LINN: It’s Time To Bring Back HUAC

With Antifa and BLM rioting in the streets, pro-Palestinian (and thus pro-Hamas) activists causing chaos on America’s college campuses, Sharia Law being advocated for in Texas and elsewhwere, an investigation into these organizations and their supporters (e.g. George Soros) is long overdue.

Thus, I think it is time to bring back the House Un-American Activties Committee (HUAC), also known as the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA).

HUAC was established in 1938 to investigate communist activities in the United States. It was preceded by the Fish Committee (after Congressman Hamilton Fish) which was established in 1930 (and also investigated communist activities). From 1934 to 1937, the Fish Committee was renamed the McCormack-Dickstein
Committee (after Congressmen John William McCormack and Samuel Dickstein), which had the task of investigating Nazi and Fascist activities.

From 1938 to 1944, HUAC was known as the Dies Committee, named after its Chairman Congressman Martin Dies Jr., and would continue to investigate Nazism, Fascism, and Communism in America. It also investigated Japanese-Americans.

In the aftermath of World War II, HUAC ramped up its efforts on investigating communists. It is best known for investigating communist activitiy in Hollywood, the Labor Movement, and within the United States Government (e.g. Alger Hiss). Communist spy Whittaker Chamberrs was also investigated by HUAC.

HUAC also investigated the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), which determined the organization was one of hypocrisy and morally bankruptcy.

In the late 1950s, HUAC’s prestige began to decline, and would continue to decline due to the liberalism of the 1960s, especially after the leftist radicals of that era were defiant towards the committee. Such defiance and popular opinion turning against the committee hindered its investigations of anti-war activists and other leftists. As a result, HUAC would be disbanded in 1975.

But anti-American activities have continued since then. Such anti-American organizations include the following: the Aryan Nation, the KKK, Antifa, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Council of North America (ICNA), the Islamic Society of North America
(ISNA), the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada (MSA), the New Black Panther Party, Occupy Wall Street (OWS), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and the Young Communist League (YCL).

Thus, Congress should bring back HUAC. I plan on contacting my Representative and asking him to do so. And I encourage others to follow suit. Because it is time to expose these organizations for what they are.