#prosecuting evil

[ambient-entropy]

[study-sir]

2020 Quarantine Challenge Cont. #1

I'm so happy @myhoneststudyblr made a continuation to the Quarantine Challenge! While it sucks we're all stuck at home, this has been fun. I hope you all are well and productive this week!

Week 5, Monday (20/4/20): What is your favorite film?

➡️ It's so hard to choose just one so my two favorite films are Call Me By Your Name and Prosecuting Evil.

This is a piece I did based on Call Me By Your Name which can be found on my Instagram art account sol._.city. Call Me By Your Name is just so beautiful and heart-wrenching and Aesthetically pleasing, I really love watching it.

This is the poster for Prosecuting Evil. It's the story of the last living Nuremberg prosecutor who opened the case against the worst of the worst when it came to the Nazis. He's my personal hero and I hope I can live up to his legacy. The film is very heavy but very inspiring.

- Study-Sir 🦝

[showbizjunkies]

Exclusive Clip: 'Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler' Episode 6

Exclusive clip from Oxygen True Crime's Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler episode six, airing on December 23, 2023.

[wack-ashimself]

Had a continuous dream, which is near impossible for me. I had part one of this dream within the past few days. Last night, the sequel.

It was like a cheesy tv show premise: Prosecuting evil. Basically, I was part of a holy court system that puts on trail the most evil things/people to ever exist, and see if they should be locked up/damned for a few 100/1000/10000s of years (depending on the crimeS). Part of this whole thing was not only you could not end/kill evil, but, you couldn't banish it forever either. It could still change/grow/evolve.

But...it never happened. Lol We all talked about it, got the court ready, but most of the dream was either: containing evil at its' source (like a jail cell), so it can't escape and reek more havoc AND blessing/enriching/preparing the court to handle the specific evil we're going to prosecute when it gets there (so it doesn't infect/influence the rest of us).

It was unlike any 'justice' system we have cuz there was no lies. No exaggerating. No filtering the court OR the evidence. It was the RAW truth; the good with the bad. No one (even the court) could hide anything; it was all on the table. That's why I loved this dream: TRUE justice was inescapable.

[meowzone]

War will make mass murderers out of otherwise decent people.

Ben Ferencz in the documentary “Prosecuting Evil” (2018)

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Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz (2018)

While I don't think he identifies as such, Nazi war crimes prosecutor Ben Ferencz makes, has made, and continues to make a strong case for the libertarian principle of courts and rule of law as preferable to tribal warfare as avenues to justice and a more civilized social order.

This movie is mostly built around interviews with Ferencz conducted in 2017 when he was 98 years old. He's still sharp, a good storyteller, and still very actively advocating for institutions to support the mechanics of justice. It's inspiring storytelling about an inspiring man, though it completely ignores stories Ferencz tells on himself elsewhere about how he obtained confessions from witnesses in the immediate aftermath of WWII that would be considered both unethical and unreliable today. I think a less saintly picture of this hero that included such things would have been a better picture of this hero.

Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz (2018) Director: Barry Avrich

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[paraphrasedkulchar]

Barry Avrich’s Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz is my third documentary this year tackling genocide. In those other movies, their subjects discuss their still fresh wounds. In comparison, there’s an objective air here since it spends most of its time talking to the titular lawyer. It mostly shows Ferencz, a wise sage telling a story, a scrappy guy. He’s a part of generation who survived because that was his and his generation’s only choice. There’s something about his voice that reassures his audience even when he tells stories that still haunts him. Watching him choke up reminds us ...