Observations on Soylent Green

Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings

Hath in the tables of his law commanded

That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,

Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?

Gilbert: 

[hesitating before killing Simonson] 

Uh... They told me to uh... 

To say that They were sorry, but that you had become... 

unreliable. 

Simonson: 

That's True. 

Gilbert: 

They can't risk, uh... catastrophe, They say. 

Simonson: 

They're right. 

Gilbert: 

Then, uh... this is Right? 

Simonson: 

No, not Right... 

Necessary. 

Gilbert: 

To who? 

Simonson: 

To... God.

Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,

To hurl upon their heads that break his law.

He needs no indirect nor lawless course

To cut off those that have offended him.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

We're closing the Simonson case.

Det. Thorn :

The hell you say.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

You heard me. The Simonson case is officially closed. Felonious assault. Sign.

Det. Thorn :

Yesterday you agreed it was assassination.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

There's been 137 reported murders since then. And we won't solve them either.

Det. Thorn :

I'm not gonna falsify that report.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

Got a suspect?

Det. Thorn :

I've got leads.

This isn't somebody you scratch after 24 hours and forget.

I told you there's been a tail on me.

Something stinks here.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

Look. You'll sign this. And I'll bury it.

Det. Thorn :

Like hell you will.

A member of the board of the Soylent Corporation was torn apart with a meat hook!

You can't sweep that carcass under the rug.

Who bought you?

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

You're bought when They pay you a salary.

Det. Thorn :

Who's They?

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

High and hot. 
They want this case closed permanently! Their way.

Now you sign this.

Det. Thorn :

You sign it!

If my name closes this case and somebody higher and hotter wants to know why, it's my job!

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

Sign it. 
I'll cover for you.

Det. Thorn :

I won't put my job in the line for you, Hatcher 

Not my damn job!

To be a Black Thorn is to be The Senior Partners' instrument on Earth.
Doesn't get bigger than that.

But say, my lord, it were not register'd,

Methinks The Truth should live from age to age,

As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,

Even to the general all-ending day.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

My name is Paul. 

[ It means "small". ]

 Have I done something? 

Det. Thorn :

 No. I'm investigating the murder of Mr. William Simonson.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

Who do you say?

Det. Thorn :

Simonson. Quite an important man. 

A rich man. 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

I have no recollection.

Det. Thorn :

You talked to him. 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

Did I? 

 No doubt about it. 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

A rich man. Yes. I remember. 

We don't see rich people here anymore. 

 There isn't even enough room for the poor. 

 There's just too many. 

 Far too many. 

Det. Thorn :

Fa... 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

My memory's eroded. 

 Chiefly, I assign space to people who need space. 

 Do you need some space? 

Det. Thorn :

 I need to know what he said to you.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

 Are you sure he's dead? 

Det. Thorn :

Yes.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

Really dead?

Det. Thorn :

He's dead.

What did he talk to you about?

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

Come back tomorrow. 

I'm very tired now. 

Det. Thorn :

Father.

Father. Did you hear his confession?

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

There should be a requiem mass.... 
But there's no room.

Det. Thorn :
Should I make room?
This is very important.

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
I can't help you.

Forgive me. It's destroying me.

Det. Thorn :

What is? 

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
The Truth.

Det. Thorn :

The Truth Simonson told you?

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :
All Truth. 

Det. Thorn :
What is it?

What did he confess?

Exhausted Priest w. PTSD :

Sweet Jesus...

Solomon :

It's horrible.

Senior Elder T'Pau, 
Superior Head of The Supreme Exchange :

You must accept it.

Solomon :

I see the words. 

But I can't believe them.

Senior Elder T'Pau, 
Superior Head of The Supreme Exchange :

Believe.

The evidence is overwhelming.

Simonson was a member of The Board.

He learned these facts. And they shook his sanity.

The corporation knew...

...he was not reliable anymore.

They feared he might talk...

...and so he was eliminated.

Solomon :

Then why are They doing this?

Senior Elder T'Pau, 
Superior Head of The Supreme Exchange :
Because it's easier.

I think "expedient" is the word.

What we need is the proof of what they are doing...

...before we bring it to the Council of Nations.

Solomon :

Good God...

Elder :

What God. Mr. Roth?

Where will we find him?

Solomon :

Perhaps at Home.

Elder :

Yes. At Home.

Fielding :

Oh, no.

I won't hit a cop. 

Bastard.

Det. Thorn :

Yeah. I know.

 He slaps his Woman around and tosses her into the corner - Fielding comes flying across the room at him like some kind of Bruce Lee shit, kicking him in the head

Det. Thorn :

You'll get Life for that. Jerk!

Life in a waste disposal plant in a Soylent factory someplace.

[ Or, perhaps not.]

How about that big fat Soylent Corporation?

Do you work for them like Simonson did?

How much did they pay you for that one?

Does Soylent buy your strawberries?

Anybody tails me. Bothers me one more time...

...l'll come back here and kill you both. Got it?

Get off my back!

Solomon :

I haven't eaten like this in years.

Det. Thorn :

I never ate like this.

Solomon :

And now you know what you've been missing.

There was A World once. You punk.

Det. Thorn :

Yes. So you keep telling me.

Solomon :

I was there. I can prove it.

Det. Thorn :

I know. I know.

When you were young. 

People were better.

Solomon :

Oh, Nuts. People were always rotten.

But The World was Beautiful.

Det. Thorn :

Sol. Can you hear me?

Solomon :

Thorn

Yes.

Solomon :

Thank you for coming.

Det. Thorn :

Oh, dear God.

Solomon :

I've lived too long.

Det. Thorn :

No.

Solomon :

I love you. Thorn.

Det. Thorn :

I love you. Sol.

Solomon :

Can you see it?

Det. Thorn :

Yes.

Solomon :

Isn't it beautiful?

Det. Thorn :

Oh. Yes.

Solomon :

I told you.

How could I know?

How could I...?

How could I ever imagine?

Solomon :

Horrible.

Simonson.

Soylent.

Listen to me. Thorn.

Thorn. Listen.

Det. Thorn :

I can't hear him.

Do something. Damn it!

Yes. Sol.

........

Solomon :

You've got to prove it, Thorn.

Go to The Exchange.

Please, Thorn.

You've got to prove it. Thorn.

The Exchange.

Go to...

*****

Det. Thorn :

Hatcher...

...get to the Exchange.

You gotta tell them they're Right.

Chief of Detectives Hatcher :

But let's take care of you first.

Det. Thorn :

You don't understand.

I've got proof.

They need proof.

I've seen it. I've seen it happening.

They've gotta tell people.

Larry Gopnick :

Did you follow that?

Sy Able man :

Of coss.

Except that I know what's going on. 

How do you explain.

Larry Gopnick :

Well, it might be that, in, you know, in L'olam ha-bah -

          

Sy Able man :

Excuse me. 

Not the issue. 

In THIS World, Larry.

( He nods at the chalkboard )

I'll concede that it's subtle. 

It's clevva. 

But at The End of The Day - is it convincing?

LARRY :

Well- yes, it's convincing. 

It's a proof. 

It's mathematics.

          

Sy Ableman :

Excuse me, Larry. 

Mathematics. 

Is the Art of The Possible.

LARRY's brow furrows.

The Freedom Charter of 1955

The Freedom Charter

As adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 

We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:

that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people;

that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by a form of government founded on injustice and inequality;

that our country will never be prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood, enjoying equal rights and opportunities;

that only a democratic state, based on the will of all the people, can secure to all their birthright without distinction of colour, race, sex or belief;

And therefore, we, the people of South Africa, black and white together equals, countrymen and brothers adopt this Freedom Charter;

And we pledge ourselves to strive together, sparing neither strength nor courage, until the democratic changes here set out have been won.

The People Shall Govern!

Every man and woman shall have the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws;

All people shall be entitled to take part in the administration of the country;

The rights of the people shall be the same, regardless of race, colour or sex;

All bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils and authorities shall be replaced by democratic organs of self-government .

All National Groups Shall have Equal Rights!

There shall be equal status in the bodies of state, in the courts and in the schools for all national groups and races;

All people shall have equal right to use their own languages, and to develop their own folk culture and customs;

All national groups shall be protected by law against insults to their race and national pride;

The preaching and practice of national, race or colour discrimination and contempt shall be a punishable crime;

All apartheid laws and practices shall be set aside.

The People Shall Share in the Country`s Wealth!

The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be restored to the people;

The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole;

All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the wellbeing of the people;

All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufacture and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.

The Land Shall be Shared Among Those Who Work It!

Restrictions of land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended, and all the land re-divided amongst those who work it to banish famine and land hunger;

The state shall help the peasants with implements, seed, tractors and dams to save the soil and assist the tillers;

Freedom of movement shall be guaranteed to all who work on the land;

All shall have the right to occupy land wherever they choose;

People shall not be robbed of their cattle, and forced labour and farm prisons shall be abolished.

All Shall be Equal Before the Law!

No-one shall be imprisoned, deported or restricted without a fair trial; No-one shall be condemned by the order of any Government official;

The courts shall be representative of all the people;

Imprisonment shall be only for serious crimes against the people, and shall aim at re-education, not vengeance;

The police force and army shall be open to all on an equal basis and shall be the helpers and protectors of the people;

All laws which discriminate on grounds of race, colour or belief shall be repealed.

All Shall Enjoy Equal Human Rights!

The law shall guarantee to all their right to speak, to organise, to meet together, to publish, to preach, to worship and to educate their children;

The privacy of the house from police raids shall be protected by law;

All shall be free to travel without restriction from countryside to town, from province to province, and from South Africa abroad;

Pass Laws, permits and all other laws restricting these freedoms shall be abolished.

There Shall be Work and Security!

All who work shall be free to form trade unions, to elect their officers and to make wage agreements with their employers;

The state shall recognise the right and duty of all to work, and to draw full unemployment benefits;

Men and women of all races shall receive equal pay for equal work;

There shall be a forty-hour working week, a national minimum wage, paid annual leave, and sick leave for all workers, and maternity leave on full pay for all working mothers;

Miners, domestic workers, farm workers and civil servants shall have the same rights as all others who work;

Child labour, compound labour, the tot system and contract labour shall be abolished.

The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall be Opened!

The government shall discover, develop and encourage national talent for the enhancement of our cultural life;

All the cultural treasures of mankind shall be open to all, by free exchange of books, ideas and contact with other lands;

The aim of education shall be to teach the youth to love their people and their culture, to honour human brotherhood, liberty and peace;

Education shall be free, compulsory, universal and equal for all children; Higher education and technical training shall be opened to all by means of state allowances and scholarships awarded on the basis of merit;

Adult illiteracy shall be ended by a mass state education plan;

Teachers shall have all the rights of other citizens;

The colour bar in cultural life, in sport and in education shall be abolished.

There Shall be Houses, Security and Comfort!

All people shall have the right to live where they choose, be decently housed, and to bring up their families in comfort and security;

Unused housing space to be made available to the people;

Rent and prices shall be lowered, food plentiful and no-one shall go hungry;

A preventive health scheme shall be run by the state;

Free medical care and hospitalisation shall be provided for all, with special care for mothers and young children;

Slums shall be demolished, and new suburbs built where all have transport, roads, lighting, playing fields, creches and social centres;

The aged, the orphans, the disabled and the sick shall be cared for by the state;

Rest, leisure and recreation shall be the right of all:

Fenced locations and ghettoes shall be abolished, and laws which break up families shall be repealed.

There Shall be Peace and Friendship!

South Africa shall be a fully independent state which respects the rights and sovereignty of all nations;

South Africa shall strive to maintain world peace and the settlement of all international disputes by negotiation - not war;

Peace and friendship amongst all our people shall be secured by upholding the equal rights, opportunities and status of all;

The people of the protectorates Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland shall be free to decide for themselves their own future;

The right of all peoples of Africa to independence and self-government shall be recognised, and shall be the basis of close co-operation.

Let all people who love their people and their country now say, as we say here:

THESE FREEDOMS WE WILL FIGHT FOR, SIDE BY SIDE, THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES, UNTIL WE HAVE WON OUR LIBERTY

Secret Emergency Services

Paul Embery, of the Fire Brigades Union, told Channel 4 News that there were concerns over donations from “secret societies”.

"We don't want to sound uncharitable but our concern is that this is really a slippery slope,” he said.

“The idea of private companies or secret societies effectively purchasing front line emergency service vehicles and having their insignia - free advertising effectively - we are really concerned that could lead to a greater inflow of private money into what really is a private service."

Well, that ain't good - why should they want to even do that...?

I thought they believed in ANONYMOUS giving...?

"The society gave £2.5 million to the fire service to purchase two vehicles with high aerial ladders, which would be capable of reaching the top of a building as high as Grenfell Tower."

BINGO....

The central tenet of Christian Charity is this -

when encountering somebody who asks for alms, you cannot ask to know what he intends or expects to use the money for...

It is only enough for you to know that he is needy - you cannot place conditionalities on any gift of monies.

But Freemasons are not Christians - Freemasons cannot be Christians, and indeed their tenets are explictly anti-Christian and anti-Church :

Meaning, they naturally therefore have absolutely no qualms whatever regarding the Church of England, which is neither if those things.

What Should You Say to a Callow Youth with Two Black Eyes...?

First thing Tyler yells is, "The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

"The second rule about fight club", Tyler yells, "is you don't talk about fight club."

Indeed, What can  you say to him - he's already been told twice.
He's quite clearly Truly Incorrigable.

 IF YOU HIDE YOUR IGNORANCE, NO-ONE WILL HIT YOU, AND YOU WILL NEVER LEARN.

Q : WHY is the Second Rule of Fight Club "You Do Not Talk About Fight Club."?

A : Because only a Generation of Men raised by Women would have to be told twice.

Me, I knew my dad for about six years, but I don't remember anything. My dad, he starts a new family in a new town about every six years. This isn't so much like a family as it is like he is setting up a franchise.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

My father never went to college so it was really important that I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what?

My dad didn't know.

When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married.

I'm a thirty-year old boy, and I am wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.