Just watched TRUMBO on PBS [View All]

[question everything]

About the screen writer who was blacklisted in the 50s.

It was fascinating but, again, I had to think of how could anyone be asked about his political beliefs, and be thrown to jail. So what if someone supported communism: they were are allies just few years earlier and they were the only venue to express one's belief that, yes, all men are created equal and should be treated as such.

Some of the people who were dragged to "testify" in front of the committee invoked not the 5th Amendment, but the First: their right to express their thoughts and beliefs.

Really a must see. Perhaps with some warning for young kids: a great letter that he wrote to his son about the pleasure of masturbation..