Preston Sturges was a great satirical film maker. My favorite Preston Surges movie was a 1940 B&W classic (“The Great McGinty”) that I saw on TV back in the 1950s. I have never encountered it since then – but I never forgot it.
Until the revelations of organized California Democrat Party voter fraud this week – especially the subsidized homeless and subsidized drug addict recruitment, I had not thought of this hysterically funny satire for a long, long time.
It…..
Part I
A riot is a mass of people using violence for a socio-political purpose. It may last for hours until it is quelled by the use of greater Force and Violence to re-impose the existent Rule of Law. Rioters are subsequently punished or they will return and riot again.
An insurrection is the repetitive use of riots over many days or months to impose the rioters’ purposes on Government. One or the other must use GREATER FORCE to prevail.
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Without a truly competitive News Media eager to embarrass their rivals for mistakes in reporting “who, what, when, where, how, why” about actual news events that have occurred, Civilized Common Citizens will end up with only two choices of Oppression by Government.
[Before the stare decesis Catastrophic Constitutional Error of the 1960s Sullivan Rule, the Truth of what is reported is determined when challenged by a jury of twelve Common Citizens who listen to both the testimony of the two…..
(Presented as a movie treatment dream sequence)
Not tremendously different from the “It’s a Wonderful Life” 1948 movie wherein the Almighty God sends an angel named Clarence to persuade the Jimmy Stewart character that he really did live a Wonderful Moral Life. In this new version, the Almighty God sends a TV news crew (floodlights and all) into David Lammy’s most Private Isolated living quarters.
The TV interviewer asks David Lammy to sign one of two contracts.
Contract I: “I…..