by
Jonathan Cook
Part
1
“McCarthyism”
is a word thrown around a lot nowadays, and in the process its true
meaning – and horror – has been increasingly obscured.
McCarthyism
is not just the hounding of someone because their views are
unpopular. It is the creation by the powerful of a perfect,
self-rationalising system of incrimination – denying the victim a
voice, even in their own defence. It presents the accused as an enemy
so dangerous, their ideas so corrupting, that they must be silenced
from the outset. Their only chance of rehabilitation is prostration
before their accusers and utter repentance.
McCarthyism,
in other words, is the modern political parallel of the witch hunt.
In an
earlier era, the guilt of women accused of witchcraft was tested
through the ducking stool. If a woman drowned, she was innocent; if
she survived, she was guilty and burnt at the stake. A foolproof
system that created an endless supply of the wicked, justifying the
status and salaries of the men charged with hunting down ever more of
these diabolical women.
And that
is the Medieval equivalent of where the British Labour party has
arrived, with the suspension of MP Chris Williamson for
anti-semitism.
Source:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/01/britains-witchfinders-are-ready-to-burn-jeremy-corbyn/
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