"(Roy)Cohn: No, sir.
(Special Counsel) Welch: I meant to do you no personal injury.
(Roy)Cohn: No, sir.
(Special Counsel)Welch: And if I did, I beg your pardon. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.
(US Senator Joseph)McCarthy: Let's, let's --
(Special Counsel)Welch: You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? "
In one of the most memorable exchanges in the history of the US Senate, if not US history, one attorney had the "cohones" to actually stand up to a bully, US Senator Joseph McCarthy. As you may recall, US Senator Joseph McCarthy was on a witchhunt. Joseph McCarthy was a pathetic specimen for a human being. He, a raging alcoholic, along with others like Richard Nixon and Roy Cohn, teamed up in a conspiracy and used vicious lies and deceit to destroy people's reputations and careers, in a disgraceful attempt to advance their own careers.
"Have you no sense of decency" became part of the lexicon of America and this exchange essentially ended the witchhunt advanced by Joseph McCarthy.
When do the Welch's of the world finally have to raise their voices to the absurd, pathetic Senator McCarthy's and Roy Cohn's of the world?
When does character assassination become something that we, as citizens, find so reprehensible that we decide to rise up against people like the small pathetic Joseph McCarthy who had nothing on his agenda other than to destroy people for his own benefit and advancement.
People like Joseph McCarthy only seek to destroy. They have no desire to repair, rebuild, improve the world.
One attorney, Mr. Welch, with six simple words, spoke to a nation which was in need of decency. Decency, integrity, playing by the rules; these are things we should be striving for, not unilateral character assassination. Not taking the rule of law into one's own hands, with total disregard for proper procedure and due process. Sometimes, decency prevails. G-d willing, decency, and playing by the rules, will defeat the indecency of people like Joseph McCarthy.
Shalom. Jeremy
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