Interviewer: Well... Where are you 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 systematic government that...that nobody can trust. I trust them myself
Interviewer: And how long have you writing for?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Huh?
Interviewer: How long have you writing for?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Since I was four
Interviewer: Do you do this of thing a lot, like, open-mic kinda questions?
Bailey Finnegan III: Oh, I love open-mics, I love coming here to do open-mics, absolutely
Interviewer: kind of reactions do you usually get?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Usually, people are... are pretty much in agreement with what I'm saying
Interviewer: We you before talking about... you went to court today for a speeding ticket?
Blaise Finnegan III: That's accurate
Interviewer: right. Do you wanna us that story?
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 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
(At this point the interview fades whilst the 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 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 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 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 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 in a hopeless situation as it stands
Interviewer: What do you think this gonna look like in the year 2003?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Y'know, 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 what's
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Ready as I'll ever be
Interviewer: Most aren't
Blaise Finnegan III: There's a little saying... Dates back for generations...
Go on...
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Be prepared for anything at any time 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: Would you mind reciting poem for us?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Not at all, I don't see why... I don't see why I
There's an evil virus threatening mankind It's not state of the art, it's a 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 order Watching of social decay Gloating and sneering at disarray away at your own self esteem Pouncing on every word that you might be To someone's mind is a social disorder The constitution, the government, martial law Superficially smiling a shake of the As soon as your is turned treason is planned every good thing's laid to rest By the hate, by the constitution and their lies And every time you think safe And when you go to turn You know sharpening all their knives All in your All in head Try to it All in your All in your Try to it Without a they destroy And that's a that they enjoy They're a sickness in all of our minds want to sink the ship 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 beginnings of social decay...
Interviewer: Thank you for time