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A nasty thing happened on the way to the forum.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

    Bill of Rights (From public domain.) When I was born in 1963, the Cold War raged, the Cuban Missile Crisis had diminished from its flashpoint only six months earlier, and the Hollywood movie studios'  pathetic capitulation to the House Un-American Activities Committee ("HUAC") had unraveled starting around six years earlier and accelerating at rapid speed in 1960 with Kirk Douglas's insistence that Universal Studios name blacklisted Dalton Trumbo as the screenwriter of Douglas's Spartacus film production. Clearly, the 1954 censure of Communist witchhunter Senator Joe McCarthy had not stopped the blacklisting train.  As Arthur Miller's 1953 Crucible shows, out of fear, society constantly engages in witchhunts and the suspension of others' basic rights in an effort to mollify those fears...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).