Move over, Tom Cruise. Billy Jack is back!!!

[no_hypocrisy]

It has been more than 30 years, but Billy Jack is still plenty ticked off.

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Now the man who created and personified Billy Jack, Tom Laughlin - the writer, director, producer and actor - is determined to take on the establishment again, and his concerns are not so terribly different. Mr. Laughlin (and therefore Billy Jack) is angry about the war in Iraq and about the influence of big business in politics. And he still has a thing for the nuclear power industry.

"I'm going to say a lot of egregious things," Mr. Laughlin, 73, announced at the start of an interview at his home here in the rolling horse country east of Los Angeles. His face is creased with deep lines, his hair a bleached gray, but he is still entirely recognizable as the handsome Billy Jack.

"We despise both political parties, really loathe them," he said.

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"We the people have no representative of any kind," he continued. "It's now the multinationals. They've taken over. It's no different than the 70's, but it's gotten worse. And if you use words like 'impeachment' or 'fascist' you're a nut on a soapbox."


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/20/movies/20jack.html?

[ixion]

1. Tom Laughlin is a credit to the species

one of a truly rare breed who actually believe in 'We, the People'.

[deutsey]

2. I wish he'd go to DC and make W drive the presidential limo into

the reflecting pool.

[Spinzonner]

3. Will Paul SImon reprise "Billy Paul"