This Poitras person is not on the up and up
This Laura Poitras is apparently famous for being repeatedly searched at airports. Maybe it is as what she says, that she didn't pull a Jane Fonda, but instead she just hung out with a bad crowd in the wrong neighborhood in a warzone. I guess she's right, the government is untrustworthy, unconditionally so. Unless she said otherwise???
On Apr 30, 2017, at 12:07 AM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko@gmail.com> wrote:
This Laura Poitras is apparently famous for being repeatedly searched at airports. Maybe it is as what she says, that she didn't pull a Jane Fonda, but instead she just hung out with a bad crowd in the wrong neighborhood in a warzone.
I guess she's right, the government is untrustworthy, unconditionally so.
Unless she said otherwise???
Excellent points, cogently made. I did like her Snowden doc a lot better than the absurd Oliver Stone biopic.
This Laura Poitras is apparently famous for being repeatedly searched at airports. Laura Poitras is a documentary filmmaker who did such a good job of making it clear of what the human impact of the Iraq war has actually been, and such a good job of humanizing this atrocity, that she was seemingly retaliated against as a result, which took the form of her being repeatedly searched and detained at airports dozens of times (she has said on NPR about 40 times, IIRC). Now, as you've alluded to, thanks to recently FOIA'd documents, we now know that the official reason (excuse?) for going after her is that she was filming near Iraqis who attacked US soldiers, and someone decided that she maybe somehow knew about that attack and chose not to warn her fellow Americans. To date, no evidence that she knew any such thing has been presented. Once Glenn Greenwald put a spotlight on her harassing detainments, they stopped. If they genuinely considered her to be a serious threat, I really don't think that Greenwald blogging about the government's detaining of Laura Poitras would have caused them to stop, don't you think? --Steve
On 04/29/2017 09:07 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
This Laura Poitras is apparently famous for being repeatedly searched at airports. Maybe it is as what she says, that she didn't pull a Jane Fonda, but instead she just hung out with a bad crowd in the wrong neighborhood in a warzone.
I guess she's right, the government is untrustworthy, unconditionally so.
Unless she said otherwise???
I can tell by the tenor of your post that proves no point, "This Ryan Carboni" is a sexist scumbag whose stuck in a patriotic war movie from the 60s. Besides, I LIKE 'bad crowds'. If you don't, then exactly why ARE you here? 'Punks' are, by definition, a 'bad crowd'. Other than that I second Steve Phillips. Rr Ps. Before you regurgitate some shit your baby-killing daddy told you about Jane Fonda, you should do some research on how the US DID bomb North Korea's agricultural levees killing tens of thousands of civilians and destroying North Korea's agricultural economy, with effects still visible to this day. But destruction of civilian infrastructure and Genocide is probably A-OK by you, scumbag. Washington Post:
The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.
Although the ferocity of the bombing was criticized as racist and unjustified elsewhere in the world, it was never a big story back home...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-war-crime-north-korea-wont-fo...
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