Citizenfour

As a documentary this was an excellent watch. It is strictly documentary – no acting involved. We are being watched, and monitored all the time in every possible way by our government. While I agree that “whistleblowers” should be protected by law, and I agree that the government does not have a right to every detail of our personal life – there were other questions this documentary caused me to ask myself. It’s hard not to wonder if the information about the drones strikes being flown from a German airforce base (contained in this film) might have been a catalyst for the terror attacks in Germany.That is just one thought that occurred to me while watching this. Terrorism is of course the flip side of this documentary, and the reason we all so willingly seem ready to give over our privacy.

I had many other thoughts while watching this, and I suspect you will too. I think we all now expect that we are being monitored, listened to, and watched by our government all the time. As was mentioned in this documentary “we actually joke about it.” Snowden really becomes incidental in this documentary (as is what he wanted based on what he says here). It does become clear that Snowden had a real crisis of conscience that led him to divulge these documents. It also seems pretty clear that the journalists involved tried very hard to protect government secrets that could have caused harm to U.S. agents, military etc.

This is absolutely worth your time to watch, and it is really incredible to see Snowden grappling, (in real time) with the decision he has made – he is only 29 here. Whether Snowden will ever be allowed a fair trial, (or trial at all) in the U.S. will be answered in history books. The politics of the matter will never allow any president to let Snowden off the hook. No political party wants to be the one on watch when, and if there is ever a terror event in the U.S., so my guess is Snowden will never be allowed to leave Russia – at least to come back to the U.S. Neither political party wants to look “soft on terror.” Just look at the political hay that has been made on this subject in this election cycle.

This documentary is thought provoking for the various reason I mention above, and I’m sure others have come up with more.

I think this was as good as the movie!
It was very personal and also.very intense!
Will someone come through that Hotel door?
Was very nerve racking and the guy is so sweet.
He certainly changed for the better and at a huge price! To himself. Though I am guessing his girlfriend Beas very proud of him as he seemed to from movie got and gave credit to her for him becoming more liberal and more open minded.
Yet his high morals would have not let him not
Do what he did for all of us!!
I have my on shame while dealing with the legal system that ruined my life though I was diagnosed with Mutiple trauma when it lasted four years turning an accident into a crime and ruined my life but yes I was “reflexively” toward the lawyer and powers against me many times.
So now being a Thomas Jefferson lover I have a
Billboard of summer tees to wear and this one by Thomas Jefferson I failed but now recovering from injustice and mental illness caused by traumas and wrongful accusations. This has now become my favorite to fight for.
“When injustice become law.Resistance becomes Duty”
By Thomas Jefferson.
And I am trying my best to use my imagination to
Get the truth publicized cause I know I am just one person out of probably thousands that were coerced into signing a plea bargain I did not even read! After four years of torture my first time in the supposed legal system!
And I never should have but there were factors that I found my husband was right and that was he told me I was too Naive and too Trusting!! He was right and he died just before I had an accident which up until then I had a clean record.
Imagine the shame that comes with being beaten up by the legal system and my lawyer knew that I was damaged!! And innocent! And he told me someone was going to get something by making me guilty and I was told it was the proscecutor
But my lawyer got an award for Best defense lawyer though he broke his oath and he dragged me through four years of court with false hope before turning on me and treating me like I was crazy or guilty!! Both! And it turned out just as he told me in the beginning that two people who had lied the day before had got away with it. So they planned to scapegoat me to get respect or more back!!
I don’t see how anyone could lie over such a serious thing unfortunately I had never been in shock and I had already been let go by first police on scene of this fatal accident I was in.
I was too moral to lie and had no reason too.
But five hours later and not knowing my rights I
Had been bullied by a state cop and finally came time to answer questions so I could go home!
Problem there. I planned to tell the truth as it was my moral duty but I was in shock which I had never been in my life. And I had nothing to hide.
But shockingly I could not answer one question correctly!!! And I falsely incriminated myself on every answer I tried to give and that was all that was needed! The cop who let me go looked up and I know he thought something is wrong with her!
No one would say what I said!
Anyway he had his accusation and demoted the cop who let me go and all that cooperation still believing my blood he asked for and I gave freely knowing it would vindicate me. Seven months later not the four weeks I was told. Had spent lying on a couch wishing to die! But never hired a lawyer. For my blood was going to vindicate me.
I was wrong!!!!
Yet a specialist I payed for told my lawyer that she is telling the truth!!! It is right where it should be.
It was my legal medication I was prescribed before my husband died and after! And I was54 years old and did not even know I was addicted to them until after the accident!! I had never ran out before until then.
Plus their were witnesses that had went to police to tell them how they each were almost hit by the guy and he was on a dirt bike and driving like a maniac!!! Bunny hopping? Too.
I am sixty years old now and six years later with lost license to drive for three years and recovered only a few months. Also a felon and I had never had an accident. Had a perfect record. It was sickening that they told a fictitious story of how it happened cause the police shows no picture of the evidence showing a twenty foot skid mark
Which even I thought was wrong somehow.
But the cop who said after looking over scene
Said ” it was clearly an accident ” you are going home. He certainly knew that proved he was flying
At high speed and could not avoid it. Yet it was also told he had plenty of time to do just that!!
Also from investigating but in the end I went from three years of false hope cause prosecutors could not find evidence against me and last year my lawyer as I said above treated me like I was guilty as a prosecutor would and or crazy! My point is
That I know and always knew I could not avioid it cause I was extremely safe only out that day by chance as AAA talked me into driving my husbands car that day to save his tires but in the middle of a nasty probate though not lawful they requested I did not drive his car till it was over. And their cruelty and abandonment of me was
Unconsciouable cause they were billionaires
And I was nothing when my husband died but the trash they left here. My point is I was so careful cause not only was I charging his battery but I was deeply afraid if I had even got a fender bender that they would sue me!!! And I can only think that it was his unfamiliar car and perhaps it had a blind spot so I had been not that careful in my life! But people who saw it saw he was speeding. Nothing about him was ever mentioned
And the picture from police the evidence was gone which I was not shown until right before coerced to sign a guilty plea I had never read.
Just an hour before and was told to say yes or no
And I said so you want me to lie to the judge?
He said yes and if you don’t you might wind up in prison or not get your unsupervised probation.
Even the judge that day offered time served but my lawyer shurnk in his chair and said nothing!
But what I did not know was he had put no appeal
In that and so he did not ever have to send me the files on my case and refused to help me get my husbands new car out of four years impoundment so I lost it!
I lost both cases obviously and I was not guilty of either and was married for 25 years! That is the
Crumb of all I went through and I had never a chance. And for the record they did the same to my sister in law. But I wanted to stick with that
Horrible case. Cause I was innocent and I did not know my rights. And I was in shock and I had never been in shock!! But the case was filled with lies and corruption and his best friend had just took the job three months before the coerced
Plea bargain was given as my only option.
Same lawyer who had told my family member that they had tortured this poor woman for three years!
Well he tortured me the forth!!
Then he was rewarded that best defense lawyer right after my case.
But the corruption was in the no appeal added so I could not see all the things that I had paid for and the talks I payed for cause a person of low character weaselled his way here as my care taker and my lawyer never talked with me only him.
I never had client privacy and that person while I was in a hospital bought himself a new truck and travel live in trailer and took 200 K out of my bank account with a false forged POA and left when I got out and stuck a knife into my computer so as to hide his talks with my lawyer.
All true story except made as small as possible cause what is important here is that I was sadly easily taken advantage of because of my condition for you never think that you will be in a accident that you at least could not even try to avoid it but I never saw him coming and I did not know what happened cause there was no machanical that hit me. It was a person!
And I could not live with that! Innocent I was certain but still a man died was all I knew at that time!
Not all I learned after it.
The only thing we had in common was I had never drove my husbands car and he had never drove a bike!!!
Yet I have learned a lot about how that happens
And all of them were speeding is the reason for cars to not see a person is that they most all are speeding. And reckless as I found out he was.
And I was anything but not extremely careful.
I remember telling the first policeman that I learned one thing that day I never believed.
That no matter how careful you know you are that an accident could still happen.
So after I was reflexive on all things that did not make sense. I wound up for my sanity signing a guilty plea I never even read. And I as I said have just begun to recover from the most horrible thing that can happen to a person! And no better I feel it is my duty to make certain that no one else makes the same mistakes I did. I really fought over some differences but very few. I am ashamed to write this. But I never was guilty. I was supposedly scapegoated from the beginning as that was what I was told and that it had nothing to do with the truth or justice! Absolutely what my lawyer said after he supposedly found out that two people the day before lied.’same fatality! I could not lie so I found out the hard way I could not tell the truth. After five hours of repeated tests and by that compassionless State Cop. Tests I passed only by a miracle cause two weeks later had to go to emergency room and there was no way I should have been capable of walking that foot in front of foot walk.
I had severe whiplash in my neck and back and my shoulder was damaged and hurt ever since and my hair was filled with glass!
I had no idea I was hurt. My only thought was that poor man though that first cop said he was speeding pretty fast! From evidence. Which was why he let me go.

The full last year!

If you had any doubts before watching the video, you won’t after.

My review recommends that: Everyone already mature enough to understand the importance of how modern societies based on available techniques any given time and the basics (positive or negative) that need to be clear to every human being, they should watch this unique documentary!