Interviewer: Well... are you coming from?
Blaise Bailey 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 systematic government that...that nobody can trust. I don't trust them myself
Interviewer: And how long you been writing for?
Bailey Finnegan III: Huh?
Interviewer: How long have you been for?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Since I was
Interviewer: Do you do sort of thing a lot, like, open-mic kinda questions?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Oh, I love open-mics, I love coming here to do open-mics, absolutely
What kind of reactions do you usually get?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Usually, people are... are much in agreement with what I'm saying
Interviewer: We overheard you talking about... you went to court today for a speeding ticket?
Bailey Finnegan III: That's accurate
Interviewer: right. Do you wanna us that story?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan 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 listen 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 left it at
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Then, before I left, I turned around and 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 don't 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 walk
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes I did... I don't like the judicial 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 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 regular 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 before get worse?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: No way. Things are just gonna get worse and keep on worse. Like I said, America's a third world country as it is and... and we're just basically in a hopeless situation as it stands
Interviewer: What do you think country's gonna look like in the year 2003?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Y'know, I'll tell 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
are you ready for what's coming?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: as I'll ever be
Interviewer: people aren't
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: There's a saying... Dates back for generations...
Go on...
Blaise 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 their mouth - guess what? I'll throw them through the fucking window... I won't think a thing of it
Interviewer: you mind reciting your poem for us?
Blaise Finnegan III: Not at all, I don't see why... I don't see why I couldn't
an evil virus that's threatening 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 disease To brainwash the mind is a disorder The cynics, the apathy one-upmanship Watching beginnings of social Gloating and at life's disarray Eating at your own self esteem Pouncing on word that you might be saying To attack someone's mind is a disorder The constitution, the government, law order smiling a shake of the hand As as your back is turned treason is planned When every thing's laid to rest By the governments hate, by the and their lies And every time you think safe And you go to turn away You know they're sharpening all knives All in your All in your Try to it All in mind All in your Try to it Without a conscience they And a thing that they enjoy They're a that's in all of our minds They want to sink the and leave The way laugh at you and me You know it all the time But it happens in your mind The rats in the you know who you are... Or do Watching beginnings of decay...
Interviewer: Thank you for your