Nothing But The Truth Revisited

Remember the post I blogged about Nothing But The Truth?



It. Is. Awesome.

I would want to go out there to make films like this.




SPOILER ALERT

This line was mentioned and IT BLEW ME AWAY.

"In 1972 in Branzburg v Hayes, this court ruled against the right of reporters to withhold the names of their sources before a grand jury, and it gave the power to the government to imprison those reporters who did.

It was a 5-4 decision.

Close.

In his dissent in Branzburg, Justice Stewart said, 'As the years pass, the power of the government becomes more and more pervasive.

Those in power,' he said, 'whatever their politics, want only to perpetuate it, and the people are the victims.'

Well, the years have passed, and that power is pervasive.

Ms Armstrong could have buckled to the demands of the government.

She could have abandoned her promise of confidentiality.

She could have simply gone home to her family.

But to do so would mean that no source would ever speak to her again, and no source would ever speak to her newspaper again, and then tomorrow when we lock up journalists from other newspapers, we'll make those publications irrelevant as well, and this will make the First Amendment irrelevant.

And then how will we know if a president has covered up crimes?

Or if an army officer has condoned torture?

We, as a nation, will no longer be able to hold those in power accountable to those whom they have power over.

And what then is the nature of government when it has no fear of accountability?"




There are lots of other monologues in there which are awesome. I highly recommend it. It's going to be in my DVD-to-get list.