To answer Grift's question, yes, this bothers me. It bothered me the other day when someone responded to a post at United Liberty on Twitter with "Bring back HUAC."

In his book, Radicals for Capitalism, Brian Doherty points out that libertarians, such as Leonard Read and Foundation for Economic Education, were once subject to our own version of HUAC called the Buchanan Commission put together by Rep. Frank Buchanan (D-PA):

In 1950 [Buchanan] ran an investigation into lobbying activities in which he had FBI agents come into the Foundation for Economic Education attempting to find out who was financing these horrible anti-American ideas about free markets and free trade and no government intervention. He sent telegrams to all of these funders of FEE, demanding that they come before him and “name names,” as they said in the McCarthy Era, and explain exactly where their money was going that was allegedly being used to influence Congress in sinister ways.

I've noted some of the ties that a couple of Barack Obama's advisers have. We shouldn't play mind police in a free country. Yes, they are wrong in their views, but views that we may consider to be dangerous still have seat in the marketplace of ideas in a country that is supposed to embrace liberty.

We have all the right in the world to say their are wrong or debate them or chide them for certain views, but we do not need another government witch hunt.