the n.s.a. you claim that every time edward snowden opens his mouth he says something completely nuts and how does he back up that claim that stone is a lunatic or because he dared to say that the surveillance programs were quote never about terrorism or rather approach social control and diplomatic manipulation maher argues that they are about terrorism but that they're just simply gone too far unfortunately what maher doesn't seem to realize is that the n.s.a. spying has actually been proven to not be about terrorism as greenwald so clearly points out are the corporate espionage against brazilian oil companies to wiretapping angle of merkel's phone besides spine has been going on for decades terrorism was just the excuse to expand and codified the unconstitutional practice more than prefaces his next question to greenwald by suggesting that it's not snowden said the government can go back in time and quote scrutinize every decision you've ever made every friend you've ever discussed something with what bill doesn't seem to understand yet again is that anyone can have their digital data

slowed down to have a case retroactively built against them even after being schooled by greenwald maher doesn't concede his point instead just says we're going to have to agree to disagree that snowden is effing nuts well there you have it the so-called liberal media demonizing snowden as a lunatic seems like mars idea of political correctness is defending the government line and it's break the set. the such utter they are very hard to take out of the to get. a life have you ever had sex with her right there no doubt about.

it. i. want to say. fifty three years ago as president eisenhower was leaving office he gave a farewell speech so profound and prescient that it continues to send chills on the spine of those who listen to it today it was not only a speech but a warning to every u.s. citizen that the defense industry had begun its takeover of america's democracy despite the fact that this speech has become the most memorable moment of eisenhower's presidency he was largely responsible for the unabated growth of the u.s. military machine it during the height of the cold war and knowing the role he played in the military industrial complex perhaps it was guilt that led him to give this great address. we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry

a bad proportion. i do do this three in the house many young men and women are directly engaged in the defense systems we ban on military security alone more than the net income of all the united states corporations corporations. think about what he said for one second and one nine hundred sixty one the u.s. was already spending more in its defense on the net income of all u.s. corporations at the time if eisenhower thought that was a disturbing trend now what do you think now that u.s. corporations have become bigger and many countries for example g.e.'s g.d.p. is bigger than new zealand and yahoo is bigger than mongolia but eisenhower would be rolling in his grave if you can see the extremes that the us military industrial complex has reached today in fact the us now spends more on military expenses than

the next ten largest countries combined and the government continues to deceptively claim that only twenty four percent of its expenditures are for national defense however independent watchdog organizations have broken down the true costs of u.s. imperialism according to the war resisters league twenty nine percent of the budget from two thousand and twelve went to fund the current military operations in a whopping eight percent went to fund past military ventures yes believe it or not we're still paying off debt from the civil war but there's another reason why the anniversary of eisenhower's speech is eerily symbolic january seventeenth was the same day that obama chose to give his own speech on an essay reform it was full of empty platitudes and ultimately prove that there would be no change to global unconstitutional spine this dragnet surveillance program is perhaps one of the biggest hinderances of modern liberty and democracy and oddly enough eisenhower

address just. this council to government we must car guard against the acquisition of a minute influence whether stolen or runs on by the military industrial complex the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. we must never let the weight of this combination that endanger our liberty or democratic process. unfortunately eisenhower's message fell on deaf ears as generation after generation relinquished more and more power to feed the military beast and sadly no president since then has had the courage to confront our addiction to war even if it means the destruction of our society. for those who are paying attention the rate of police violence in the us seems to

be worse than ever every hour every day it's reported by citizens that police are overstepping their authority and committing acts of violence against people across the country and despite this growing trend it's nearly impossible to get an accurate number on how many cases of police brutality officially occur every year so why are these numbers so hard to come by and help me break it down i'm joined by our two correspondent those walls i listen i am a loser just a great report on this i have no idea how difficult it was to actually get these numbers what data exists and where is it currently about police brutality well that's that is a what i very eye opening thing that i found is that there's not really a place if they're stored they're not stored in a place where we can find them i was doing some digging and digging came across this report at national data collection on police use of force contact it was jointly published by the national institute of justice contacted them i'm like hey

this is this is dated one thousand nine hundred six by the way i was like is there anything that we have any more recent data they couldn't get back to me contacted the bureau of justice statistics no concrete data there contacted the f.b.i. and again they cannot give me any data they say so i quickly be i quickly kind of caught on that the story perhaps is that there is a. no data because we see so many of these videos coming out so many of these videos going viral showing these horrific essences of police brutality and i'm wondering is it is it because there is more people putting it out there you know social media recording it on their phone or is it happening more and trying to find these statistics is it's literally impossible abbi here's what the f.b.i. told me. spokes person told me quote justifiable homicide would be the only f.b.i. uniform program data available to determine use of deadly force justifiable homicide is not considered a crime and not all agencies report the data he goes on to say that the f.b.i.

is program does not collect this information unless the officer officer is seriously injured or killed so basically they report on all kinds of crime statistics. this translates we know when an officer is hurt or injured by a civilian but we don't know when a civilian is her or injured by an officer there's no extensive database of that information absolutely incredible justifiable homicide can be interpreted in so many different ways what do they define as just well that's the thing actually most police shootings are in that category of justifiable homicide so basically what that means is that the circumstances surrounding the shooting surrounding the case made it so that it's a it's a justified shooting it's a justified killing and oftentimes when police shoot they shoot to kill so you have the suspect there are the victim is no longer in a position to testify

a case close it usually doesn't go into investigation further so unfortunately or fortunately or we do the thing is we know that police that they have a dangerous job we know that they oftentimes they are in difficult dangerous circumstances and i think what's eyeopening about this is is yes. things happen but we should know at least the rate at which they happen how often they happen where they happen and the fact that we cannot get ahold of this data kind of makes you wonder at least will cast suspicion on on whether or not raises the issue of transparency it's just completely insane i had no idea that there is actually no documented verification of all the ties that it is not a lot of course there's independent watchdog groups that have picked up the slack but really it's unacceptable for federal agencies to not be documented in what some people call an epidemic was you know there's a new program the l.a.p.d. is trying to. belt cameras in real to california this program actually was

successful led to an eighty eight percent decrease in complaints against the department do you think that this is the answer to have cameras on the police themselves well it could be and i think in doing my research for this story an interview attorneys that represent police brutality victims say that oftentimes that is what's necessary right now the explosion of video that we're seeing kelly thomas one example even on during the occupy movement that now infamous video of peaceful protesters on the ground you see those videos and the pictures speak for themselves whereas before it was really it's really really hard to get evidence when you're going up against a police officer if the if the suspect is or the victim is dead that they cannot they cannot testify a lot of times where police brutality instances are high they tend to be in communities where people are a lower socio economic class so people are afraid to speak out and they already

have this kind of tense relationship and distrust with law enforcement so abby i don't know i think i think what the story here is that there is there is no data base so even if we want to know we don't know and i think. what i came across from people that are concerned about this is that it's really going to take public pressure. maybe because there is no law that mandates that that lawmakers come forward this that agencies report this so it could take. from the public. to make it so that it's mandated that this that this information is reporting now that we know well is not a good sort of pressure i guess i have no idea. you know you mention the case of kelly thomas i think that's the most egregious one because even if it was i mean it was on camera we saw these cops savagely beating this man to death and they still get off scot free i mean what does that say about this is that even if we do have these things on camera i mean. well there is

a lot of barriers to victims even when it's on camera. takes are a couple attorneys that take a lot of these these cases police brutality cases. and there's just so many you're hurdles one thing officers they ban together they're going to support each other and so when you when you interview one officer and they tend to there's a camaraderie there so oftentimes there's a story of that they line up they have that advantage another issue that comes comes that comes immediately into play as a is an officer he comes under this code of authority you know he's wearing a he has a weapon he's wearing the uniform he's wearing a badge i'm not all right there according to attorneys that represent these victims that they're already placed at a huge disadvantage in just stepping foot into that courtroom so there's just so many issues at play so many barriers so many issues thanks for breaking down at least one of them we can start to understand this issue a little more concretely liz walter should it thanks and. coming up we honor dr

martin luther king's real legacy and why as fight for an equality is more important now than ever before. please. thanks for. the reply to do the job the premise is the only industry specifically mention of the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy recall versus. rule. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our craft similarly we've been a hydrangea right hand full of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our politicians fathers once built just by job market but on this

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. it's going to give you a different perspective give you one stock tip i'll never i'll give you the information you make the decision don't worry about how breaking the set works the revolution of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness and frustrated with the system extremely your politics would be described as angry i think in a strong enough or single. but

. many americans take for granted why they had today off from work and school and while this unique federal holiday commemorates martin luther king jr's birthday his legacy has been largely diluted and the corporate media devotes a segment or two every year to remember and all can rightfully so however the story is always the same to honor a man who challenge racial inequality and fought for the equal rights of all peoples all the while for growing the more controversial aspects of his legacy including everything from j. edgar hoover to labeling him as the most a tory as liar in the country the f.b.i. cointelpro surveillance against him and constant government attempts to undermine and ok's message amidst all the government hype about this day there is a little to no efforts on a federal level to continue dr king's fight against racism militarism and what he called the greatest crime of all poverty so in an effort to have a more honest conversation about the white washing of dr martin luther king's name

and how today's generations can reclaim the principles he lived by i'm joined by professor dr wilmer leon morgan state university professor dr jared ball thanks so much for coming on both of you if you're. so dark about what do you think is the biggest aspect missed by the establishment of m.l.k. is true legacy well there are a number of things starting with the for that the dr king was far more of a radical. he's given credit he started raising serious questions about capitalism as an economic model about the failings of militarism and of course white supremacy and then he toward the end of his life took to real target both white liberals in the black bush was easy is not holding their end of the bargain for the struggle for equality in this country and around the world so all of his criticisms again of the economic model of the violence of this country in maintaining its an empire around the world are often omitted from the conversation of dr king as he looked to really really grapple with and lead direct action campaigns to challenge and make

the status quo untenable and impossible to maintain in this country and dr lee in the famous i have a dream speech was originally a normal thing never again as you point out in your article why do you think dr king has been tamed as a dreamer when in fact he was a radical activist because controlling the narrative is incredibly important in as they say perception is reality at least to those who are perceiving it so by being able to control the image of dr king and make him this dreamer as opposed to making him a radical making him a revolutionary making him. in many regards a profit it's very easy to keep people thinking that eventually this will happen you'll get yours by and by instead of understanding that would really it's going to bring about substantive change in this country is direct action by those who are the most directly impacted by the maladies in this country well dr bell you

mentioned poverty and sustainability and the current model of capitalism another huge battle i'm ok waged according to oxfam international study terrible statistics here about the growing wealth gap in the world almost half of the world's wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population do you see the fight against poverty as taking a step backwards from a time oh certainly in peace. like the united for a fair economy group an economic policy institute and several others have been tracing since king's assassination the devolving conditions particularly of black americans and working people in this country to show that much of what he was struggling to change has not only not only did the movement get stalled but it did in fact reverse itself and then his images use actually testify against his own movement and his own particular plans including the fact that he called at the end of his life his dream had become a nightmare he said his dream would become a nightmare in terms of what had actually not occurred and change in this country and around the world if i get that's a great point because as we hear today i have

a dream i have a dream but most people don't realize is that came three quarters of the way into the speech right the first. part of the speech was an indictment of america by stating the the incredible dichotomies and how america was failing to live up to its objectives so the you know he talked about america. giving grows at the time a check a blank check or check that came back marked insufficient funds that was an indictment of america you don't ever hear anybody talking about the book where do we go from here chaos or community if you ever hear anybody talking about his speech time to break silence why oppose the war in vietnam you don't hear anybody talking about the real substantive analysis that dr king was engaging in we always hear about during and it's also important remember speaking of that dream speech as well that right afterwards william c. sullivan working for j.

edgar hoover and the f.b.i. said we must now mark dr king is one of the most dangerous negroes in terms of the relationship of the black struggle here in the communist movement burgeoning around the world so from that moment on while he's to this day commemorated as the great dream or the federal government took that as an opportunity to say we must now surveil put him under the level of surveillance that most of us were you know. certainly of the customs who were not not aware of at that time that many of us are now becoming you know forcibly subdued beneath in our own time you know dr paul do you think that i mean considering the government's affinity with labeling everything terrorism generalizing everyone who's just kind of a rabble rouser would he be labeled a terrorist and you think well be hard to me that he will in effect he was because if you look at the way the washington post another major media characterized him at the end of his life he was demonized within ninety days of his assassination within the pages of the washington post they said the federal government in the highest

levels of the federal government were afraid of him feared him as a threat to national security in part because of his affinity or what was perceived as his affinity for leninism and the black power movement so in effect he was at that time being called a terrorist i don't think one national leader attended his funeral and i wrote a piece in august after the fiftieth for the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary march on washington i asked the question or made the projection had he been alive today he would not have been invited to this at that morning because he would have been against drones he would have been against the assassination of moammar gadhafi he would have been against. attorney general eric holder statement that the president has the right to assassinate an american citizen anywhere in the world i mean there were so many things that there are so many things that are being engaged in at this time as america continues to be an imperialist hedge amman that dr king would have been against he would not have even been allowed to speak at that incredible incredibly poignant and true considering how he was subjected to

cointelpro massive surveillance twenty four seven how do you think he would look at the n.s.a. today. well he would say i told you so first of all and see that to me is one of the most puzzling things about president obama and his approach this entire n.s.a. issue is that anyone who really has any understanding of our national history particularly an african-american who. and the cointelpro program there's no in the world you can you can support what the n.s.a. is don't get that you would also have to see it as inevitable given that the surveillance that we that he suffered and others in the movement suffered in the surveillance we're all suffering now is directly related to the worsening conditions that we're all being forced to suffer and the fear is that those conditions inspire in terms of rebelliousness so so as these conditions continue to worsen surveillance has to go absolutely dr paul what would you say to those who do equate an ok with obama purely on symbolism alone what is simply an untenable

position i mean the facts are pretty clear even if you want to support unlike obama you have to recognize him as the direct and immediate antithesis to the movement that produced dr king in the politics of dr king they are they were moving in diametrically opposed. trajectories of directions so when people try to make these links they miss the important point that dr king was far more radical and that obama that he was the product of a movement dr king was a product of a bottom up grassroots movement that demanded that he has some leadership where is brock obama quite in the opposite fashion has been selected by the most elite in the society and targeted as paul street is said in one of his books on the subject as a black man who was who was black but not civil rights black so obama is the product of the elite whereas dr king was a product of the grassroots movement and their politics as presently i was just saying again completely antithetical they could be they they cannot. there is no

unity or comparison to be made other than to say one is the antithesis of the other you know anything and we only out after that is really to your point is that when you listen to someone such as reverend sharpton talk about or try to compare his relationship with president obama to dr king's relationship to president kennedy and president johnson i would say that dr king's responsibility as with a philip randolph and franklin roosevelt and. even frederick douglass and lincoln they were bringing. douglas randolph and king they were bringing the message of the people to the president al sharpton has been bringing the message of the president and the people and not that there's anything wrong with that i mean that's not i'm not making a value judgment i'm making a historical distinction that to me is very clear in campaign are very loose i would not put a value judgment on it well. i mean washington post cause al sharpton a surrogate for obama's policies and in delivering them particularly to black america in

a way so that black people are less critical of what obama is doing we have to i think i think our value should be put on that in the distinction should be made between what sharpton defines as the point of the movement and what king was defining so much sharpness as on sixty minutes the point of the movement was to allow him to wear these suits and smoke cigars and fancy you know bars in downtown manhattan dr king was saying the exact opposite that the black was the white liberals in particular were not doing what they were supposed to do to up hold the struggle to advance the struggle for real economic justice redistributive politics and a real as he said revolutionary change of social values in this country. let's talk about a ninety nine memphis grand jury case that did conclude that dr king's assassination wasn't part of mr by government conspiracy i mean what do you guys think about this monumental court decision and why has there been no kind of acknowledgment of this in the mainstream narrative well because again controlling that narrative is incredibly important and invaluable to to the government not only is

was dr king's assassination speech i would say spearheaded and carried out by the f.b.i. and the cia many will tell you that so was the assassination of john kennedy and so is the assassination of malcolm x. it's not a coincidence that j. edgar hoover's considered dr king to be a the most dangerous. in america and along with that. was was doing everything in his power to see to what they say that a quote unquote black messiah would not rise within the black community and disrupt what they consider to be the acceptable status quo about thirty seconds left if you want to add anything just say that dr king was seen as a threat by the society he was he was. he was marginalized by the leadership of the civil rights movement by the mainstream press by the political elite in this country and in particular because of the politics that he was looking to to to engage and when we learned from that trial is the level of surveillance that he was

put under that chose to what extent he was seen as a threat it was pretty devastating you guys thank you so much for your incredible inside dr wilmer leon dr baltar sharing our thoughts thanks so much for watching you guys join me again tomorrow when i break that.

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