Former UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson goes into tremendous detail in this CBS2.com interview regarding his actions and frame of mind in the days and hours leading up to his recent arrest. It’s lengthy, but very, very interesting. And far out. It’s a must watch.
August 29th, 2008
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He kept saying the same thing over and over! Now do you guys believe me that Rampage is the new Tyson!
So what Jackson is saying is that he can snap again? At any time he can become James Bond or the BurgerKing dude? Sounds like a nut to me…. Dana sound really consider letting him fight so soon.
I agree with you about him not fighting right away. That did not sound like a man who has completely recovered from a complete mental breakdown. He seems better than he was, but still very much on the edge.
Wow….I cant beleive I made it through all 31 minutes of that. What a rambling, on and on and……..
I still dont think his head is right. He sounds like, I dont even know, sounds delusional during that entire painful interview. Rampage did about 30 minutes of talking(rambling), while the interviewer got a few sentences(questions) in , PERIOD.
Pretty sure that was the point of the interview; to hear Rampage’s side of the story. Not hear what the interviewer had to say.
The point of an interview is usually not to hear the side of a story but to get the truth. When you are cut off from asking questions it prevents you from asking important questions in a case like this… for example, “Rampage did you think you were God while driving or did God talk to you?” this would let Rampage answer the question while at the same time showing his obvious contradiction of himself.
What contradiction is that?
He said something along the lines of everyone born in love is a child of God, and therefore must be a god.
Im not saying what he was saying makes sense but I dont see the contradiction.
the interviewer sucks, its not Rampage’s fault. it’s the interviewers job to steer the conversation to bring about information that the audience would like to have answered.
seriously, this guy has issues, and whoever doesnt believe that listen to this interview again. I love rampage the fighter and the persona. But guys, dont be DELUSIONAL yourselves and believe that rampage did not know what he was doing. He was more than likely drugged up (medical drugs etc) while doing that and still sounds like it now in this interview. Nobody really knows the rampage outside the ring, so for some us to not believe this out of the normal behavior is funny. whoever compared tyson to rampage is not far off.
Tyson was once a sane and normal human being when he started his career as it appears. It was the fame, money (which rampage seems to love so much) that changed him! If rampage doesnt learn from history he will become it. I feel sorry for page listening to this conversation, his lifestyle will slowly start becoming that of tysons if he doesnt change his way of thinking! and if wanderlei gives him another beating, all hell is gonna break loose inside that brain of his…
how the hell can you be so ‘delirious’ that you think your a god but then know exactly what the cops were sayin and what they did? hes running around callin people bastards and screaming hes god yet the cops are what? treating him like a 12 year old and picking on him? jesus lets just complain about every single thing we can after a loss.from forest to red bulls to mean bully cops that poked fun at me even though im so out of my mind that i flip out and go play rampage bumper buggy to go save brian…..what the hell
Exactly thank you, seriously how much has Jackson shown us over the time between his loss to Jackson and now. He has shown us he doesn’t know how to properly take care of himself health wise, he is a god, he thought god was talking to him (Christians shouldn’t believe in multiple gods, its hard to be a god and have god talk to you and be Chrsian lol), he shown us he doesn’t really care who he hurt in his situation as he has let Dana do all the talking and “apologizing” for him, he has shown us he can’t man up to his own loss against Forrest let alone man up to his blantant disregard for the law and now he is showing us that he can’t even come up with a decent excuse for why he made all this garbage up in the first place. Hit him with the book!
If i were the arresting officer and I knew who Page was those handcuffs would not be coming off!! Period, never, EVER!
sure he sounds like an idiot.
he always sounds like an idiot….we don’t see this side of Rampage, he is always playin around and doesn’t seem to take things seriously…this however is serious and I believe he is being honest…he is trying to explain his side as silly as it may sound
worst rampage interview interview EVER.
how the f*** is his attorneys letting him do this?
WOW…. Dana come save the day again!
yeah, he contradicted himself a few times in that interview. One example is how he supposedly lost track of time, but somehow knew he started driving at noon? Then he says he couldn’t remember the things that went down while he was delirious, but he remembers the cops making fun of him, how tight his hand cuffs were, he remembers quite a few things except when he was in the truck. I think this was a bad call on his part to go to an interview, he should have been prepped before that (by an attorney). I don’t know about you guys, but to me at least, he lost all credibility he had. I’m sure there was something wrong with him that day, who in their right minds goes on a rampage in traffic if there isn’t anything wrong with them? But in all seriousness, being mad or not, I think he was somewhat conscious (knowing right from wrong) to some degree and is over playing the ‘delirious’ card.
I always knew Rampage was KOO! KOO! He’s got rocks for brains.
Linx, what ru doing?… he lost track of time… not that he couldn’t tell the difference betweeen morn, afternoon, night. He couldn’t remember things… not that he forgot everything. When he was in his truck, that was ‘obviously’ his lowest mental moment… I’m beginning to think some of the guys on here are the crazy ones and Ramapge is sane..lol.
Rampage was off his rocker for a few days… it’s obvious.
I’m not saying he isn’t guilt or isn’t responsible for his actions… but it will be a case of temporary insanity, him trying to prove it and the prosecutor trying to disprove it. I don’t think that will to difficult, they have insitutional interview records, police report and plenty of eyewitness to collaberate.
It’s how hard the judicial system wants to pursue it. I have a feeling he’ll get lienency.
IDK, I’m just not buying the whole thing anymore, I was more on the fence before the interview. I’m a very skeptic person by nature, I’m not saying he’s definitely guilty and could have really been delirious the whole time, I just have my doubts now. Regardless it doesn’t matter what I think (or anyone here), we’ll need to wait and see how this plays out in court.
I watched 14 minutes thats all… Maybe it is excuses.
Well… i guess its kinda good to hear his side of the story.
This guys attorney is really looking after his best interests.
I can hear the judge now: “So Mr. Jacckson, you thought you were a god and were going to save your friends life? Well I don’t know what the district attorney was thinking. I’m sorry this court has wasted your time sir. Let the record show that Mr. Jacksons actions were justified on the grounds that Mr. Jackson thought the devil was on his way to his friends house and Mr. Jackson thought he was god. Case dismissed.”
Yeah, I really dont see it playing out that way in court.
In a california court it will play out exactly like that. If they find him guilty, it will be overturned for discrimination against a person with mental disabilities. he will probably just get hit with community service and have to pass out condoms at a gay pride parade or something.
lmao thats probably not far from the truth.
Or maybe none of you have any idea about what you’re talking about. Your ignorance is stunning.
Whats more stunning is how people come on here and sympathize and make excuses for a guy that caused all of this himself. Who would of known that not eating for days and drinking energy drinks to stay awake would be bad for you and not allow you to be in a good state of mind? Give me a break. I feel sorry for his kids, but not for Rampage whatsoever.
I know what I was talking about. I was making a joke for the purpose of attracting comments by know it all jacka$$e$. Now I have to assume you are stunned by your own ignorance, seeing as how you were the only jacka$$ that took the bait.
TERRIBLE NEWS!!!!!!!!!
Dana said that the WEC will start doing ppv’s!
F that! i love free wec events…
The liberal nut jobs in the courts out there in Cali. will let him slide, you watch and see. The only ignorance here, is the people that think that it’s no big deal, that he had psycho problems. You do the crime, no matter what, you should do the time. Cry me a damn river there MMazing.
not all of them. just some of them MAYBEE! JOHN. you way overstate things. this is 3 day old news.
I’m not crying, nor am I making excuses, if you read my comments. I’m just stating what is probably true: you don’t know what you’re talking about. I must have hit a sore spot, though, talking about your ignorance, in order to attract such a strong response. I guess the truth really does hurt sometimes.
Yes you did hit a sore spot because I hate liberals like you. People like you is what is ruining this country. If that was a sore spot for more people maybe our country wouldn’t be going to hell in a hand basket.
What makes you think I’m a liberal? Not everyone that thinks you’re an idiot is a liberal, you know.
insane in the membrane! insane, got no brains! oh wait, this wasnt a caption contests.
Holy s**t, you guys here have zero compassion… love to see some of the stupid crap you have gone through, and probably just hid in a corner to cry…. he’s a man for going on pulic to explain his version, wether it’s what happened or not… he’s got fans, and he knows that his fans deserve an explanation…
Can’t wait to see him back in action…
Hope he gets better soon…
Agreed. A lot of ignorant people.
i have compassion for people that deserve it.a professional fighter that knowingly and willingly takes steps that might alter his mental function and reasoning does not.he knew fasting and no sleep could mess up your head yet he did and took it further with energy drinks.he lost control and bystanders paid the price for it and instead of owning up to that and accepting responsibility he makes every excuse he possibly can make to avoid it.from forest to fasting to trainers to breakdowns to cops being mean.what the hell iv been through a heap in my life and i take responsibility for it its called being a adult.i have plenty of compassion its saved for regular people that are in screwed up spots beyond their control.its not saved for a grown man being a spoiled child.
Not everyone knows that. People fast for religious reasons all the time, and I guarantee they see it as a spiritual thing and not having anything to do with altering their mental perception. Some ppl just don’t know until they experience, they think their strong enough to handle certain amounts of alchohal or stress’s or whatever it may be without side effect because they have never been there before or experienced it. INTENT is everything, and I don’t believe he made a conscious decision and intended to evade police and to harm pedestrians. He was not in his right mind, and I think if he had known what he would experience PRIOR to not eating/sleeping for that prolonged amount of time then he most definatley would not have done that. But being as no one can turn back time and change things, he’s got to live with this and rather than throw away a great carreer and go to prison for 3 years, I definatley suggest he opt for the plea bargain and use this argument to see what he can do. Rampage I think is a decent human being and does not deserve to have his life ruined over this.
actually I have committed a crime when I was 19, arson to be exact, and I paid the price dearly for it. In the end I came out with an almost clean record of the event, but it cost me about 3 years of my life and about $20,000. I learned alot from my mistake and overall, I matured alot during the process, but I NEVER made excuses for why I did what I did. I knew it was wrong, turned myself in and hoped and prayed for the best. Sometimes the truth sets you free. I do not have compassion for people who make excuses.
You committed arson knowingly and willingly with the intent to destroy someones property, were you under the influence of drugs/alchohal? Was this a sober, conscious planned out decision to committ arson? There is a big difference between your case and his case.
duh…why else would I have done it? Do you think Rampage didnt know he was running into cars and evading police officer’s chasing him with loud sriens on? or maybe his music was too loud and he couldnt hear the sirens? IF he didnt know…then why did he eventually pull over? Come on, he fled officers and changed his mind during the process and pulled over. He knew what was going on.
my case wasnt planned out either….I’m sure Rampage didnt PLAN on running from police ir hitting cars. I committed my crime on the spur of the moment when I was sent into a rage over something I wont go into details about. I wasnt on drugs or alchohol at the time and neither was Rampage….damn looking abck on it I should have amde sure to leave a bunch of empty energy drinks in my car.
Thats still not the same, we’re talking about a guy, thats not rich but definatley well off, all he had to do was pull over and pay the deductible on his insurance after he hit the first car. It makes NO sense whatsoever that he would run and continue to run were he in a clear state of mind. If he had known what he was doing the thing that makes the most sense is to pull over and exchange insurance, bam problem solved. The only thing that makes any of his actions make any sense at all is the fact that he wasn’t able to make a coherant, logical decision at the time. What was the motive? He had no warrants, there was no reason to run, he wasn’t broke, his car was legal, give me a motive and tell me he was perfectly rational and in his right mind when he decided to run. BS. He didn’t get angry, or emotional, it was a problem that slowly escalated over several days cluminating in Jackson being in a delusional state of mind and experiencing semi hallucinegetic side effects. That is not the same as taking drugs, that is not the same as arsen. He does not deserve to go to prison and have his entire carreer ruined over this.
Freakin excuses, thats whats wrong with our country now, take responsibily for your actions, no matter what. Damn left wing nut job liberals.
The key is that you said yourself you knew it was wrong. Rampage is trying to explain that at the time, he didn’t know that what he was doing was wrong. I’m not saying that excuses him. I’m just explaining the most basic point of his interview–one that most third graders would be able to pick up on, but one that nevertheless apparently evades former arsonists.
well his explanation of “I didnt know what I was doing at the time” sounds lame….anyone can say that when they have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble and dont want to face the full consequences….
“I’m just explaining the most basic point of his interview–one that most third graders would be able to pick up on, but one that nevertheless apparently evades former arsonists”….your a smarta$$ MMAzing, the whole point is hes trying to make excuses on why he “didnt know what was going on”…at the time. I jsut think he could have explained himself better than that. Should have told the truth.
That probably IS the truth as far as he can remember it. Try explaining what being drunk is like to someone who’s never drank. Or try explaining what tripping LSD is like to someone who’s never tried it. He’s in the same damn position, we haven’t been there so we don’t know and he’s never been the most articulate well spoken person. IMO this is the best way he knows to try and describe what happened. IMO Rampage Jackson is not a danger to society, he does not need to be locked up to protect us innocent bystanders from his violent ways and is a genuinly good guy that f’d up really really bad. I would be willing to bet that this will never happen again. He’s not the type of person to go recklessly endangering people with the intent and goal of causing them harm.
i think the main thing about this and other interviews ive read is that rampage doesnt seem to be that sorry or show some remorse. he may say a few things here and there, but he just comes off as not caring about the wrongs he did do and is to busy trying to find reasons to dismiss them. i agree with the fact this incident shouldnt ruin his whole life, but he needs to tone it down a bit on alot of things. saying that he doesnt respect forrest griffen as a man for not giving him a rematch immediatley is crazy after the shit he just pulled. (nothing to do with this interview, but does pertain to the whole saga). i read an interview with wandi about kinda the same thing. he said rampage was very humble after his losses to wandi and rua, but weeks later would turn around and talk crap about them. maybee going to england is the best idea for him. just my 2 cents.
U should change your name to Pyro23 or is that taken?
No compassion here… he committed crimes, now he needs to be punished. His story just doesnt add up. Like whimwham said above, how can you be so delerious to think you are a god and call the cops bastards and everything, but at the same time recall details as small as what the cops were sayign and the fact that cops had cell phones out? He needs to read the book “Catch 22″
You would want compassion if you were in his position, it’s easy from the outside looking in. I love how everyones so eager to condemn him when they’ve never been in a position like that. I don’t know what your experience is with drugs, but there’s definatley small details of black out nights that I can remember, and then there’s blanks where I can’t recall a thing. And since I’ve already posted a couple relating drug useage to prolongued malnutrition I won’t start in again, suffice to say that it could definatley be a similiar experience. YOU DONT KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE UNLESS YOU’VE BEEN THERE. AND YES THEY HIRED ME ON TO JACKSONS MMAMANIA BRANCH OF HIS DEFENSE TEAM.
If you do drugs, get drunk, or do anything to fuck up your mental state, then break the law under that mental state, you are still liable. It’s still your fault. By your logic we should just let drunk drivers go, because they “don’t know what they’re doing”
He deserves no sympathy. He did something stupid, and now he’s paying the price.
Your basis is completely off, I likened the EFFECTS of drunkeness or drug useage to malnutrition, not how he got TO those effects. Taking drugs is completely different, he wasn’t TRYING to get drunk/high, this wasn’t something that was planned out or something he INTENDED to do. People that have a lot to drink are planning on drinking, they are TRYING to get buzzed and impair their judgement. You have to have criminal intent along with the crime and there isn’t any. He did not plan this out or mean to do this, people make mistakes and you can’t condemn a man for something he did at what he says is one of the lowest points of his life.
Have you read Catch 22? Because it doesn’t sound like it. You mean to say that Rampage can’t have it both ways. That’s not even what the phrase “Catch 22,” which was taken from the tile of the novel, means. A “Catch 22″ is a situation where all available options are unfavorable.
Dumb dada dumb.
Yeah, his detailed and clear explanation of things made his actions so much more understandable. Give me a break.
Dana has done enough, he even let rampage borrow a suit.
I thought that was one of GSP’s suits.
..and I’m still not geting it.
Look guys, I am sincerely trying my best to give Rampage the benefit of the doubt, but at this point, nothing is making sense. I am a born again Christian. Now, before everybody gets all freaked out and wants to start debating the existence of God, or how Christianity is responsible for all the world’s evil and so on and so on. Let’s agree to disagree on those points for the time being. The point is that Rampage obviously has some true knowledge (I stress “some”) of the Bible, but I’m just not getting the connection to his delusional state of mind. If he is sincere in his desire to follow Biblical principals, then in my opinion, he has had some misguided teaching. I know other Christians that claim some of the very same things that he said he was thinking at the time of his arrest. It just does’nt add up. Sure, I wish him the best and all that stuff, we’ve all said it like a hundred times now, and yes I feel sorry for the other people involved, but for now, this explanation is weak at best. It may be his only explanation (which is even scarier). Man, I really hope there’s nothing seriously wrong with his mental faculties, but he still does’nt look or sound, all there.
Have you had any experience with LSD or Mushrooms? In large quantities these can produce some very intense change’s in personality and in the way a person thinks. From my own personal experience I once ate a half ounce of mushrooms, drank some liquor etc.. after a bit of time I thought that I was stuck that way and would have to live the rest of my life high off mushrooms, I thought a tazmanian devil poster with taz on a harley davidson was evil and tore it down. Fasting without food, and depriving his body of energy and nutrition for such a prolonged time could definatley produce similiar effects. Not making an excuse for him but I know what it feels like to not be in your right mind, and sometimes things just don’t make sense. I was questioning wether or not I was real, and I thought everything I said was a lie, even if it was really true. Yes Rampage messed up and made some dumbass choices, but if he was under any similiar effects as far as I can remember, a person in that state of mind really doesn’t know wtf is going on. Depending on how his attorney can spin it, he might come out pretty decent from all this. I don’t remember how many days he fasted but you can definatley get similiar effects off of letting your body run on empty wihtout sleep for that long. All his attorney needs to prove is that at the time of the incident he was not in his right mind, he did not realize what he was doing and that he did not make a conscious decision to evade police and jeopordize the lives of others. Intent is everything, and I do not believe he intended any harm toward anyone, and in that state of mind I could definatley imagine it going down like that.
I totally understand your point. If had been stated that any kind of substance had ben abused, it would make sense. However, the fasting, and energy drink thing, just sounds too shallow for me. I’m also not suggesting he is making the whole thing up. Im just saying, this explanation did not do anything to help me better understand what really happened.
It’s a combination of things, he was depressed so he didn’t eat, he had a lot on his mind and he didn’t sleep. The prolonged fatigue had a very halucinagenic effect on his mind. It’s like being in the desert for too long and thinking you see an oasis on the horizon, you run to it only to find that your on your hands and knee’s digging in dirt. If it was substance abuse then I wouldn’t have any sympathy for him, I would probably be calling for the prison sentence like most the people here. But it wasn’t, he let his personal situation get out of hand, he was at a really low point in life and made a mistake, it happens.
I couldn’t even watch the whole thing. He is really babbling. If he sounds like this now, imagine what he sounded like at the time. I would have sent him in for an evaluation too. If you are fasting, dehydrated, drinking energy drinks AND you’re not sleeping- it would definitely make you loopy and delusional. If anyone has ever had insomnia alone- you’re not yourself. All of those elements together can explain a lot. Now what the court will think is another story. That’s what he needs to worry about.
So you aren’t getting the connection between religious zeal and an unstable mental state? Really? Where have you been your whole life? Have you never heard of religious cults, or fundamentalist zealots? Delusions often take on religious forms.
this is a good point. Look what happneed in Waco…
Really when I think about it, I dont wish for anyone to go to jail unless the crime is extremely bad, but, I also dont like to see someone get off because of a stupid excuse like energy drinks and lack fo sleep/religious hocus pocus. I really dont want Rampage to go to jail, I would rather see him in the ring than behind bars, but he should definately pay for his crime, which I think no matter the outcome of all this, he will.
Ease up on the presumptions dude, I’m just giving my opinion, and for the record, mostly in fulltime ministry, In NY, Miami, Philadelpia, Zambia (Africa), so yes, I get the whole crazy religion thing. I stated that I know people that say some of those same things, when they think thier not being delusional. All I’m saying is that I’m still not convinced that that’s all this was. I guess It would be safe to say that he is not on an energy drink fast at this time, and he still sounds a bit off.
He really needs some help. Im a police officer and deal with people like this all the time Rampage has got some really bad issues. He is a funny dude but sounds like he is out of his mind. He needs to be commited.
your not the only cop here….I to have dealt with folks like this…I don’t agree that he should be committed and I don’t think he is crazy…he acted crazy as many UNEDUCATED people do… a person who is uneducated and obviously not very well spoken cannot explain their state of mind to the point where others understand…its hard for someone like Page to explain his thought process when he himself will never fully undeerstand it…one thing is for sure, he does need assistance
Did you guys watch the last ultimate fighter? This is RAMPAGE!!
so?
I would love to hear analysis from both police officers here on the alleged actions of the officers as told by Rampage. IF they are true (and notice I capitalized if), then what do you think about the mocking, the cell phone pictures, the heat in the car, the tight cuffs behind the back, the pants falling down, etc.?
If true, they should be disciplined, but it may hard to prove.
probably impossible to prove…it might be true…I can’t compare the actions of a police officer in California with what someone like myself deals with here in Southern Ontario…personally, although it may seem unprofessional, if I were to arrest Rampage I would have a hard time stopping myself from asking for his autograph…lol
Yahoo! McArthur… finally 1 other person that sees what is pretty obvious… Rampage was off his rocker..it happens… he’s very lucky no one got hurt…
Jeez.. I feel like I’m in a donut shop here
I am a police officer as well. My take is slightly different on this one. While I agree Rampage has some issues that need addressing, I also think he’s full of it here (for the most part). I think that most of this has been made up over the last month or so. He’s had a long time to take some tiny shred of truth and weave it into this fantastical story. It really pains me to say this too because I really like Rampage. I truly believe he is great guy with a huge heart. I just can’t buy this. Between the contradictions and his tells (watch the eyes), I think this is all bs.
good point…I’ve always thought his eyes were a bit shifty though
BTW im all for rampage getting off the hook.
but with his idiot attorney now it aint gonna happen.
Idiot atorney, huh? And what led you to this conclusion? You must be a seasoned legal expert–and a diviner, too, because I haven’t heard any specifics of the legal strategy other than that he pled not guilty.
a good attorney wouldn’t have let him do this interview without being prepped, and if he was in fact prepped, it still shows how bad of an attorney he has…
i agree! any decent attorney would not let their client speak about the incident at all, especially to the public! his attorney should issue a gag order on rampage. no comment, stay in the gym and go home! no more going to clubs and events and afterparties until the case is finalized.
Wow, you guys ARE good. So what type of attorneys are you? Maybe your expertise isn’t so surprising–I hear that it’s pretty easy to practice law; not like it requires an advanced degree and state licensure or anything like that.
I didn’t know we needed a law degree in order to state our opinions. I should go back to college I guess, thanks… you sound like those ppl that say in order to discuss MMA we need to be fighters…
Opinions are great. Uninformed opinions are stupid. If the brakes fail on your car, and your mechanic tells you that you need a new master cylinder, and then I, having never met you nor ever encountered your car, and with no training as a mechanic, decry “what an idiot that mechanic must be! Clearly, the master cylinder wasn’t the problem!” then my so called “opinion” isn’t advancing anything–it’s just useless noise. I don’t think that a person needs to be a fighter in order to discuss MMA. I do think, however, that a person should know something about MMA through watching it or reading about it and following the sport. Otherwise, they have no basis for their opinions. We’ve probably all encountered this problem trying to explain MMA to someone who is skeptical of its nature as a “sport” and thinks it’s just barbaric cage fighting. The opinions of the outsider have no value because they are baseless. No, you don’t need a law degree to state your opinions. But if you blindly state baseless opinions that clearly indicate you don’t know what you’re talking about, then you should expect to be called out.
Ok, let me try to explain as if I was talking to a five year old, I’m not sure if you’ll understand though, it shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to know what I’m talking about. I was still on the fence regarding rampage’s accountability before watching the interview, after I have seen the interview I pretty much have my doubts regarding his ‘delusional state’ (huge doubts). If he were to have kept quite, I would still be most likely for rampage, but since he opened his mouth he pretty much shot himself in the foot. Now, I just think it was a HUGE mistake to do an interview, and if his lawyer told him it was alright than that’s where I’m basing my opinion about having a bad lawyer. This guy is still going to trial, this interview could be used against him in court. If this interview changed my views regarding rampage, and if you take your time to read the other comments in this thread you’ll see that I’m not alone. Again, to me it was a bad call to do the interview, hence my bases on saying he has a bad lawyer. Now, where do you base your opinion? Do you have a law degree? seems like weather you agree with me or disagree (as you do), by your own standards you should have one in order to have an opinion on the matter…