You readers were promised movie reviews on this blog, but here we jump the gun with a PREVIEW of CITIZENFOUR. (you want a review writ large and long see: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/holder-secrets & you'll get a full treatment there.) This important work debuts commercially this Friday and it's an important historical data-point on the through-line connecting no-knock police home invasions, wrongful convictions, law officer perpetrated shootings of unarmed citizens and all variety of prosecutorial misconduct. NSA violations of peoples privacy shares with all these other examples of bad government behavior an emblematic factor: the failure to respect or even acknowledge the presumption of innocence intended to be sacrosanct in our social contract as a self-goverened people. Word to the wise - if we want to be presumed innocent we need to demand to be so presumed and presume of others accordingly. See the film please and spread the word.
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AuthorJon Amsterdam is a Lawyer, Educator, Community Organizer and National Service Innovator who directs Communities Without Borders, a non profit organization he founded in 1996. Archives
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