgannon over at Townhall

Blacklist (n.): a list of persons who are disapproved of or are to be punished or boycotted.

 

The definition above, from an old Webster's dictionary, was common parlance in the late 1940s and early 1950s as the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigated subversive activity, Soviet espionage and pro-communist propaganda. The committee unearthed spies and traitors -- Alger Hiss among them. But when the HUAC turned its attention to Hollywood writers, directors and actors, civil libertarians cried foul. The American Civil Liberties Union and others insist those on the "Hollywood blacklist" were unfairly persecuted for exercising their constitutionally protected rights to freedom of assembly and speech.

 

Now there's a new-millennium blacklist for American patriots who fail today's political correctness test. Retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, a highly decorated special operations soldier with 36 years of service in uniform, is the newest name on the roster. The silence from the "civil liberties lobby" is deafening.

 

It often is said that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and Marines serve to "protect our freedoms" and "defend our liberties." All true. Now consider what took place this week at the United States Military Academy at West Point -- an institution responsible for training young men and women to protect America from those who mean us harm. West Point cadets take an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and to "bear true faith and allegiance to the same." Many West Point graduates will deploy to fight radical Islamists who commit acts of terror against Americans and our allies.

 

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