I have been busy for the past week and haven't had the time to do any constructive posts, but I have something for you today. It is the speech made by Jean-Claude Van Damme as Colonel William F. Guile when the politician/bureaucrat tells him they are going to give in to the demands of the bad guy. If any one remembers the Street Fighter movie staring Jean-Claude Van Damme from 1994 most considered it a bad movie, I always thought it wasn't great but it isn't bad. Now for the Transcript of the Speech, I will explain why a Transcript afterwords.
I was reminded of this speech when I just watched again on tape the other day. It just seems to hit home to the point of the way the Progressives want to solve problems, especially in the recent light of Obama's Limiting Potential Uses of Nuclear Weapons, if you throw enough money at something or someone you will solve the problem.
A.N. Official: [getting saluted] As you were, Colonel.
Colonel William F. Guile: What a surprise. Welcome to the Shadaloo front. You're just in time for the kickoff.
A.N. Official: I'm afraid not, Colonel. The Security Council has just voted. They've decided to negotiate.
Colonel William F. Guile: You're joking!
A.N. Official: We think we can deal with General Bison. You're instructed to call off the assault. Contact him. Request an extension of his deadline. We are prepared to pay the ransom demand.
Colonel William F. Guile: Twenty billion dollars? What will prevent him from taking more hostages next month and asking for fifty billion?
[gives him a slight shove]
Colonel William F. Guile: One hundred billion?
A.N. Official: Colonel, have you lost your mind?
Colonel William F. Guile: No! You've lost your balls!
A.N. Official: Colonel Guile, deliver these instructions to your troops, then consider yourself relieved of your command!
Colonel William F. Guile: [solemnly] Troopers, I just received new orders. Our superiors say the war is cancelled. We can all go home. Bison is getting paid off for his crimes, and our friends who have died here will have died for nothing. But, we can all go home. Meanwhile, ideals like peace, freedom, and justice, they get packed up. But, we can all go home.
[angrily]
Colonel William F. Guile: Well, I'm not going home. I'm gonna get on my boat, and I'm going up river, and I'm going to kick that son of a bitch Bison's ass so hard that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it! Now, who wants to go home... and who wants to go with me?
[the troopers cheer]
A.N. Official: Colonel Guile! Colonel Guile, these instructions...!
[accidentally drops them into the water]
A.N. Official: Stop them, please!
Colonel William F. Guile: Hey, I would love to! But some moron just canned me!
Now the reason why this is a Transcript is I couldn't find a clip of the speech, it would seem that NBC Universal, A.K.A. the Obama Network, doesn't want it on the web, as Video anyway. This speech is one of the Greatest in Cinematic History, in my opinion anyway.
Solomon.