While the video is from a few years back, it is perhaps worth watching today more than ever.
The Courant article on the alleged murder plot is titled "Colchester Officers Accused Of Death Plot", and the opening line reads: A state police informant says he was offered $10,000 by two town police officers to make ''disappear'' a man who had lodged a brutality complaint against the officers. I'll add that I'm writing this article from Sweden, and that some months after the hearing, life-threatening circumstances forced me to flee The States, my existence being one in exile since.
Fortunately, opportunities for effective protest have changed considerably in the interim, increasing numbers having become sufficiently aware to face the harsh realities that non-violent protest can mean, and thus able to face abuse to their fellows without their own fears leading them into denial of it. There is safety in numbers, numbers which did not exist until recently, and it is indeed these numbers, these many, that will pave the path to change.
One can look at instances of change occurring abroad, and indeed hope that 'America's finest' will too realize that they are in fact among the many, with 'we, the people' being those truly in need of their protection.
It has been far too long since 'we, the people' last came together, and far too long since 'liberty and justice for all' effectively disappeared from everything but the best of a collective memory we share. But shared memories and dreams can become reality, doing so as each of our consciences points the way.
According to Wikipedia, the Sophie Scholl film contains a scene where a Gestapo interrogator says, "Without law, there is no order. What can we rely on if not the law?" Of course, the circumstances too many police actions have recently shown do seem to pose questions about just what 'the law' today is. But regardless, in her own time and place, the film depicts Sophie as simply replying, "Your conscience. Laws change. Conscience doesn't."
We know what is right, those of conscience know what must be done, and we also know the nightmarish price paid by those in a society that failed in doing it. To borrow from an earlier time, to recall the struggle and success of America's proud Civil Rights movement, and to remind us that justice will be ours, I can only say that 'we, the people, shall overcome!'
The Courant article on the alleged murder plot is titled "Colchester Officers Accused Of Death Plot", and the opening line reads: A state police informant says he was offered $10,000 by two town police officers to make ''disappear'' a man who had lodged a brutality complaint against the officers. I'll add that I'm writing this article from Sweden, and that some months after the hearing, life-threatening circumstances forced me to flee The States, my existence being one in exile since.
Fortunately, opportunities for effective protest have changed considerably in the interim, increasing numbers having become sufficiently aware to face the harsh realities that non-violent protest can mean, and thus able to face abuse to their fellows without their own fears leading them into denial of it. There is safety in numbers, numbers which did not exist until recently, and it is indeed these numbers, these many, that will pave the path to change.
One can look at instances of change occurring abroad, and indeed hope that 'America's finest' will too realize that they are in fact among the many, with 'we, the people' being those truly in need of their protection.
According to Wikipedia, the Sophie Scholl film contains a scene where a Gestapo interrogator says, "Without law, there is no order. What can we rely on if not the law?" Of course, the circumstances too many police actions have recently shown do seem to pose questions about just what 'the law' today is. But regardless, in her own time and place, the film depicts Sophie as simply replying, "Your conscience. Laws change. Conscience doesn't."
We know what is right, those of conscience know what must be done, and we also know the nightmarish price paid by those in a society that failed in doing it. To borrow from an earlier time, to recall the struggle and success of America's proud Civil Rights movement, and to remind us that justice will be ours, I can only say that 'we, the people, shall overcome!'
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