Red Scare
Trump Rallies Brown Shirts
By: Charles Giuliano - May 30, 2016
Red Scare
Trump
Rousing the Brown Shirts
Riots at his rallies
Jingoism and xenophobia
Hysteria of hate
Building walls
Dividing America
Nation of immigrants
Freedom to worship
For all but
Them Muslims
Threats real and imagined
Keep out Mexicans
Illegals doing
America's dirty work
Living on the dole
Recalling McCarthyism
Frying the Rosenbergs
Hot seat for Commies
1953 when I was a kid
Favorite TV program
I Led Three Lives
Citizen, Communist, Counterspy
Life of FBI infiltrator
Herbert Philbrook
Starred Richard Carlson
Sponsored by Croft Beer
Brew long gone
Learning to live
With the bomb
In schools
Air-raid drills
Hiding under our desks
As if that would help
Crouching under
Mushroom cloud
Scared the willies
Out of me
Good citizen
On the trolley
Cleveland Circle line
Watching for
Commies
Acting suspiciously
Got off when they did
Trailing them
Like an agent
Taking notes
Know the enemy within
Bought Philbrook's book
Brown's in Gloucester
Autographed
Sorry I missed the chance
Meeting an American hero
Gave it to Dad
Father's Day
Hoped he would be
Proud of me
Young patriot
Didn't say much
Book disappeared
Thought that odd
Watched HUAC hearings
After school
Are you now or
Have you ever been
My uncle Freddy was
Roy Cohn and Private Shine
Then lawyer
Joseph Welsh asked
"Have You No Sense of Decency"
June 9, 1954
McCarthy caved
Cringing coward
That's about when
I started to wise up
But today
Sad to say
There's no left
Left