McLIBEL -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[BBC] The world's largest fast-food business, McDonald's, has begun a libel action at the High Court against two environmental campaigners.
[TV News Announcer] Dave Morris and Helen Steel are accused of claiming that McDonald's products caused ill health and destroyed rainforests.
TRIAL DAY 1
[Dave Morris] McDonald's argued that we should be denied a jury because a jury would find the issues in the case too complex to deal with.
[Helen Steel] And we just thought that it should be thrown out. It's just so ridiculous. You know, we've got to understand it, we're members of the public, so, you know, why can't a jury understand what's going on? But much to our horror, it wasn't just thrown out. And you know, the judge went along with their argument, and ruled that we wouldn't have a jury. And basically, that meant we were left presenting the case to a judge on his own, Mr. Justice Bell. [AB-1] Also Sprach Zarathustra! (That's a joke! Nietzsche, I hate you!) [AB-2]
_______________ American-Buddha Librarian's Comments: [AB-1] It's so much easier for a corporation to control one judge compared to a jury of one's peers. [AB-2] Webster Griffin Tarpley, "9/11 Synthetic Terrorism Made in USA" wrote: ... Nietzsche as the glorifier of hierarchy, slavery, violence, war, and terrorism. In some of the notes that Nietzsche made during the time he was writing his Genealogy of Morals, we read: "Which way? We need a new terrorism." In the section of Ecce Homo entitled "Why I am a fate," we find the following: "I know my fate. My name will be linked someday to the memory of something monstrous -- to a crisis whose like never existed on earth, to the deepest clash of conscience, to a decision conjured up against everything which had been believed, promoted, held sacred up to then. I am not a man, I am dynamite."
PATRICIA: Nietzsche says whoever despises oneself ...
still respects oneself as one who despises.
CHUCK: Shit, I never thought of that.
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