The Tyrany of Investigations

It might surprise you that investigations, including that of the Special Prosecutor, may not be good for our country and the people who do them might even know that is true. We have reason to fear them, as others before us have done. This quote from the American Museum of Natural History summarizes the point:

"The current investigations are an incomparably greater danger to our society than those few Communists in our country ever could be. These investigations have already undermined to a considerable extent the democratic character of our society."

The person who said that was thinking of the Russians when he said Communist because that is about all the world knew about Communism in those days. He correctly perceived that continuing to have an incessant stream of Hollywood writers, people in government, and anyone else who would fit in the category became the subject of Senator McCarthy. I remember it because in the third grade we were writing essays on what a great country this was, and I won the essay contest. My first writing award. I didn't know those Hollywood types would get their revenge.

Anyway, dear friends, the person who wrote those words was Albert Einstein who said he was not bothered at all at being called a Communist, even though he wasn't one. He did say, if he were one, he would not be deterred from saying so. I mention this because this is where we are going with the number and type of investigation going on. It will not be OK to have any associations with the Russians again, but they could care less on that point. Their leadership was KGB then and a similar organization now.  It took years to get this under control but McCarthy fed the a beast that was encouraged by his fellow Congressmen and a good part of the American public.  They knew it was a bad idea, but as time went on, it became  big enough that stopping it was became too hard.  We are not too late, Gentlemen.