They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not in Hollywood) - #19

We do not live in a "litigious society." We live in a world that is afraid to be litigious because of the relentless jokes and talking points paid for by the US Chamber of Commerce and other lobbyist vampire squid groups like them. We need to be more litigious. There is no other way to settle legitimate disputes and redress real grievances. watch this film. it's amazing.

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LTTE: Public officials see ‘threats’ everywhere

Public officials see ‘threats’ everywhere

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Warren County Sheriff David Gallant essentially says he “can’t tell” what a threat is anymore because of the rise of social media websites (“Threats to judges taken seriously in age of Facebook and Twitter, authorities say,” Feb. 24).

Oh, how easy it is for public officials to blame their own ignorance on some indescribable patina of mystification descending on us all by a strange new mysterious phenomena.

Blah, blah, blah. Bollocks, I say.

There’s no confusion about what a threat is. Look it up. This is a serious issue that needs to be clarified, quick.

Last week a man in Cincinnati was ordered by a judge to post a groveling apology to his wife on Facebook because of a previous post that said “all you need to do is say that you’re scared of your husband or domestic partner and they’ll take (your child) away.”

That’s political speech. A judge ordered a man around for it. Not an isolated incident.

Concerned citizens need to vent, but the Violence Against Women Act ensures an accused man will be punished even if the accusation turns out to be false.

In most cases, judges are immune from prosecution, even if their erroneous decisions profoundly harm families.

And if it’s in family court? The watchdog eye of the media is forbidden to ever know what happened.

This is pure insanity. If we are made to be afraid to vent by easily offended ignorant public officials, it’s time to have them removed from office.

ERIK ANDERSON

Independence Township

Published: Monday, February 27, 2012, 4:21 AM

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I was raped when I was 6. I didn’t tell anyone until I was 21. The reason my life fell apart after that was not because I was raped 15 years in the past. It was because either no one believed me, or they adamantly interfered with my ability to do anything about it. I was not able to claim my own power back until ten years later, but guess what? The statute of limitations on sexual assault on a child is 5 years after the victim’s eighteenth birthday.

I really don’t hate the pedophile who raped me. Sorry if that offends somebody. That’s how I honestly feel. I do have intense hatred for those who interfered with my expressed desire to get justice.

I couldn’t do it on my own. I was 21, sure, technically an adult: but I was terrified. Terrified! I had Asperger’s Syndrome. I was still being mentally abused by several people. My father had just been diagnosed with terminal Parkinson’s Disease which killed him. It was fucking chaos. If somebody, anybody else, who had any kind of authority in the institutions that I appealed to for help in those days had stood up and even just listened to me, really listened to me. The world would be a better place.

The world is the world. It is what it is. We have to accept it no matter what or we will kill ourselves. But it would be better if things changed the way Jimmy Williams in the above video and many other people this past week have been calling for.

Thank you for letting me speak.

Erik B. Anderson
The King of Funny Faces

PS - Thank you Goldie Taylor

They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #13

I just posted this review on Netflix. Hopefully, it will be posted soon.

Move over Mongol. Red Hill is officially now my favorite movie of ALL TIME! Jimmy Conway is one of the most iconic characters in all of film. He's scary as hell like Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, but without the quirky haircut and the one liners. The plot is pretty much the exact opposite of High Noon. It's every bit as iconic. The whole thing is bloody perfect. It's glorious. I'm definitely going to buy the DVD and I want to buy a copy for all my friends. I just might do that for somebody I know who's having a birthday next month. Never mind the bollocks in some of the other reviews. Watch this movie. You won't regret it.

So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!