A Movie Every Government Agent Should Watch

June 6, 2010 by Brad
Filed under: National, News, Police, Rant, Thuggery

Equlibrium. One of my favorite movies of all time and a movie with a message that changed my life.

The movie centers around a government enforcement agent in the future where everyone is forced to take medication to repress emotion. When the agent stops taking medication he begins to realize all the cruelty that he is inflicting on people. Once he realizes the cruelty that the government represents, he violently destroys it. The message, minus the violence (violence is the problem), is one that I wish every person who enforces government laws would absorb, reflect, and find metaphors for.

I too was a government agent doing cruel things to people. I wasn’t taking medication to repress emotion like in the movie… but I was led to believe that what I was doing was the right thing to do. Hurting someone is never the right thing to do.

In the movie the government enforcement agents kill dogs as a matter of routine. It seems awfully cruel in the Hollywood depiction of a future dystopian society. It seems even crueler in the actual reality of the now.

I couldn’t find the actual scene where dogs are shot at random… but I did find this awesome scene where, once feeling, the agent (Christian Bale) saves a puppy from destruction:

I share this with you because of this article (which Radley Balko posted today on his own blog) about the police wrongfully shooting a medical aid dog. This comes not a month after the video went viral about the cruel actions of the police SWAT team in in Columbia, Missouri.

Your heart should tell you that this is wrong… even before it happens to you or an animal you love.

Comments

5 Comments on A Movie Every Government Agent Should Watch

FormingDeath on Sun, 6th Jun 2010 8:04 pm

I saw Equilibrium in theaters… it was pulled after 2 weeks.

There are some continuity errors and it runs a bit long… plus the premise of functioning humans without emotions is a bit silly…

Still, I think it might be the most entertaining anti-state movie I’ve seen. Most “libertarian” moves are boring as hell… Its great to have on DVD to share with people, most 20 something males really enjoy it.

theKINGofKEENE on Sun, 6th Jun 2010 8:09 pm

Right here in Jumanjiville(“keene”), we have Edward J. Burke, “presiding ” “justice”" of KANGAROO (keene) DISTRICT Court, who is himself a former Board of Directors Member of “MFS” (Monadnock Family Services), which is the largest $$$ & power/control recipient of the “Mental Health Court”‘s VICTIMS…”mental health court” is a blatant violation of several USConstitutional Protections, and also violates HIPPA, & other Fed. Laws, rules, & etc, and mostly forces, (again, through Burkes’ court orders!!!…), people to take brain damaging psychiatric drugs…So this slimeball / sleazeball lawyer (Burke…)helps set up a quasi-secret, illegal, court, here in Keene, for the purpose of forcing the so-called “mentally ill” to take very expensive drugs, then gets Lynch to appoint him *JUDGE* to the court Burke helped set up!!!…PEOPLE! IT AIN’T NO FUCKING MOVIE FROM SOME “FUTURE”! IT IS, & HAS BEEN, GOING ON RIGHT HERE IN KEENE FOR YEARS!!!…What I gotta do???…Hit you fucking idiots in the head with a *SLEDGEHAMMER*???…*LITERALLY*???…Go flash you titties tuesday, smoke pot @4:20 everyday, FINE!…while your brothers & sisters are being tortured with drugs thanks to Burkes’ illegal court, you folks are out smokin’ pot & partying…thanks for the help. NOT. Do you see why you keep losing folks who *COULD have been* your best friends???…