"SCRIPT" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert - Starship Troopers Screenplay)

the world to the brink of chaos, and how the
veterans took control and imposed a stability
that has lasted for generations since...
You know these facts but have I taught you
anything of value ? You.
Why are only citizens allowed to vote ?

Rasczak points at LANNY, 17, with his stump
.
LANNY
It's a reward... what the Federation gives you
for doing Federal Service.

Rasczak is crestfallen, makes a big show of patience.

RASCZAK
No. Something given has no value !
Haven't I taught you dimwits anything ?
I guess they ought to revoke my
teaching credential...

Laughter. Johnny's cartoon, meanwhile, is taking shape:
Johnny and Carmen flying round planet Venus in a space ship.

RASCZAK
When you vote, you're exercising political
authority. You're using force. And force, my
friends, is violence, the supreme authority
from which all other authority derives.

CARL JENKINS, 18, a superintelligent geek, jumps in.

CARL
Gee, we always thought you were the
supreme authority, Mr. Rasczak.

Laughter. Rasczak grins.

RASCZAK
In my classroom, you bet. Whether it's
exerted by ten or ten billion, political
authority is violence by degree. The
people we call citizens have earned
the right to wield it.

DIZZY FLORES, 18, athletic, pretty, no nonsense, chimes in.

DIZZY
My mother always says that violence
never solves anything.