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Talk:Crimes and Misdemeanors

It seems that there's some question as to whether this film is really a comedy or a drama. Some of the quotes would suggest that it's a comedy (Clifford Stern's in particular), but, in my opinion, the plot of the film would suggest otherwise. Virtually all the comedy in the film comes from that character, and it's all of a sad and self-deprecating nature. The Judah character (who I would argue is the most important character in the film) is presented in a very serious light, as is Dolores and all the minor characters (with the notable exception of the Lester character). Interestingly, many reviewers seem to be somewhat split on this. What does everybody else think? -- Gestrin 07:18, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I've checked, and wikipedia seems to intentionally lack an idea on the genre of the film. I am changing it into "Category:Films". ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:37, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

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Dov Weisglas

Dov Weisglas (born October 4, 1946) is an Israeli lawyer and businessman who was involved in the Middle East peace process during the term of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

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 * We gave them 42% of the land. Did we get 42% of peace? Did we even get 20% of peace?
 * (Speaking of the formula, land for peace.) From the documentary Relentless: The Search for Peace in Israel

 * The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.
 * explaining Israel's rational for the limited food rations allowed past the blockade of Gaza. Source: BBC, 17 Oct 2012 Israel forced to release study on Gaza blockade

 * The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process.
 * about the Israel leaving Gaza, https://www.haaretz.com/2004-10-06/ty-article/top-pm-aide-gaza-plan-aims-to-freeze-the-peace-process/0000017f-e56c-dea7-adff-f5ff1fc40000

 * Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress.
 * about the Israel leaving Gaza, https://www.haaretz.com/2004-10-06/ty-article/top-pm-aide-gaza-plan-aims-to-freeze-the-peace-process/0000017f-e56c-dea7-adff-f5ff1fc40000

 * The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians.
 * about the Israel leaving Gaza, https://www.haaretz.com/2004-10-06/ty-article/top-pm-aide-gaza-plan-aims-to-freeze-the-peace-process/0000017f-e56c-dea7-adff-f5ff1fc40000

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Michael Joyce

Michael Joyce (born 1945) is a professor of English at Vassar College. He is an author and critic of hypertext fiction and electronic literature.

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 * There is no simple way to say this.
 * "afternoon, a story" (1990)

 * I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning.
 * "afternoon, a story" (1990)

 * I was just telling my students about first reading D. H. Lawrence and having that feeling: it is done, I need not do more or attempt to... I would have to say – and this is less hubris, I swear, than a humble recognition from what others say about reading my work – that I have a way of shaping the experience of the text so that it becomes like a maze of mirrors set at angles to each other, not a funhouse labyrinth exactly nor the mirror in mirror, but rather an angularity wherein the mirror mirrors the blue opening as well as the opposing surface so that surface and opening multiply and intertwine.
 * Interview with Michael Joyce in Pif (January 2000)

 * "Hypertext is a representation of the text which escapes and surprises by turns," I wrote. Given the pure unaccountability (it is literally impossible to read all the possible variations of a richly linked hypertext) a hyperfiction writer is always attuned to "how the reader will interpret the literature presented" since its presentation shifts and flows in its composition as well.
 * Interview with Michael Joyce in Pif (January 2000)

 * In our online descriptions and program literature we describe the cloisters as a public sphere for networked interaction, the gathering place for students, professors, and librarians engaged in planning, evaluating, or reviewing the efforts of research and study utilizing the whole range of technologies of literacy. We go further and describe the task of the cloisters as to "channel flows of research, learning and teaching between the increasingly networked world of the library and the intimacy and engagement of our classrooms and other campus spaces". There we continue to explore the "collectible object", which I tentatively described in Othermindedness in terms of maintaining an archive of "the successive choices, the errors and losses, of our own human community" and suggesting that what constitutes the collectible object is the value which suffuses our choices. It seemed to me then that electronic media are especially suited to tracking such "changing change". I think it still seems so to me now but I do fear we have lost track of the beauty and nimbleness of new media in representing and preserving the meaning-making quotidian, the ordinary mindfulness which makes human life possible and valuable. It is interesting, I think, that recounting and rehearsing this notion leaves this interview layered and speckled with (self) quotations, documentations, implicit genealogies, images, and traditions of continuity, change, and difference. Perhaps the most quoted line of afternoon over the years has been the sentence "There is no simple way to say this." The same is true of any attempt to describe the way in which the collectible object participates in (I use this word as a felicitous shorthand for the complex of ideas involved in what I called "representing and preserving the meaning-making quotidian" above) the library as living archive.
 * An interview with Michael Joyce and review of Liam’s Going at Trace Online Writing Centre Archive (2 December 2002)

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, private pressure group, or other controlling body. This page is for quotes related to the subject of censorship.

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 * Alphabetized by author

 * Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
 * Judy Blume, as quoted in Good Advice (1993) by William Safire, p. 125.

 * It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
 * Judy Blume, as quoted in Literature for Today's Young Adults (1997) by Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen, p. 392.

 * While people are always quick to take up the cudgels against censorship of the press, or radio, any crackpot can advocate new forms of censorship for the movies, and not a voice is lifted in protest. There's something illogical about this indifference to censorship of the movies. After all, it's just as much a medium of public expression as are the radio and newspapers.
 * For several years now, various groups have urged the banning of crime pictures on the ground that they influence youths to turn to crime. When Jimmy Walker was minority leader of the New York legislature, there was a censorship fight on the floor of the House. A powerful group of pious bluenoses wanted to bar from circulation good books that dared to mention certain well-known facts of life. The bluenoses said the books were indecent, bawdy, lascivious and would lead their young and innocent daughters astray. Jimmy stood the debate as long as he could, then he said, "I have been around a good deal, but I have never heard of a woman's being seduced by a book." That killed the censorship bill.
 * Humphrey Bogart, “Censorship: Jimmy Walker Never Heard of a Book Seducing a Dame but Bluenoses are Still on the Trail of our Films”, Hollywood Reporter, (Oct 1941); republished in “When Humphrey Bogart Tackled Movie Censorship in 1941”, Hollywood Reporter, (2/27/2018).

 * Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
 * Jorge Luis Borges, quoted in Quotes on Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, IFLA.

 * There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.
 * Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Coda (1979 edition).

 * Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with the censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony. Judy-Lynn Del Rey, one of the new Ballantine editors, is having the entire book reset and republished this summer with all the damns and hells back in place.
 * Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Coda (1979 edition)

 * Captain Beatty: Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it.
 * Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, (1953), p.61.

 * The Government controlled the filmstock supply at this time and all film scripts for films to be made in the UK had to be submitted to the Ministry of Information. If a film was not approved then no film stock would be supplied. In 1939 the BBFC still operated under the broad guiding principles of former President TP O’Connor’s list of ‘grounds for deletion’ which were first published in 1916.  These essentially barred: * References to controversial politics * Relations of capital and labour * Scenes tending to disparage public characters and institutions * Realistic horrors of warfare * Scenes and incidents calculated to afford information to the enemy * Incidents having a tendency to disparage our Allies * Scenes holding up the King’s uniform to contempt or ridicule * The exploitation of tragic incidents of the war The aim of all these constraints was to try and ensure that the kinds of films that came out during this period dealt with war in ways that were unlikely to be particularly upsetting or challenging for audiences.
 * "War is Hell...but how much can you show?", British Board of Film Classification.

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 * The FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the Constitution. I'd like to repeat that, because it sounds... vaguely important! The FCC—an appointed body, not elected, answerable only to the president—decided on its own that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the first amendment to the Constitution. Why did they decide that? Because they got a letter from a minister in Mississippi! A Reverend Donald Wildman in Mississippi heard something on the radio that he didn't like. Well, Reverend, did anyone ever tell you there are two KNOBS on the radio? Two. Knobs. On the radio. Of course, I'm sure the reverend isn't that comfortable with anything that has two knobs on it... But hey, reverend, there are two knobs on the radio! One of them turns the radio OFF, and the other one [slaps his head] CHANGES THE STATION! Imagine that, reverend, you can actually change the station! It's called freedom of choice, and it's one of the principles this country was founded upon. Look it up in the library, reverend, if you have any of them left when you've finished burning all the books.
 * George Carlin, What Am I Doing in New Jersey? (1988)

 * If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
 * Noam Chomsky, as quoted in The Big Little Book of Jewish Wit & Wisdom (2000) by Sally Ann Berk and Maria Carluccio, p. 228

 * The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.
 * Winston Churchill, in "The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", radio broadcast to the United States and to London (16 October 1938)
 * Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
 * Winston Churchill

 * People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy; but the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength. You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, aeroplanes, fortifications, and the like — they boast and vaunt themselves before the world, yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home — all the more powerful because forbidden — terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Cannons, airplanes, they can manufacture in large quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of human nature, which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armoury of potent and indestructible knowledge?
 * Winston Churchill, in "The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", radio broadcast to the United States and to London (16 October 1938)

 * I can not believe that this is any bona fide effort to suppress immorality. There are too many signs about it which compel to the sorrowful conclusion that there has grown up among us a Society, whose original aim may have been to suppress vice, but which has now fallen under control of persons with other aims. It would appear that to these the circulation of many thousands of a book they call vicious is of little importance compared with making a sensation, and parading their own spotlessness before the public; and beyond this, it is to be feared that a still baser influence has been at work to degrade this association of (originally, no doubt) well-meaning, though weak-minded people. There is money in it. A good deal of patronage and wealth has gone to it in the past, and its agents are highly paid; and if this stream of money and patronage is to continue to flow and gladden the host of agents, they must keep up a show of activity. They must always be attitudinising as purifiers of society. If the nests of crime and vice are trampled out, and the funds begin to fall low, they must try and make their subscribers think there are nests where there are none; and, knowing well how unpopular Freethinkers are, how few friends they have in high places, they found among them a book which repeated the details of ordinary physiological and medical books—a book whose pages, with all their faults, are nowhere of biblical impurity. It must have brought their secretaries, and their lawyers, and their secret-service agents, a golden Pactolus from orthodox purses to thus prove that the society might do injury to Freethinkers under cover of attacking immorality. The old privilege of the orthodox to imprison their opponents—the privilege so loved, but lost—must seem about to come back again, when it has been decided that facts familiar in the libraries of medicine and science cannot be printed by Freethinkers in a form accessible to the people without imprisonment. They know that many of these Freethinkers value their freedom highly enough to go to gaol for it, and they are, no doubt, hoping for more victims and a flourishing business with plenty of vice to suppress.
 * Conway, Moncure D. (1878). “Liberty and Morality: A Discourse given at the South Place Chapel, Finsbury”. Freethought Publishing Co; pp.11-12

 * But while we may smile at these traders in corruption, the degree to which they have been able to infect the Bench, and through it large numbers of the least thoughtful people, supplies grave cause for alarm. There are some ugly chapters in English history connected with attempts to suppress conviction, to throttle its expression under pretence of its being wicked or immoral. But we are so far away from those eras, that many hardly remember their lesson; which is a pity, for such lessons are costly, and, if forgotten, can sometimes only be recovered at a heavier cost. The lesson taught by every effort to repress honest and public discussion of any subject whatever is, that all such efforts are revolutionary. Every honest man in prison is tenfold more dangerous than fire burning near fire-damp. The majesty of law is defiled when the innocent are punished deliberately with the guilty. Edward Truelove, in prison, has exchanged places with his judges, and his sentence on them, for their most immoral judgment, will be affirmed when their decisions have become byewords of judicial prejudice and folly. They who menace man’s freedom of thought and speech are tampering with something more powerful than gun powder. They who suppress by force even an erroneous book honestly meant for human welfare, are justifying all the crimes ever committed against human intelligence; they are laying again the trains that have always ended in revolution; and, right as it is to suppress books notoriously meant for corruption, and punish the vile who through them seek selfish ends at cost of the public good, even that is a task requiring the utmost care and wisdom. Better that many base men and many bad books escape, than that one honest woman be robbed of her child by violence calling itself law, or one honest man suffer the felon’s chain from the very hand provided for protection of honesty.
 * Conway, Moncure D. (1878). “Liberty and Morality: A Discourse given at the South Place Chapel, Finsbury”. Freethought Publishing Co; pp.12-13

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 * If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lectures, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, your honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
 * Clarence Darrow Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)

 * Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
 * Alan Dershowitz (2008). Finding, Framing, and Hanging Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and Freedom of Speech in an Age of Terrorism. John Wiley & Sons. p. 191

 * Under our First Amendment, a censorship law would have to be written in broad general language and could not be directed at specific religious, ethnic, racial, or political groups. Any such law could be misused by politicians to censor their political enemies or other "undesirable" groups.

 * [C]lear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.
 * Frederick Douglass, Plea for Free Speech in Boston (8 June 1880)

 * Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
 * William O. Douglas, dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)

 * Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don’t like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts". This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.
 * William O. Douglas, dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 512 (1957)

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 * Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College (14 June 1953)

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 * We believe that a key part of combating extremism is preventing recruitment by disrupting the underlying ideologies that drive people to commit acts of violence. That's why we support a variety of counterspeech efforts.
 * Facebook spokesperson Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of global policy management, as reported by CNBC, January 17, 2018

 * Censorship assumes certainty, whereas free speech, academic freedom, and open inquiry allows for the discovery of our own ignorance and enables the project of human knowledge to succeed.
 * FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), FIRE’s 10 common-sense reforms for colleges and universities

 * If the human body is obscene, complain to the manufacturer!
 * Larry Flynt, in Sex, Lies & Politics : The Naked Truth (2006), p. 201

 * All the Sixties were complicated, you know. On the one hand it was funny too, you know; on the other hand it was cruel, you know. The communists are so cruel, because they impose one taste on everybody, on everything, and who doesn't comply with their teachings and with their ideology, is very soon labeled pervert, you know, or whatever they want you call it, or counterrevolutionary or whatever. And then the censorship itself, that's not the worst evil. The worst evil is — and that's the product of censorship — is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself. I am stopping to being honest, I am becoming hypocrite — and that's what they wanted, they wanted everybody to feel guilty, they were, you know... And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted — steal, you know, lie, whatever. What was important — that they punished if you're innocent, because that puts everybody, you know, puts fear in everybody.
 * Miloš Forman National Security Archive interview (18 January 1997)

 * They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 * Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)
 * If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
 * Benjamin Franklin "Apology for Printers" (1730); later in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings (1945) edited by Carl Van Doren

 * What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
 * Sigmund Freud, Letter to Ernest Jones (1933), as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779

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 * With very few exceptions, philosophers do not know much science and do not understand it, which is quite natural because science lies beyond the boundaries of typical philosophical subjects such as ethics, aestetics, and gnosiology. But while in the free countries philosophers are quite harmless, in the dictatorial countries they constitute a great danger for the development of science. In Russia, state philosophers are bred in the Communist Academy in Moscow and are placed in all the educational and research institutions to prevent the professors and researchers from falling into idealistic, capitalistic heresies. The state philosophers are usually familiar with the subject of the research institution they are going to supervise, being either former schoolteachers or having taken in the academy a one-semester course on the subject in question. But they rank in the their power above the scientific directors of the institution and can veto any research project on publication which deviates from the correct ideology. One notable example of philosophical dictatorship in Russian science was the prohibition of Einstein's theory of relativity on the ground that it denied world ether, "the existence of which follows directly from the philosophy of dialectical materialism". It is interesting to note that the existence of the "world ether" was doubted long before Einstein by Engels, who in one of his letter to friend wrote "...the world ether, if it exists".
 * George Gamow, My World Line : An Informal Autobiography (1970), p. 93

 * The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
 * John Gilmore, as quoted in Time magazine (6 December 1993)
 * Paraphrased variant: The Internet treats censorship as a defect and routes around it.

 * Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure way against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is freedom. The surest path to wisdom is liberal education.
 * Alfred Whitney Griswold, address to students at Phillips Academy, Andover, New Hampshire, spring 1952; reported in "A Little Learning", The Atlantic Monthly (November 1952), p. 52..

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 * We wish to silence the cry of class against class, and stifle the party appeal to class, so that we may ensure tranquility in our own freedom.
 * Warren G. Harding, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)

 * In late April and early May the World Socialist Web Site, which identifies itself as a Trotskyite group that focuses on the crimes of capitalism, the plight of the working class and imperialism, began to see a steep decline in readership. The decline persisted into June. Search traffic to the World Socialist Web Site has been reduced by 75 percent overall. And the site is not alone. ... The reductions coincided with the introduction of algorithms imposed by Google to fight “fake news.” Google said the algorithms are designed to elevate “more authoritative content” and marginalize “blatantly misleading, low quality, offensive or downright false information.” It soon became apparent, however, that in the name of combating “fake news,” Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are censoring left-wing, progressive and anti-war sites. The 150 most popular search terms that brought readers to the World Socialist Web Site, including “socialism,” “Russian Revolution” and “inequality,” today elicit little or no traffic.
 * Chris Hedges, "Thought Police for the 21st Century", Truthdig,  Jan 21, 2018

 * The steady march towards heavy handed state censorship was accelerated by the Obama administration that charged ten government employees and contractors, eight under the Espionage Act, for disclosing classified information to the press. The Obama administration in 2013 also seized the phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters to uncover who leaked the information about a foiled al-Qaida terrorist plot. This ongoing assault by the Democratic Party has been accompanied by the disappearing on social media platforms of several luminaries on the far right, including Donald Trump and Alex Jones, who were removed from Facebook, Apple, YouTube. Content that is true but damaging to the Democratic Party, including the revelations from Hunter Biden’s laptop, have been blocked by digital platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Algorithms have since at least 2017 marginalized left-wing content, including my own. The legal precedent set in this atmosphere by the sentencing of Assange means that anyone who possesses classified material, or anyone who leaks it, will be guilty of a criminal offense. The sentencing of Assange will signal the end of all investigative inquiries into the inner workings of power. The pandering by press and human rights organizations, tasked with being sentinels of freedom, to the Democratic Party, only contributes to the steady tightening of the vice of press censorship. There is no lesser evil in this fight. It is all evil. Left unchecked, it will result in an American species of China’s totalitarianism capitalism.
 * Chris Hedges,PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange, CounterPunch, (December 29, 2021)

 * Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
 * Heinrich Heine, in Almansor: A Tragedy (1823)

 * How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show — it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
 * Robert A. Heinlein in The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950); this may be the origin of a remark which in recent years has sometimes become misattributed to Mark Twain: Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

 * To whom do you award the right to decide which speech is harmful, or who is the harmful speaker? Or to determine in advance what are the harmful consequences going to be that we know enough about in advance to prevent? To whom would you give this job? To whom are you going to award the task of being the censor? Isn't a famous old story that the man who has to read all the pornography, in order to decide what's fit to be passed and what is fit not to be, is the man most likely to become debauched? Did you hear any speaker in the opposition to this motion, eloquent as one of them was, to whom you would delegate the task of deciding for you what you could read? To whom you would give the job of deciding for you – relieve you of the responsibility of hearing what you might have to hear? Do you know anyone? Hands up. Do you know anyone to whom you'd give this job? Does anyone have a nominee?
 * Christopher Hitchens, "Be It Resolved: Freedom of Speech Includes the Freedom to Hate" (15 November 2006)

 * I am not going to pretend that there are not things in Chaucer which one would be the better for not reading; and so far as these words of mine shall be taken for counsel, I am not willing that they should unqualifiedly praise him. The matter is by no means simple; it is not easy to conceive of a means of purifying the literature of the past without weakening it, and even falsifying it, but it is best to own that it is in all respects just what it is, and not to feign it otherwise. I am not ready to say that the harm from it is positive, but you do get smeared with it, and the filthy thought lives with the filthy rhyme in the ear, even when it does not corrupt the heart or make it seem a light thing for the reader's tongue and pen to sin in kind.
 * William Dean Howells, My Literary Passions (1895), p. 110; quoted in Grant Showerman, ed. Heroides and Amores (1914), p. 317

 * I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
 * Qin Shi Huang as quoted in The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006) by Clive Foss, p. 10, ISBN 1905204965

 * The vast number of titles which are published each year—all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.
 * Hubert Humphrey, address to the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City (March 8, 1967), reported in The New York Times (March 9, 1967), p. 42.

 * It is often assumed that the true victim of censorship is the person engaged in speaking. They are victims, but so, too, is everyone else. If your thoughts are censored, then I am [unable] to hear them. If my thoughts are censored, you are not allowed to hear my opinions and judge them against your own. As such, censorship makes each person a prisoner of their own thoughts and makes society barren silos.
 * David Hutt, "What to do about ‘freedom from speech?’", Radio Free Asia (September 24, 2023)

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 * The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. We could justify any censorship only when the censors are better shielded against error than the censored.
 * Robert H. Jackson, American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442-43 (1950).

 * Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
 * Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Dr. James Currie (28 January 1786)

 * I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
 * Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, Philadelphia bookseller (1814) who had been prosecuted for selling the book Sur la Création du Monde, un Systême d'Organisation Primitive by M. de Becourt, which Jefferson himself had purchased; reported in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb (1904), vol. 14, p. 128.

 * I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but, if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy, and to read what he pleases.
 * Thomas Jefferson, letter to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, Philadelphia bookseller (1814) who had been prosecuted for selling the book Sur la Création du Monde, un Systême d'Organisation Primitive by M. de Becourt, which Jefferson himself had purchased; reported in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb (1904), vol. 14, p. 128.

 * “One of the most insidious intended effects of government censorship is self-censorship,” wrote Federalist CEO Sean Davis in a post on X. “By punishing others for what they say and believe, tyrannical governments terrorize their citizens’ own thoughts by creating every incentive for them to just be quiet.” … Writing the dissenting opinion in Murthy v. Missouri Wednesday, Justice Samuel Alito warned Americans would come to regret the continuation of an unconstitutional censorship regime.
 * Tristan Justice, "Anti-Free Speech Supreme Court Majority Mocks Concept Of Self-Censorship In Shocking Ruling", The Federalist (June 26, 2024)
 * Curator's Note: Regarding what Sean Davis said, couldn't he have stated "This is part of the language of real oppressors"? Besides, why could or would anyone deem it wrong or sinful for anyone, of any ethnoreligious background, to be a persecution scholar, or a culturicide scholar, or a genocide scholar (if the misdeeds are genuine rather than invented, of course); or to call out the continuation of an unconstitutional censorship regime as unconscionable?

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 * When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful.
 * Anthony Kennedy, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) (Opinion of the Court).

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 * They can't censor a gleam in the eye.
 * , regarding post-production efforts to tone down the incestuous nature of the relationship between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her father—as portrayed by —in The Barretts of Wimpole Street; as quoted in "Hollywood" by Sydney Skolsky, in The Washington Post (March 13, 1935)

 * The literature of today, with its conscientious striving toward sincerity, must necessarily contain large amounts of matter repugnant to those who hold the hypocritical nineteenth-century view of the world. It need not be vulgarly presented, but it cannot be excluded if art is to express life. That censors actually do seek to remove this legitimate and essential matter, and that they would if given greater power do even greater harm, is plainly shewn by the futile action against “Jurgen”, and the present ban on “Ulysses”, both significant contributions to contemporary art. And, ironically enough, this same censorship blandly tolerates, through legal technicalities, infinite sewers full of frankly and frivolously nasty drivel without the least pretence of aesthetic or intellectual significance.
 * H. P. Lovecraft, "The Omnipresent Philistine", 1924. Reprinted in Miscellaneous Writings, edited by S.T. Joshi. Arkham House, 1995.

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 * Congress passed this statute against obscenity for the protection of the great mass of our people; the unusual literator can, or thinks he can, protect himself. The people do not exist for the sake of literature, to give the author fame, the publisher wealth, and the book a market. On the contrary, literature exists for the sake of the people, to refresh the weary, to console the sad, to hearten the dull and downcast, to increase man's interest in the world, his joy of living, and his sympathy in all sorts and conditions of men. Art for art's sake is heartless and soon grows artless; art for the public market is not art at all, but commerce; art for the people's service is a noble, vital, and permanent element of human life. The public is content with the standard of salability; the prigs with the standard of preciosity. The people need and deserve a moral standard; it should be a point of honor with men of letters to maintain it.
 * Judge Martin Thomas Manton, dissenting, in United States v. A Book Entitled Ulysses, 72 F.2d 705, 711 (2nd Cir., 1934). The majority had upheld a lower court decision permitting the importation (and by extension publication) of Joyce's novel despite its obscene content on the grounds that it was of sufficient literary merit; after criticizing the majority's legal reasoning, Manton concluded with this defense of censorship.

 * When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
 * George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Tyrion (III)—Tyrion

 * The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control over the means of mental production, so that in consequence the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are, in general, subject to it.
 * Karl Marx, German Ideology

 * Censored This comic contains numerous references to the DeCSS code used to bypass the Content Scrambling System of DVD’s, which, by order of Judge Lewis Kapalan, is illegal to reproduce in any way. We apologize for the inconvenience, but speech that damages the profits of our corporate friends is NOT protected by the First Amendment. Thank you.
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (3/2/2001).

 * Huey: Why is it perfectly legal to post a diagram of how to build a bomb on the net, but you can’t post a code that descrambles DVDs?
 * Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, (3/5/2001)

 * If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
 * Herman Melville, in The Encantadas (1854), Sketch Eighth

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 * Proponents of using government authority to censor certain undesirable images and comments on the airwaves resort to the claim that the airways belong to all the people, and therefore it's the government's responsibility to protect them. The mistake of never having privatized the radio and TV airwaves does not justify ignoring the first amendment mandate that "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech." When everyone owns something, in reality nobody owns it. Control then occurs merely by the whims of the politicians in power. From the very start, licensing of radio and TV frequencies invited government censorship that is no less threatening than that found in totalitarian societies.
 * , , "An Indecent Attack on the First Amendment", (March 10, 2004).

 * In preparing scenarios, you will save yourself needless effort if you will keep in mind the basic censorship regulations of the key states of the country. The territories which these states represent are extremely rich fields for the moving picture, and production companies make every effort to accede to their censorship rules. Unfortunately, the censors are reluctant to publish their rulings.
 * Walter B. Pitkin and William M. Marston, “The Art of Sound Pictures”, D. Appleton and Company, New York London (1930), CHAPTER IV WHAT THE CENSORS DO TO YOUR STORY, p. 52.

 * He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
 * Wendell Phillips, oration delivered at Daniel O'Connell celebration, Boston (6 August 1870), published in Wendell Phillips: The Agitator (1890) by William Carlos Martyn, p. 563

 * Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorized ones only.
 * Plato The Republic, Book II

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 * Governments and social media platforms should not rely on content removal as a solution to online scientific misinformation. [...] there is little evidence to support the effectiveness of this approach [...] and there is a risk that content removal may cause more harm than good by driving misinformation content (and people who may act upon it) towards harder-to-address corners of the internet.
 * Frank Kelly et al. "The online information environment" (p 10), The Royal Society, January 2022. ISBN: 978-1-78252-567-7

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 * Self-censorship is the worst form of censorship because you have internalized the goals of the regime and decided to enact [such goals] on their behalf.
 * Kyle Seraphin, "Why The FBI’s Assault On Catholics Threatens All Christians", The Federalist (April 17, 2024)

 * Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
 * George Bernard Shaw, "The limits to Tolerance", in preface of The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

 * Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
 * George Bernard Shaw, as quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."

 * All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
 * George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Mrs. Warren's Profession

 * Every time you get a censor, you get a fool, and worse yet a knave, pretending to be a guardian of morality, while acting as a guardian of class greed.
 * Upton Sinclair, "Poor Me and Pure Boston", The Nation magazine, June 29, 1927. Quoted in Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation 1865-1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990.

 * Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Long ago those who wrote our First Amendment charted a different course. They believed a society can be truly strong only when it is truly free. In the realm of expression they put their faith, for better or for worse, in the enlightened choice of the people, free from the interference of a policeman's intrusive thumb or a judge's heavy hand. So it is that the Constitution protects coarse expression as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance.
 * Potter Stewart, in dissenting opinion in Ginzburg et al v. United States (1965), also quoted in Censorship Landmarks (1969) by Edward De Grazia, p. 492

 * It seems that Wikipedia.com, that splendid source for all kinds of information, is no longer dedicated to the truth, assuming it ever was. Individuals who have tried to edit the pages about Barack Obama — to reflect the incontrovertible fact that he is not God, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, or Ronald Reagan — report that their contributions have vanished within minutes of posting them, and that they, themselves, have been suspended for three days following each 'infraction'. When some sort of official at Wikipedia was contacted about this, she stonewalled, claiming that this censorship was the work of 'volunteers', implying they were somehow beyond control of Wikipedia itself. Like the Red Guard and the Khmer Rouge were "volunteers."
 * L. Neil Smith, "Announcifications From Your Publicatorialist: Wikipedia, Missouri, and Ceres" (15 March 2009)

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 * You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that today.
 * "Captain Jean-Luc Picard" in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4, Episode 21 "The Drumhead" written by Jeri Taylor

 * The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. … "Winston Churchill said "The first casualty of War is always Truth." Churchill also said "In wartime, the Truth is so precious that it should always be surrounded by a bodyguard of Lies." That wisdom will not be much comfort to babies born last week. The first news they get in this world will be News subjected to Military Censorship. That is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information." That is routine behavior in Wartime — for all countries and all combatants — and it makes life difficult for people who value real news. Count on it.
 * Hunter S. Thompson, "When War Drums Roll" (17 September 2001)

 * Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
 * Harry S. Truman, Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950

 * The key to national greatness lies in sustaining and instilling our shared national identity. That means focusing on what we have in common: the heritage that we all share. At the center of this heritage is also a robust belief in free expression, free speech, and open debate. Only if we forget who we are, and how we got here, could we ever allow political censorship and blacklisting to take place in America. It's not even thinkable. Shutting down free and open debate violates our core values and most enduring traditions. In America, we don't insist on absolute conformity or enforce rigid orthodoxies and punitive speech codes. We just don't do that. America is not a timid nation of tame souls who need to be sheltered and protected from those with whom we disagree. That's not who we are. It will never be who we are.
 * Donald Trump, Farewell Address to the Nation, (January 19, 2021)

 * But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
 * Mark Twain, in a letter to Mrs. F. G. Whitmore (7 February 1907)
 * Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
 * Mark Twain, Origins Unknown

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 * There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, (1891)

 * The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

 * An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
 * Oscar Wilde, in The Critic as Artist (1891)

 * He had a great capacity to arouse irrational hatred obviously, and that's because his ideas were radical in the most extreme sense of the word "radical." His ideas have something to offend everybody, and he ended up becoming the only heretic in American history whose books were literally burned by the government. Timothy Leary spent five years in prison for unorthodox scientific ideas. Ezra Pound spent 13 years in a nuthouse for unorthodox political and economic ideas. Their books were not burned. Reich was not only thrown in prison, but they chopped up all the scientific equipment in his laboratory with axes and burned all of his books in an incinerator. Now that interests me as a civil liberties issue.
 * Robert Anton Wilson, in "Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich" (March 1995)

 * I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.
 * Woodrow Wilson, letter to Arthur Brisbane (April 25, 1917); reported in Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters (1946), vol. 6, p. 36.

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 * You only silence critics when you have something to hide.
 * Huma Yusuf, Missing rights (04 May, 2020), Dawn

title: Censorship


text:
Crimson Tide

Crimson Tide is a 1995 film about a clash of wills between the new executive officer of a U.S. nuclear missile submarine and its seasoned commanding officer, arising from conflicting interpretations of an order to launch their missiles.
 * Directed by Tony Scott. Written by Michael Schiffer.

Danger runs deep Taglines

Captain Frank Ramsey

 * What'd you think, son? That I was just some crazy old coot, putting everyone in harm's way as I yelled "YEE-HA!"?
 * We're here to preserve democracy—not to practice it.

Dialogue

 * CNN Reporter Richard Valeriani: This is Richard Valeriani reporting live for CNN from the French aircraft carrier Foch somewhere in the Mediterranean. Six days ago, as the rebellion in Chechnya spread to the neighboring Caucasus republics, the Russian president ordered massive bombing strikes against rebel positions around Rutul and Belokany. Appalled at the loss of human life, the President of the United States joined by the French president and the British prime minister suspended all foreign aid to Russia. Ultranationalist leader Vladimir Radchenko denounced the U.S. Pressure as an act of war against the Russian Republic and Russian sovereignty. Denouncing his own president as a U.S. Puppet, he called on the Russian people to join him in revolt. He said, "This brutish and hypocritical American intervention will not go unanswered." On Tuesday, at 10:00 in the morning, Moscow time, the Russian parliament was suspended and martial law was declared. With the government in crisis, the Russian Republic was entering into what can only be described...as a state of civil war. Then yesterday at dawn, Radchenko and rebel forces seized the region around Vladivostok, including a naval base and a nuclear missile base housing Russian ICBMs. As regular Russian military forces move in to encircle Radchenko, allied military forces are in a state of high alert. These French planes taking off behind me have been deployed near the Caucasus since the beginning of the crisis, and a crisis which started in the Caucasus has now spread to the Far East, and appears to be turning into the worst standoff, since the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is Richard Valeriani reporting live for CNN from the French aircraft carrier Foch, somewhere in the Mediterranean.

 * Capt. Ramsey: [reading Hunter's file] Annapolis. Five patrols on fast attacks. Two on boomers; one as X.O.
 * [Ramsey glances to Hunter for a beat and continues to read]
 * Capt. Ramsey: Hmm. A year at...[looks to Hunter, impressed] Excuse me. Harvard? [closes Hunter's file] I talked to your former C.O. He tells me he tried to adopt you. As you no doubt heard, my X.O. Has appendicitis. He's the best I ever had. I need a good man to fill his spot. Your name was at the top of the list.
 * Hunter: Well, that's good to know, sir.
 * Capt. Ramsey: [beat] It was a short list. Your interests, Mr. Hunter. What do you like to do? Do you, uh...Do you paint, play ball, play an instrument, ride motorcycles, what?
 * Hunter: I ride horses.
 * Capt. Ramsey: Horses. What's the best horse you ever rode?
 * Hunter: Arabian, sir.
 * Capt. Ramsey: An Arabian? That's a powerful animal.
 * Hunter: Yes.
 * [Ramsey chuckles]
 * Hunter: You ever ridden one?
 * Capt. Ramsey: Me? Are you kidding? Nah, I couldn't handle an Arabian. Nah, just give me an old paint. Yeah, horses are fascinating animals. Dumb as fence posts but very intuitive. In that way, they're not too different from high school girls. They might not have a brain in their head but they do know all the boys want to fuck 'em.
 * [Hunter chuckles]
 * Capt. Ramsey: Don't have to be able to read Ulysses to know where they're comin' from.
 * Hunter: No, sir.
 * [Hunter notices a dog barking close to him]
 * Capt. Ramsey: [referring to the dog] He approves of you. Jack Russells. Smartest dogs alive. Name's Bear. Goes everyplace with me. Well, welcome aboard the Alabama, son. [extends his hand] Do me proud.
 * Hunter: [shakes] I will, sir.

 * [Captain Ramsey addresses the crew before boarding the Alabama]
 * Capt. Frank Ramsey: Little ducks, there's trouble in Russia. So they called us. And we're going over there and bringing the most lethal killing machine ever devised. We're capable of launching more firepower than has ever been released in the history of war. For one purpose alone: To keep our country safe. We constitute the front line and the last line of defense. I expect and demand your very best. Anything less, you should have joined the Air Force. [crew laughs] This might be our Commander-in-Chief's Navy, but this is my boat. And all I ask is that you keep up with me. And if you can't... that strange sensation you'll be feeling in the seat of your pants will be my boot in your ass! [crew laughs again; Ramsey returns to dock stage and calls out over sound system] Mr. COB!
 * Chief of the Boat: Yes, sir?
 * Ramsey: You're aware of the name of this ship, aren't you Mr. COB?
 * Chief of the Boat: Very aware, sir!
 * Ramsey: It bears a proud name, doesn't it, Mr. COB?
 * Chief of the Boat: Very proud, sir!
 * Ramsey: It represents fine people.
 * Chief of the Boat: Very fine people, sir!
 * Ramsey: Who live in a fine, outstanding state.
 * Chief of the Boat: Outstanding, sir!
 * Ramsey: In the greatest country in the entire world.
 * Chief of the Boat: In the entire world, sir!
 * Ramsey: And what is that name, Mr. COB?
 * Chief of the Boat: Alabama, sir!
 * Ramsey: And what do we say?
 * Ramsey, Chief of the Boat: GO 'BAMA!
 * Crew: ROLL TIDE!
 * Capt. Ramsey: Chief of the Boat, dismiss the crew.
 * Chief of the Boat: Dismiss the crew, aye-aye sir. [addresses crew] Crew, department heads, attend to your departments. FALL OUT! [crew begins embarking at bugle call]

 * Capt. Ramsey: Think it was a mistake, Mr. Hunter?
 * Hunter: Sir?
 * Capt. Ramsey: Using the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 * Hunter: Well, if I thought that, sir, I wouldn't be here.
 * Capt. Ramsey: Interesting way you put that.
 * Hunter: How'd I put it, sir?
 * Capt. Ramsey: Very carefully. [Chuckles]
 * [Men laughing]
 * Capt. Ramsey: You do qualify your remarks. If someone asked me if we should bomb Japan, a simple "Yes. By all means sir, drop that fucker, twice!"
 * [Men laughing]
 * Capt. Ramsey: I don't mean to suggest that you're indecisive, Mr. Hunter. Not at all. Just, uh... complicated. 'course, that's the way the Navy wants you. Me, they wanted simple.
 * Hunter: Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.
 * Ramsey: [chuckles] Be careful there, Mr. Hunter. It's all I've got to rely on, being a simple-minded son of a bitch. Rickover gave me my command, a checklist, a target and a button to push. All I gotta know is how to push it, they tell me when. They seem to want you to know why.
 * Hunter: I would hope they'd want us all to know why, sir.
 * Ramsey: At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy. "War is a continuation of politics by other means." Von Clausewitz.
 * Hunter: I think, sir, that what he was actually trying to say was a little more -
 * Ramsey: Complicated?
 * [Men laughing]
 * Hunter: Yes, the purpose of war is to serve a political end, but the true nature of war is to serve itself.
 * Ramsey: [Laughing] I'm very impressed. In other words, the sailor most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignore everything except the destruction of the enemy. You'd agree with that.
 * Hunter: I'd agree that, um, that's what Clausewitz was trying to say.
 * Ramsey: But you wouldn't agree with it?
 * Hunter: No, sir, I do not. No, I just think that in the nuclear world, the true enemy can't be destroyed.
 * [Men look to one another as Ramsey fall silent]
 * Ramsey: [Chuckling, tapping glass] Attention on deck. Von Clausewitz will now tell us exactly who the real enemy is. [Gestures to Hunter] Von?
 * [Men laughing]
 * Hunter: In my humble opinion... in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

 * Capt. Ramsey: So, Mr. Hunter, do you think I was wrong to run that drill?
 * Hunter: Not necessarily, sir.
 * Ramsey: Do you think I got that man killed?
 * Hunter: No, sir. One thing had nothing to do with the other. It was an accident.
 * Ramsey: Would you have run the drill?
 * Hunter: No, sir, I wouldn't have.
 * Ramsey: Why not?
 * Hunter: The fire in the galley could have flared back up. I would have seen to it first, sir.
 * Ramsey: I'm sure you would have. Me, on the other hand, I tend to think that's the best time to run a drill. Confusion on the ship is nothing to fear. It should be taken advantage of. Lest you forget, Mr. Hunter, we are a ship of war, designed for battle. You don't just fight battles when everything is hunky-dory. What'd you think, son? I was just some crazy old coot putting everyone in harm's way as I yell "YEE-HA!"?
 * Hunter: That was not my first thought, sir. But there's no excuse. At the time I was fighting the fire in the galley I did not agree with your call, sir.
 * Ramsey: Take a seat. [Sighs] Just so we understand each other, I don't have any problems with questions or doubts. As I said to you before, I'm not seeking the company of kiss-asses. When you got somethin' to say to me, you say it in private. And if privacy doesn't permit itself, then you bite your fucking tongue. [beat] Are we clear about that, Commander?
 * Hunter: As a bell, sir.
 * Ramsey: Those sailors out there are just boys...boys who are training to do a terrible and unthinkable thing, and if that ever occurs, the only reassurance they'll have that they're doing the proper thing is gonna derive from their unqualified belief in the unified chain of command. That means we don't question each other's motives in front of the crew. It means we don't undermine each other. It means in a missile drill they hear your voice right after mine, without hesitation. [beat] Do you agree with that policy, sailor?
 * Hunter: Absolutely, sir.
 * Ramsey: [Nods in approval] We're here to preserve democracy, not to practice it. There'll be a memorial service in the enlisted men's mess at 1100 hours. Go see to it.
 * Hunter: Aye, aye, sir.
 * [As Hunter goes to leave Ramsey's quarter...]
 * Ramsey: [As he he begins to read his newspaper] Oh, Hunter. Short of the outbreak of World War III, the ship sinking or being attacked by a giant octopus, I'd like to be undisturbed for the next 30 minutes.
 * Hunter: I'll see to it, sir.
 * Ramsey: By the way, it was Marichek's 300 pounds that killed him... [looks to Hunter] Not the fire...Dismissed.

 * Hunter: Captain, here's the results from the missile drill.
 * Capt. Ramsey: [looks at the missile drill results] Is this the best they can do?
 * Hunter: No sir. But, that's what they did.
 * Capt. Ramsey: I want this down to five minutes. Train on it.
 * Hunter: Yes, sir.
 * Capt. Ramsey: Tell your buddy Weaps to do it again, and keep on doing it until he gets it right.
 * Hunter: Yes, sir.
 * Capt. Ramsey: It looks like the whole crew needs a kick in the ass.
 * Hunter: Or a pat on the back, sir. I just witnessed a fight down in crew's mess, no big deal. It appears that the crew is a bit on edge about all we're going through. Morale seems a bit low.
 * Capt. Ramsey: [picks up the intercom and speaks into it] May I have your attention please, crew of the Alabama, Mr. Hunter has brought it to my attention that morale maybe a bit low. and you might be a bit... [looks to Hunter]
 * Hunter: [whispers] On edge.
 * Capt. Ramsey: [over the intercom] On edge. So, I suggest this. Any crew member who thinks that they can't handle the situation, can leave the ship right now. Gentlemen, we are at DEFCON three, war is IMMINENT. This is the Captain. That is all. [hangs up the intercom]
 * Hunter: Very inspiring, sir.

 * [Following the rebel Russian submarine's attack, which damaged the Alabama's communications equipment]
 * Hunter: Captain? Got the EAM.
 * [Ramsey sees the EAM message which is shown incomplete]
 * Hunter: What do you think?
 * Ramsey: I think there's nothing on this.
 * Hunter: Yes, sir. It, uh, got cut off during the attack.
 * Ramsey: Then it's meaningless.
 * Hunter: Sir, this is an EAM pertaining to nuclear missiles.
 * Ramsey: No, Mr. Hunter, that's a message fragment.
 * Hunter: Because it got cut off during the attack, sir. The message could mean anything. It could be a message to abort. It could be a message--
 * Ramsey: Could be a fake Russian transmission.
 * Hunter: Which is exactly why we need to confirm it, sir. All I'm asking for is the time we need to get back on line.
 * Ramsey: Calm down, Mr. Hunter.
 * Hunter: I am calm.
 * Ramsey: You don't appear to be calm.
 * Weapons: Conn/Weapons: Missile systems ready to launch in four minutes.
 * Ramsey: Step aside, seaman.
 * Seaman: Yes, sir.
 * [Faint Radio Transmission]
 * Ramsey: We have orders in hand, and those orders are to make a preemptive launch. Every second that we lose increases the chances, that by the time our missiles arrive, their silos could be empty, 'cause they've flown their birds and struck us first.
 * Hunter: Yes, sir.
 * Ramsey: You know as well as I do that any launch order received without authentication is no order at all.
 * Hunter: Captain... National Mili…
 * Ramsey: [continues to talk over Hunter] That's our #1 rule. That rule is the basis for the scenario we've trained on time and time again.
 * Hunter: Yes, sir.
 * Ramsey: It's a rule we follow without exception.
 * Hunter: Captain, National Military Command Center knows what sector we're in. They have satellites looking down on us to see if our birds are aloft. And if they're not, then they give our orders to somebody else. That's why we maintain more than one sub. It's what they call "redundancy."
 * Ramsey: I know about redundancy, Mr. Hunter. [walks off]
 * Hunter: All I'm saying...
 * [Crew stares at Hunter before he meets with Ramsey again, speaking discreetly]
 * Hunter: All I'm saying, Captain, is that we have backup. Now, it's our duty not to launch until we can confirm.
 * Ramsey: You're presuming that we have other submarines out there ready to launch. But as captain, I must assume that our submarines could have been taken out by other Akulas. We can play these games all night, Mr. Hunter, but I don't have the luxury of your presumptions.
 * Hunter: Sir...
 * Ramsey: Mr. Hunter, we have rules that are not open to interpretation, personal intuition, gut feelings, hairs on the back of your neck, little devils or angels sitting on your shoulders.
 * Hunter: Captain...
 * Ramsey: We're all very well aware of what our orders are and what those orders mean. They come down from our Commander-in-Chief. They contain no ambiguity.
 * Hunter: Captain, sir...
 * Ramsey: Mr. Hunter, I've made the decision. I'm captain of this boat. Now shut the fuck up! Damn. [over the intercom] Weapons/Conn: Shift targeting to target package SLBM 64741/2. This is the Captain.
 * [Ramsey gives the intercom to Hunter]
 * Hunter: ...Captain, I cannot concur.
 * Ramsey: Repeat my command.
 * Hunter: Sir, we don't know what this means. Our target package could have changed.
 * Ramsey: You repeat this order or I'll find somebody who will!
 * Hunter: [stares at Ramsey] Hell no, you won't, sir.
 * Ramsey: You're relieved of your position. COB, remove Mr. Hunter from the control room. Get Lieutenant Zimmer in here now!
 * Hunter: No, sir, I do not concur and I do not recognize your authority to relieve me on the command under Navy regulations.
 * Ramsey: COB, arrest this man and get him out!
 * Hunter: Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons we cannot launch our missiles unless both you, and I agree.
 * Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] COB, what're you waiting for?!
 * Hunter: Now this is not a formality, sir! This is expressly why your command must be repeated! It requires my assent, I do not give it! And furthermore, if you continue upon this course, and insist upon this launch without confirming this message first...
 * Ramsey: [shouting over Hunter] Son of a bitch... As commanding officer of the USS Alabama I order you to place the XO under arrest under charges of mutiny!
 * Hunter: I will be forced, backed by the rules of precedents...
 * Ramsey: [shouting at the Chief of the Boat, over Hunter] I say again, as commanding officer of the USS Alabama, I order you...
 * Hunter: -authority and command, regulation 08150H6 of the Navy regulations, to relieve you of command, Captain!
 * Ramsey: -to place the XO under arrest, under charges of mutiny! [Silence all round] COB!
 * Chief of the Boat: Captain, please, the XO is right. We can't launch unless he concurs.
 * Ramsey: [reading EAM] "To the USS Alabama: Rebel-controlled missiles being fuelled. Launch codes compromised, dissidents threaten to launch at continental United States, set DEFCON 2. Immediately launch ten Trident missile sorties." They're FUELING THEIR MISSILES! We don't have time to fuck around!
 * Hunter: Sir, I think you need time to think this over.
 * Ramsey: I DON'T HAVE TO THINK THIS OVER!
 * Hunter: Captain, I relieve you of your command of this ship. COB, escort the Captain off the bridge, I'm assuming command.
 * Ramsey: You're not assuming anything!
 * Hunter: CHIEF OF THE BOAT, Captain Ramsey is under arrest — lock him in his stateroom!
 * Chief of the Boat: Captain, please...
 * Hunter: NOW, COB!
 * Chief of the Boat: Aye, sir. Mitchell, Walker, take the Captain below.
 * [Ramsey goes to leave, then turns and throws his missile key to Hunter]
 * Ramsey: You're out of your league, Hunter. You're not ready to make difficult decisions yet.

 * Hunter: Chief of the Boat.
 * Chief of the Boat: Sir?
 * Hunter: Thank you, COB.
 * Chief of the Boat: "Thank you?" [whispering] Fuck you! Get it straight, Mr. Hunter, I'm not on your side. Now you could be wrong! But wrong or right, the Captain can't just replace you at will. That was completely improper! And that's why I did what I did. By the book.
 * Hunter: I thank you anyway.

 * Lt. Dougherty: We've been following the captain for years, and now this asshole Hunter shows up, and we're supposed to follow him because he said so?
 * Lt. Peter "Weps" Ince: You're not supposed to, you were ordered to. That's what this is about, proper orders.
 * Dougherty: Proper orders? He has proper orders, he won't act on them!
 * Ince: He's in command now! If they order him to launch, we'll launch, and we'll blow 'em all to hell. But I'd rather go down myself then get this one wrong.
 * Lt. Westergard: Weps, our procedures are clear. In the absence of a contravening order and in a situation like this, we follow the orders in hand.
 * Lt. Zimmer: That's right. You know how many checks that we have to go through to make sure that a message is authentic? The X-O agreed to those orders, now he just wants to throw them away, they don't count?
 * Dougherty: He's lost his nerve.
 * Ince: Bullshit! I know this guy, Bobby!
 * Westergard: Weps, we're prepared for launch. How can we just sit here and do nothing when they're prepared to launch at us?
 * Ince: Well, we don't know that for sure, that's the whole point! That is why he needs time to confirm the message.
 * Zimmer: That's the whole fucking point, is that we don't got time! Radchenko is fueling his birds and why do you think he's doing that? Huh? Why? Because you don't put on a condom unless you're gonna fuck!

 * Hunter: Look, it wasn't a mutiny, I did everything by the book.
 * Chief of the Boat: It's not about the book. If the Russians are gonna launch and we sit here and do nothing... who's gonna stop 'em? Half of me's glad the Captain came back.
 * Hunter: No orders are right if they're wrong.
 * Chief of the Boat: We don't know that.
 * Hunter: You're right, we don't know. That's why it's our job to find out. [pours coffee] What if Radchenko surrendered and it's over, huh? We launch. They see us, and they launch. Our birds pass each other in the air. Boom. What have you got?
 * Chief of the Boat: Nuclear war.
 * Hunter: Nuclear holocaust.

 * [Under a truce between the divided crew, Captain Ramsey and Commander Hunter wait for the next three minutes on communications restoration...]''
 * Ramsey: Speaking of horses...did you ever see those Lipizzaner stallions?
 * Hunter: What?
 * Ramsey: From Portugal. The Lipizzaner stallions. The most highly trained horses in the world. They're all white.
 * Hunter: Yes, sir.
 * Ramsey: "Yes, sir" you're aware they're all white or "Yes, sir" you've seen them?
 * Hunter: Yes, sir, I've seen them. Yes, sir, I'm aware that they're all white. They're not from Portugal; they're from Spain. And at birth, they're not white; they're black. Sir.
 * Ramsey: [grins] I didn't know that. But they are from Portugal.

 * Radio: Conn/Radio. We are receiving flash traffic. Emergency action message. Recommend alert one. Recommend alert one.
 * Conn: Alert one. Alert one.
 * Capt. Ramsey: Dougherty, Westergaurd, Zimmer. Get that EAM.
 * Dougherty, Westergaurd, Zimmer: Aye, aye, sir.
 * Capt. Ramsey: [to Hunter] God help you if you're wrong.
 * Hunter: ...If I'm wrong, then we're at war...God help us all.

 * CNN Reporter Richard Valeriani: In the early hours of this morning, Russian Army forces moved in, and met surprisingly little resistance. There were some sporadic battles... but, apparently, the specter of fighting their countrymen proved too much for these rebel troops, and they surrendered quickly. So a crisis that seemed to be escalating beyond the point of no return, was ultimately resolved with fewer than a hundred soldiers dead. And the nuclear base captured by Radchenko is back in government hands. Reporting live from the French aircraft carrier Foch in the Mediterranean Sea, this is Richard Valeriani for CNN.

 * [Captain Ramsey and Lt Cdr Hunter face the US Navy board of inquiry]
 * Rear Admiral Anderson: Stand there, Lieutenant Commander Hunter, this won't take long. This panel has convened in order to investigate the events subsequent to the setting of condition 1SQ for strategic missile launch aboard the USS Alabama on 1 November. Now based on the testimony of personnel onboard the Alabama and in no small measure to that of the senior officer, Captain Ramsey, I'm prepared to make my recommendations to SUBPAC.
 * LCdr Hunter: Without my testimony, sir?
 * Anderson: You have a problem with that?
 * Hunter: I might, sir.
 * Anderson: I have known Captain Ramsey for almost 30 years. We've served together on more than a few occasions. If he is lying, this will be the first I've heard of it.
 * Hunter: Yes, sir.
 * Anderson: My primary concern here is the breakdown in the system. In this instance, the system failed because the two senior officers did not work to resolve their differences while preserving the chain of command. Now you may have been proven right Mr. Hunter, but in so far as the letter of the law is concerned, you were both right - and you were also both wrong. This is the dilemma that will occupy this panel, this Navy, and this country's armed forces as a whole long after you leave this room. Off the record, you've both created one hell of a mess. A mutiny aboard a United States nuclear submarine. Violation of nuclear launch protocol. For the record, it is the conclusion of this panel that your actions aboard the Alabama were consistent with the best traditions of the Navy and in the interests of the United States. As such, the recommendations of this panel will be: to accept, in a manner reflective of his long and dedicated service to his country, Captain Ramsey's request for early retirement from active duty; and based in no small part on Captain Ramsey's recommendation, that Lieutenant Commander Hunter be given his next command at the earliest possible convenience. Unless of course, you wish to challenge these recommendations.
 * Hunter: No, sir.
 * Anderson: Captain Ramsey?
 * Capt Ramsey: No, sir.
 * Anderson: Dismissed.

 * [outside the Admiralty building]
 * Hunter: Sir... I just wanted to say thank you.
 * [Ramsey holds up a hand]
 * Ramsey: You were right and I was wrong. [beat; Ramsey smiles] About the horses, the Lippanzaners. They are from Spain, not Portugal.
 * Hunter: [smiles] Yes, sir.
 * [They salute each other.]

Taglines

 * Danger runs deep.
 * In the face of the ultimate nuclear showdown, one man has absolute power and one man will do anything to stop him.
 * On the brink of nuclear war, two men clash over the fate of the world.

Cast

 * Denzel Washington - Lt. Commander Ron Hunter
 * Gene Hackman - Capt. Frank Ramsey
 * George Dzundza - Chief of the Boat
 * Matt Craven - Lt. Roy Zimmer, USS Alabama Communications Officer
 * Viggo Mortensen - Lt. Peter 'Weps' Ince
 * James Gandolfini - Lt. Bobby Dougherty
 * Rocky Carroll - Lt. Darik Westergard
 * Jaime Gomez - Officer of the Deck Mahoney
 * Michael Milhoan - Chief of the Watch Hunsicker
 * Scott Burkholder - T.S.O. Billy Linkletter
 * Danny Nucci - Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti
 * Lillo Brancato - Petty Officer Third Class Russell Vossler
 * Eric Bruskotter - Bennefield
 * Rick Schroder - Lt. Paul Hellerman
 * Steve Zahn - William Barnes

title: Crimson Tide


text:
Bananaman

Bananaman is a children's animated TV show which ran from 1983-86. It was produced by 101 Productions and featured the voice talents of Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jill Shilling.

Unknown episode

 * Narrator: This is 29 Accacia Road, and this is Eric the schoolboy who leads an amazing double life. For when Eric eats a banana an amazing transformation occurs. Eric is Bananaman. Ever alert for the call to action!

title: Bananaman


text:
Best in Show

Best in Show is a 2000 comedy, in the form of a mock documentary about a colorful array of characters who compete at a national dog show.
 * Directed by Christopher Guest. Written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy

Some pets deserve a little more respect than others.

Buck Laughlin

 * Now tell me, which one of these dogs would you want to have as your wide receiver on your football team?
 * And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten.

Others

 * Scott Donlan: She looks like a cocktail waitress on an oil rig.
 * Sherri Ann Cabot: Leslie and I have an amazing relationship and it's very physical, he still pushes all my buttons. People say 'oh but he's so much older than you' and you know what, I'm the one having to push him away. We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about.
 * Stefan Vanderhoof: If you're ever buying a shampoo sink go right to the Dutch. The French know nothing about shampooing.
 * Christy Cummings: We started this magazine, "American Bitch". It's a focus on the issues of the lesbian pure bred dog owner.
 * Scott Donlan: Bratwurst and shillelaghs... paging Dr. Freud.

Dialogue

 * Hamilton Swan: Honey, I'm thinking of switching to the mock turtleneck.
 * Meg Swan: Is that not breathing?
 * Hamilton Swan: Well, it's breathing now, but it'll be hot down there. I could go with the lambswool, but then again, you'll see a lot of khaki down there and this merlot looks good with the gray.

 * Gerry Fleck: She had dozens of boyfriends.
 * Cookie Fleck: Hundreds.
 * Gerry Fleck: Hundreds?
 * Cookie Fleck: Yeah, hundreds.
 * Gerry Fleck: Well, I did not know that.

Cast

 * Fred Willard - Buck Laughlin
 * Christopher Guest - Harlan Pepper
 * Michael McKean - Stefan Vanderhoof
 * John Michael Higgins - Scott Donlan
 * Catherine O'Hara - Cookie Guggelman Fleck
 * Eugene Levy - Gerald 'Gerry' Fleck
 * Jay Brazeau - Dr. Chuck Nelken
 * Parker Posey - Meg Swan
 * Michael Hitchcock - Hamilton Swan
 * Linda Kash - Fay Berman
 * Larry Miller - Max Berman
 * Patrick Cranshaw - Leslie Ward Cabot
 * Jennifer Coolidge - Sherri Ann Ward Cabot
 * Jane Lynch - Christy Cummings
 * Bob Balaban - Dr. Theodore W. Millbank III
 * Jim Piddock - Trevor Beckwith, the Commentator
 * Ed Begley Jr. - Mark Schaefer, Hotel Manager

title: Best in Show


text:
Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)

Danger Mouse (1981-1992) was a children's animated TV show, created by for Cosgrove Hall, and featured the voice talents of David Jason, Terry Scott, Edward Kelsey and Brian Trueman.

Catchphrases

 * Danger Mouse: Penfold, shush.

 * Danger Mouse: Good grief!

 * Penfold: Oh, crumbs!/Oh carrots!/Oh crikey!/Cor!

 * Stiletto: Si, Barone.

 * Grovel: I'm sorry! I'm sorry, master!

Narrator

 * Narrator: London, one of the nerve centers of world government. And in the midst of a complex web of streets and buildings, in a quiet corner of Mayfair, lives the greatest guardian of peace and justice in the civilized world. A secret agent so secret that even his codename has a codename. Yes, Danger Mouse! To the down-trodden, a hero! To the evil, a ruthless enemy!

 * Narrator: Danger Mouse's trusted assistant, Ernest Penfold. Codename: The Jigsaw, because when he's faced with a problem, he goes to pieces.

 * [As Penfold falls through the air at the end of the episode]
 * Narrator: Will it be Isaac Newton 1: Penfold nil? Tune in next time to find out!

 * Narrator: London. And in mild Mayfair, within a peculiar perpendicular pillar box, disguised dome of the death-defying duo, Danger Mouse the Daring and Penfold the Pathetic!

 * Narrator: And so we come to the confusion of another classically confusing conflict. Can the wretched robot be reconstructed or will he end up as rabbit rubbish? And what of Quark? Quark! Oh, gosh. To find out, join the tune, and see the next adventure of Danger Moose, I mean, Mouse. Sorry about that, J.J., or Jimmy, or...[fade out]

 * Narrator: London: Home of the elastic ruler, the clockwork lamppost and the inflatable knitting needle. A peaceful city, a city where, for once, there are no crimes, no adventures and no villains. Where nothing disturbs the cheery rustle of litter, the nimble dance of the pickpockets' fingers, and the soft swish of a shark's fin cutting through the tarmac. One of my better days. In fact, w--SHARK'S FIN? No, look, I was promised! They said there wouldn't be any--oh, DRAT. Not the blessed pillarbox! Not the world's greatest secret agent again! Oh really, this is too ridiculous! They said I could do poetry, I want to do poetry...!

 * Danger Mouse:Good heavens, Penfold. I never knew you could run like that!

 * Danger Mouse: By the way, Penfold, your library books are overdue!

 * Danger Mouse: Ah, that'll be Colonel K. Let's see what he wants, Penfold.

Penfold

 * Penfold: There's loyalty and loyalty, you know.

 * Penfold: (as Blue Flash) Ha, ha! Now you have no need to fear! Your hero, the Blue Flash is here! Fruit drops!

 * Penfold: (as Blue Flash) Cor! Superhero is how I'm feeling! Hope the chief's not cross about his ceiling, but now the real me has been unfurled, and I'm the greatest in the world! Fruit drops!

Colonel K.

 * Colonel K.: Ah, DM! Good show!

Grovel

 * Grovel: Oh, dear. So sorry about this, especially with us being two or three of a kind, but you know how it is!

Other

 * [Danger Mouse crashes through a brick wall]
 * Penfold: Oh, doesn't that hurt, Chief?
 * Danger Mouse: No, didn't feel a thing! [he faints]

 * [Danger Mouse and Penfold are standing below the wall of Greenback's castle]
 * Danger Mouse: Um, hello? Excuse me? Can we have our ball back, please? I...
 * [a fizzing bomb is dropped into his hand]
 * Danger Mouse: Oh, thanks very much!
 * Penfold: D.M! Look out! It's a bomb!
 * Danger Mouse: Hmm? Oh yes, I know it's a buh-buh-buh-buh, buh-buh-buh-buh, a b-, a b-, a bomb!
 * [BOOM!]

 * [Danger Mouse is being dangled over the snapping jaws of a crocodile]
 * Penfold: We could have had a weekend in Brighton!
 * Danger Mouse: I do not wish to know that, Penfold!

 * [Penfold answers the intercom]
 * Penfold: Hello?
 * Stilleto's voice: Delivery for Mr. Mouse.
 * Penfold: Just pop it in the lift, will you?
 * Stilleto's voice: Okay! [snickers]
 * Danger Mouse: What is it, Penfold?
 * Penfold: Well, they're sort of... they're too... [shrieks and flees as snapper robots enter the room]
 * DM: Sort of what, Penfold?
 * Penfold: Sort of unfriendly-like!
 * DM: Good heavens, Penfold! I never knew you could run like that! Now just keep calm!
 * [Penfold screams]
 * DM: And lead them over here, will you? By the way, Penfold...your library books are overdue.
 * Penfold: Uh, sorry, sir...sorry! [screams]
 * DM: The things that lad reads! "Jake Thunder, Superspy"! [crushes robots with books] Why, it's absolute rubbish!

 * Danger Mouse: [Looking at sign on door that reads C.H.M.F.F.G.] Look, Penfold... look what it says on that door.
 * Penfold: Oh, yes..."Chi-muff-guh".
 * DM: "Chi-mu--" No, Penfold, it stands for 'Car Holding Magnetic Force Field Generator'.
 * Penfold: 'Cor...how'd you figure that?
 * DM: Mm. [confidentially] I read the script.
 * Penfold: Ooh, naughty Danger Mouse.

 * Colonel K: Good show, DM. Weel dine.
 * Penfold: Weel dine?
 * Colonel K: Oh drat I mean well done.

 * DM: You must stop this, Master Lobsnit.
 * Lobsnit: Never, Never, Never!! Or perhaps onto the 2nd floor.

 * Stiletto: Fancy you, I was just looking for...
 * Penfold: House of [laughs]
 * Danger Mouse: Don't take it easy, Penfold. This is no real person, this is the Baron's henchman!
 * Penfold: Not Stiletto!
 * Stiletto: Yeah, Signora Mafiosa to you. Peasant. So sorry I can't wait to talk. Ulamanergick!

 * Baron Greenback: So, they think my little snippersnappers will lead them to my hideout. Well, I have news for them, eh, Nero?
 * [Nero giggles]
 * [The snapper robots explode]
 * Penfold: Crumbs! I didn't touch anything! It wasn't me, sir!
 * Danger Mouse: It's all right, Penfold. It self-destructed.
 * Penfold: Self-destructed?
 * DM: Yes. You know, that echo sounded just like you! Anyways, yes. That must mean we're close to its base. We'd better split up!
 * Penfold: Right, sir. Uh, can I split up and come with you?
 * DM: No, Penfold!

 * Colonel K.: Ah, DM, good show!
 * Danger Mouse: Yes, Colonel?
 * Colonel K.: Our spotters have spied a spaceship!
 * DM: Spied a spaceship?
 * Colonel K.: Precisely! Now I want you two to go out and investigate before this alien, whoever he is, starts trouble!
 * Penfold: Trouble, Colonel?
 * Colonel: Right, interfering with our radio transmission...
 * [signal interference, J.J. Quark appears on screen]
 * Quark: Right, you lot! Stop your blubbering!
 * DM: You lot?
 * Quark: My name is Quark. J.J. Quark.
 * DM: Oh, really?
 * Quark: I'm from a planet far beyond your kin, you kin! And I'm the owner of planet Earth!
 * DM: You're what?!
 * Quark: This is a cosmic charter, giving Earth to my great-great-great-great grandfather! Anyway, I'm on my way to take over! And if there's any argument from anyone, I'll paralyze his particles, you kin!
 * [signal interference, Colonel K. returns]
 * Colonel K.: I say, did you chaps get an alien chappie on your screen just now?
 * Penfold: Aye! Uh, yes, Colonel!
 * Colonel K.: Talk in a foreign language?
 * DM: More or less, Colonel. Says he's going to take over planet Earth!
 * Colonel K.: Great Scot! Better get after them! Stop them right now!
 * DM: Right, sir! Come on, Penfold!

 * Count Duckula: He who sheds his blood with me shall be my supper!

Cast

 * David Jason
 * Terry Scott
 * Edward Kelsey
 * Brian Trueman

title: Danger Mouse (1981 TV series)


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