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CHAIRMAN: Quiet!
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This hearing will come to order.
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Hold up your right hand.
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You do solemnly swear the evidence
you are going to give...
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...will be the truth, and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
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BUNNY: Yes.
CHAIRMAN: Be seated.
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TAVENNER: Your profession is
as a screenwriter?
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BUNNY: Yes.
TAVENNER: Were you subpoenaed?
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BUNNY: Yes.
TAVENNER: I'd like to begin...
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...if you don't mind,
by clearing this matter up.
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Are you now, or have you ever been,
a member of the Communist party?
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Mr. Chairman...
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...regardless of consequence to myself,
I must refuse to answer that question...
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...for many reasons.
Primarily, it violates my right...
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...from the First Amendment
to the Constitution.
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We all have a right to the freedom of speech.
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Freedom of speech! Freedom of assembly.
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CHAIRMAN: Answer the question!
BUNNY: I am trying to answer...
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...but under the circumstances,
it appears I must use...
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...my Constitutional right
as an American citizen.
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