i'm. going to come. from. greetings and sell you tasia. as the classic rolling stones song says you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes yes you might just get what you need well hawk watchers in the theater of twenty first century war invasions based on lies and high paid trigger happy mercenaries a lot of the times you you never get what you want new most definitely definitely never get what you need this is exactly the case for many in iraq today after a us federal people's court threw a barrier large wrench into the search for justice in the two thousand and seven

this hour square massacre according to m.p.r. a federal appeals court has thrown out the murder conviction of an ex blackwater security guard and ordered three others to be released sentenced in connection with the two thousand and seven massacre of fourteen unarmed iraqi civilians in baghdad injured seventeen blackwater contractors paul slaw for dust unheard of in liberty and each been sentenced to thirty years in prison after being convicted in two thousand and fourteen of voluntary manslaughter and using a machine gun to carry out a violent crime while nicholas a slavin was convicted of birth degree murder and given a life sentence for according to the government by airing the first shot in the tragedy but the appeals court ruling now means that the trump justice department will have to decide if they want to reprosecute this latin caves which is now spanned three different presidencies meanwhile slabs three compatriots will more than likely have their prison terms drastically reduced in the recent and sing i

guess when it when it comes to the tragedy that is the iraq war that even after multiple multiple multiple years and multiple multiple multiple convictions justice will once again have to weigh. until we start watching the whole. thing. with the. real thing with. the bottom. like you that i got. this. week so. well on the watching the hawks like i robot for some time to have a lot more avoids out of the i remember celebrating. when they got

convicted just let it slip. back in for the two years later justice is no longer more than three years old it would be justice is no longer serve maybe justice is served again because the public courts a lot of things were messed up about this trial and some did all back to the to the beginning is essentially which is really unsettling i mean there's only so much you can go through on these cases over and over and over again and our appeals process is important it's in very important part of justice but i feel like this is one instance where maybe a prosecutor kind of did certain things because they knew it would probably get back. because they didn't have the case didn't have the legs to hold up on its own yeah i mean look the prosecutor you know they they they can turn it was slaton this case to a first degree murder a life sentence no i. don't know what's going to happen with that i mean they have

to go back and retry it otherwise this guy basically is a free man. you know they contend that he started the whole massacre he was a sex life bird shot first killed this this iraqi and this is. you know part of the circle of traffic that been kicked off this whole firefight massacre that was one of. the main reasons we don't you know well we tried to do you know at least superficially move away from using private mercenaries and contractors this massacre was part of that while the spill's court ruled that he never should have been prosecuted in the same trial as the four as the three other you know members involved because if you could charge him with first degree murder you know that should be its own separate case and that you go in there he could have been able to call witnesses just for his particular case to dispute that he was the one who took the right because apparently testimony that the state department i believe god early somebody else admitted to taking the first shot you know so it's not going to be an easy retrial for the government they're going to call him you know if they want to go after slab they're going to call in dozens of witnesses from iraq fly

them back to the united states all the things they did before it's going to be hard to do and i'm sure there's going to be people who are going to want to come back right and be put in that situation after everything and i mean our lives the tragedy over and over again just to have it go back to another or to have them off again i mean one of those one of the. the government bungled they bungled a lot in this case sadly which is you had so much time to put it together you have all this stuff at your disposal and then you're left with this very very bad case that originally so originally he's charged with manslaughter right but the justice department managed to miss the filing deadline and then after missing the final the finally deadline they inadvertently let the statute of limitations expire this statute of limitations work rhymes. just trying to put out what am i had so what they did this that forced them to charge him with murder which doesn't have

a statute of limitations so they wanted to charge him with this manslaughter conviction but they made it what made it worse because they didn't bother to check on those two dates which is really important i think the one that gets me is the weapons charge it seems just sort. ancillary and thrown on there so that it didn't look like they were just charging them no one thing because they had the whole web and started to was three of them received in the man's penalty because they were convicted of using military firearms while committing a felony but inevitably we their government caught their military contractors they're going to have american military weapons wherever they are and that law was really made it had to do with gang members and organized crime having these kinds of weapons or committing a crime it wasn't meant to be used against you know some of the earlier the you know kind of clicks after that about you know running through the cases we just did you know you mentioned that you know one could be sort of by is that maybe they

kind of. maybe that kind of sort of. maybe not kind of sort of purpose attacked a bunch of this extra stuff rather than just go after him for manslaughter or you know murder or maybe all three or four of them are we because it was kind of what if we took all the stuff we will turn it over like they just did it or maybe they won't find me guilty conviction and then surely. because i think it was kind of a surprise i mean i'm barris a lot of people in a very embarrassed the u.s. military and the government never anything else and and really brought attention to the fact that we're paying. you know goon squads and giving them incredibly powerful weapons and then just kind of throwing them out in these situations without a really good amount of training these are their former soldiers who then went into private service i don't think they're taking them along every day and say how's your month or any rate now and i just don't see that out as the winners are going

as a military is where they're going to the better start of blackwater is now one of the top advisors pearlie of the tribe white house. policy there is more of them but. it's easy to see how the corporate media used fear in negativity to boost the visibility of stories relate. to politics health care and the military industrial complex and artfully weave a narrative that suits their editorial or advertising agenda in the process but when it comes to gaming the news media has had blinders on for decades the narrative goes video games are no write your brain actual issues that they gave an industry whether social or economic or simply not worth the mainstream media's chinaman less of course it suits their agenda as one mainstream media journalist told kotaku you took a last fall anything that instills fear in people those stories always rate this weekend the washington post released an investigation into a long defunct gaming company g.e. and its connections to the current administration's chief strategist steve bannon

was essentially a chinese based gold farm the mind as they call it credits prizes and currencies within the large online multiplayer games like world of warcraft ever quest and guild wars the idea being that gamers who wanted to level up quickly or save hours of gameplay could pay premium prices to essentially cheat the game divan and design the business plan that included chinese workers twenty five cents an hour to finish quest for rich merican gamers do in fact it reiterated multiple times that the washington post writers couldn't prove you know anything about it in the first place now i'm not defending steve bannon but the narrative that the mainstream media is obsessive lee trying to spin now is that evil plan to win the white house was hatched in the wilds of the young white male dominated online gaming world trouble is by their very own reporting ban had nothing to do with the day to day operations of a g.e. and probably even actually know exactly how any of it worked in the first boy is the fear mongering mainstream press has decided once again to demonize an entire

community to score political points use one gender as a pawn to drive wedges and plainly in nor yet copy the work of others once again proving they don't care about giving the public the facts contact. and transparency as much as they care about. taking as many nickels out of our pockets as possible build ourselves to reload the mainstream it is just going to tell you that i what i g.e. was trying to write is shake some nickels out of people's parents well the well is that band of model yeah you know it's really interesting because not just some clue they brought in to basically just cover a lobby for the right the gaming industry to suit up theirs. but they set up this way the kind of buying that is. you know gold. with like let's say roll of warcraft you know by putting these lower one workers in the broadband remember kind of like now that we've got caught doing this we need blood kind of a middleman to smooth this over with the gaming world how can we make this legit

right the way the guy you bring in who's a little bit in the in criminal and organized crime you're trying to kind of legitimize a business you can longer some money you see you get a diligent guy who knows how to make businesses work which are all in this virtual legal them lobbyist very sickly doing so so gold farming is something that's a big controversial thing for for gamers because when you have one big all multiplayer universe it's you're all sharing one space within that world or that things so when someone's coming in and eating up all of the gold or eating up all of these resources you then have scarcity and an economy within a world you're seeing things that happen in real life happen there in the game so when you have these people are getting paid you know twenty five fifty cents five cents an hour to gather money in these online games or level up for people is kind of doesn't quite. it is

a messing up the economics of the actual game itself it's kind of like going in and just causing a bunch of trouble in the n.f.l. and just going like well we can make more money on it and all the fans of the players are like what are you doing you're. everything but the thing about this story that kind of got me was that he's he had this all came this idea that he learned it from watching them was that he said it was him populated by intense intense young men smart focused relatively wealthy and highly motivated with issues that matter to them now let's be clear the issues that mattered to those millions of young and they weren't just men it was men and women he they bankrupted this company by using a four chan. to get around that they want to shut down these accounts so what they did is bankrupted this company and he left out and said who the mainstream media spends it their their angle on it is oh these world of warcraft people he learned

from them. again on top of everything else everything about this bam and story was reported by major outlets all over the gaming world way back last summer and fall they were really being reported until just now or and you're not probably going to see it really talked about on t.v. and what about because a problem a job or ties in the gaming world spends on writers you know they want. actual issues like harassment like game or gate you know like you're not going to do anything about nothing about harassment you do nothing about that but then you're going to use us as your little shield to go after bama and here's the thing people got to know what we're talking about but it was really gives one of the biggest industries or crushes eludes business. at least for and let's all summer average gamer age is thirty five years old right now average gay marriage is in the kids and in the thirty five age group it's fifty fifty male female that is. you know there are one point eight billion gamers worldwide it's a seventy billion dollar industry as of twenty fifteen they expect to be ninety

billion by two thousand and twenty so issues that affect the industry are going to affect the rest of the world mr pena talking about and going learn things by the mistakes made in the us and when you have a company like i.g. you know at the time you know basically. paying people twenty five sons of dollar to mine gold in a virtual world to deplete the resources and so back to the gamers at a much much harder much i really do want to set some things are ten thousand dollars that i was going to tell those you know that's something that the industry itself corrected by right they came in and said we need to correct this problem which was a lie that he corrected it in a way that came up with exchanges that were somewhat regulated but they were regulated by the community so that the people who are small business owners and people who often work from home people with disabilities often end up working in these kind of gaming jobs they have somewhere where they're protected that they can go in and say look i played all this and i have this small amount not some sixty

million dollars goldman sachs back. tomorrow as we keep up with the dating world or as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics you cover the facebook and twitter so your poll shows that are to dot com coming up america's lawyer mike papantonio enters all of us to discuss the law and vengeance his new book stay tuned to watch the whole. all the world and all the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are anti american play party america much more american personal. many ways to use the landscape just like you really use big city actors bad actors and yet you could never. so much park in all the world

all the world's a stage we are definitely a player. although it may be tad michael a fiction what could be more relevant to our world today is that a story of corporate greed government corruption and a spirited gun rights debate those are some of the challenges facing jena romana a savvy young lawyer facing off against crooked cops and an omnipotent gun lobby and might happen tony is latest novel law inventions have been telling you a celebrated trial attorney and host of america's lawyer here on our minds decades of experience in the courtroom politics and media to weave together illegal thriller that's high octane fiction but also an observation of issues american society faces today for more on the reality behind law and vengeance in the world of the real legal warfare we welcome like you know america's lawyer welcome.

thanks. so law and vengeance is your second legal thriller coming out this coming up in september focuses on this young female lawyers crusade against the gun lobby weapon manufacturers and corrupt gov government officials she's going to be busy i think a book this synopsis begs the question these days is are you sure this is all picture from party or what you're writing about. actually just like the first law and disorder it's all all of the stories are actual stories are cases that we actually have handled and it's been put into a fiction world and it's gotten so it's gotten to the point to where the typical american doesn't get a chance to ever see back stories i mean if they turn on innocent b.c. tonight they're going to hear let's go to russia let's start war with russia if

they turn on c.n.n. it's let's start a war with russia and impeached in that in that crazy type of dialogue. real stories are never reported to the american public real stories that affect their lives for example this book. law on vengeance really focuses on white collar criminals in the united states who have been operating under a wild west mentality where they lie they cheat they steal their way to financial success while never having to worry about the possibility of maybe really going to prison that seem not only pays it plays itself out in law and disorder it plays itself out a lot of vengeance but it's become almost a mainstay of the united states politics is white collar prosecutions have fallen to twenty year low even as white collar crimes being committed has risen at incredible rates so that's kind of one of the things that we would talk you know that i talk about in law and vengeance but it's built into a fiction story in a case that we actually handled in this case with the enormous distributor that had

made a defective gun site that was actually causing the death of police of policemen and of soldiers and in in iraq and afghanistan while that feel right about you know it's terrible when you have to tell us yeah you have to tell a fiction story to actually get the news out i guess that you know that's different from that of a sad case of the day that we have to tell a fiction story to get the actual real news out if paradox and sometimes it's almost better i sure i'm sure a lot of people ask you this and probably ask you know people like congress and the same question is that having been you know working on trial on being around politics and media and all of that have you witness obviously this is built on a real case have you ever witnessed the level of corruption and conspiracy on a full you know real world level as you have and and in law invention. no i really haven't you know i've been doing this for thirty five years all i do is

handle cases against multinational corporations national corporations for example the next book. i'm working on deals with it deals with the opioid crisis in the united states where you have manufacturers of opioids who clearly understood that they were going to create an addiction crisis in certain parts of the country well we did that just happen out of negligence no it happened out of out of conduct where they they tried to evaluate where can we get the most people addicted to our product they had they had distributors out there doing that and even in that case where you've got you've got populations around this country for right now there are no one is on the lam that's not my word that's what that's the vernacular that's developed in places like west virginia ohio kentucky alabama where they've had this this onslaught of opioid addiction well that didn't just happen that was planned it was part of the business plan of these manufactures part of the distributors and

nobody has gone to prison but some cat out selling two ounces of marijuana on a street corner has the right may end up in prison for two years so that's that's the disconnect that the american public doesn't hear about unfortunately as i say the only way that i know to get these stories across is to give people a good story an interesting story one that's fun to read they can lay on a beach they can read a thriller and at the end of that into that thrill of they come away with a message that they didn't know about they didn't know about the disparity between white collar criminals and the average american they have no idea about the point that you just raised about the conduct of corporate america has reached criminal levels and we're not willing to put criminals in prison and because the department of justice won't put crim white collar criminals in prison the problem is just simply perpetuates itself generation in just a generation so i have more more books coming just like the one we're talking about here well before we run out of time because i can talk about that holiday with you

obviously one of the things that stands out to me about lawns and ten is. your female protagonists are to america. a great feminists. i actually find it really interesting but it is one of those areas that trial law and sort of legal warfare the really rough and tumble stuff there's a shocking lack of women and i wonder if that's you know what you say. what's the deal with that it's absurd the reason well the reason i chose to to make gina romano the protests against in the story is to tell the story of how here we're in a profession that is supposed to focus on people's rights were supposed to focus on civil rights on the ability of people to do well no matter their color their gender it doesn't make it a hero or in the legal profession and right now it's gotten so bad that you've got thirty two percent you know population within the community of lawyers of females in less than eighteen percent of them are really in any kind of leadership position

and that has to be talked about and has to be talked about globally has to be talked about within our profession and this book paints a pretty good picture of what a female trial lawyer has to confront simply to get where she needs to go on my in my teams we always try to include female travelers because frankly there are things that they do a lot better job on than most than most male lawyers so this is a discussion that i don't know what the legal profession is just avoided having this discussion for a very long time in the truth is it's time for the discussion i think so definitely and you know it's interesting seeing how much they've avoided that whole for the future so we've got about three minutes left i want to ask you you know you a lot of your political commentary focused on you know the radicalization of let's say the religious right and other hot button issues such as gun rights. what's interesting about you know politics today is how you know especially like if you look at like the red you know radical religious right and you know the radical gun

ownership is kind of paying off for republican candidates they go there and milk that you know. milk that it goes to group for votes but i got to ask you you know looking at it from a legal perspective what could possibly be the danger of radicalizing your base just in order to stay in power and to keep votes and we've got about two minutes left. well you know that what you describe is the underpinning for fascism fascism is always driven by fear that's where that's where the gun analysis comes in when people are afraid they're willing to give up on on elements of what they might have grown up with with elements that they've heard all their lives and how we should treat people how we should interact with people they're willing to give up on all of that because of fear and that fear card goes an awful long way it causes us to close our borders it causes us to to be very descriptive very discriminating on who we allow in the country who we don't allow in the country but it is always the base

if you take a look and you drill down every time you're going to find this excessive of an effort like that is always built around fear people are fearful you know you'll have these characters that might seem tough but in their hearts they're very afraid of the things that they're we're talking about in our in our dialogue right now our political dialogue right now about what's happening in this country you know where they may be racist you may be generation they're fearful of these things because they're so different than what they're used to and it always allows their ways allows bad social change to excel do you see a lot of quickly do you see a lot of fear based decision making in the courtroom today did you see that bleed over in the log about a minute. we have to be very careful of that as a matter of fact you have a many times a lot a jury will be reticent very fearful to find against a major corporation because they somehow connected if they find against that corporation there's a big verdict somehow it's going to affect their bottom line it's going to affect

their family there that's an economic fear that they have we always have to overcome that and trial and we have to get past that. william mind that most jurors bring to the courtroom that reptilian mind can be very dangerous in a trial most of believe is white power from tony the host of america's lawyer the new book law of vengeance comes out september twenty sixth thank you so much for coming on and giving us your knowledge to bear and always a pleasure. the earthquake that hit the italian village of i'm a teacher on august twenty fourth and twenty sixteen was devastating to residents they lost over two hundred of their own major archaeological pieces were damaged and approximately half the town simply destroyed beyond repair but it's telling an architect stefano refused to see the village known throughout the world for its local food and pasta forgotten so he went about designing a new town square to invigorate the local food economy from farm to table with a refectory style dining room and eight restaurants and it's made entirely of

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does i'm let me tell you that this child's a vicious the thing even though even today at lunch she's ahead by the amount. i mean this kind of behavior from an apple a beer for sure person and people the same thing but people to political figures and not reveal a lack of integrity. it was cool to speak the language that is superficial and donald trump among the many things and he almost certainly is what he also is he's authentic drugs would destroy him either i remember war you store the. pain when i was a kid a very proud that was something else i feel very very some mystery that is very difficult for us to contact as long as we feel. and grounded materialism you don't want to. get laurie that they're not fascism look at my head you can't happen on the fascists it's a rule.