Patrick Kilpatrick

Robert Donald Kilpatrick, Sr. joined the Navy at 17 at the attack on Pearl Harbor, fought in the Pacific the entire war, received a battlefield commision, landed on many islands before the Marines as a "Beach Jumper" -- a tandem unit to the UDT, received a Silver Star and Purple Heart, struck out George H. Bush, captain of Yale, to win the national collegiate baseball championship as captain for the University of Richmond Spiders ... fathered and educated five children with gentleness, strength, love and sacrifice, started as a lowly insurance underwriter and 25 years later founded and led Cigna Corporation for 10 years, died on January 27, 1997 of bone marrow cancer and complications from heart attack -- the cancer perhaps attributable to his work for America and the post war military atomic development. He was 6'6" and 250 lbs, handsome as the day is long and I saw him cry 3 times in his life, once when his mother died, once when his first dog -- an enormously brave Cocker Spaniel named Thumper who pursued a bully Doberman right through a screen door, fought and won, and once when we said goodbye two weeks before his death. I love you father.

The following speech was offered by Patrick Kilpatrick as the featured speaker to the Congress of Hollywood Republicans on June 4, 2014 at the Mayflower House in North Hollywood.

Thank you for having me. Whenever I speak before a group such as your selves, I always say a prayer – “Please God let me serve these people.”

How can I serve you, the Congress of Hollywood Republicans?

Often when I speak I write something that day and then at the moment of the engagement I cast the speech aside and veer off into some tangential continent of extemporaneous improvisation. But tonight I think I should read you what I wrote today in the hopes that this may serve you.

What are the roots of my Republicanism?

I define myself as an American. My political involvement has its beginnings firmly spawned in the mire of Californian anti war, anti America, anti military, anti 2nd amendment, anti hunting/fishing. The imbalance and deranged lack of common sense and victimization that was and is (although somewhat more muted and disillusioned now) so prevalent for the past several decades here in sunny Cal was the genesis.

I arrived in California as a New York actor, a writer, a journalist and advertising man inspired more by Neal Cassidy, Hunter Thompson, Ken Kesey, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Tom Wolfe, Thomas McGuane  than by any particular political inspiration.

But for me a decade ago, as we waged two wars, the anti American swirl about me was not tolerable. For me “aid and comfort to our enemies” could not go personally unchecked. I observed intensely as a university student the party shambles of the Viet Nam anti war movement as it wrongly ravaged our national will, as Jane Fonda reveled in betraying her country and was not held accountable, betrayals that resulted in the massacre of perhaps millions of South Vietnamese who valiantly fought for freedom against totalitarianism. The defining of America as the great global imperialist, the reviling of our vets as anything but heroic was a deeply insulting challenge  to the historical truth of America requiring a counter balance, personal courage and action on my part, irrespective of professional risk or career consideration. It  was happening again as America and American armed forces men and women  gave 50 million people the opportunity to vote in Iraq and Afghanistan against a vastly oppressive regime on the one hand and a murderous fundamentalist scourge on the other.

The presentation by our finest directors of Marines as killers of the “blue aboriginal people” and destroyers of the environment at the very moment when they were in fact liberating Fallujah, despite poor political leadership, and rescuing millions in Haiti from natural disaster, was a despicable propaganda excess …  the fact that when we were in two conflicts post 9/11, and the only story that another pinnacle of Hollywood directorial prowess could conceive was  the depiction of the evil American PR machine manipulating marines as they raised money for war bonds and slept with movie stars, this as we faced in WWII the most vile barbarity imaginable in the aggression of Japan … enough was enough.

The times have indeed evolved. Spielberg, Bruckheimer, Peter Berg, Mark Wahlberg, the Bandito Brothers, Kathryn Bigelow, others have stepped into the cinematic fray. Now … at least somewhat, Hollywood appears to have slightly stabilized its capsizing craft.

Still, the fact that not one Hollywood actor served in either Iraq or Afghanistan remains a shameful indictment of an entertainment culture.  The fact that Gary Sinise, Robin Williams, myself and one or two others are the only Hollywood personalities to even go to Iraq or Afghanistan to meet and entertain troops is appalling, a testament to a generational selfishness and a lack of manhood.

Onward and upward. 

I believe that even Democrats are now disillusioned with being simply democrats, shaken with lies and governmental perversion of the tenets of freedom and free enterprise. The IRS, the silver tongued vacuous, economic leadership, the balking on personal  and foreign policy accountability, the lack of basic courage and ideals that fuels the powers that reign, not just the Democratic but both parties. We are all eager to be Americans once more.

So it’s time in California for uniting, time for authentic leadership that gets things done. Of either party. It was always thus in America. It’s time as it always was to be an American. To be a winner without loss of both fundamental democratic and republican virtues and a blossoming of visionary courage.

Most prominent and prevalent influences in my life are the American ideal, the American experiment, the foundation if you will, of America.

The complexities, spectrum values and vision of our historical leaders, Washington, Jefferson, Monroe,  Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Kennedy and Reagan – are and should be our emotional and political guideposts, our life pillars, except that we live in a time when our youth are often conveyed  images, not of freedom’s promise, not of self sacrificial leadership born by its own wallet that risks and wages it’s life, honor and passion on freedom … no not this … but instead overwhelming,  over reaching of bureaucratic controls, business stifling regulation, irrational slave inducing taxes, deficit spending and anti 2nd amendment nonsense which fosters neither the economy or the environment, that rather than safeguard responsible Americans but in fact strips Americans of  the ability to prosper and defend themselves against fools and abhorrent psychotics,  this coupled with slick spin and lack of humor … the exalting of the lack of competitive spirit, a lack of manhood  and truly empowered womanhood … instead we receive a Congress that has established itself as an elite oligarchy above the law, an IRS above the standards of decency and legality, a theft mob dedicated to the enslavement of its own people …  a Democratic Controlled Senate  and  executive branch self perpetrating, self fattening – ineffectual, non productive save for their own elitism … swirling above the people like booty laden alien craft. Nor is the Republican House without flaws – certainly not -- or even remotely preemptive in vision and courage.

My own father received a Silver Star and Purple Heart at Okinawa in WWII.  The school boy embraced civic, the work and educational ethics of my mother and father, the towering  strength of Lincoln and the nobility and acumen of  Lee  … the wild courage of the Civil War Custer  … the nobility and power of the Civil Rights Movement … all our shared mythology and origins, the rich and flawed perfection of freedom with self sacrificial anti authoritarianism.

There are a lot of paints in the palette of being an American.

How wondrous is our Petri dish that gives birth to all manner of glory and disease.

The sacrifice of our founding warriors, our visionary framers, the tapestry of optimistic life without cynicism or complaint.

Here’s a thought Republicans, my brothers and sisters of America, my joyous human and worldly colleagues … lead as visionary individuals.

Or at minimum follow someone who can lead authentically and get things done … lead or follow as free people and creators …  accepting nothing less than the substance of our Constitution, our birthright of common sense and valor -- coupling that with the fun, insight and fashion of the future.

Here’s a thought Republicans and Hollywood:

Wield the swords of bravery and individualism. Fight with the creativity of masters.  Daily we define ourselves and make the case to the American people, by the very tools offered us by our craft, our town, our American media.

Be not afraid of the “libertine Patriot” … it is a fine tradition bathed in the exquisitely beautiful spirit of the all souls of America. Jefferson and Franklin were libertine Patriots, steeped as much in the salons of Paris and the Worldly Age of Enlightenment as academic scholars or incandescent revolutionaries.. Bon vivant animals and angels of freedom.  Do you think Jefferson and Franklin considered their glorious inhalation of life as contrary to their spirit as Revolutionaries and Architects of their age?

Stand for something, listen to everything, form the solutions. Surmount the challenges.  Accept nothing but joy and the mastery of the tools of Hollywood for the purpose of uplifting your fellow Americans and the citizens of the world.

The Republican Party has and continues to lack flash and exuberant courage.  It lacks visionary substance.

I am not a conservative in all things. I am a conservative in respect to defense, the security of the nation, economics, freedom’s honor, the spirit of our people, the balancing of the budget, the belief in the drive and success of our people as lights of the world.

I am not a conservative when it becomes an issue of individual freedom. But not a libertine if the libertine values are contrary to personal responsibility and harmful to others.

I am proudly a situational conservative and a situational social libertine just as I am both a hard charging, self sacrificial leader and a conscious, inventive mentor. I do believe culture and law should be formed for the gestation of freedom, not the  control of the masses and  maniacs.

Hire Americans.  But I believe as a citizen of the world and a producer that I will go where I can to craft my wares economically and righteously while being generous to whatever productive labor pool I swim in.

Support American companies but only if they are honed and competitive with equivalent reasonable costs and not flawed by lard laden unions.

Abolish the IRS – today, tomorrow. It is the instrument of slavery of our people. The IRS conducts itself illegally, contrary to morality, in interest rates, in penalties. The IRS needs to be abolished … it is the single most effective instrument of tyranny. The Republican Party should call for the needed reform and then implement it. That is being a party of the people and an advocate for corporate success as well.  Both sides and all win.

Tax all individuals, all corporations by 15 percent, with a national consumption sales tax at 2 per cent.

No unemployment beyond 12 months. If you haven’t succeeded in finding a job or creating one in 12 months, I’m sorry, you are not looking. I have worked for $13 a night, much less an hour, and been grateful for it to the point of tears. All work is noble, those who will not participate, not fling themselves happily to the hand of destiny guiding their lives as labor contributors should feel our social censure.

No welfare without drug testing, including nicotine testing.

Make all drugs legal – another topic certainly for another time. I refer you to my Tumblr post on the topic.

Craft immigration, as all things, in a win-win construction. I refer you also to my Tumblr post on the topic. These things are national obligations and they are work left undone by both parties.

All things are a question of balance … ebb and flow, common sense.

No qualified young person should graduate with $100,000 in student debt. None, zero.

The FBI should be turned loose on welfare fraud, a scourge on the health care system and the American people to the tune of $80 billion dollars a year.

There should be “non democracy” tariffs on goods from China. And any other totalitarian  or dictatorial culture or country.

Yes, a safety net for those truly in need, either mentally or congenitally truly in need.

We have the ability to have a righteous safety net for our culture, particularly if restricted government is required to not spend the pledged resources.

 We have the resources for a space program. We need such for our technological competitiveness and our national morality and vision.

In actuality we have very few challenges that true leadership and national vision can not readily surmount.

What we do have is leaders who don’t collect revenue where they should and spend wantonly where they shouldn’t. The answer is not on the backs of the American people by taxing us all into oblivion.

It is all well and good, and thank God for the Republican House for “sort of” – in reality, not, but folding at each occasion —slowing the line on the deficit but that is not nearly enough by half. Superb plans for the solving of budgetary considerations, eradicating the deficit, aiding businesses in putting people to work and spurring entrepreneurial energy with not only reduced governmental intrusive presence but tax free zones, federal tax credits for launching and investing small businesses — educational and vocational cooperatives with major corporations, reducing their taxes aiding the training of work forces so that graduates of any age are easily transitioned into jobs of vital necessity – these things and more should be the call and direction of decent men and women of both parties.

If government can’t offer this frugal and decisive leadership than at minimum get out of the way of those who can and will.

Here’s a thought, is Japan contributing economically to its defense?  Are Mexico, and other responsible countries, paying for the cost of illegal immigration to America?  

SIMULTANEOUSLY are we offering a visionary response to capture the great energies of these peoples who yearn to participate in our experiment.

Did Egypt move towards democracy over 30 years as we were giving them 2 billion dollars a year?  As Republicans and Democrats, as Americans, we need to be examining every instance of foreign aid, particularly as we borrow 40 cents on the dollar, and we shouldn’t be giving aid to anyone not moving toward true democracy and meaningful reform for their people.

I’m fully aware of geo political realities and also the imperative of us not to assert our form of government on every nation in the world, but morally and productively we should not be fostering totalitarian thugs anywhere on the planet, no matter how much they form a business alliance of questionable ethics with us and our allies. It is not about turning a blind eye to flaws, it is not expecting people or governments to be perfect, but expecting progress.

By the same token, we need to be swift in our support of any genuine liberty movement. We should ask the mutual cooperation of all well meaning governments on the planet in this globally significant endeavor. The end of dictatorship, the skillful eradication of totalitarian and terror systems must be the quest of all decent people and governments worldwide.  

We should be advocates of minimum wage increase while seeing to the stripping of non competitive union corruption, reforming over reaching regulation as well as swiftly and valiantly opposing corporate and educational pay not tied to real company and true student performance.

We should exercise our power of purchase and make brilliant aesthetic choices.

We must of course participate as individuals, as parents, as citizens in the education and mental health, the creative and occupational well being of our young. Parenting is self sacrificial, as is all true leadership.

Perhaps, we are a maze of contradictions …  as is America, as is California and Los Angeles. I am a conservationist and a hunter and a fisherman.  I buy nothing but organic food because I seek the best even at the expense of other choices and because I do care about the welfare of animals. Are we as Americans not defenders of the innocent?

As Republicans and Americans, as Democrats and Americans, we should decry the cradle to grave cruelty of animals in factory farms. We should be aligned with the halting of such psychosis and with proponents of safe and productive management of our food and water resources.

We as Americans united should stand for organic and nutritional school lunches for our children throughout America. It should be our issue as a people. It matters little that Michelle Obama puts it forth, as Republicans you should rise to join anyone who has a vitally necessary idea.

Years ago we were bringing such sound nutrition to the school systems of Santa Barbara — my sons’ schools — without a dime’s extra cost. It can be done.

I drive a Prius with an Lifetime NRA sticker. That says something. It says I am not in a box of rigid ideas, but seek a fertile ground of passionate freedom.  And we should not ALLOW California to strip away our right to defend ourselves literally and constitutionally. We should all be first responders, in governance, citizenry, full participants,, safe guarding the public mental and physical health. It is hardly the province of government or police,  of any institution  to do all things for us.

No California Republican should be anything but a champion of Gay marriage because we are the true believers of the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

The Republican Party should sustain and advance Mortgage Tax credits, should eliminate the estate tax and vastly reduce if not eliminate capital gains taxes. The GOP should rise up for financial stewardship as well as ecological and true embracing, encompassing energy vision without compromising free market principles one iota.

It is not an all or nothing world, but a world given to solving many sides of a problem. Yes, there will always be intractable positions but the seeking of positive, productive win win realms is the true calling of all human endeavor.

In short the Republican Party, you, I, need to listen, than lead with vision and classical principles based on the concentric circles of defense of the country, the health and education and prosperity of the American people.

I would address Democrats with the same uniting fervor, to be visionary Americans.  Do not shy from the debate, do not treat your fellow Americans as anything less than patriotic colleagues, do not retreat into intractability. Know fully we all – those who roll up their sleeves and go to visionary work — can nationally ascend and succeed and it is imperative that we Americans do so. 

Ecology is wedded to productivity, those companies that hope to succeed know that, it’s ecological common sense – just as personal health and biology is married to the purity of food and water. 

Yes, it is a situational, evolving  endeavor, but it’s a hell of a lot easier to come to the proper course if you arrive with the core values of freedom for every human being on the planet as well as the full boat qualities of leadership,  tried and visionary, tried and true economic policies based on freedom, not handouts.  You should arrive in office as a powerful advocate of the US military and a powerful advocate of the respectful treatment of veterans, arrive with the non arrogant assumption of America as a freedom and economic light of the world. 

You have to be inventive and fun in your very serious implementation of all this. The Republican Party must be the party of the vanguard.  Which it is certainly and currently not.  It has to be an American party, as well as a party for the world. Neither of which it is fully or freshly, a party of bold and secure ideas.  I know the Tea party and the Republican Party are not racist, not scoundrels, not anything but the rightful heirs to what is true and right in America.  

Do we boldly forge the future of Los Angeles, of California, America and the world?  I am a Sons of the American Revolution, I take evolutionary revolution as our birthright.  Are we of the continuing, evolving Revolution or are we simply to masticate on the pabulum of the past.

I want to applaud you of the LAGOP. Because you are members of a party which embraces debate, which believes in discourse both social and governmental. We must remain so and flourish as such.  We must absorb ideas from wherever they come, embrace human capital and energy from the world around us and cherish it as our own, embellish it with insight and inventive flourish. I applaud you because you can be the spear of a great and vitally important movement. The election of 2016 is paramount, defining, captivating in its potential, for Americans of every belief system, for the very world itself.

Just as the cinematic moment in time is ever evolving, the governance moment in time is evolving, flaring like a many hued sunspot.

We need to conceive and produce the great inventions, reap the economic windfall when we export them abroad and serve first our American brothers and sisters, rather than first employing our totalitarian competitors from other nations.

We need to accelerate the pride and truth of American true strength and agility, American created peace and freedom, earned and realized self-esteem via action and hard work.  We need to lessen non productive  grip of the Federal and California governments and let patients with their doctors and health professionals decide the best medication for themselves, the best holistic and conventional path to wellness and health, not the DEA, Eric Holder or evasive insurance companies …  this while seizing the responsibility for our own health in demanding pure food and water while transforming ourselves by personal accountability of habit. 

We need to be gloriously inventive in our communities and get out the vote. This election is one of the most important for the preservation of our America.  You are the individuals, the creators, the trenders, movers and the shakers; you must be the most informed on political issues. Use your knowledge to educate, to discourse, to listen to and with America.  Give each the facts to counter lies and manipulation. If you lead, then your daily victory, our daily gift of freedom, of citizenship, will succeed for you and for your children.

Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak with you tonight.

My company Uncommon Dialogue Films is currently in post on “Active Shooter”  — my directing debut with a very active Indiegogo campaign.

We are in pre production on “G” – a historical re-imagining project concerning the cost and responsibility of liberty.

We have two projects swirling at studio level. I am an actor, screenwriter, director … acting, writing, producing, directing consultant and coach, sportsman and father.

We – UDF — function by service, service to the nation, service to the story, service to audience, service to veterans, service to film, art and media, to entertainment but never at the abdication of our birthright as free and vocal Americans.

I am on an exploration with you. Shall we explore questions and answers.

This speech is over, but yours has just begun.

  Dear Patrick:

Just watched the Active Shooter videos, and read every word of the "campaign" page. I'm going to be totally honest here, because it's about all I have to offer at this point. While there are things I saw and read, especially the parts about how important the 2nd Amendment is, and how we are our own 1st responders that made me think this movie has real potential, and I would like to share it with pro gun pages and friends here on Facebook to support your efforts here; there were other things that just left me scratching my head and saying WTF.  The "scene" with you driving with the woman and asking if you could have her breast milk was the biggest WTF moment for me.  The conversation with the beautiful woman that didn't seem to understand a thing you said was up there, too. No offense intended, but that just made me wonder if this film is more comedy than seriously trying to make a point.

Scott: 

Your letter validates our every effort. We intentionally seeded the Indiegogo trailer with the WTF factor.  That’s exactly the effect we were attempting to elicit in people -- questioning, even confused, appalled, intrigued, WTF but please where is this going, “I must know”. Anytime in a hundred years when a movie teaser starts with “what could possible go wrong” … it is a signal “everything is going to go wrong”. You don’t have to have a film degree for Christ sake to get that.

You say there were a smattering of good points and potentiality. Exactly the point of a teaser. The point of the campaign is to give a little of a lot ... as you say it does all those things ... touches on all that “Right Stuff”. I'm convinced, perhaps wrongly, that people are smart enough to see we are poking fun at things but also dealing with serious things in a sometimes WTF manner that builds from a point of bizarre abject inanity and insanity. Don't you seek that out in your entertainment at least sometimes? Or must everything be in a tight square box for you to “get it”. Don't you trust me enough to allow me to edit,  to “storytell”, to the higher ground. Do you ask art to kneel fully explained before you offering it’s every understanding in the first whiff?  Do you wish your partner to blurt out all the essence of their personality with the first chew of the first date’s delicious meal.

The film, the journey, is not meant only for pro gun people, although I am absolutely pro 2nd amendment and unabashedly pro American. I am both those things while simultaneously appalled that on days we should be remembering all the men and women in our history, gay and straight, black, brown, red, yellow and white who have served this country in the armed forces throughout our history, every day when we should be celebrating heroes in our midst – civilian and in public service -- on such the days of our lives, we are dealing with failed nut balls who, fully realizing California has stripped its citizens of the ability to defend themselves in any meaningful way, have taken the lives of others in my oldest son’s Alma Mater UCSB.

When I ask the woman to share her breast milk with me “as an actor” on his way to perhaps becoming an “Active Shooter”, did she not laugh, stumble in neural confusion, and throw her hands up in WTF. I dare say the a-hole in Santa Barbara said just such inappropriately jangled, jumbled kaleidoscope, mentally damaged ravings through his pitiful life.

My response to active shooters  is not that which will be trumpeted far and wide across American. My response is deep abiding regret I was not there so that I could place a targeted pair of hollow points in his chest and then a more methodical round to the vulnerable place just above the nose.

I am angered by California’s unwillingness to let responsible people carry weapons in any meaningful way so that our young people can be well and truthfully protected and that good armed citizens and highly trained veterans who need jobs stand vigil in all public places.

I decry any system that allows such a fool and nut ball to get a gun, and hold responsible any citizen who failed in their charge and aided the unnamed a-hole to become armed. If that is the case and judged legally, then that person should go to jail themselves.

But culture is not made for the aberrant. Culture and society are created for and to protect the responsible, the striving. Culture and art are to lead us to our better selves. Film, novels, visual and printed arts of every aspect are supposed to illuminate the way for people to find the heroic, the self sacrificial, the common sense, the solution for challenges, the laughter. It is not to glorify misbehavior -- save in cautionary tale -- it is not to exalt or indulge the talentless, the indulgent, the savagely dictatorial – Kardashians, IRS  – where are the Active Shooters when we need them? Just joking but the outrage is real. Both entertainment that stultifies and government that oppresses are vile vortexes that must be countered by sarcasm, wit, ridicule, intelligence, communication, humor, WTF.

Motorcycles kill people, we do not ban law abiding citizens from riding. Active Shooters will continue until there is a complete black out of press coverage attending the shooter, until the insane realize they will not succeed in “retribution” against the innocent and the defenseless.

Scott:

I'm terribly sorry, but I just don't get it. It seems like a serious project that could possibly do some real good, and perhaps educate some people that really don't understand guns and their benefits; like MDA, MAIG, CSGV, Brady Campaign, etc. And then I saw and read stuff that makes it seem like it's not serious at all. I've read some of your posts on your page, so I KNOW you are a patriot and love this country. I know you are a fine actor, and I really considered myself privileged to have met you on the Under Siege  franchise (if two movies can be considered a franchise) --  one of my favorites. Burn Notice was one of my favorite series of all times, so meeting and photographing an actor from these shows and movies I have seen and heard of, was indeed an honor, and I really hoped to someday work for you as a set photographer (stills), or at the very least view your firearms collection and possibly go to the range with you. I would still very much like to do those things, by the way.

Patrick:

Here Scott, is the essence of your respectful communiqué.

“I don’t know what you are doing. I don’t get your vision. I’ll respect you as a storyteller when you play a monster on episodic television or a terrorist supporting character in an action movie, but I won’t let you use a multitude of techniques to “live on film” the reality of a character who may or may not be and become an insane, selfish, socially inept, celebrity entitled, flaying, dissipated, hyper sexual, overly verbal bully, I’m not going to even contribute $5 bucks – the cost of a organic yogurt – but by the way I want to sidle up to you if you can hire me.”

I’d love to go shooting with you, Scott. I’m sure you can also take photographs and exercise your full artistic scope to explore all sides of an issue tapping into ranges, actor protocol and whatever other issues you wish. Come play and exercise your God given rights of man.

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  Scott, I value your friendship and because you are important in the process you can bring a second person for free.

America, needs warriors Scott, men and women who possess the core and evolving principles of art and exploration, freedom and the supremacy of the responsible individual, men and women  that don’t sell out their own citizens (who make videos [shoddy or masterful]) to win elections, people and visionaries that use win-win, both side point of views to meet and master the challenges of the 21st century.

Best and love,

Patrick

Scott: 

Hi Patrick. Thank you for the reply. I sincerely hope I didn't offend you, but after reading my message again, I wouldn't blame you one bit if you were. I really do admire you, what you have accomplished in your career, and for what you stand for. I hope to have the opportunity to see your movie when it comes out, either at the premier or in theaters. Have a fantastic week.

Thank you for the personal message sharing your campaign, I appreciate it.  Though I know it's probably the same message sent to everyone it's gone to, it takes time to address each person individually, and I admire your dedication to reach your goal.

Best of luck to you, and if you need a red carpet photographer for the premier, I would love to contribute my time and talent in that regard.  Would hope I could bring my wife and enjoy the premier with her, too.

Sincerely,

Outraged, Confused Fan & Veteran Actor In Verbal Joust!

Melissa Mojo:

Hi Patrick, I wish you the best of luck on your endeavors.

Your project -- Active Shooter -- sounds interesting.  I know it was coming from a comedic angle but the degrading of women within your teaser didn't personally appeal to me from a woman's point of view & I personally found it unnecessary and a bit offensive.  Why is it necessary to talk to women so disrespectful? (disrespectfully Melissa -- Patrick Kilpatrick proofing).  I didn't understand what that had to do with your project...it could be a very interesting topic (your film) but I personally feel the added degrading of women was unnecessary from a female point of view & had nothing to do with the topic at hand.  I found the teaser topic interesting until you demonstrated the (most likely intentional/comedic) sexual harassment to the females.  I personally found it unnecessary & a turn off. 

Just a kind note from a friend that you may be hindering potential investments / sharing of your IGG link from a female perspective (as it did me)... but to each their own. Regardless, as a friend I wish you the best. ;-) Hugs.

Melissa

Patrick Kilpatrick:

Recent dialogue between myself and a colleague.

My response to a question from fellow thespian, veteran and long time  friend, Tim Abel, posed to me recently:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

11-14-2013 Veteran Movie Villain Tapped To Produce, Direct and Star in Ultimate Evil Envisioned If Nazis Won Film LOS ANGELES, November 14, 2013/Press Release/ -- Patrick Kilpatrick, internationally known as one of America’s finest character and action actors, in tandem with his company Uncommon Dialogue Films, Inc. (UDF) has been chosen to produce and direct the upcoming historical envisioning film Gleichschaltung, a Nazi term meaning “coordination”. The film is set in an alternative version of contemporary America that examines the social and emotional issues present had Germany won the war. Project is now a joint venture, initiated by Masch Productions (Jeff Schneider and Abel Martinez, Jr.) out of Salem, OR, with UDF. Besides helming duties, Kilpatrick will also star as lead 4th Reich über enforcer of the imagined social architecture. “We feel Kilpatrick represents a unique talent, one that embodies not simply the 125 plus films and television shows as a lead actor and the relationships that spring from that experience, but a producer/director and script creator of extraordinary acumen. The guy’s background and depth is amazing. His company UDF, services every aspect from idea inception to global distribution and revenue stream capitalization,” offered Schneider, CEO of Masch Productions and co-writer with Martinez of Gleichschaltung.

John Curley:

Today's thoughts: Every once in a while you meet someone along the path in this case I refer to Patrick Kilpatrick who is far more than you might expect. I began corresponding with him after reading his thoughts on immigration reform and in truth my first reaction was "Great another fucking actor with a view on politics" only to find out it was a refreshing human and a just idea. Exchanging thoughts and ideas with him is an exceptionally pleasant surprise. It makes up for finding out Chuck Norris, my boyhood hero wants prayer in schools and doesn't lend credence to evolution. Onward and upward.

Dear John:

Slightly delayed by acting, post production, writing, fatherhood, etc. but nonetheless on my mind. First, thank you for your friendship and your kind comments. You bring up a couple of things that beg elaboration.

First Chuck Norris is a superb working colleague and a patriot. His views on evolution if that is the case defies logic and all rational scientific exploration but c’est la vie  ... he has a right to that view under the Constitution.

As to prayer in school... God, the force, the universe and the power we all may call upon in life, be it psychological self trick (which I do not believe it is) or intelligent and immaculately beautiful design (which it certainly is) exists, whether one believes or does not believe. That force surrounds us, embraces us, uplifts us, offers us every possibility and power we can imagine and beyond. This force shelters us, offers the way to success, glory, self realization, humility, peace and purpose, is with us every second of every day, loves us as we are faced by every challenge imaginable, never gives us anything beyond our capabilities which are immense and beyond our silly representations of personal limitations, aspirations.

No matter how we journey ... our journey is guided by this loving and true destiny, which knows our needs and ultimate joy and life satisfactions to far greater manner than we can ever know. Every challenge, every “tragedy”, every “cruel” or brutal event, is but a pivotal directional sign post that urges us, loves us, to our full grace and purpose. Every war, every rape, every brutality, every injustice is but a call to our angelic warrior side and our destiny if we accept it. For despite these vicious occurrences by the weak, the deranged, the abused and believers of escape from justice, the greed filled, the foolish and filth that inhabit our world... these events are blessings in disguise, for they call us to rise against injustice, to find joy in strength and optimism and yes in God.

With this force, believed or not, we are offered dignity, humor, wisdom, even in the face of the madness and foul evil. Even as a wounded warrior loses his limbs he is called to serve his or her brothers and sisters, to minister to the ill and serve humankind.

Just as we all are called to our better selves by the realization that this is our life and our creation that by our drive, our ambition, our rights, our destiny we are on our path if we take the path of the intelligent, loving, swift and incisive, laughing, feeling angel, the path of self reflection and bold personal action, the path being offered us, sheltered for us, bolstered by and for us by the ever present force.

This dimension in which we reside is but a theatrical scrim. One set in the universal play. We inhabit this dimension, our reality with creations, beings, entities, spirits, call them what you will, which intermingle with our reality and reside, travel elsewhere. That is a fact.  God, the force, the universe is something certainly now we cannot and perhaps may never fully understand.

But God’s existence, and I call it God, without a doubt is so much a part of empirical and existential reality it goes undisputed for me.

School children need the strength, shield and great gift this “all around them” definitional force represents. They need early on to be offered amidst the love, wisdom and sacrifice of their elders the sure, experiential knowledge that they are and always will be God’s children.

Prayer in school, wisdom says yes, love says yes. Separation of church and state was never designed to strip this engulfing wonder of accountability and love that flows around us from either education or government.

The United States of America came to being because of the realization of universal fairness and the individual nobility of all beings. The flowing God given writings of Jefferson– not his actions in not freeing his slaves – but his essence of humanity and education, of equality, and universal justice speak to the God in our state and education, the warrior Angel in humankind and in America. Without such moral reference and elaboration and continuance we will be a lesser people, less guided to our better selves.

I wonder at youth’s destiny without such true guidance and in the void of universal wisdom.

Perhaps a lord’s prayer that reflects our evolution, our perception of the universe and God would be in order. Until such is commission the Lord’s Prayer does nicely.

I am much more concerned with religions and governments that deviate from the tenets of our Constitution, that violate the sacred god given rights articulated by Jefferson. I fear for humankind the very people created by such religions and governments, devoid of loving, strong, intelligent values and consideration. Yes, people have a right to worship as they see fit, but no one has the right to propagate a religion that violates the rights of others, that oppresses others, that assails the innocent and destroys the just existence of others. This is the evil in us, that we must turn away from, reject, rise against ... individually and collectively. Our decisions, our worship, our governance must be strong, loving, wise, humorous, embracing and intolerant of oppression, totalitarianism, thug life, stupidity and misplaced hatred and anger. And we must, as a species be ready, indeed actively engaged in halting the evil in others and ourselves with swift accountability. Calling out those aspects of any religion or any government, any bureaucracy, institution or group, cabal, cartel and corporation that pervade evil.

As a society we should have censure for any aspect of these entities which does not lovingly offer up the bulwark of such universal love and justice. The female fundamental Muslim attire is an affront to equality. The Catholic failure to allow female priests and female Cardinals and Pope is a failure of faith and equality. The fundamental Christian assertion that gay men and women are an abomination is a flaw in Godly vision. The federal government which utilizes the IRS to blunt dissent is a vile symbol of evil. The taxation of a population into oblivion by state or federal entities is a true void of God and an abject expression of greed. The desire for agnostics and atheists to eradicate God from society, government and education is in itself over the top and an evil. Just as gays and lesbians suing a wedding cake bakery because the owner believes he should not “participate” in homosexual advocacy is over the top and wrong. The owner should have the right to bake cakes for whomever he wishes, the GL couple have the right to commerce elsewhere and open their own shop but not the right to force another individual to, by their labor, run counter to their belief. Balancing common sense.

We have the power given us by God to live in personal and earthly paradise all the while knowing full well the challenging journey to grace and individual healing is possible, demanding yes, joyously and all consuming.

The really cool thing is that for every evil, arises an angel to counter-- The balance of the universe. Universal justice cannot be extinguished because it is self germinating, flourishes like brilliant green lichens in crannies of great rigid and frozen rocks.

Chuck Norris would not let me or any other antagonist on  “Walker” even pretend to hit him, so the show for the villain was an exercise in being a metaphoric punching bag. So it should be in life, continually pummeling with good nature, economic strangulation, bold diplomacy, swift wisdom, and finally optimistic violent military action if necessary against all villains and those that would tip the balance of God’s destiny toward inequity, pillage, killing and plunder. Just do it with a smile on your face and a bubbling light heart because the force is most certainly with you.

Spirally Journey Across Global Terrorism, Hollywood Chicanery and Hilarious Juvenile Blarney and Redemption.

“Active Shooter” is actor Patrick Kilpatrick’s film director debut. Outrageously scathing and self mocking, mapping the rash and rant route to irreverent redemption and truth… raising awareness about our society’s safety while preserving the precious rights of responsible and law abiding citizens mingles orgasmically with multiracial fashion models dragged into the wild, stratospheric bullshit, puerile psycho sexual juvenility, and REBELLIOUS, Irreverent Sons of the American Revolution patriotic common dementia… all the while ripping institutional totalitarianism from the ass end of Hollywood to the butt crack of dictatorial fundamental devils. We are soon launching an Indiegogo campaign for the film and your contribution is vitally important to polish and finish the post production of the 70% completed "Active Shooter". IF YOU CAN’T CONTRIBUTE, PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT VIA TWITTER FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN, ZOPIA, MASS MAIL MERGE, GUN OWNER, LAW ENFORCEMENT, HUNTER, VEGAN ORGANIC, MILITARY, EDUCATIONAL, ECO AND CITIZEN LISTS AND RESOURCES. WE NEED YOU, YOUR CONTRIBUTION, YOUR VOICE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SPEED, EFFICIENCY, PASSION AND GENEROSITY! GRATEFULLY WE ALREADY HAVE EXTENSIVELY FILMED REAL S.W.A.T TEAMS, MILITARY AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS, WILD HELICOPTERS EXCURSIONS, GLOBAL FIREARMS MANUFACTURERS AND JUBILANT ARMED PEASANTRY, ENTIRE UNIVERSITIES BEING BOMBED, SULTRY WOMEN AND MEN IN BIZARRE NATURAL SETTINGS, HISTORICAL VESSELS, HUNDRED OF EXTRAS VOLUNTEERING TO PLAY DEAD PEOPLE AND RAPE VICTIMS, GLAMOROUS EVENTS OF LITTLE OR NO SOCIAL WORTH, CRAVEN RAMPANT SELFISHNESS AND FROGS PLAYING MULLAHS– FROM THE STEAMY BOWELS OF HALLUCINATORY HOLLYWOOD TO THE MOST GLORIOUS WILDERNESS LOCATIONS IN AMERICA, FROM THE VISION OF VAUNTED FASHIONISTAS TO THE BENT, PSYCHOTROPICALLY DAMAGED NEURAL SYNAPSES OF MADMEN. TOLD WITH A SAVAGELY SILKEN COMBINATION OF POP ART VISUALISM, TELL ALL VERBAL VOMIT AND MAGNIFICENT BEASTS BEING EXPLOITED AS METAPHORS! No matter where you stand, you need to be heard… laughing as you howl at the bastards. No matter your politics, be part of the conversation … taunting the buggers.

Drink at the fountain of wisdom and vision before morons piss in it! Be angry, weep and then act joyfully, bravely and forcefully against the brutal butchery of innocence, the perversion of freedom and the rise of global stupidity.

Join me please as we serve you. Contribute today at the soon transforming ActiveShooterMovie.com and keep an eye out for our soon to launch Indiegogo campaign in the days ahead. Wickedly, outrageously irreverent of Hollywood’s craven agency jackals and icons… surely will result in Kilpatrick’s assassination by Chechens or a fatwa or two from global Mohamadans! Uncommon Dialogue Films, Inc. is the extremely independent and boldly brash film, media and event company of actor Patrick Kilpatrick. UDF’s core expertise is media idea inception to global distribution and profitability-- cherishing investor transparency, risk mitigation protection and communication, imaginative product integration, originality of story, budgetary frugality coupled with globally attractive high production value… utilizing internationally renowned performers and locally grown maniacs in visionary manner. A Director’s Prelude: All my life I have held guns, hunted, shot competitively and recreationally. Trained by supreme police and military warriors I have journeyed through the galaxy of firearms, killing arts and tactics. I believe in the second amendment and the paramount value of skilled education… the King Arthur mantra of “Might for Right” and “Defense of The Innocent”. I embrace the notion of the citizen defender. Guns have been placed in my hands from the very beginning of my days as an actor 28 years ago. Machine guns, pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles… calibers, concealable or otherwise, configurations of every type and period. To some extent 90% of the roles have been some form of Active Shooter. Yet I have never pointed a gun at anyone in anger. Never shot or killed anyone in rage or defense. I began to wonder. What could cause a person, me, you, to take up arms in what appears to be irrational violent killing. Would you strike out if your baby were threatened? If your offspring were strangled, the life slowly choked from it’s beautiful body… if your partner or spouse were raped, if the very food from your family were stolen, if pieces of yourself were slashed and tortured away from your very soul… if the very reason for your being was being torn apart, stripped illegally and unethically by less talented scum and thieving institutions until all that was left was derivative, no glorious originality remaining, dead. Your dreams, heartfelt aspirations, wholesome ambitions savaged. What would you do if every morning you awoke blunted, every night you fell asleep unjustly imprisoned to limited horizons. Would you lash out if forever cornered, eternally pigeon holed. Limited forever when your very soul cried to soar. We have done the research, prowled the country, filmed the connective tissue, from hilarious to tragic, from governmental and killing experts to global firearms craftsmen, we are proud to offer you this taste… All babies are not human. All loves are not creatures. Things of the soul can be murdered, extinguished by evil. Ideas and art that are not tangible, but no less alive can be killed. Now, this is the story I wish to tell. How does an actor become an Active Shooter, a character on a screen transformed into a killer… how does a man journey from perhaps kindly self absorption to raging avenger, not against the innocent but rising to strike the vicious institutions of our times? I hope you will support our effort and spread the word. Plot Outline:

Patrick Kilpatrick talks "Active Shooter"