The Individual Courage of David Merril People are to a community like buttons are to a machine. They make things work and control what happens. The people in the movie "Guilty by Suspicion," lost access to some of those buttons. When John McCarthy decided that he had to get rid of all of the communist in the United States, it affected many people's lives. The search for communists theoretically turned into a search for witches; …showed first 75 words of 671 total…

…showed last 75 words of 671 total…people like him who will carry a community through hardship and eventually make things better. He was willing to risk everything to save other innocent people from going through what he had to. If David hadn't of stood for what he believed in then maybe the United States and perhaps even Canada would still be in the McCarthyism era. It is important for individuals to work against what is wrong. If they don't, who will?