"Swearing on the bible. You understand that shit?
...Suppose they hand you an upside down backwards Chinese Braille bible with half the pages missing. At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become a lot of stupid shit somebody made up? It's fucking make-believe.
...What is the big deal about swearing 'to god' in the first place? Why does swearing to god mean you're going to tell the truth? Wouldn't affect me. If they said to me, 'Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god?" I'd say, "Yeah. I'll tell you about as much truth as the people who wrote that fucking bible. How do you like that?" Swearing on the bible doesn't mean anything...
Bible or no bible, god or no god, if it suits their purpose, people are going to lie in court. The police do it all the time. Yes, they do. It's part of their job. To protect, to serve and to commit perjury whenever it supports the state's case.
Swearing on the bible is just one more way of controlling people and keeping them in line and it's one more thing that holds us back as a species."
"Here's one more item, the last in our civics book - RIGHTS...
Folks, I hate to spoil your fun but there's no such thing as rights. They're imaginary. We made 'em up...
Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute, but that's all. Cute and fictional. But if you do think you have rights, let me ask you this, where do they come from? People say "Well, they come from god. They're god given rights." Oh, fuck, here we go again. The god excuse. The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument - "It came from god."
...If you think you do have rights, one last assignment... in Wikipedia I want you to type in 'Japanese-Americans 1942' and you'll learn all about your precious fucking rights.
...110,000 Japanese-American citizens in good standing, law abiding people who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. No right to a lawyer. No right to a fair trial. No right to a jury of their peers. No right to due process of any kind...
Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took them away. And rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you'd know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.
Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government doesn't give a fuck about them. Government doesn't care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn't give a fuck about you. It's interested in its own power, that's the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.
...I lean toward unlimited rights. I feel, for instance, I have the right to do anything I please. But, if I do something you don't like, I think you have the right to kill me. So where are you gonna find a fairer fucking deal than that?"
...If you think you do have rights, one last assignment... in Wikipedia I want you to type in 'Japanese-Americans 1942' and you'll learn all about your precious fucking rights.
...110,000 Japanese-American citizens in good standing, law abiding people who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That's all they did wrong. No right to a lawyer. No right to a fair trial. No right to a jury of their peers. No right to due process of any kind...
Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took them away. And rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you'd know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.
Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize the government doesn't give a fuck about them. Government doesn't care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety. It simply doesn't give a fuck about you. It's interested in its own power, that's the only thing, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.
...I lean toward unlimited rights. I feel, for instance, I have the right to do anything I please. But, if I do something you don't like, I think you have the right to kill me. So where are you gonna find a fairer fucking deal than that?"
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