Interviewer: Well... are you coming from?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: (pause) Well... I don't like the way the country's ran, don't you know, and, erm... that's pretty much what i was expressing in my poem. The government... the American government - they're sneaky, they're very deceitful, they're liars, they're cheats, they're rip-offs. I mean, the American government is one government that...that nobody can trust. I don't trust them myself
Interviewer: And how have you been writing for?
Bailey Finnegan III: Huh?
Interviewer: How long have you writing for?
Bailey Finnegan III: Since I was four
Interviewer: Do you do this sort of thing a lot, like, kinda questions?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Oh, I love open-mics, I love coming here to do open-mics,
Interviewer: What kind of reactions do you get?
Bailey Finnegan III: Usually, people are... are pretty much in agreement with what I'm saying
Interviewer: We overheard you before about... you went to court today for a speeding ticket?
Blaise Finnegan III: That's accurate
Interviewer: right. Do you wanna tell us that
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't mind telling you the story. Erm... I went to court today for a speeding ticket, and I told the judge, erm... "Let me tell you something, and you listen and you good, I'm only gonna say this one time and one time only, I don't repeat myself for nobody," I said. I says... "I'm here to pay a speeding ticket, not to listen to your lectures and hear you run your mouth for an hour." I says "I'm here to pay off my speeding ticket ...and I'm here to get my fines out of the way and get the f*ck to work." The judge says "You can't talk like that in my courtroom, you're in contempt of court." then I said... I told the judge, "If that's the best you can do, I feel sorry for you." I said "Why don't you just shut your fucking mouth for once and listen." I said "I'm not gonna take any shit." I said "I'm gonna pay my speeding ticket like I said." I walked up to the god damn judge and I hand him my 25 dollars and I says "Here's my money, now I am leaving." And I it at that
(At this the interview fades whilst the music grows in intensity)
Then, before I left, I turned around and told the judge "I'm here to state who I am and be honest with you." I said "If they thought I was dangerous on the road like you're trying to accuse me of, wouldn't they have taken my license when I first got it? Yes they would." And the judge says "Yeah, you have a point," He goes "You need to get loud," I said "Don't get loud?" I says "I've got every right to get loud." I says "You can't do a god damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it. You think you're god because you have a robe and you can put people up the goddamn river for 20 years? Well you're not." And I left it at
Interviewer: Did you away?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes I did... I don't like the system, I don't like the government system, I don't like the police, I don't like anything to do with this country's government. I just don't like it, because... they're sneaky, like I said - they're deceitful, they're lying, they're cheats, they rip people off. That's the American government for you. America is a third world country, and people don't recognise it... and I think that that's pretty god damn sad, that they don't recognise their own country as a third world, third rate, third class slum
Well... Do you have any weapons?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, I do. I own a high-powered assault rifle, I own a 12-gauge double barrel shotgun, I own a regular shotgun, I own a hunting rifle, I own a 9mm, a 357, a 45 handgun, a 38 special, and, erm... I own an m-16 fully automatic ground assault rifle...
Interviewer: Do you think things are gonna get better they get worse?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: No way. Things are just gonna get worse and keep on getting worse. Like I said, America's a third world country as it is and... and we're just basically in a situation as it stands
Interviewer: do you think this country's gonna look like in the year 2003?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Y'know, I'll you the truth - nothing against you guys, but I don't wanna answer that question because... I haven't even got a mind that's that...that inhumane
Interviewer: are you for what's coming?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Ready as ever be
Most people aren't
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: There's a little saying... Dates for generations...
Go on...
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Be prepared for anything at any time from anybody, don't take no shit, always stand your ground. People wanna come up to me and run mouth - guess what? I'll throw them through the fucking window... I won't think a thing of it
Interviewer: Would you mind reciting poem for us?
Bailey Finnegan III: Not at all, I don't see why... I don't see why I couldn't
There's an evil virus that's mankind It's not state of the art, a serious state of the mind The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced A menace to society, a social To brainwash the mind is a social The cynics, the one-upmanship order Watching of social decay and sneering at life's disarray Eating at your own self esteem Pouncing on every word that you might be To attack someone's mind is a social The constitution, the government, martial law Superficially smiling a shake of the As soon as your back is treason is planned every good thing's laid to rest By the governments hate, by the constitution and lies And every you think you're safe And when you go to away You know they're all their knives All in mind All in head Try to it All in your All in your Try to it Without a they destroy And that's a thing that enjoy They're a sickness that's in all of our They to sink the ship and leave The way they at you and me You it happens all the time But it only in your mind The rats in the cellar you who you are... Or do Watching beginnings of decay...
Interviewer: Thank you for time