WOW! The Writers Guild members have gathered outside of Disney's HQ to protest the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's sh

[brakester]

27. This is a hard issue and I can sense our consternation over it here.

"That Thomas Payne revolutionary war saying keeps nagging at me. "These are the times that try men's souls." Those pamphlets made a lot of difference in keeping up morale for Washington's troops. He read them to them.
It also reflects my deep sense of pacifism, when I feel a need to move more decisively against as great a threat today aa King George was then.

It also reminds me of the McCarthy years when Hollywood was attacked and an era of repression and fears of thought crimes followed. It was a formative time in my youth and it has colored my whole life, knowing such a backlash could happen again and how would I face it.

I don't want a repeat of that public beating of our artists, actors and comedians. Those brutal televised hearings were enough to intimidate America and, they sent a silenced public back to their safe but circumcised lives.