"Freedom to Fascism" : A Must See Movie

[Haldís]

Unless we stop our headlong rush towards a total surveillance / total information awareness society, it could happen within the next few years. Fortunately, there are whistleblowers working as hard as they can to warn us.

Aaron Russo’s new film America: Freedom to Fascism (AFTF), to be released in five markets on July 28 and five more on August 4. Viewers at the Cannes Festival gave it a standing ovation.

Russo connects the dots from the super-elite (international bankers, upper echelon politicians, globocrats, globalist intellectuals) One reviewer (Todd David Schwartz, for CBS) has called it “the scariest d*** film you will see this year,” adding that it “makes Fahrenheit 9/11 look like Bambi.”


Trailers and Promos:
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/

[Georgia]

AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM

Aaron Russo's film "From Freedom to Fascism," has had its opening night and will now be available in a limited number of theaters throughout the country. Russo has been interviewed on Alex Jones radio program [see www.infowars.com (http://www.infowars.com/) ].

Encourage the theaters in your area to show this movie.


Watch the CNN video interview below.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3254488777215293198 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3254488777215293198)

Spread the word!

www.freedomtofascism.com (http://www.freedomtofascism.com/).

[Agrippa]

Would be interesting to know if and when this movie being played in European countries. Very interesting and IMPORTANT topic and the interview seems to be quite promising. The only thing I might have a problem with is his exact definition of Fascism, since what he means is a corporate-bank controlled totalitarian state and not what I mean if speaking of Fascism which is more than just politics and business united in a total state...
This is obviously a trial to beat the machine with its own "propaganda moral" which is obviously not the true motivation of the establishment controlled by the plutocracy.

[Georgia]

A note from a friend:

"From Freedom to Fascism, much acclaimed new film by Aaron Russo, is coming to Nashville on October 6...
Check for times on www.Belcourt.org (http://www.Belcourt.org) ........ but it isn't posted yet.

Dates for other cities are listed below. DVDs will NOT be available until theatres release Russo from his contract."

Chicago, IL Special Screening -
September 21: IMAX Navy Pier
600 E, Grand Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 791-7000
Special Screening -
September 25 - 28: I.C.E. Chatham 14
210 West 87th St.
Chicago, IL 60620
(773) 783-8711



Denver, CO
Opening September 29:Regency Theatres Tamarac Square
7777 East Hampden Avenue
Denver, CO 80231
(303) 368-9200

Portland, OR
Opening September 29:The Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 238-8899

Beverly Hills, CA
Opening October 6:Laemmle Music Hall 3
9036 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, 90211
(310) 274-6869

Tempe & Tucson, Arizona
Opening October 6:Harkins Valley Art
505 South Mill Ave.
Tempe, AZ 85281
(480) 446-7272

The Loft Cinema
3233 E. Speedway Blvd.
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 795-7777

Salt Lake City, UT
Opening October 6:Tower Theater
876 East 900 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
(801) 321-0310

Dallas, TX
Opening October 6:Angelika Film Center
5321 East Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX 75206
(214) 841-4700

Houston, TX
Opening October 20:Angelika Film Center
500 Texas St.
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 225-5232

[Agrippa]

Aaron Russo is Jewish it seems, but still he has a very important story to tell, everybody should hear and his insights and the issues he touches are of great importance for all of us I'd say.

The movie is now available on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198

[Red Skull]

Terrifying to say the least. But I still can't be arsed doing anything, except wishing to be one of the bankers/officials in control of everything.

Power, to me, is more important than cultural/ethnic/whatever preservation. Thanks for the link to the documentary, it has given me some insight.

[Papa Koos]

I bought the DVD on the recommendation of a (fellow) empire loathing friend. I didn't tell my rather conventional, pro-Bush, thinks-necons-are-conservative, Republican wife what it was about ~ just that it's a documentary about the IRS.
About half way through it she said, "Damnit to hell; is this true?!" I responded that Russo seems to be presenting the issue by letting "insiders" testify ~ a reasonable approach.
When it was finished she sat in stunned silence for a long 20 seconds, then nearly yelled, "What good does it do to know that? We're screwed if it's true! What can we do about it?! The government will just come to our homes and arrest us or shoot us!"
My answer was simply that perhaps...hopefully, if Americans wake up and understand that we are fiscal slaves in a tyrannical police state we will say "NO MORE! We do not consent. We will not comply."

[Oski]

Are you (everyone on skadi) for freedom or fascism?

[Agrippa]

Are you (everyone on skadi) for freedom or fascism?

To me personally thats mostly a question of definition. What kind of fascism and what kind of freedom, thats the question. There is no absolute freedom possible, it must be always defined in detail and by considering the context for every case, and there was not just one definition and kind of fascism. Obviously Russo's definition means something I hate and want to fight, because it means totalitarianism for the sake of it, for some people getting the opportunity to oppress, control and exploit whole populations or even mankind as a whole for their own lust for power and profits without conscience.
In general, in a very simplified personal-individual decision-making process, even though I am fascistoid oriented politically, I prefer freedom over fascism in all its forms and see it rather as something which is the ultima ratio if a group is in danger and needs to be mobilised in a totalitarian fashion to overcome the threats its facing. This means a collectivistic political approach, which this American system, even if becoming totalitarian, isnt. Thats the worst about it, its totalitarian and ruins individual freedom and opportunities, but not for producing collective benefits which give the people something good back for it and supporting the greater whole, the group, but is very asymmetric and injust by just giving the power from many to a few which feel no true responsibility for the people, communities, the whole group, mankind and the ecosystem.

[Veritas Aequitas]

The Film Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo ("The Rose," "Trading Places") set out on a journey to find the evidence. This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created. Through interviews with U.S. Congressmen, a former IRS Commissioner, former IRS and FBI agents and tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between money creation, federal income tax, and the national identity card which becomes law in May 2008. This ID card will use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips which are essentially homing devices used to track people. This film shows in great detail and undeniable facts that America is moving headlong into a fascist police state.

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
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[ChaosLord]

Good documentary! Another good one is Alex Jones' Endgame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJoIbPkRvig

[The Horned God]

The erosion of civil liberties is certainly an important and pressing issue in the U.S and Europe, there's no doubt about that.

However "income tax" is a separate matter. Income tax benefits the poor and less well off much more than the rich, because the lower the income the less an individual pays as a percentage of earnings. If it was abolished it would just mean that government would raise the money through discretionary taxes like taxes an food, clothes, motor vehicles etc. More of theres things the poor use just as much of as the rich so, discretionary taxes of this sort are really taxes on the poor.

What I'm saying is, is that income tax is a good thing as it lands more heavily on those who can better afford to pay, and the anti-income tax lobby are not to be trusted imo.

[Koenigsberg]

Aaron Russo is a Jew and Alex Jones married a Jew.

Enough said.

[Ocelot]

Russo connects the dots from the super-elite (international bankers, upper echelon politicians, globocrats, globalist intellectuals)

Then why is the movie called America: Freedom to Fascism? It is obvious that the super-elite of the world does not want fascism, because fascism strongly embraces nationalism. And how can you create a totalitarian one world government if there are enormous amounts of nationalism in each country? It would end up just like Yugoslavia.

As long as the director does not change the title, I can see nothing more in it than just another attempt to further ruin the image of fascism. Because I can tell the difference between fascists and the super-elite, most people here on Skadi can, too, but there are a lot of people who watch the movie, and judge fascism based on this movie.

[Erebor]

Then why is the movie called America: Freedom to Fascism? It is obvious that the super-elite of the world does not want fascism, because fascism strongly embraces nationalism. And how can you create a totalitarian one world government if there are enormous amounts of nationalism in each country? It would end up just like Yugoslavia.

As long as the director does not change the title, I can see nothing more in it than just another attempt to further ruin the image of fascism. Because I can tell the difference between fascists and the super-elite, most people here on Skadi can, too, but there are a lot of people who watch the movie, and judge fascism based on this movie.

'Fascism' was used due to the fact that the label has been thoroughly discredited in the eyes most peoples, particularly in the United States.

[runder]

As long as the director does not change the title, I can see nothing more in it than just another attempt to further ruin the image of fascism. Because I can tell the difference between fascists and the super-elite, most people here on Skadi can, too, but there are a lot of people who watch the movie, and judge fascism based on this movie.

It's because there has been a concerted effort in the U.S. by the Republicans to conflate Socialism with Fascism. Most people here, left and right, are ignorant when it comes to the details of political philosophies. The Reublicans have taken advantage of this ignorance and have tarred Democratic welfare state plans with the brush of Fascism (which has totally negative connotations in the U.S.).

This chicanery is politically motivated and does not make logical or factual sense, but it's widespread amongst the American "right." With the exception of those of us few who are completely out of the mainstream (like most of us Americans who post here), even the American far-right or "ultra-right" lacks nationalistic beliefs. Their world view is usually a combination of fundamentalist Christianity mixed in with materialist Libertarianism a la Ron Paul.

Bottom line: you should ignore anything written in the U.S. about Fascism, especially if it's written by the America "right." Americans by and large don't even understand what Fascism or nationalism is all about.

[runder]

Are you (everyone on skadi) for freedom or fascism?

Although I'm not a totalitarian, I'm more for Fascism than I am for freedom. American "freedom" is nothing but shallow hedonistic materialism sanctified by glittering generalities.

Our freedom will end up being our downfall, because it has stripped European Americans of any sense of national or cultural unity; we're only supposed to care about our personal freedom, which ultimately has devolved into caring only about money and material possessions. The minority groups have taken advantage of this. They still have group consciousness, and they are using our freedom arguments and our "white guilt" to coerce us into national cultural suicide. They (NAACP, La Raza, Black Panthers, etc) act with their group / nation in mind; we act on the basis of the individual's right to pursue "happiness", which typically means materialism (the exception is the Marxist left-wing elite, who fully understand that multiculturalism is a weapon against the west and is using our beliefs in "freedom" as the Trojan Horse for multiculturalism). Worse, most of us aren't even aware of the group think of the other, more ethnically aware groups competing for our country.

The only way that traditional Germannic American society will prevail is if we recognize that we need to discard our believe that individual civil rights are paramount. We need national awareness and concerted group action. Such action is more akin to Fascism than to "freedom." The freedom can return after we have won the struggle and defended our nation. Then we'll have a new Constitution that explicity states that our country is of, by, and for European Americans and culture, and that any newcomer that we invite in must assimilate or leave.

I strongly doubt that any of this will happen in the U.S. until it is far too late for us to do anything about it. Nevertheless, it's why I consider Libertarianism (like that espoused by Ron Paul) to be just as dangerous to us as Multicultural, anti-white Social Democracy. Although they differ on economic matters, Libertarianism provides the ethical and moral arguments that empower Social Democracy's cultural takeover. Culture is more important than economics, and the party that wins the cultural argument will eventually win the economic argument.

[Devin De Blois]

Anyone who unlawfully attempts to strip me of my personal freedoms in the name so called racial or cultural unity, or as just a straight up megalomaniacal power grab here in the US has to find me first, and then get past whatever weapons I can bring to bear.

[Gardisten]

Although I'm not a totalitarian, I'm more for Fascism than I am for freedom. American "freedom" is nothing but shallow hedonistic materialism sanctified by glittering generalities.

This sums it up fairly well. The whole notion of freedom in the USA, if not in the western world in general, has shifted from being political, religious, and intellectual, to one of the "right" to engage in whatever base immoralities one "chooses".

Anyone who unlawfully attempts to strip me of my personal freedoms in the name so called racial or cultural unity, or as just a straight up megalomaniacal power grab here in the US has to find me first, and then get past whatever weapons I can bring to bear.

Well that's kind of silly considering that in every society people are restricted in their "personal freedoms" by a whole host of laws. Some of the laws that you consider just fine and protective of your rights and freedoms may just as well have caused a certain amount of animosity on the part of those people however long ago upon whom it was forced. As it stands, though, you're far from free; but like most Americans, you believe yourself to be free because it has become such an ingrained notion in the American psyche that "freedom" has become complete divorced from any basis in reality. Keep in mind to that the American concept of freedom was formed at a time the USA was a much more racially and culturally unified nation; if anything the decline in freedom many Americans complain about stems from this gradual shift away from these unifying factors.

[SpearBrave]

The erosion of civil liberties is certainly an important and pressing issue in the U.S and Europe, there's no doubt about that.

However "income tax" is a separate matter. Income tax benefits the poor and less well off much more than the rich, because the lower the income the less an individual pays as a percentage of earnings. If it was abolished it would just mean that government would raise the money through discretionary taxes like taxes an food, clothes, motor vehicles etc. More of theres things the poor use just as much of as the rich so, discretionary taxes of this sort are really taxes on the poor.

What I'm saying is, is that income tax is a good thing as it lands more heavily on those who can better afford to pay, and the anti-income tax lobby are not to be trusted imo.

No that is not the best tax system, if you tax people for doing well then people are less inclined to do well. Look at as if you teaching a child, if the child progresses and you spank the child for progressing than the child will no longer progress.;)

A flat tax is the only fair system of tax collection, that way everybody is treated the same regardless of rich or poor. That also gives the poor a better chance to become rich if they so desire.

[Gardisten]

It's interesting to note that in Canada, income tax was imposed in order to pay off the cost of going to war (1914-1918) but just kind of never went away. There was at least one attempt by one individual to take the government to court over this, but not surprisingly the judge dismissed his case.

In terms of what THG claims about income tax benefiting the poor more than the wealthy, etc. Again, in terms of Canada, this has never been the case; there are always loopholes which the wealthy can exploit--they are there because governments always pander to the wealthy. The burden of the income tax system falls upon the middle class, and on average the wealthy tend to pay less tax than the poor. As for tax on discretionary spending, I'm fairly certain that the poor and middle class end up paying proportionally more on such taxes than do the wealthy.

[Neophyte]

Anyone who unlawfully attempts to strip me of my personal freedoms in the name so called racial or cultural unity, or as just a straight up megalomaniacal power grab here in the US has to find me first, and then get past whatever weapons I can bring to bear.

"Personal freedoms" is an ambiguous term that should be avoided in this context since it seems to confound rights and liberties. Rights are freedoms that confers an obligation on another party while liberties do not have any such corresponding obligations.

But, rest assured, that when they come to take your rights and liberties away, they will do so in a most lawful manner. That is why you have all those Jews on the Supreme Court.

[Neophyte]

In terms of what THG claims about income tax benefiting the poor more than the wealthy, etc. Again, in terms of Canada, this has never been the case; there are always loopholes which the wealthy can exploit--they are there because governments always pander to the wealthy. The burden of the income tax system falls upon the middle class, and on average the wealthy tend to pay less tax than the poor. As for tax on discretionary spending, I'm fairly certain that the poor and middle class end up paying proportionally more on such taxes than do the wealthy.

Also, there is usually a distinction made between wages and capital income, the latter always being more preferentially treated.

[runder]

I hate how the Libertarians misuse the word Fascism. The current liberal, multi-cultural corporate Democracy is nothing like Fascism.

The U.S. could use some real Fascism.

[Erik Proft]

Perhaps first few years of a fascist take over might be applicable.