I’ve watched family members who are very susceptible to nationalist / militarist messaging really identify with NASCAR over the last years. My family had long watched NACAR, and we’d watched Penske’s team when Mark Donohue was still alive. I confess I’ve yet to have the pleasure of watching your film. Is it possible to educate us about how NASCAR refocused their message to have such appeal to nationalism?

Details (from the second cite) about how the Federal judge presiding over McDavid’s trial perverted the rule of law:

The other huge point of contention in the jury instructions was the definition of “predisposition.” For the government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was not entrapped (and is therefore guilty), it first must prove that the defendant was inclined to commit a crime prior to contact with a government agent—in this case, Anna. After a series of intense arguments, the judge instructed the jury to examine the question of predisposition beginning in June 2005—the moment at which the government claimed the conspiracy began, and almost a year after Eric and Anna had met and remained in contact. This ruling was in clear defiance of not only logical reasoning, but also of case law, which says: “Quite obviously, by the time a defendant actually commits the crime, he (sic) will have become disposed to do so…. The relevant time frame for assessing a defendant’s disposition comes before he has any contact with government agents, which is doubtless why it is called predisposition (US v. Poehlman).”

Sam, thank you for being here and for your work. Wishing the best for you and Marshall at the Kodak Theater.

After what you’ve had a chance to see and learn regarding the effect of ELF’s actions, what effects would you and/or Marshall expect were Occupy [or an Occupy splinter group] to embark on a campaign of property destruction?

Eric McDavid (and one or two other young men, IIRC), were carefully groomed by “Anna”, a paid FBI informant. Anna paid for the home she shared with Eric (who she took as her lover) and the other guy(s). SHe pressed forward for them to plan a sabotage of some target – they finally settled on a fish hatchery. SHe paid for their shopping trip to go purchase explosive making materials – and was in the parking lot when the FBI arrested the guys.

I can’t recall if the Federal court judge who presided over the trial did or did not formally reject an “entrapment” defense…

Sam and Marshall, thank you for If A Tree Falls – and congrats on your Oscar nomination. Well done!

And thanks to Lisa for making Movie Night possible and to Bev for supporting all of this work.

IIRC, Daniel McGowan was sent back to CMU withing days after “If a Tree” won the Best Documentary Editing award at Sundance.

Guess we’re seeing the real meaning of how the DOJ and BOP manage communications.

Congratulations on your success at Sundance – wishing you the same at the Academy Awards.

Jane, thank you for the decision for FDL to support Occupy – and thanks to you and Kevin and all the Firepups and donors who do that work and make it possible. Major props.

OccupyCalvinball

Mr Berman, I haven’t read your books, but now that I’ve seen Ian’s review, I will. Would you possibly be willing to discuss what moved you to write this trilogy: it sounds like you’ve devoted many years to the (worthy) effort? Thanks!

And Ian, welcome back to FDL!

RT:

UC Davis Faculty Ass’n call for the immediate resignation of Chancellor Katehi ucdfa.org

Brilliant, Masaccio. Thank you.

You say you are confused. You appear to be either abysmally igornant or incompetently disenguous (that’s a fancy way of saying you’re lying to us, Dearie).

You purport to wonder why someone with a law dgree won’t put their skills in corporate service, Dearie.

Would you like them to use their law degree to deny insurance benfits to you and yours, Dearie?

Would you like them to use their law degree to prevent recalls of posioned food, Dearie?

Would you like them to use their law degree to advance banksters’ fraudulent foreclosures. Dearie?

Would you like them to use their law degree to help the upper .01% keep killing the rest of us, Dearie?

Did you understand that last question, Dearie?

Do you understand that publicly held corporations and other limited liability fictional creatures employ very bright attorneys precisely in order to externalize the costs of mass poisoining (“pollution”) and mass theft (“tax reform”) onto the 99% so that the upper .01% can profit?

Dearie – if you were really ignorant of the above, you now have a chance to understand how what you blithely sugested – the young woman just work for the corporate sector for a few years – is effectively supporting her and other newly minted professionals’ active collaboration in the corporations’ deadly war against the living world and the people within it.

Oh – and the victims of the corporations’ deadly war?

That includes your kids, your grandkids, your neighbors – anyone you hold dear, Dearie.

Whose side are you on, Dearie? Your loved ones’, kids’, and grandkids’ – or th eside of the undead coprorations who will maim and poison and impoverish us all so the upper .01% make a few more millions each month?

Who do you serve, Dearie – the living world, or the lifeless numbers on a screen the corporations and Wall Street worship?

Who do you hold most dear, Dearie?

NYCACLU:

#nypd now letting some people out out of 46th st. pens,many nypd now leaving,taru pulled, crowds allowed to leave in dribs #occupywallstreet

TheOther99 TheOther99
BREAKING NEWS: NYPD open barricade at 46th St., ending standoff. Dozens stream through to cheers.. #OWS #99Percent yfrog.us/nd49ez
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