We celebrate the return of the great Keith Knight as we discuss the HUAC-related “Trumbo” about Hollywood players getting blacklisted for being accused of harboring communist sympathies.
This is a movie that’s hard to not root for the guy as this is a very nuanced discussion that we will bring a bunch of different perspectives to. However, it is also an example of those who support free speech for oneself until attaining power, and then smother it for your opposition.
Whatever happened to changing the channel or not buying/watching/consuming something based on your own choice to do so or not? And regarding the HUAC, if they were so worried about subversive propaganda then what about the MIC involved with movies, or even more impactful, schools.
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Google Description for the film
Trumbo
In 1947, successful screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and other Hollywood figures get blacklisted for their political beliefs.
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Our guest is Keith Knight of “Don’t Tread on Anyone” and “Liberty Weekly”. He is also working with the Libertarian Institute, who are in the middle of a fundraising effort to support the important work they do there that is anti-war and pro-market.
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This guy can talk a mile a minute, so we’ll try to keep up. He has hundreds of videos uploaded to YouTube and has started loading them to other sites as the forces of censorship grow in power.
Here is the 5+hour “Ultimate Red Pill”:
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https://www.bitchute.com/channel/eaQ1pyHFlZ9X/
https://www.minds.com/KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone/
https://archive.org/details/@keithknight13
Here is our appearance on his show where we play the role of statists trying to squirm out of his arguments for freedom:
Keith’s interview with the great, Ron Paul:
Here is Keith’s prior appearance with us to discuss anarcho-primitivism as related to the Tom Hanks’ movie, Cast Away:
And, of course, his previous appearance for our Godfather movies discussions:
Show Notes:
Keith book suggestions:
Cutting the Fuse – Robert Pape & James Feldman
Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development –
Meltdown – Tom Woods
Keith recently had Pete Quinones and Sal the Agorist on discussing topics that seem related to the ideas we will discuss in this film:
Yuri Bezmenov:
HHH – covenant community no agitation for policies counter to the agreement:
“In a covenant…among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one’s own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and removed from society.”
Democracy: The God That Failed (p. 218)
A good take on the self-destructive nature of “wokeness”
Bill Maher on cancel culture:
Dave Smith on cancel culture:
Rand Paul video that Vox called “transphobic”:
Scientific American ‘blacklist’ after death:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/
“Spartacus” helped end the Hollywood blacklist. The actor takes too much credit, says the screenwriter’s daughter
https://www.salon.com/2012/08/07/trumbo_family_kirk_douglas_overstates_blacklist_role/
Next week will be the return of the Professional A$$hole to discuss a very interesting film starring Mel Gibson and Sean Penn all about cataloging language and written understanding with a review of “The Professor and the Madman”.
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