The law's forest

Margaret More: Father, that man's bad.
Sir Thomas More: There's no law against that.
William Roper: There is: God's law.
Sir Thomas More: Then God can arrest him.
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

Information Purification Directives

The script of the famous 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial:

[In walk the drones]

Big Brother: “Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. [Apple's hammer-thrower enters, pursued by storm troopers.] We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.[Hammer is thrown at the screen] We shall prevail!” [Screen explodes, drones act stunned.]

On January 24th Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984.'"

Fingerprint 11

"Fingerprint One One" was the radio call sign of a pair of Marine CH-34 helicopters. The CH-34 was an older airplane, from the late 50s, and it used engines originally designed for the B-17 four-engined bomber of World War II. So the CH-34 made a very deep-throated roar as it flew, unlike the lighter whine and "whop-whop-whop" of the more modern turbine helicopters.

If you've seen the various pictures of capsule recovery at sea during NASA's Mercury program, including the famous ones of Gus Grissom's sinking Liberty Bell 7, those helicopters were Marine CH-34s.

When I first saw Fingerprint One One it was flying directly toward me, one behind the other, about a mile away, at an altitude of maybe 500-700 feet. The lead helicopter was about 100 feet higher than the trailing helicopter. Then, as I watched, tracers began to float up toward the second, lower chopper and the door gunner began to shoot back with his .50 caliber machinegun. The pilot, evidently tried to climb to avoid the ground fire, flew his rotor right into the tail of the higher lead airplane. This chopped off the tail of the leader, and destroyed the rotors of the climbing helicopter, which, its rotating wings gone, immediately rolled over and dove into the ground, and exploded in a huge fireball, about 1/4 mile from where I was standing.

The other helicopter began to spin around its engine because its stabilizing tail rotor was gone. It spun into the ground and blew up violently.

This was hostile countryside, so a dozen or so of us grabbed our weapons and ran to the crash site in case we could help. But there was nothing anyone could do.