:44:01
if we don't try to stop the avalanche
of prurient slop...
:44:04
- Madame, if you'll...
- I'm not finished!
:44:07
Which is about to bury us.
:44:10
Are we doing our job
if we permit anything?
:44:12
What are we permitting?
:44:14
Violence in the streets,
kids on drugs, filth, pornography...
:44:19
Who slaps the labels on? You? Me?
:44:21
- Somebody better.
- No, thank you.
:44:23
I think it's unconstitutional
to set myself up as a censor.
:44:26
Refusing to look at something
is censorship.
:44:28
I don't look at television.
That doesn't make it illegal.
:44:31
That's not the point.
:44:33
Seeing that film is material
to making a judgment.
:44:36
If you'd spent ten minutes
in that screening room, five minutes,
:44:40
you would see how obscene,
how outrageous...
:44:43
Censorship is an outrage!
:44:46
What about a training film
for terrorists?
:44:49
A free lecture, How to Make
a Nuclear Bomb in Your Basement.
:44:52
Do you condone inciting
to violence?
:44:55
- No, ma'am.
- What about inciting to decadence?
:44:57
- Define "decay".
- That's what we're here for.
:45:00
- Not me.
- We'd better try.
:45:03
The people of this country have only
one absolute protection against chaos:
:45:08
The law.
:45:09
You and I were appointed
to this court for only one reason:
:45:12
To uphold and sustain that law.
:45:15
Watch out, you can't turn the law
into a straitjacket.
:45:18
The law's gotta be a suit of clothes
a man can wear.
:45:20
It's gotta fit easy.
Be comfortable.
:45:22
Law shouldn't strap a man in
at the throat or the brain or the crotch.
:45:28
That's vivid.
:45:29
You're making Maloney
more important than the law.
:45:32
- He is more important.
- This court doesn't try men.
:45:35
We put their trials on trial.
:45:36
That's it. We're constantly examining
the witness who isn't there.
:45:39
All we ever get to see are lawyers,
cold records, cold briefs.
:45:43
Where's the human being? Where's
the pain? We've gotta touch flesh.
:45:47
I'll tell you where the pain is.
It's in the people who get hurt.
:45:51
The innocent kid
who sits in a dark theater
:45:53
while Maloney's filth pours over him.
That's where the pain is.
:45:57
You're on the right track.
:45:59
You're beginning to look at people.