02
May
You get it, Reverend
In John Ford’s “The Searchers,” a posse of homesteaders, including friends and family, track a band of Comanches who’ve killed a rancher & his wife and children. When they follow the tracks up a mesa, they find a brave buried under a flat stone, apparently shot by the rancher. The rancher’s brother Ethan, played by John Wayne, stays in the saddle and shoots out the dead man’s eyes.
Reverend Clayton: What good did that do ya?
Ethan: By what you preach, none. But what that Comanche believes, ain’t got no eyes, he can’t enter the spirit-land. Has to wander forever between the winds. You get it, Reverend.
The urge to desecrate the corpse of a hated enemy, one who’s done so much damage, taken so much without remorse, and is so gallingly alien, is strong.
(tumblr wouldn’t accept the video from here, but if you’d like to see it:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1068812090502 )
-
elliemce liked this
-
falsettoclergy reblogged this from uncledynamite
-
falsettoclergy liked this
-
girl-non-grata said:
This was my first reaction. Not just for the US, but for the millions across the globe affected by his terrorism. Kudos to the government for burying him (albeit at sea) according to Islamic tradition.
-
girl-non-grata liked this
-
down-out liked this
-
boobill liked this
-
bombmom1 liked this
-
rbok liked this
-
jezebelthegreat liked this
-
kaym77 liked this
-
uncledynamite posted this
