Can we defend ourselves using a pointed stick?
RE: Can we defend ourselves using a pointed stick?
In the movie Return to Salem’s Lot, the star who later was the assistant DA on Law and Order (Michael Moriarty), led a group of good guys driving pointed wooden stakes into the hearts of the bad guys.
Michael Moriarty was suspended by NBC for an encounter with Janet Reno in which he yelled at her.
“...blasted Attorney General Janet Reno, charging her with strong-arming television networks into taking violence off the air.”
“...and likened her efforts to the Cultural Revolution in China.
‘She’s disgraced the entire tree of criminal justice,’ he said. In a letter to President Bill Clinton, Moriarty called Reno ‘an unleashed and mindless attack dog’ and an ‘abusive personality.’”
“...he claimed Reno was uninterested in the writers’ and actors’ opinions. The following day he sent her a letter, saying, ‘The next time you call me to a meeting where only one side gets to ask the questions, send a subpoena.’”
///////////////////////////////
Later story about him.
January 09, 2002
Global BC
Actor Michael Moriarty beaten outside Maple Ridge bar.
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - A Hollywood actor who now makes his home in Vancouver
has been badly beaten and hospitalized.
Both police and hospital officials are being tight-lipped, but a number of
sources confirm that Emmy award-winning actor Michael Moriarty was badly
beaten at about 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
It happened outside the Wolfe Lounge at the Quality Inn Motel in Maple
Ridge.
Apparently, the 60-year-old had been drinking at the lounge with a friend
when police say three to five males attacked him.
The attack, which was unprovoked, left Moriarty on the ground unconscious.
According to one source, he was bleeding from both ears, had an injured eye,
and a broken wrist, but there is no confirmation of that.