Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Monday, October 12, 2015

Many of Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s were not only Entertaining, but Compelling.

"Cold War–era Hollywood depicted Communists as deviants, hypocrites, and murderers."

They still are! Unfortunately, Hollywood and most of the Country, me included, took too long to realize and expose that Fascism and Communism are cooked from the same pot. m/r

Best Anti-Communist Movies | National Review Online

by RON CAPSHAW August 3, 2015 

 It is widely believed on the left that the anti-Communist films of the 1950s were hysterical and unprofitable. This characterization originated with blacklisted Hollywood Communists. Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo — both of the Hollywood Ten, the group of Communist screenwriters convicted and jailed for refusing to cooperate with the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee — wrote that these films advocated anti-humanistic, even fascist messages. This theme was expanded by Nation writer Nora Sayre, who argued that Cold War–era Hollywood depicted Communists as deviants, hypocrites, and murderers. 

Even more recent reviewers, such as Gwendolyn Audrey Foster of Sense of Cinema, promote this line of thinking. Examining the admittedly awful My Son John (1952), Foster characterizes the film as representative of the anti-Communist genre as a whole: 
Every character is a stereotype, every other line of dialogue is a patriotic speech, and the camerawork does the awkward heavy lifting of one-sided propaganda. Plots are often ridiculous and fantastic. Acting is often painful to watch. Every minute of these films is a lecture on the evils of Communism and subversion.
But when Foster lists examples of the anti-Communist genre, she simply excludes films that challenge her thesis. There are many anti-Communist movies that stand the test of time.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421933/best-anti-communist-movies-50s


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