Alfonso Bedoya, aka: Gold Hat
It was dialog between a
character, Fred Dobbs, played by Humphrey Bogart, and a local Mexican bandit,
“Gold Hat,” played by Alfonso Bedoya, that gave the cinematic world probably
one of the most famous lines ever.
Gold Hat tries to convince Dobbs that he is a local law enforcement person, when Dobbs asks, “If you’re the police, where are your badges?” in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Gold Hat responds with, “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”
Throughout the decades, numerous other movies, television shows, and cartoons have used a variation of this familiar brief conversation to make tongue-in-cheek references in those varying parodies.
This premise is actually pretty simple to dissect inasmuch as the Mexican police would need their badges as identification in order to perform their job.
But to be met with an arrogant
and hostile response such as Gold Hat delivered to such an elementary question
only give us a good look into the state of affairs in
It’s been nearly one-hundred
years since the novel was written, and I’ll wager
Such flouting of judicial and legal means to circumvent the rule-of-law only breeds contempt thereby creating lawlessness – a Genie that is unable to be put back into its proverbial bottle.
Fast forward to present day American politics, where the country is divided not only by political parties, but also the White and Black races.
Serious questions as to the validity of the 2020 elections at all levels of government have been under scrutiny since November 2020 in an attempt to reconcile voting numbers that can be easily viewed as skewed and possibly corrupt.
Rather than trying to resolve
these SNAFUs, politicians and social media affiliates, as well as news agencies
and even television shows, have been peppering the country with nonsense about
there being any shenanigans surrounding the validity of maintaining a free and
honest electoral system in
All sorts of smarmy tactics have
been employed, as of late, to disaffect former President Donald J. Trump from
the White House, to include his unbelievable success in creating a vaccine for
COVID-19, a gangbuster economy, bringing peace to the Middle East, and
tempering hostilities presented by
In fact, censorship has become
the norm in order to hide facts, and deny the truth, not unlike tactics used in
the former
Campaigns like these will only deepen the divide of fact and fiction from history, which, by the way, is always written by the victors. FYI.
But it is the electoral system
that has true believers in a
For nearly a decade, local and state governments have been trying to GIVE IDs to anyone asking for one. That way, everyone who is asked to prove who they are at the polling place can offer FREE, legitimate ID.
As an aside, a valid driver’s license, passport, hunting or fishing license, pistol permit, etc., are considered legal voting identification proof, in most states.
However, the Left and Socialist Democrats have been attempting to muddy the legal waters by claiming all this “proof” disproportionately affects Blacks over Whites.
Listening to red herrings such as this only create an image of poor societal skills and a lack of the ability of Blacks to survive in settings that require following rules and obeying laws. That thinking offered by the Left and Socialist Democrats is, in and of itself, racist.
I dare say most Black motorists have driver’s licenses, Black fishermen have fishing licenses, Black government-check recipients possess bank IDs, and Black purchasers of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes own some form of identification to prove their age. All of those are legitimate forms of ID.
As is evident, Blacks are
probably not as inept or incapable of acquiring tools they need to function, as
contended by Lefties and Socialist Democrats, alike. Perhaps those racist Lefties and Socialist
Democrats need to realize they reside in 2021
