America: from Freedom to Fascism
when i first heard about this movie, i was thrilled. then within minutes of checking out its main web site, i knew it was yet another fucked attempt to bring the truth to a mass audience. i’ve only seen trailers and the 15-minute preview, but it’s enough. what a disaster. is there some disease that prevents otherwise thinking people from doing something right?
i think the curse of so many productions in the world is that the people least qualified to make them are the most motivated and willing to go through all the bullshit required. this movie kills itself with flaws, handing out openings for jackasses to take a few snippets and then build a slaughter, however wrongly. when you’re taking on these subjects, you need to have your act together, jack. damned disappointing to see such a slack, posturing, non-rigorous approach, with manufactured TV news correspondent type crap as aaron russo attempts to do something at which he’s no good — act.
listen up, so-called libertarians: the last thing the liberty movement needs is more misinforming, ill-conceived bullshit. just keep your mouth shut if this is the best you can do. when you’re up against a hostile audience, all it takes is one provable error of fact to have them toss your ass. however few, there are potential converts in that audience, perhaps lost forever. maybe that’s good — i don’t know — but it sure isn’t what these info blitzes claim to have as their goal. i don’t understand why so many people must lazily mix fantasy in with powerful truth when shining light on scum.
there are more than a few pieces of outright bullshit in the movie. for example, it states that a guarantee of the first amendment is that government must “answer the American people’s questions”. that’s easy enough to prove false:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
all it says on the matter is that congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition government for a redress of grievances. big deal. under the first amendment, government doesn’t have to say shit about the petition.
the movie “quotes” george bush:
“The constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper.” – George W. Bush
Nov. 2005
not an implausible claim, but it’s one for which proof is absent. the quote is alleged by one dude who says he heard it from other people. damned irresponsible, and inexcusable from anybody in a movement which does not need to rely on lies to make its case.
perhaps the most ludicrous angle of the mainstream tax-protestor movement is the “show me the law” crock. as has been pointed out many times, some law allowing what’s taken place would need to be shoved right back up the asshole whence it came. though the absence of “law” on the matter is disgusting and telling, ultimately, i don’t care whether there’s a law. government goons have no right to thieve and dominate, by “law” or any other method. in a world of men, not a one of those sorry bastards, from congress to the cops to the IRS paper shufflers, would be able to leave “his” house, for fear of being stricken. fuck “law”. it has anti-meaning.