because a who needs accountability when you've got a military industrial complex to be to know the wards sorry humanitarian interventions on the docket i would start watching the hawks. if you. want to. treat the thing like a real victory this would be. as you get paid for the products if you like what they like you know what i got. was that we. would. be. critically. welcome on the watch of the harks i am tyrrel them to and i'm to have a follow up list so here we are just once again discussing the international criminal court which according to so many is just some wilde's horrible. thing that's going to sovereignty something some things i say i think is

what i've said something something oh my gosh oh my gosh what are we going to do so that has the water so according to i.c.c. prosecutors report there was a reasonable basis to believe that u.s. armed forces members subjected quote at least sixty one detained persons to torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity and that there is also reason to believe that cia members carried out similar acts against at least another twenty seven detained persons this is a very convenient way to not have to actually answer for for torture and of course we're not going to let them actually do anything about it because hey torture works right i mean it isn't about what is most of them because what we're hearing about are in washington saying all the time and it's really tragic because the idea of the international criminal court is so you would have you know all sorts of different types you know abusing civilians or abusing people in war zones

or another you know situations around the world the u.s. didn't sign the treaty many actually major countries didn't sign up to say to be held accountable and the whole idea is it's like like you say threatens our sovereignty well look sometimes you need somebody else to say hey you shouldn't do that if you can't police yourselves well i find this whole protecting our sovereignty thing that we've been so excited about saying for the first few years it's all it's very interesting since we have apparently zero respect for anybody else's sovereignty a great point if you want other people if you want to live in this magical world where no one ever comes into your yard and no one ever says hello to you when no one ever knocks on your door that's fine but then you need to go to some point. and you can't then tell everybody else what to do in their yards look. they've been going a full court press against the i.c.c. since this prosecutor been sort of had even said like hey there's a lot of evidence here to go after you the taliban and pretty much everybody involved in the health care system or the u.s. the u.s.

really. vote. him to the united states just recently as a couple weeks ago this is what you know the the great man himself john bolton our national security advisor this is learned learned we will let the i.c.c. dire of its own after all for all intents and purposes the ice is already dead. those are the quotes of people who don't want to be held accountable for the actions of correct that they to partake in office they don't work better than the ethical standards and that's why i find it really upsetting this idea that we have such high we have the highest ethical standards we have the highest everything but you won't use them to actually put that against if you put if you didn't have those standards and international criminal court would have to do anything but let's be serious nuremberg was necessary yes you have to have something outside of yourself to say no example world has decided to not write exactly so sima samar of afghanistan's independent human rights commission told the associated press this

with this decision people will lose hope of getting justice and they might take revenge fueling conflict in the conflict in the country and that's why i get it if you show people no way of justice and that we're just going to bully our way through everything then don't be surprised when another person gets killed in another serviceman gets killed or more innocents are killed because of rebels pushing back against the us government or the us military you know what accountability leads to more conflict of the exactly that point. during just one five day period this april three veterans have committed suicide on the grounds of veteran affairs medical center's an april fifth twenty eight year old navy veteran kerry presley shot himself inside his car in the parking lot of the v.a. medical center in dublin georgia the next day sixty eight year old olin hancock shot himself outside the main entrance of the atlanta v.a. medical center in decatur on april ninth another veteran her manes a name shot himself in the waiting room of the veteran affairs outpatient clinic in

austin tex. this comes less than two months after the us president donald trump signed an executive order creating a task force to combat veteran suicides which he attributed to a lack of awareness of the a services president trump explains. most veterans who die by suicide have not been in the care of the v.a. many of them don't know about the programs that we have where the programs that we've instituted interact nearly seventy percent of those lost to suicide have not received care from the v.a. in the previous two years they're just not a aware of those great strides is just not aware. so because of this lack of awareness the suicide prevention programs touted by capitol hill only funded marketing solutions so just texting programs and hash tag campaigns they did not fund the v.a. enough to cover a single suicide prevention counselor much less one at each location would take

four hundred v.a. locations so hop watchers is a time to admit that while politicians are far more than happy to find the money to send our loved ones to war they are not willing to fund the care they need when they get home. a complete no they would much rather son johnny and susie and damon and everybody else off to war they're very happy about that but no they don't want to take care of when they get home they'll take care when they want to put them in a parade or the stand up arm in arm and say look how much on average only about average for a half time. you know then we care then we parade the road any other time no and this thing of trouble due to sort of we're owes all veterans are idiots oh yeah they just don't know they're just totally totally stupid there's about terms they wouldn't know it was only three people killed themselves in the v.a. while they were looking for treatment there making a point why these aren't this isn't just suicide this is a protest these meant it and you know it's kind of below what they say is just not good the numbers don't know. they don't because while the v.a.

says that suicide prevention is their highest of high priority bellies what their statement in january of this year said which is quote the goal of veterans association super budget efforts is not to get everybody in v.a. care but rather to equip communities to help veterans get the right care whenever and wherever they made it home. so if somebody over somebody else yeah that's obviously going it's like this is ridiculous and of seventy percent of our using the v.a. and your suicide numbers are ultimately going up why wouldn't you want as a priority why wouldn't you want suicide care as a priority of trying to get these people in to the community you know into the v.a. to help well enough doesn't make any sense when you really look at it because of the ideas well the problem is just you know seventy percent of people aren't using it while out of the other side of their mouth they're sitting there arguing about how you know we give the best care so quick so why are you so far behind if you

can't even you can't even serve thirty percent of the people who you should be able to serve you should want them all in there you know the best way to handle p.t.s.d. from a wartime situation is by having people who understand that in the same place and that's what the problem is so you have p.t.s.d. and there's no what you can't pretend is this this is something else you've got the numbers the v.a. estimates that one in every five veterans who served in iraq or afghanistan currently suffer a spare p.t.s.d. the v.a. should be treating that yes they should be the number one place to go for war time p.t.s.d. and nowhere else and that's where that should be the most definitely and that's just sickening of the of the debate when you see these vets being paraded out by politicians who toss them aside rather cherubs they did and this is the thing because they're not really dealing with these onsite suicides or not really dealing with the twenty two plus a day twenty three a day that they already have it's now become that the v.a. seems like an unsafe place to go because of this. you have people who are trained

in firearms who have access to firearms who have mental health issue and the concern is that they're not going to shoot themselves at some point so jack's so slow swope a licensed professional counselor in austin had actually said they go when i went home my wife that's what she brought up i don't know if i want you going back there if this happens because what happens when it's not a suicide what happens so now we have unsafe places that don't have enough money to run actual counselors and you're just sort of shoving them off and have private health care and then making more bedrooms at the end of the day and giving up more p.t.s.d. with each new war you and the way we have to send them to go fight with no way to treat it absolutely gut wrenching scene that happen to others as we go to break our borders don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered have facebook you tube and twitter it's your poll shows that are to dot com coming up things are hashtag dealing with the law enforcement officers taking part in these social media challenge and then house foreign affairs committee is going to twitter

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since the very first tweet or my space post social media has been a boon to bringing worlds together but like with many of humanity's great breakthroughs in communication with all the good comes the bad in this week certainly showed us some of that bad thanks to our friendly neighborhood law enforcement and corrections officers who took a a fun loving social media challenge to a very dark level called the feeling q. challenge the viral fun started after a columbus waterworks employee burst in a pack of itself stating feeling cute might go out your water of glitter. this inspired many in uniform jobs around the country to send in similar photos under the hashtag feeling challenge that some controversy began after law enforcement officers and corrections officers started posting photos with captions declaring feelin cute might just tase your girlfriend later feeling cute might deliver osu spray to your baby dead. body today feeling cute might take your homeboy to the

hole today and feeling q. might shoot your baby daddy today so is this just a viral media fun or has viral challenge exposed a dangerous mindset and lack of morality and our law enforcement community joining us today to discuss is former washington d.c. metropolitan police community relations officer ronald hampton thank you for joining us today ronald's thank you very much for having me ronald you know as a as a former officer how does this a scandal like this and you know seeing these kind of social media to you know things put out there how does that affect the trust between law enforcement and the community when they see their officers or someone they might run into have an interaction with suddenly was their social media pages most of it was first of all from a historical suspect this isn't the first time a situation like this is happened is this is happening because in the social media aspect but but it actually happening in different colombia when they first put

computer monitors in cars they had a monitoring system and the old chief of police of the old systems who pulled this happened to had the responsibility a monitor in there from time to time and actually discovered this conversation that was going on between police officers across the city that was on the system and it was those kind of comments was only alone with comments about police officers from police officers gay comments and all those kind of thing so it is in the fortune that kind of thing but it's also an example of how. what has happened the disintegration overspread and professionalism in the professional police and and right i think is seriously reduced is due respect in. understanding that the community understand why the community doesn't have respect for the police but how they've lost confidence in the in the law enforcement agency

. it's in our cities in the cross the country so one of the things that always sort of shocks me is when they're so glib about something that is so terrifying to most civilians whether you know no matter the color of your scanner your gender i think that you know we're all kind of terrified of the idea of being tasered of being shot as accurate and as seen in the labs and think that it's right you know all police chief in the city of los angeles years ago during gates uses when you can. you can think these things but you can't really say i'm going to now what we're finding out is there are people who are willing to stand and if they say i'm guess what they're doing you just have to give them the opportunity or create the opportunity for them to do it and then they do and so that's why that's why it is psychological that's why there's some tests that takes place to be in the early stages of police and recruit to sort of weed out those kind of people that will think a thing and then ultimately do it but evidently the testing process wasn't successful

with these individuals because there's i went to their. i would file all of them up and all ready to be gone. and i wonder sometimes like the thing is is the idea that these things are so clever and they're nothing i mean you look at somewhere like to me there's a lot of as you see started with rodney king and how glib to the officers were and how to live but they were about everything and i was a story that years later i met one of the attorneys that had defended i was working for an attorney that was working against him just so we know what side i was not on and there is a police violence thing but it was on the other side and that attorney when we went into his office for a meeting literally has a bronze diversion of one of the officers that be rodney king with he has it bronzed behind this desk and i think that talks to some of it that we kind of feel like we're allowed we're allowed and i what do you think that that has that has had an impact of making it like our lives really don't matter and will not shows up

it's up to them whether we live or die absolutely i mean i think it was demonstrated that running is demonstrated to some extent in the shootings that we've called life has no value but we want to talk about certain people and certain communities clearly for example in this city in georgetown we would do that in new york they would do it in up a man they had they wouldn't do it out on the al and they would just that's just now how the law enforcement agencies and individuals work and perform in this country and we don't do that to poor we don't do that the rich people would do of the poor people who have interesting too because a lot of these a lot of the this kind of viral you know challenge and when you saw a lot of law enforcement there a lot of corrections officers a lot of people working in prisons and things like that and i know the argument from the other side is going to be look we should just relax the officers who did this are just having fun and making a joke in a way we wouldn't understand because there is a certain dark humor and i've talked to many police there's a certain dark humor that you do get working in corrections were being fortunately . the comes to having to deal with

a lot of times with the worst parts of human nature right but is that a good enough of an excuse you know when you see things like this slowly recede on our screen right now and you know people writing about it because. people who work in corrections don't own the people who they supervise or look out for there's a responsibility that that they have believe it or not to keep them safe in that environment and you can't keep someone safe spanking that you can put them in the hole when you want to that you can bust them in here when you want to you can. spray them in the face or in the time you want you can but you do have the responsibility to look out for them. i've seriously think they're one of the things that we ought to be at least exposing our correction officers to cause that's a that's in a depressive environment to be working there is some kind of evaluation in the now this is around how they feel about the people that they working with and responsible to because if that's the way you feel or the next not to die for you i

give a lot of credit to those guys that would go into the prison and work in the prison eight nine hours a day and then that environment but we know also that they don't have to be that type of environment in prison because we have a model environment for instance in this country that are doing some positive things when it comes to incarcerating people that is very true that is virtually i mean this is something that we're not looking out either for the mental health of of the people that we're watching that we the people have incarcerated but for a lot of times i keep hearing this thing that we're not looking after the mental health of the people that are there and these actions i think put your good correction officers at rest and also makes our day for them and we're not looking at their match up to handle and i one of the largest county jail systems in the country in chicago in cook county we have good leadership there for example there's a program where the warden is a former psych was she's a psychiatrist by trade but also right and she's doing some things to look at that

because in a town we have more people that are incarcerated that have mental health problems and really should they be incarcerated in that sense but in some kind of sense where they get an absolute zero. the loop thank you so much for coming out of there always a pleasure that your knowledge and insight into these matters thank you. since last week's controversial incarceration of wiki leaks founder julian assange political leaders journalists and activists have been waging a nonstop viral war of words think pieces and opinion articles over the u.s. government's charges against assad and the potential dangers to press freedom that they represent and while this was certainly to be expected what wasn't expected was the amount of official u.s. government organizations and representatives who had gotten in on the game including the u.s. house foreign affairs committee who took time out of their busy schedule of rubber stamping arms deals for u.s. president some fear mongering their way through u.s. foreign policy to dive into the debate tweeting it r.t. america correspondent and comb quote the first amendment contract protects free

expression even for russian propaganda outlets like the one you work for it doesn't protect criminals who weaponized stolen information joining us now to discuss the actions of the committee and the viral war surrounding the jailing of julian is r t america's dan cohen thank you so much dan for coming on you've had an interesting few days on social media. and what what is the story surrounding this tweet and what are people saying about this over the part of a former foreign affairs committee tweeting at you the way they did well it's remarkable that the house foreign affairs committee or the staffer behind this tweet or whoever you know took the time away from maybe stopping the genocide in yemen or something like that to lash out at me but i mean there's two things that are really remarkable about this tweet first it says songe is being charged with weaponize and stolen information number one that's not true it's talking about that's talking about hillary clinton's e-mails that were either stolen or leaked we don't actually know but that's not what he's charged with that

is clearly what he's been put on public trial for and that's what the house foreign affairs committee is talking about number two the charge. is actually. conspiracy alleged conspiracy to hack to to assist chelsea manning in getting into a computer that she belongs to the department of defense that she actually already had access to that's called protecting your source so it's totally misinformed and and really insidious truly truly one of the things that came out of this is sort of the twists in what came out of the fallout of the arrest and the legal jumps and everything so what is the latest on the actual charge well songe faces they're saying five years in prison and there's a statute of limitations with what he's charged with of this conspiracy to get into this computer that runs out the statute of limitations runs out after five years

and this was allegedly the climbers allegedly committed in two thousand and ten so it's a long expired so what the trump administration did is use the magic word of terrorism that they dug up from the patriot act which you know we can thank george bush for and the war on terror and that basically gave them two weeks until the very end of that statute of limitations is about to run out and that's how they got him that's incredible that's a grown. up like that absolutely it seems like whatever we do where weaponized again for a man they are delicately holding and protecting him everybody else's as greece so that the u.s. government might possibly be weaponized. charges bringing charges against people recognizing the justice system yes the house foreign affairs committee is not even sure what it's what they're charging him for but get him no matter what thank you so much for coming on an illuminating this for us always a pleasure having you know. forty percent of the world's population is at risk

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given up the right to live among us somebody even proven innocent after years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. on this edition of the program we discuss one in one issue only the fate of julie massage and the fate of journalism itself. i.

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