Got the X-Men DVD. In the beginning, did anyone else...

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>...catch the part where Senator Kelly is addressing the Senate, and says "I have a list of names..." and holds up some pieces of paper? Normally, I wouldn't give a summer blockbuster that much credit, but considering the gravity that was given to the opening in Poland, I think that was a reference to Senator McCarthy, who did the exact same thing (can't remember if he was on the Senate floor, or if he was at a press conference), except he claimed it was a list of Communists.</div>

[Crono]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Yah, definitely a reference to McCarthy... I'd say. One of the ways to relate it to other forms of ridiculous discrimination and witch-hunts.</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>That occured to me as well.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Yup.. I think they did mean to make things sound like Neo-McCarthyism</div>