Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy was a senator of the United States who was responsible for the black listing of a communist individuals, also known as the McCarthy hearings.  McCarthy claimed to have a list of individuals that worked for the Soviet Union who were working in the government.  Instead of turning this information over to the authorities though, McCarthy chose to take the names to Congress in order to investigate these people himself.  This process made McCarthy famous to all who heard about it.  These people who were believed to be Communists were blacklisted, preventing them from getting jobs and sometimes forcing them to move out of the country.  I believe what McCarthy did was wrong.  In the United States, it is perfectly acceptable to have one's own beliefs about whatever one wants.  That is the great part about being an American, having free beliefs and ideas, and McCarthy took that from the people of the United States.