惊天告密

这个片子告诉了我们，只要人的存在是为了欲望，那么当他有了权力了以后就会利用自己的权力来满足自己的欲望。
如果没有一个国家体制来制约这种权力那么必将形成有组织的犯罪集团。
光靠政策来说服大众，只是一个美丽的谎言！

莫妮卡在里面看着好老啊，皱巴巴的T_T
嗯，其实类似题材的电影看过不少，无非是一个有正义感的人敢于冒着生命危险揭露某些阴暗面，并且以正义最终战胜邪恶为结局，一句话，煞笔，但是这部片子亮就亮在结尾处的几行字啊，Kathy揭露了丑陋的现实，却没有人为这样的罪恶买单，这个邪恶的组织并没有受到惩罚，不过是把公司解散了而已，换个名字照样接单干活，鬼知道他们是不是继续这样的勾当，并且Kathy从此没有能再参与类似的工作，再一次证明“未被同化”的人是为体制所不容的啊！！！哪里都有黑暗啊摔！！！

整部影片几乎都处于黑暗背景下，即使在白天，也是出于幽暗闭塞的楼体，浓雾阴暗的天气乃至茂密的丛林中。贯穿着一股压抑，灰败的气氛。
承认是因为莫妮卡贝鲁奇才看的电影，但最终吸引我的不是性感女神，而单单是一个故事。
请原谅我的浅薄，我无法理解为什么有的人批判这部电影为题材陈旧。任何一个国家，在一部公映的影片中，刻画一桩政治丑闻，不得不说，这都是一种勇气。
影片确实处处透露美国的个人英雄主义，但与大多数商业片不同的是，我认为这不是一部单纯为了娱乐和票房诞生出的影片。现代社会原本人们引以为豪的艺术越发沦为牟利的工具，电影，书，音乐，越来越趋向同一化。变得越发没有内涵，我看到的是利益和浅薄。批量化生产的荧幕英雄带给我们的也无非是一笑置之而就此忘却。
而在这个人们无处释放压力的快节奏社会里，我们不能对生活和命运的压抑嘶吼，无力反抗，于是依靠电影来娱乐自己释放自己。其实很多时候我都在怀疑，是不是人们都在依靠这些虚拟的世界，依靠画面和数字，来寻找自己，找激情，找青春，找爱，甚至于，找良知。
苦难深埋在世界各个角落，我无法做到对于这样一桩真实发生的，且每天乃至每刻都在发生的悲剧，仅仅冠以一串数字的名头。我有个老师教过，看电影这种事情，外行看内容，内行看形式。但我无法做到。我始终认为，电影存在的意义没有拯救灵魂那么伟大，但至少能让我们看到世界不同的一面，让我们有感知，有感情，在痛苦的时候能因为感觉到自己仍是有血有肉的人，而得到一丝慰藉。
如果电影的存在仅仅只是用来表达或纪念某些形式或拍摄手法，那么我只会觉得那是一种枯燥而毫无意义的传承。最终会被抛弃。
是因为社会颠覆了善有善报的传统，于是人们变得越发麻木，我相信并非人本性冷酷，而是世界教会我们，我们牺牲了自己，却未必能保得他人。惩恶扬善。于是才有了明哲保身，远离是非。
在一些人冰冷的评价着每年250万人口被贩卖时，我只能觉得是一种良知的丧失。也许我们都不是英雄，我们看到卑鄙，却无法对抗，我们做不了女主那样牺牲自我而护卫良知的抉择。从而选择逃避，但是，仍希望在我们可以做的时候，别只觉得处在灾难中的人民，只是一串数字，就像一部电影，只是几个演员，几台机器。
任何一具身体，都透露着生命的气息，在那些女孩惊慌大叫的时候，我亦感到恐惧。作为一个导演，将情感传达出来，就足够让我满意。镜头打在 人性 这个词上的那一刻，我忽然因为自己的善良仅仅只是给没有饭吃的人们几个硬币，而自惭形秽。
英雄是存在的，但当人们麻木时，英雄将被淹没。
不谈道德，仅仅是为了维护生而为人的良知与人性，我们需要面临的都太多。需要付出的也太多。
作为最普通的社会一份子，我们大概时时处在一种被操控中。但仍愿相信希望，并保有对生活最基本的希望与热忱。坚定的走下去。

Talking With Kathryn Bolkovac About Her Experience as The Whistleblower

Posted: 08/16/11 07:48 PM ET

 

After seeing (and reviewing) The Whistleblower, I contacted Kathryn Bolkovac, whose story is the basis of the movie, and interviewed her. Her answers speak for themselves, but also give such a sense of her persona, grit and determination.

FOSTER: You were faced with a situation where the people you worked with were engaged in something very shocking. Do you have any insight as to how or why they got involved with trafficking?

I really do not think there is clear cut answer for this. Everyone is an individual and is accountable to their individual behavior and potential illegal actions they committed and continue to commit in current missions. I think most people are truly just plain complicit in their thinking and tend to not get involved or look the other way to avoid any form of accountability, especially if they think that something does not directly affect them for their position. Then there is the group of people who can easily be swayed to join in on a pack mentality, who are morally and mentally weak or ignorant. When conditions are right as they have been and still are in many overseas missions around the world, or if they think they will not be caught or judged then it is easy for them to engage in illegal and corrupt behavior. They try to justify and minimize their actions. Finally, there are individuals who are just plain evil and corrupt, they see the money making potential of preying on the helpless and needy, and exploit every opportunity they can to make a buck, especially in an industry that involves sex. They are very good at dehumanizing, denial, and lying about what is going on.

FOSTER: What do you think needs to be done to address the trafficking issue? What can government do?

The trafficking issue at large is too complex to tackle with sweeping reform. There are so many different types of human trafficking each with different dynamics of funding the corruption. Obviously, many adults choose to be trafficked... or illegally transported across many borders to escape horrendous conditions in their own countries. These issues cannot be convoluted with organized criminal syndicates who are providing services to internationals all over the world, in the form of trafficking for forced prostitution. They are involved in the recruitment, abuse, desensitization, and sale of human flesh, into international missions as sex workers. This is what I want to discuss and what I think we can make a huge impact on based on my experiences as a former law enforcement officer, former UN employee, former representative of our U.S. government overseas, and as a former employee of one of the largest private government contractors in the world DynCorp.

FOSTER: What can our government do?

First, in the short term, the United States needs to take a serious look at why we are willing to allow private companies to engage in the profession of law enforcement. Government contractors are a needed and viable means to get many logistical and re-construction efforts accomplished. They are not a viable means for a protection force or as a mechanism for the use in training law enforcement officers in emerging democracies. Law enforcement is not a business. Policing is a calling. Does anyone really believe that private corporations are in this policing and operational mission business for anything but the money? We need to set an example with our own federal police selection units, perhaps via the Department of Justice as an example, why can we not recruit and most importantly train our own community police officers before we send them into these missions? My book accurately describes the pathetic training offered by the private company who sent me overseas, which I am sure was heavily subsidized with my tax dollars. It was a disgrace; none of us had even the minimum knowledge or idea of what we were supposed to be doing once we got into Bosnia.

If we are to continue to send "rent a cops " overseas with inadequate knowledge and inadequate protections from corrupt private companies, some of whom had serious questionable policing backgrounds we might want to stop and think about how this damages our reputation and our goals. The private company who fired me had free reign to treat me however they saw fit, no one was in authority to stop them. They were exempt from all U.S. government accountability and have never been held accountable for what they did to me to this day. How has this changed? It has not.

Second, get the Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (CEJA) out of committee and get it passed. It has been more than 12 years overdue. [NOTE: CEJA would allow the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute government contractors and employees for certain crimes committed overseas. It would complement the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA), which provides similar criminal jurisdiction over Department of Defense employees and contractors but does not clearly apply to U.S. contractors working overseas for other federal agencies.]

Third, make government contractors accountable for their employee actions, by putting a clause in their contracts that require them to facilitate and allow oversight of both external and internal investigations by outside government agencies, when probable cause exists that employees are suspected, or implicated in criminal offenses. They must cooperate in the facilitation of prosecutions. They can no longer just fire people, and hope the problem goes away, which automatically curtails any further investigation.

Fourth, set examples by having the means available to prosecute and convict with meaningful sentences.

FOSTER: What can individuals do?

Learn, read, report, and stop burying your heads in the sand. Many of the people involved in these crimes could be your next door neighbor.

Get local law enforcement initiatives started, and ask your police chiefs this question. What kind of training is being offered to your new recruits and officers on the streets to recognize and investigate all forms of human trafficking?

Do you think a local police chief in the hills of Northern New Mexico, or in the farming community of southern Illinois, is even going to know what we are talking about? Does the local hotel have young female Hispanics working in the housekeeping department? They do not speak English, they have no documents, does he know what wage they are being paid and in what form? Think about it. I have been in these places have you?

 FOSTER: Many of the women and girls who are trafficked are promised jobs that don't materialize. What do you think would be effective to get the word out to them so that fewer of them fall prey to these types of promises?

The only effect we can have on this is to stop the demand.

FOSTER: How did you sustain yourself?

Continued faith in our justice system, lots of hard workouts and sweat, many tears and my husband would make me a strong gin tonic with lots of lemon and ice once in a while.
 



 

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豁免权（immunity）不是免罪权（impunity），联合国是在奥斯维辛集中营的尸骨上建立起来的，要维护尊严必须要做的是不使联合国因强暴那些我们必须保护的人而遗臭万年。
这些事情老实讲在天朝每天都有发生，法律不能惩治恶棍歹徒，反而成为了好人的枷锁，所以我一直认为如果有一天真的司法效率和能力堕落到谷底，那么私力救济就是义务。

去年加拿大和德国合拍了一部 The Whistleblower。讲波黑地区妇女被贩卖和遭受性暴力问题。实际上这些贩卖和暴力的活动却由美国官方以及与美政府合作的私人公司背后操作。

其实影片最后表达的还是这场抗争以失败告终，这个世界还是男权的社会。尽管有那么一些人被开除了，尽管katie最后把证据拿出来公布于众了，不要告诉我在波黑那些地方女孩们已经不再饱受欺凌。

有战争的地方就有军队，有军队的地方就需要军妓。可是，有哪一些人自愿来作军妓的，于是产生了贩卖和暴力。美国一向以维护世界和平为幌子践踏他国主权，把军队开到那里，产生直接的种族拼杀，衍生出各种复杂的社会问题。

由真实事件改编的好片子， 蕾切尔·薇兹 和 莫妮卡·贝鲁奇两大美女的演出，也透露了她们不只是利用身体来博得演出的机会，证明她们也在思考作为有影响力的女性应该传播的信息和价值应该是什么。

隐藏在世界某些角落的晦垢，只有用作为女性的眼能够看到。