![]() Your methods, so far as this court can discern, show what we shall cautiously term an excess of zeal. Yet, officers of stainless record and seamen voluntarily all were moved to mutiny against you. By the force of evidentiary conclusions you, Captain William Bligh, stand absolved of military misdeed. Court-martial Judge: The court considers it has obligation to add comment to its verdict.And anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't got the sense that God gave geese. John Mills: There's no chance for people like us to go back to England, give Bligh a bad name and walk free men ourselves.But I assure you, sir, that the execution of my duties is entirely unaffected by my private opinion of you.We need only persuade the British people of something they already know - that inhumanity is its poorest servant.Wherever you go, wherever you hide a thousand ships will search you out. The King's navy will not rest until every mutineer is captured and executed.Go to the dirtiest little corner of the world I'll be there, right behind you, with a rope in my hand. I'm not leaving you Mr Christian, not ever.You can hardly expect unquestioning obedience from last night's partner in a debauch. While our mission remains unfulfilled I'm not in any port, Mr Fryer, I'm in command - where you may find one day - it's always lonely.Midshipmen - be a dull navy without them.Let any one of you provoke an incident which endangers it and I shall cause that man to curse his mother for giving him birth. It is a matter of super-natural indifference to me, whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you.He'll see the flesh jump, hear the whistle of the whip for the rest of his life. Then a man will never disobey once he's watched his mate's backbone laid bare. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty - it's efficiency. I'm not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose.
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