Punishment Park (1971)

Patrick Boland: First Tribunal Defendant

Quotes 

• Defendant Lee Robert Brown : You don't wanna hear my message. You spent fifty years evolving a propaganda system that'll take the truth and change it into what you wanna hear. You don't wanna hear shit that's gonna mean you might have to give up something. You don't want it. All you wanna do is sit on your fat, dividend-drawing ass and draw dividends.

• James Daly, Defense Attorney : Ladies and Gentlemen of the tribunal, I would like to read you something: "The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without. We need law and order or our nation cannot survive". We might all be forgiven for supposing those to be the words of our President. But they are not. Those words were uttered in 1932 by Adolf Hitler.

  Defendant Lee Robert Brown : Sieg motherfucking Heil!

  James Daly, Defense Attorney : We know what kind of law and order followed in that country.

• Defendant Lee Robert Brown : America is as psychotic as it is powerful and violence is the only goddamn thing that will command your attention.

• Defendant Lee Robert Brown : I will tell what happened to people who are poor and uneducated and automated out of a job and who stand in long fucking lines talking to little people like you with delusions of power, and unemployment lines all day long, to be fucked off because your old man didn't ball you right last night or you got a case of crabs.