Today, I saw a Star Wars: Episode 3 spoof by Sequential Pictures that was impressively produced for being so slapstick-stupid (I loved it!) and though I’d post it here.
But after looking around on their site a bit more, I ran into some other gems which kept me laughing for at least seventy-eight seconds longer.
Laughter is a good thing. Especially tongue-in-cheek.
Anyone else remember Bernhard “Subway Vigilante” Goetz?
Back in 1984, he was accosted on a New York subway train by at least three in a group of four black men who intended to rob him (suppose I should give Darrell Cabey the benefit of the doubt, even though he made no attempt to alert Goetz). Goetz produced a .38 Smith & Wesson and shot all four of them — non-fatally, which wasn’t his intent.
The subsequent case against Goetz was a huge media event, which quickly engrained itself into American pop culture. Goetz was eventually acquitted of the crime under New York’s self-defense statutes, although he did serve a few months for having an illegal weapon.
Some twelve years later in 1996, Darrell Cabey was awarded $43 Million dollars in a successful Civil Suit against Goetz. Goetz, of course, filed for bankruptcy.
Even though there are many people who feel Goetz was a racist in using excessive force against his assailants (let’s be honest — that’s what they were), it is widely speculated that this single, highly publicized incident was responsible for the sharp drop in robbery and muggings in 1980’s New York City.
And why on Earth would I be thinking of Goetz today?
Two Pratt Institute students were arrested for planting “fake bombs” around the New York City subway, to rage against the machine, to show of the “farce” that is Subway security … just to prove that they could.
Apparently, umm, they couldn’t.
What they did prove, however, was that a couple of snivelling, priveledged, caucasian children can stuff newpapers into duffel bags and still be arrested.
I’ll bet ol’ Bernie Goetz would have made quick work of these asshats. 😉
I’m gonna post the full text of an e-mail going around:
WHY WE FIGHT!NEVER FORGET:IT WAS THEM WHO ATTACKED OUR COUNTRY AND BRUTALIZED INNOCENT PEOPLE AS THEY WENT ABOUT THEIR WORK AND DAILY ACTIVITIES, IN THE U.S.A., A NATION AT PEACE IN THE WORLD!IT WAS THEM WHO MURDERED YOUR FRIENDS, RELATIVES, NEIGHBORS, AND LOVED ONES ON 9-1-1!WE ARE NOW TAKING THE WAR TO THEIR CITIES AND TOWNS SO IT IS THEM WHO SUFFER, RATHER THAN YOU, OUR PEOPLE OR OUR NATION!
Never forget why we are fighting terrorism around the world! When you hear people say forget it, it won’t happen again, start watching because it will be repeated!
Not all Muslims are terrorist,
but all terrorist are Muslim!So what is the proper solution to remedy this problem?
KILL THEM ALL!
LET GOD SORT EM OUT
When I read stuff like that, I have to ask — WHAT KIND OF RACIST ASSHOLES ARE WE GROWING IN THIS COUNTRY?
This is bullshit.
Support the Troops.
Support the War, even.
Just remember that for every single one of “those” sorts of e-mails you forward on, you ignore the fact that a Racial Seperatist, Nazi Skinhead named Timothy McVeigh blew up an Oklahoma City Federal Building in 1995.
And — Timothy McVeigh was a Christian.
You also ignore the “God-Fearing Christians” who, days after 9/11, sent anthrax letters to health clinics across the country.
What do you think of that?
“Oh, well that aren’t real Christians!” is about as valid as “Oh, well, they aren’t real Muslims!” given the circumstances.
Grow up!
