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| Times are a changing ... |
Jack Nicholson powerful performance
Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Remembered there were also stray dogs roaming about our army camp, but they didn't bother any humans. One day, we heard loud bang and saw the AVA guys were "exterminating" the strays... we saw the dogs scuttle, sensing danger, they knew to run away from the AVA men. One of the AVA officer was armed with a twelfth gauge pump action and the other was carrying a long rod with a lasso contraption at the business end. We saw a stray mortally wounded lying on the ground... the AVA officer with the long rod hooked the lasso around the dog's neck and proceeded to strangle it... i think the dog also want to die quickly to end this suffering... i saw it's tongue sticking out and then it was done.
I don't think our battalion RSM or our CO or even the camp commandant has a hand in this at the time. I thought and assumed there were DXOs (Defence Executives - civilians employed by the defence ministry) deployed to our camp to handle camp grounds and building maintenance and such stuff, whom liaise with external agencies such as the AVA to handle this kind of problem ...
Times are a changing, senior officers and corporations/institutions need to be more social savvy.
Col. Jessep: [Judge dismisses the jury after Jessep's revelation on the stand about the Code Red] What is this? What's going on? I did my job, I'd do it again!
[stands up defiantly]
Col. Jessep: I'm gonna get on a plane and go on back to my base.
Judge Randolph: You're not going anywhere, Colonel. MP's... guard the Colonel!
[MPs take post]
Judge Randolph: Captain Ross?
Col. Jessep: What the hell is this?
Capt. Ross: Colonel Jessep, you have the right to remain silent. Any statement you make...
Col. Jessep: I'm being charged with a crime? Is that what this is? I'm being charged with a crime? This is funny. That's what this is. This is...
[turning to Kaffee and lunging at him]
Col. Jessep: ... I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong Marine!
Capt. Ross: Colonel Jessep! Do you understand these rights as I have just read them to you?
Col. Jessep: [contemptuously] You fuckin' people... you have no idea how to defend a nation. All you did was weaken a country today, Kaffee. That's all you did. You put people's lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son.
Kaffee: Don't call me son. I'm a lawyer, and an officer in the United States Navy, and you're under arrest you son of a bitch.
[glares at Jessep]
Kaffee: The witness is excused.
26 February 2014
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