Thursday, June 26, 2014

Robert Moses, The 64 Summer of Love and My Personal Field of Dreams; On Location and Set with Phil Roberston, Robert Moses and Danny Glover in "Freedom Song"

The movie Freedom Song is the one that I had the unique and personal honor to be invited to the set in 1999 to watch being made, throughout the summer of 99 in North Carolina on location....it was during this movie's filming on set, I met and spent hours with its main historical figure, who was represented in the movie, Robert Moses. A true gentle giant in the field of American modern civil rights, ...it was an unforgettable moment, and for hours, just he and I sat out under a old oak tree in the Carolina sun and wind, in the hot afternoon, but under the shade of a cool oak tree....his personal narrative told me....not only touched my soul but brought to mind the deepest reasons why ...we today, are never to forget...these men and women's sacrifices, their courage and their vulnerability yet the moral power of their critical youthful advocacy at a time, when it meant facing death up front and personal, to just to try to become true "change agents"... and their own youthful witness, which is uncompromising in the face of our greatest societal and personal evils of American modern era. the time spent with Robert Moses and others on the set of this film, with Danny Glover and other young AA actors and the Director /Writer, Phil A Robertson... became my own "field of dreams"; it also was the one true spiritual 'reward'...as non- material as it were... for all the hardships I and those very close to me, endured in that decade, ...for being allowed to be both be found by invite in such company and to be viewed by these leading figures ...for making my own personal "contribution" as they called it, ...to this great American narrative ...and deeply profound living history of our modern era's march for civil rights....

Robert Moses and the Summer of Love: A personal remembrance

http://thetandd.com/news/opinion/fifty-years-after-freedom-summer/article_01a87e90-f841-11e3-bb89-0019bb2963f4.html

Ninth Circuit District Judge rules in favor of plaintiffs on "Sacred Right to Travel" and against Homeland Security's "No -Fly" list. Agency fails to specify ANY Evidence linking these black listed individuals to ANY terror activities

http://www.cbs8.com/story/25859191/judge-no-fly-list-violates-constitutional-rights

Supreme Court niggardly carves out some remaining space in the Cell Phone State for the Fourth

The US Supremes this week, made an extraordinary decision, given their recent ability to splinter the foundation of the nation's bill of rights ...and its 14th Amendment backbone in recent days.

They decided to require that local police obtain search warrants before they search one's cell phone even AFTER one's arrest.  Now, that's a real stunner on a number of levels...

Perhaps, it was the fact that the First African American president of the United States had argued in favor of the police point of view who traced their case precedent back to through many years of "search incident to arrest" cases that clearly had held such "searches" were in fact, extremely legal and well founded.  

All the more surprising, was the fact they held the Fourth Amendment, {remember that thing?}    isn't such a dead letter, ancient of days, out dated anachronism of the late 18th century after all.  Indeed, the Supremes dug deep into their large 50 gallon plastic bag of disposal of former constitutional rights and amendments, and decided to pull the Fourth's warrant requirement out from the bottom, bleach it and spray it with some Clorox and give it a nice new frame and call it, "there, we have preserved our democracy after all"...

by making sure, the police don't get to use their "obstruction of justice" false arrest habits to rifle thru your photos, and emails and assorted and odd facebook and twitter posts at least, not in front of you, while you are being booked down at the station.

{its still ok with the Supremes if the NSA gets to do this and the local police can do it, PRIOR to your arrest using a wide array of various surveillance technologies available to them, as mini me's of the NSA piggy backing approach to obtaining everything one ever wanted to know about you but otherwise were afraid to arrest you for just because...

However, this decision is clearly a slap in the first African American President's face;  just imagine...a group of largely conservative white folks having to teach the once part time constitutional scholar's lawyers that the Fourth Amendment isn't as dead as southern slavery ....but rather the local police ought to get a warrant before they search their local black teenagers cell phones...

now, that's what I call true ingratitude!   ...we have a modern liberal AA president and he wants all cell phones to be able to searched willy nilly by the local police...without a warrant...

and these white folks are NOT going along with him?   we live in some very interesting times my friends...