At the same time similar events were being carried out in the communist countries to try to identify and capitalist sympathisers. The hypocrisy on both sides was appalling. Apparently they thought that conducting witch-hunts, and dictating to people what they should think, the USA was going to create a freer society.
Countries around the world are learning the idiocy of trying to dictate what people think. Free and creative thinking is a country's greatest asset. Unfortunately censorship and the idiotic war on drugs continue even in the comparatively enlightened West.
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