Nominated for DOCUMENTARY Oscar!?!

I imagine this was nominated as a documentary because the information in it was and remains true. The thing many forget about what was derivisely labeled as McCarthyism is that it did uncover scores of high placed communist subversives and many of them very well placed in government, the military and predominantly in academia, where they remain to this day.
Of course there were excesses in the movie, just as there is in every aspect of government, but that is the nature of government. At the end of the day what is government? How does it achieve it's ends. The answer is by coercion, by threat and by armed force. Government also tends to take a mile when given an inch. Just take a look at the commerce cluase and the absurd lengths to which it has been streched to cover legislation and regulation covering virtually all aspects of one's life today. Same can be said of the RICO statutes, laws meant to prosecute organized crime are now being used on organizations as small as two people and not being used where they could do the most good, against the very government itself! Well that completes my rant for the day.
Please just remember history is being revised in our schools and media and also that government, while necessary, must be minimized and constantly watched over because it's normal tendency is to accumulate power and eat it's own young. That is due to human nature and is well documented in human history. It seems every government ends up being oppresive and is inevitably destroyed from internal or external forces in the end. We should be able to do better and we can, if only we stop allowing the politicians to divide us with their identity politics and then having divided us, pit us against each other. This is evil and we can stop it, if we wish!
Rich in New Mexico.
Happy Birthday America!

Hollywood was in cahoots with right-wing anti-Communist forces within the US, hence their collaboration in exposing and informing upon alleged 'Communist sympathisers' during the HUAC hearings. Giving a Best Documentary Oscar nomination to a film that can no more claim to be a documentary than Cameron's Titanic or Bay's Pearl Harbor are, was Hollywood's way of showing solidarity with virulently anti-Communist Washington at the height of the HUAC witch-hunts.


Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?