| The Great Santini's advice to the Duke defendants | |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 8 2010, 07:31 PM Post #1 |
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The Great Santini (as played by Robert Duvall) in the film of the same name, providing advice to his children; republished here for the benefit of all the defendants in the Duke legal suits: There are two types of people in this world that I absolutely cannot stand and will not have in my presence. . . Liars. And thieves. And in my experience, if you are one, you are the other. And no child of mine will be a liar. Or a thief. As you get older, now, you will find yourself facing peer-pressure, and societal pressures, and plenty of opportunities to disappoint your father with poor choices made. You will not always make the correct choice. You will not always make the choice that you would have made if you had stopped and asked yourself, first, 'What would dad think of this?' I understand that. That is called 'growing up.' You're going to screw up. You're going to do things that disappoint me. You might be afraid to tell me the truth. You may think I will get mad, or that you will be punished. You're right. I will. And you will. But, whatever anger or punishment you might have experienced had you looked me in the eye and told me the truth will be NOTHING compared to to the WRATH OF GOD you will experience the very first time you ever look me in the eye and LIE to me! And remember this. More important than the eyes in the back of my head and my bat-like hearing is the fact that liars are always their own undoing. Liars always, in the end, give themselves away. Because, if you tell one lie, you always have to tell a second lie when questioned about the first, and then a third, to make the first two seem more like the truth. Finally, all of the lies come tumbling down like a house of cards. Knowing everything, as I do, I will see through your lies. I will question you about them. I will force you to concoct more lies. And then I will hang you with them. And you will wish you had never been born. Your chances of fooling me with lies may be one in a thousand. And you may think youself pretty slick, at first, should you fool me. But, that real slick feeling will soon give way to a real sick feeling. Because every single time you look at yourself in the mirror after having lied to fool me, your father who loves you, you will see not only a liar, but a liar and a thief. A thief of trust. And that's not what I'm raising." |
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| Quasimodo | Mar 8 2010, 07:34 PM Post #2 |
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Counting up all the participants in the Frame and the attempt afterwards to Conceal The Frame, how many liars have we got? |
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| abb | Mar 8 2010, 07:52 PM Post #3 |
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Most of the DPD All of the DA's office Almost all the Allen building All the judges Many newspaper editors and publishers Lots of lawyers That's a good start. I'll think of more after a bit. |
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