Do people who see this clip from It's
A Wonderful Life today react like I
did upon seeing it for the first
time as an adult back in the 80's? It's where George Baily is
seeing
what life would be like, had he gone ahead with his planned
suicide.
His wife Mary has no idea who he is; the police are
called - he punches the cop (Ward Bond), who promptly draws his
.38 Police
Special
and tries to shoot him as he flees.
Shoot him dead. For running.
When I saw it on Turner
Broadcasting, ca. 1984, I had the same reaction I do today when I hear
someone say "Merry Christmas" on Christmas day television. It's
a culture shock. Here's how I believe Frank Capra's 1946 audience reacted.
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1946 audience
reaction:
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Today's
audience reaction:
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None,
really. He hit a cop and ran. Drawing-down on a man who
created a disturbance and hit a police officer was expected.
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Police
Brutality - Quick, call a lawyer.
Can't we all get along?
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The
public attitude about crime and criminals underwent a quick change
after the
uber Liberal Warren
court's Miranda
decision in 1966. We've been on the slippery slope to Liberal
Nirvana ever since. Think; how many times have you heard Liberals
cite
English jurist William Blackstone's platitude,"Better that ten guilty persons escape than
that one innocent suffer" since
then? I'm not saying it's a bad ideal; something to strive
for
(within reason). It's about who does the preaching, and
when..
How many times have you heard the same Liberals say "It's
better that 100 people die in gun accidents than we lose our Second
Amendment rights?" Hmmmm? never
I'm getting to the point here. Which is -- Liberals operate in a
state of self entitled, disconnected from all reality, delusion. We're talking about, for example ....
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To
my Republican friends: take back your party. So that it doesn’t matter
so much who wins the election, because we have shared values about the
education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our
country, our security and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors.
Because there are so many things at risk right now -- perhaps in
another question I'll go into them, if you want. But the fact
is that elections shouldn't matter as much as they do...But
when it comes to a place where there doesn't seem to be shared values
then that can be problematic for the country, as I think you can see
right now. |
Mr. Pelosi
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