Freedom
To Fascism - A Must-See Film
By Stephen Lendman
04 August,2006
Countercurrents.org
Aaron
Russo has produced an important documentary film titled Freedom to Fascism
that should be must viewing for everyone. It's now playing in theaters
in selective cities around the US and hopefully will be shown abroad
as well as what happens in the most powerful country on earth affects
all others for better or worse. No one seeing this film will doubt it's
frighteningly for the worst.
The film focuses mainly on
the US Internal Revenue Service proving that the federal income tax
on an individual's wage-paid labor is illegal and unconstitutional because
there's no law written requiring that anyone pay it. It also exposes
the US Federal Reserve System as a private for-profit banking cartel
owned and run by its member banks for their benefit and at the expense
of the public forced to pay them interest on money they have no legal
right to print, put in circulation and control. That's because it's
creation by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 passed by Congress (in the
middle of the night and during the Christmas holiday break when many
legislators were gone) and signed into law by Woodrow Wilson violated
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution that states (only) the Congress
shall have the power to coin (create) money and regulate the value thereof.
In 1935, the US Supreme Court
ruled the Congress cannot constitutionally delegate its power to any
other body or group. By signing this outrageous act into law, Woodrow
Wilson did exactly that and violated the law of the land in doing it.
He later admitted he made a terrible mistake when he said: (By doing
it), "I unwittingly ruined my country." Wilson had been a
distinguished professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University where
he later became its president before becoming president of the United
States. Because he was trained in the law, it's more likely he knew
full well what he was doing but acted anyway unconstitutionally in service
to the powerful bankers of his day.
The film goes further as
well showing how our freedoms are being eroded by fascist laws like
the USA Patriot Act that virtually by itself has eliminated most of
them and by George Bush's power-grab giving himself, on his say alone,
the right to assume dictatorial powers if he wishes. He's done it through
his excessive and abusive issuance of presidential executive orders
that essentially rewrite US law as he chooses to do it. Above all, he
did it by claiming the unchallengeable right to govern as a "Unitary
Executive" with the power to abrogate the separation powers doctrine
(implied but not specifically stated in the Constitution), bypass the
Congress and courts, and act as he chooses to protect the national security
when he claims there's a threat to it. In effect, he's given himself
the right, on his say alone and with no evidence to back it up, to annul
the Constitution, declare martial law if he wishes, and govern by presidential
edict, assuming total power and functioning as a dictator. And he cando
it if he alone thinks it's necessary to protect the national security
against a threat he may have only concocted and likely will have.
The film also covers other
important information including how US elections are now routinely stolen
by government controlled manipulation and voter fraud through easily
rigged electronic voting machines with no verifiable paper trail to
assure an accurate and honest count. It also discusses the Orwellian
Real ID Act of 2005 the Congress passed to become effective in May,
2008 requiring the states to meet federal ID standards. This law makes
it mandatory for every US citizen and legal resident to have a national
identity card (in most cases a person's driver's license) that will
contain on it a person's vital and personal information. Once the law
takes effect, no one will be able to open a bank account or maybe even
have one, board an airplane, be able to vote or conduct many other kinds
of essential business without it.
It may also become a requirement
in the future that this ID card contain a radio frequency identification
(RFID) technology computer chip that will be able to track all the movements,
activities and transactions of everyone having one. In Orwellian terms,
this is the ultimate dream of any government wanting police state powers.
The fact that US law now mandates as of May, 2008 that everyone have
this type ID means this country is on a fast track toward becoming a
full-blown national security police state subject only to the limits,
whims and wishes of those in power.
Go see this film and bring
family and friends with you. Then go back and spread the word to others
how important it is that they too see it. Everyone must now understand
that unless "we the people" act in our own behalf to save
our precious freedoms, we'll awaken one day soon to the reality that
they were taken from us while we weren't paying attention. Long ago
Edmund Burke explained it when he said: "All that is necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." He only
neglected to include women in his important aphorism.
Stephen Lendman
lives in Chicago and can be reached at [email protected].
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.