There is a new film called 28 Days Later, which to summarize extremely briefly, involves Britain in the very near future laid waste by a bio-engineered plague released by animal ‘rights’ activists. This plague, called The Rage, turns people into feral zombie-like killers.
Although the film has gained some rather good reviews, why bother shelling out your hard earned and heavily taxed money to see zombies up on the big screen?
Britain is already full of zombies tramping somnambulantly under the CCTV cameras, past the voting booths in which they can meaninglessly vote for ‘worst choice one’ or ‘worst choice two’ and only moving at all due to the sensory stimuli provided by the carcinogenic stench of greasy fast food dispensaries and the flickering light cast by sub-moronic Pavlovian response inducing game shows.
So why bother going to see a film about them when all you have to do to see zombies is look out your well barred and burglar alarmed window?
I am not usually this bleak-of-view, but to see the protections of both habeas corpus and double jeopardy doomed by a currently unassailable government… and yet to then see this greeted not with rioting on the streets but for the most part with a collective ovine shrug, does rather lead anyone who values liberty to dark sentiments.
Bright Side of Life (abridged)
If life seems jolly rotten,
There’s something you’ve forgotten,
And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you’re feeling in the dumps,
Don’t be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle. That’s the thing.
And…
Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistling]
Always look on the right side of life,
[whistling]
For life is quite absurd
And death’s the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin.
Give the audience a grin.
Enjoy it. It’s your last chance, anyhow.
So,…
Always look on the bright side of death,
[whistling]
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
[whistling]
Life’s a piece of shit,
When you look at it.
Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke. It’s true.
You’ll see it’s all a show.
Keep ’em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And…
Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistling]
and so on
I knew there was a lot of hub-bub about wanting to end double jeopardy protection over there, but this was the first time I’d heard about them trying to shoot down habeas corpus as well.
Thank God (and I do mean that literally) for the Bill of Rights.
Right, “god” gave us the bill of rights. At best, it was written by humans who happened to believe in god, though I’m not really that sure how much Thomas Jefferson actually believed in the Christian god. He wrote a version of the new testament without any miracles.
This movie looks interesting (though sort of similar to 12 Monkeys), but their website is terribly designed. And the trailers for it wouldn’t play on my computer. I hate Flash.
They’re making a movie of the Bill of Rights?
[growling American voice] “It was an amendment he was prepared to give his life to protect…”
[cut to shot of Charlton Heston brandishing Bushmaster over his head]
“From my cold, dead hands, you filthy ape!”
Incidentally if you go take a peak at multimap.com, you can watch the video feeds from some of the cameras… the Bolshovik Broadcasting Conspiracy (voice of Millbank) has some cameras on their site too.(I think under traffic)
If surveillance cameras are needed in Britain, they should be placed in the Houses of Parliament and in committee chambers.
British parliamentary activity has been televised for quite some time now, but there is no such thing as C-SPAN generally available (the public broadcasting corporation would never do anything so useful as real public service broadcasting), so no-one ever sees it unless through the filter of the leftist news media.
I think Philip’s right. This is one area where British “pragmatism” and “tolerance” needs to be sacrificed for some old-fashioned British idealism and outrage.