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 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 have you been writing
Blaise Bailey III: Huh?
Interviewer: How long you been writing for?
Blaise Bailey 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 to do open-mics, absolutely
Interviewer: 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 to court today for a speeding ticket?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: accurate
Interviewer: right. Do you wanna tell us story?
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III: Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't mind telling you the story. Erm... I went to court today for a 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 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 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 "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 it at that
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, they don't recognise their own country as a third world, third rate, third class slum
Interviewer: Well... Do you 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 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 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 gonna look like in the year 2003?
Blaise 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
Interviewer: are you ready for what's
Blaise Bailey Finnegan Ready as I'll 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 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 Bailey Finnegan III: Not at all, I don't see why... I see why I couldn't
There's an evil virus that's 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 disease To the mind is a social disorder The cynics, the apathy order beginnings of social decay Gloating and at life's disarray Eating at your own self esteem on every word that you might be saying To attack someone's is a social disorder The constitution, the government, law order smiling a shake of the hand As soon as back is turned treason is planned When every good 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 they're sharpening all their knives All in mind All in your Try to it All in mind All in head Try to it a conscience they destroy And that's a 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 only happens in your The rats in the you know who you are... Or do Watching beginnings of decay...
Thank you for your time