Interviewer: Well... Where are you coming
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 systematic 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 have you been writing for?
Blaise Finnegan III: Since I was four
Interviewer: Do you do this sort of thing a lot, like, open-mic kinda
Blaise Finnegan III: Oh, I love open-mics, I love coming here to do open-mics, absolutely
Interviewer: What kind of do you usually get?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Usually, people are... are pretty much in agreement with what I'm saying
Interviewer: We overheard you before talking about... you went to today for a speeding ticket?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: accurate
Interviewer: right. Do you tell us that story?
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 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 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 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 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
Did you walk away?
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 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
Interviewer: Well... Do you have any
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 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 before 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 hopeless situation as it
Interviewer: What do you think this country's gonna like in the year 2003?
Bailey Finnegan III: 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
Interviewer: are you ready for coming?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Ready as I'll be
Interviewer: Most aren't
Blaise Bailey Finnegan There's a little saying... Dates back for generations...
Go on...
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Be prepared for anything at any time from anybody, don't take no shit, always 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: Would you reciting your poem for us?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Not at all, I 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 social To brainwash the mind is a social The cynics, the apathy one-upmanship Watching beginnings of social and sneering at life's disarray Eating away at own self esteem Pouncing on every word that you might be To attack someone's mind is a disorder The constitution, the government, law order Superficially a shake of the hand As soon as your back is treason is planned When every good thing's to rest By the governments hate, by the constitution and lies And time you think you're safe And when you go to away You know they're sharpening all their All in mind All in your Try to it All in your All in your Try to it Without a they destroy And a thing that they enjoy They're a sickness in all of our minds They want to sink the and leave The way they at you and me You know it all the time But it happens in your mind The in the cellar you know who you are... Or do Watching beginnings of decay...
Interviewer: you for your time