Hoover sought to jail 12,000

[Scriptor Ignotus]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318007,00.html

WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.

Hoover sent the White House his plan on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. Still, there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons.

Hoover wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests as necessary to "protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New York Times reported Saturday in a story posted on its Web site.

The plan called for the FBI to apprehend all potentially dangerous individuals whose names were on a list Hoover had been compiling for years.


--the more things change...

[Hieronymus]

1. No doubt, that gets Fox viewers cheering for J. Edgar.

[whistle]

2. The was the Era of the Red Scare or the Red Menace

McCarthyism was a black period in America as hundreds if not thousands of people had there rights as American citizens suspended and their lives subjugated to the tyranny of innuendo, false accusations and lies forcing citizens to be smeared as traitors and treated as guilty until they could prove their innocence.

http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/McCarthy/Mccarthydocuments.html