Today’s scene that I love comes from a 1968 episode of the iconic cop show, Dragnet.  A group of hippies want to leave the United States and start their own country.  Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) set them straight!

It’s always kind of easy to laugh a little at these episodes of Dragnet because it’s obvious that Webb had never actually met or dealt with any real hippies.  But I don’t know.  This episode, entitled The Big Departure, and this speech still feels relevant, even if I doubt it actually changed the mind of anyone planning on starting their own nation.