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 is one systematic government that...that nobody can trust. I don't trust them myself
Interviewer: And how long have you writing for?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III:
How long have you been writing for?
Blaise Finnegan III: Since I was four
Interviewer: Do you do this 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 Finnegan III: Usually, people are... are pretty much in agreement with what I'm saying
Interviewer: We overheard you before talking about... you went to court for a speeding ticket?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan 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 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 left it at
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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 damn thing about it, 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 it at that
Did you walk away?
Blaise Bailey 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 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 regular hunting rifle, I own a 9mm, a 357, a 45 handgun, a 38 special, and, erm... I own an m-16 automatic ground assault rifle...
Interviewer: Do you think things are get better before they get worse?
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 stands
Interviewer: What do you think this country's gonna 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
Interviewer: people aren't
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: There's a little saying... Dates for generations...
Go on...
Blaise Bailey Finnegan 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
Would you mind reciting your poem for us?
Blaise Bailey III: Not at all, I don't see why... I don't see why I couldn't
There's an virus that's threatening mankind It's not state of the art, it's a serious of the mind The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced A menace to society, a disease To the mind is a social disorder The cynics, the apathy order beginnings of social decay Gloating and sneering at life's away at your 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 smiling a shake of the As soon as your is turned treason is planned When every good thing's to rest By the governments hate, by the and their lies And every time you think you're And when you go to turn You know they're sharpening all their All in your All in your Try to it All in mind All in your Try to it Without a conscience destroy And a thing that they enjoy a sickness that's in all of our minds They want to sink the ship and The way laugh at you and me You know it all the time But it only happens in your The rats in the you know who you are... Or do Watching of social decay...
Interviewer: Thank you for time