Saturday, October 14, 2006

ö AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM whole film posted I posted about this film back in July, here's the AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM website for all the info, but it only has trailers. Now the whole long feature-length film has been released in four parts here. The quote back in July bears repeating:  CBS News: Four Stars (Highest Rating). The Scariest Damn Film You'll See This Year It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered. Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New American Revolution. This is shocking stuff. You'll be angry, you'll be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and feel a sickness deep in your gut; I would advise movie theatre managers to hand out vomit bags. You may end up needing one. --- Todd David Schwartz, CBS  permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

ö Keith O. on murder of habeus corpus [YouTube]  COUNTDOWN has learned that habeas corpus actually predates the Constitution, meaning it's not just pre-September 11 thinking, it's also July 4th thinking. (SIC, he actually said 'pre-July 4th') In this those days, no one could have imagined that enemy combatants might one day attack Americans on native soil (shot of redcoats shooting colonists). In fact, COUNTDOWN has obtained a partially redacted copy of a colonial "declaration", indicating that back then, depriving us of trial by jury was actually considered sufficient cause to start a war of independence based on the, then fashionable idea that "liberty" was an inalienable right. But too today, thanks to modern post-9/11 thinking, those rights are now fully alienable - for your protection. The reality is without habeas corpus, a lot of other rights lose their meaning. But if you look at the actual Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments of that pesky Constitution, you'll see just how many remain for your protection. OK, No. 1 is gone. I mean, if you're detained without trial, you lose your freedom of religion and speech, press, assembly, all the rest of that. So, you don't need that any more. And you know, you can't petition the government for anything.  Then he works his way through the other nine. Here's the transcript, about halfway through. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?