what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set of eyes it's almost all the way in so i decided to open the show with a good old fashioned story this one's about a senate bill called the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act or since. it is bill essentially makes tech companies illegally immune from sharing private user data with the u.s. government and the house passed this and it's a wet dream of the bill earlier this summer and the senate was all ready to give it the go ahead but then edward van helsing snowden started disclosing one surveillance program after the other and. once and for all that gas was at its back . and who's leading the charge to pass in the senate none other than senator dianne

frankenstein. but not without the help of n.s.a. director keith alexander who specially requested that the zombie bill be resurrected and as much as i wish that this was an urban legend to keep the snowden's the world up at night this is all the bills alive and well so it's up to us to bury it once and for all back in the ground where it belongs. the key please please take and leave very hard to take a. look at the one that he ever had sex with that her right there looking. through the plate. to the she pleaded with the. little.

october twenty second is the national day against police brutality even though many are using today as a platform to spread awareness about police violence this overstepping of authority is happening every hour of every day across the country in fact according the bureau of justice statistics between four hundred and five hundred innocent people are murdered by law enforcement officers every year we've all heard the names oscar grant and rodney king what about the thousands more that are subject to the same exact fate take a look at some recent examples starting at the tragic death of jose get into the two thousand and twenty six year old military veteran the shot dead on may of two thousand and eleven scepter working a long overnight shift he came home to find shadowy figures trying to break down his door with guns and because two of his family members had previously been killed

in a home invasion he grabbed his shotgun before even knew what was going on a swat team fired seventy one shots at him hitting him twenty two times. and. one. although granted his wife and child were home at the time of the shooting police and wouldn't let her call nine one one until it was too late now after two year of legal battle with pima county swat the family was finally awarded a three point four million dollars settlement but not every victim of police brutality receives millions of dollars november of two thousand and twelve a couple was killed by cleveland police after law enforcement mistook the sound of their backfiring car with gunshots a car chase ensued despite officers being told not to pursue the car and finally

the couple found themselves at a dead end but instead of getting the chance to surrender for their non crime police fired a range of bullets into the stopped car one hundred and thirty seven times the couple was unarmed and although disciplinary hearings are in the works for sixty four officers involved in the shooting not a single one has been fired or charged with murder our last example takes us to philadelphia and september twenty seventh of this year two pedestrians were stopped in what appeared to be a routine stop and frisk incident the two officers claim that the reason they stopped the men was because they said hi to a stranger check out the recording. of. the work they got in there and then. you know the guy that was sitting down there on the steps with good background what you told me don't. know why you know as i did strangers well you know initially i mean this neighborhood anything. just you know when you work and then i'm you don't think i just told the officer in question

officer philip nace went on to berate the pedestrian calling him a freeloader even though he was walking to his job and when the man explained it is from new jersey officer names told him to stay out of philadelphia and remember even the new york judge just deemed that stop and frisk unconstitutional a practice is still being widely used across the nation. remember these are just a handful of examples of police brutality considering how it's illegal to film police in many states now it's enough to make you wonder how many more incidents of racial profiling or even wrongful death every day that we don't know about. police brutality is not just a problem it's an epidemic but the rise of militarization across local police forces cops are treating neighborhoods like battlefields it's

a phenomenon that's become institutionalized just take a look at the response from cops themselves about the inner workings of the force according to national criminal justice reference service forty three percent of cops are green always following the rules is not compatible with getting the job done twenty five percent said that they have witnessed fellow officers her ass in a citizen most likely because of his or her race had to do percent say it's not unusual for officers to turn a blind eye to misconduct by other officers and forty nine percent feel that the only way a criminal receive any punishment is to punish the individual themselves the way the police feel about their own misconduct probably doesn't comfort the thousands of family members affected by police violence in the u.s. it's a subject one organization is tackling head on with a new documentary called no justice no peace just to warn you some of these images are graphic.

i have a cell found in his hands they say we have a shot i'm ten times in a bank i mean i'm way right here and believe and i. want you to stop crying pre-crime one for your client my son was shot right in their tax base our. at our third wife of the one who are the father for friends for itself is a shark in the back he was shot back in. the back yard still be. executed for treason that is so close to the last words our space. joining me now

to discuss more about this film's message and the rampant abuse being committed from behind a bag is michael prysner organizer for the answer coalition thanks for coming on my so there's a lot of films that are done about police brutality what message is this film trying to tell oh well you know the issue of police misconduct and police violence is of course very multifaceted so you could ranges from racist harassment of black and brown communities with a stop and frisk like with one clip that you showed to mass incarceration and all of the poor people particularly african-american community rolled up into the mass incarceration system to militarize crack down on peaceful protest and constitutionally protected activity all of these things are part of this issue of police brutality but what this film focuses on and what the movement that it centered on is focusing on is the outright execution of innocent unarmed people by police officers you can give no rational explanation whatsoever for why that killing was justified who have complete impunity and zero accountability for their

crimes and a lot of it centers around the families and their messages and that was really really powerful of the lawyer representing the family the victims of these families i was talking to police murder is now an epidemic in southern california and you give some examples of the most egregious cases that have come to characterize how sure and of course i mean that's kind of the main point of the film too is that all of these heroic families that have stood up when they've dealt with such a deep perfect tragedy instead of hiding in their houses or at fact confronting the police and standing up and working very hard to build this movement but one of the families on who we work with this coalition to take action on this is a recent case of a police killing of someone named to our sara who was killed in california this past may i'm that is a very typical case ringo was a well known community member he was a worker at the local hospital everyone knew him he was racially profiled because the police were looking for someone who had been in a fight so of course they were on high alert they racially profiled rigo he gets out of his car right in front of the. how many witnesses have confirm the story

followed police instruction got out of the car with his hands up and there was a mediately shot in the heart and killed he was one of thirteen people in the month of may alone who was killed in that area so that speaks to how widespread of a problem that is this was not a story of a police officer who thought that rigo was a danger to his life this is a story of an officer who wanted to shoot someone and had his justification to shoot someone and took that action and so i think that the problem in the what most people don't aware is that people want to characterize it as a well the cop thought their life was in danger come up with excuses he was going for my gun he was reaching for his waistband but i say it really comes down to really these cowards sociopath dudes who want to act like cowboys and go live their dream of shooting some people who might be listening to that you know that's crazy cops look out for their citizens i can't help but bring up speaking of sociopath captain ray lewis former police captain of the philadelphia police force said that

police are actually vetted specifically for tendencies and also a lack of empathy i mean could this play into why we're seeing such cases of brutality and aggression against citizens yeah absolutely i mean of course there's a lot to be said about the individual personalities of many of the people who are wearing a badge and carrying out daily acts of brutality against the community so they're going to be policing but i see this issue goes beyond individual personalities it goes beyond training better training and it goes beyond the people saying this is a few bad apples that need to be rectified this is about an entire system where there is this inherent adversarial relationship between the armed men who are employed by this government which is the government of the big banks the corporations the rich against the communities that there are policing poor communities the press communities those who experience the amount of brutality and look at so it's not the individuals it's the role of the police in our society you

know if you're. you get evicted from your apartment you can't call the cops and say hey my landlord is trying to kick me out can you come help me the cops going to come. that's the place you know if you're going to strip your worker who goes on strike the cops are going to come and say to the boss you need to give these workers a fair contract they're going to hit you over the head to stop breaking the strike and nothing showed that exemplify that more than the n.y.p.d. and occupy wall street showing that they really do work on behalf of those banks given a hefty donation from the banks let's let's play another clip from the film that really stuck with me here. how hard if we look to crime or a solution for crime or solution rates how hard if we looked at soft thomas sides. how many people are they saving for so many people the killing of the hard questions that we have to each and every community i mean here you are talking about how this is an institutionalized problem when i hear something like that i think i don't even know i mean what would the breakdown be if we actually saw this is to six of how many people are being killed versus say well you know we know that the number of killed is extremely high in the hundreds every year i mean one study

shows between four and five hundred person people killed by the police and this is something of course inherent in this type of system where you have a system of the vast. minority ruling over the vast majority i mean to employ these different types of things first but if people really knew the numbers i would say that if you look at the cases in this film and you know more than fifty families who i will have a loved one killed by the police and all of them give their testimonies in this film telling what happened and not a single one of these cases can you say that that officer could have possibly believed that his life was in danger and so people can say whatever they want to about you know in general cops are fearing for their lives but if you actually look at the stories of what's happening there's absolutely no explanation for why should be used and so this is i think we're in a situation where people be really shocked at the level of epidemic that this is absolute and then amount of gunshots for these people is just absolutely extraordinary for cops that actually are held accountable and go through the justice system what sort of. punishment do they generally receive none i mean you

know when they go through the justice system they're a part of that you know racist oppressive justice system so of course you're not held accountable the police investigate themselves when they commit a killing and of course if you're investigating yourself you're going to come out and say yes i was justified in this killing but in the repair cases that police do go to trial for a killing of a unarmed innocent person the courts are lined up behind them to the media is lined up behind them too and there's absolutely no type of fairness in it whatsoever we have one example of a police officer who murdered someone on camera joining us measurably murdered oscar grant in front of tons of witnesses and video he went to jail for a levon once only because there is massive uprisings in the street all over the country so that shows you just how much this justice system cares about people who are murdered by cops back on the force now and he's an armed security guard so he's carrying a gun. and he's going to go and that's really a great sarcastic obviously why is this war being waged because i think people look

at cops and they say they're here to protect why are they waging a war against us right well you know we can look to the massive growth in the military as ation of the police and the hyper aggressive tactics coinciding with growing radicalism in the united states in the sixty's and seventy's when swat teams were formed cops were pumped full of all the fancy gear you see them wearing now and this was coinciding with growing radicalism among african-american communities native communities latino communities people were in motion in political motion fighting back against the status quo challenging the core institutions of society and so this government responded with vicious brutality against those communities to crush those movements and of course those things have remained in place today why is simply an issue in beverly hills of course there are dangerous people in beverly hills there are crazy people in beverly hills but this is an issue in beverly hills because the people living in beverly hills don't have the potential to really come out against the current status quo this rule of the rich that we live under and so cops are employed and poor oppressed and. community

is that those in really in power in this country know have the potential to be radicalized and have potential to fundamentally change this way that this site is run not something they very much want to protect their kids thank you so much everyone check it out no justice no peace very powerful documentary my cries are from the answer coalition really appreciate your time. so to come tonight we'll hear from doing the fund was annoying on the recent movie the fifth estate stay tuned. the fact that. they were going to do the job did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy shred albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrangea right handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once sold to us by job market and on this

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riveting hard hitting a blockbuster thriller these are just a few of the things no one is saying about the theatrical release of the fifth state the movie is a portrayal of wiki leaks founder julian assange and his rise of notoriety the controversial film didn't do well the box office in fact saying that it bombed is putting it lightly free downloads of media stand however a film produced by wiki leaks blew the fifth estate out of the water point and five hundred thousand downloads last week and alone and a statement made by doing a song that coincided with the film's release said quote instead of wasting your money and time on hollywood propaganda why not get all your friends around and spend your time watching media stand instead looks like it works in case you haven't caught the newest dr drama here's a clip. from days while truth come up tight. out of cyberspace came

wiki leaks. and the leaks paved the way for operation cable run. a challenge to find news editors willing to run the most explosive stories of this century. yeah a realistic rendition of wiki leaks and the hard work that goes into an organization like it versus an overly produce thriller portraying assad as an egomaniac so joining me now to talk about hollywood's historical revisionism and media stan a film and joined by attorney and president emeritus of the center for constitutional rights michael ratner always a pleasure to have you on have you always great to be with you so michel the fifth estate movie not only bombed it's being called the worst film of release of the year why do you think this is you know i mean i just came from the film because i figured it might go on your show i should see the film just opened in new york

actually a couple of days ago i was over here for a way for the weekend but the best news about the film is that when i went to the theater there were two other people in the three hundred seat movie theater they had it running at one thirty and two thirty but of course no one was going to it and it bombed i think a bomb for two reasons one is it gave a completely what i would call false picture of who julian a songe is it's one that picked up all the media negativity and of course it was based on a book by someone who'd been a volunteer for wiki leaks and who then had a falling out and wrote a really nasty book and the second reason i think is because it was completely untruthful it's made up and it's made up in a way that actually can really harm julian assange who they are looking at the criminally indicted if they have not already indicted him in the united states it falsifies key facts about the revelations and the quote that the us claims came from wiki leaks absolutely and we just watched a short clip from the media stan talk about how this film contrast against that

that the state. well media stand tells the real story of how we keep leaks tried to get its information out tried to get partners all over the world took its volunteers took their lives in their hands by trying to do that and really goes into the issues and the seriousness with which we keep leaks is trying to expose the truth to people all over the world not just in the united states this film does the opposite first it goes after the character of julian assange really almost in a cartoonish way you know with having words out of. the real the real quote hero in the film according to hollywood the man who had a falling out with wiki leaks and julian assange. her words that try and demean julian assange makes him into a cartoon making of course the man who fell out with wiki leaks is more of the hero

in the film money of course it was nothing nothing of the sort the second thing it does and i think this is crucial to understand is there's a claim in the film that the release of the documents how armed or even had people killed who were revealed whose names were revealed in those documents and that's not true and i was at the bradley manning case when the government tried to prove bradley manning being one of the people who gave documents to wiki leaks and the government tried to prove that those documents caused harm or cause someone to be killed on cross-examination they couldn't come up with one case of harm or killing yet this movie goes with that bias as a way of really prejudicing wiki leaks prejudicing truth tellers like bradley manning jeremy hammond julian assange publisher and others and that's what it does and it's a nasty nasty piece of business that if you were to make such a bold face lie because we already know that that is come home untrue and nothing

no one was harmed it's never been proven that anyone was harmed from the release of these leaks do you think that this is a. deliberate effort on behalf of the government i mean do you think that as we saw on zero dark thirty that the government was actually working in concert with hollywood to deliberately try to put out some preemption of a historical revisionism the narrative of her week's abbey it's impossible to figure this stuff out why i mean it may be that i deserved dark thirty was obviously hand in glove with the cia but why they would make a film that is known to be false on the issue of harm and causing harm and then worse than there they actually show an escape from a country libya in this case were actually it was iran in the script libya of a person whose name was supposedly exposed by the wiki leaks documents they show the state department concerned that person escaping with his baby and his wife and they just make it over the border at the egypt but the question i would have is why would a filmmaker do they at and not interview the families of the journalists the reuters journalists who were killed in the collateral murder video or the kids whose father

was killed when they were trying to rescue people on the street after the collateral murder murder video or the victims who were tortured why when they interviewed those people the thousands and mil actually maybe a million people the victims of what we can link shown show who were killed instead they concentrate on a completely fictitious story about someone whose name was allegedly exposed completely made up so if they're not hand in glove with the government in the way zero dark thirty was they're certainly doing the work of the federal government and it's irresponsible of the filmmakers to be doing that in the context of an ongoing grand jury investigation against julian assange and wiki leaks it just adds fuel to the fire and it's a bad movie as some reviewers have said and as you said it's cartoonish it's it's it's basically a bore it's a review it looks horrible i mean when i first saw the trailer that this is a laughably bad looking you know as you know a stunt wrote an open letter to benedict cumberbatch the actor portraying him in

the film and asked him to remove himself in the movie why did he reach out to the actor he. this is just kind of make a statement and get that message across it said again why did he word jack wrote a letter open letter to know about i letter oh yeah do you think that this was just to make a statement i mean pretty much because of course you know it was an interesting move to kind of write to the actor playing and instead of maybe the director or something you know cumberbatch had to ask first to meet with julian because he said i want to be able to get your mannerisms etc which it just for the record are totally exaggerated in the film and where the tics and all that just completely exaggerated right so julian said i'd like to come and see what the embassy the ecuadorian embassy in london so i can get your character and julian says look at as much as i respect you as an actor this is not going to be a good film and i wouldn't recommend that you participate in it and by my meeting with you it would add legitimacy to the film so this wasn't just a stage piece by julian assange this was a serious response to cumberbatch as requests to meet with julian and i think they

both treated it seriously and got into you know a series of discussions about it i think to certainly i think the cumberbatch as benefit i think there were some changes made at the end i don't think they were sufficient obviously to take this film out of the realm of complete fantasy and the harm it caused to julian assange and one other point i want to make about the film is it shows of course the guardian that are were rusbridger it shows keller and others at scenes where they were not really at but one thing i want to contrast is the way wiki leaks and its media partners have dealt with their sources compared to what rusbridger kalar and others in the quote major media like the guardian and the new york times have done you know jeremy hammond is coming up for sentencing on november fifteenth i understand that there's a letter being written by wiki leaks as well as a number of its media partners really supporting jeremy hammond and asking for the judge for some kind of leniency when i see that kind of letter written by the new york times and the guardian about its sources whether it's chelsea manning or it's

other publishing partner like julian assange. you know then i'll have some respect for those newspapers until i see that i won't well is an extremely important move for julian i really like that he wrote that open letter and i think it's also really important they release the counter to that historical revisionism with media stan really amazing to have you on have your insight i won't be seeing the film because it looks terrible and i don't even want to give him my money thank you so much michael ratner attorney here president emeritus center under colorado writes it's great to be with you always. if you're wondering what i'm doing when i'm not on air you can check me out on twitter at adding mine you can follow me there you'll find all my tweets linking to segments from the show as well as random thoughts i have throughout the day and also please help us get break into running on twitter locational throws in the hash tags we can get true running on the twitter sphere but only with your help to twitter check me out at abby martin and that's all for me tonight things are on for tuning in and we'll see you right back here to break to start all over again tomorrow.

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