In Margaret\u00a0Heffernan\u2019s brilliant book, Willful Blindness, she describes her first direct encounter with the state was in the Judge\u2019s instructions at the end of the Enron trial.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou may find that the defendant deliberately closed his eyes to what would otherwise have been obvious to him.\u00a0 Knowledge can be inferred if the defendant deliberately blinded himself to the existence of a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heffernan notes that many of the greatest crimes are not committed in the dark, but in full view of people who chose not to look and not to question.\u00a0\u00a0 The Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Madoff\u2019s funds, the embers of British Petroleum\u2019s refinery, and the dog-eat-dog world of sub-prime lenders, all willfully blind. \u00a0 \u00a0Willful Blindness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In Margaret\u00a0Heffernan\u2019s brilliant book, Willful Blindness, she describes her first direct encounter with the state was in the Judge\u2019s instructions at the end of the Enron trial.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou may find that the defendant deliberately closed his eyes to what would … Continue reading ![\"Willful](\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wb.jpg\")
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