Thread: From Freedom To Fascism

dlm

The sham that is the federal reserve.

The implimentation of the national ID card which will lead to chipping everyone.

I KNEW this was coming many years ago. It's all documented!!!! Problem is, most did not believe it or couldn't access the info. Now, finally, it's out in the open.

FED RESERVE is ILLEGAL

OH.......PS

THANK YOU for posting the synopsis, dlm!

Originally Posted by Sindawe

So it only required 36 states to ratify the amendment as presented for the now 16th amendment to become law. I've read (but not yet researched) that even THAT number was not meet, since some states may have modified the text of the amendment before voting, which some say negates that states ratification.

They used the same tactics of manipulation and extraconstitutional procedures to try and force through ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, years after it had become an anachronism.

Fortunately, they were unsuccessful in that case, but there are still some radical gender feminists who are looking at other avenues to have it unconstitutionally forced through.

Originally Posted by Sindawe

This reminds me of a book I read called "Unintended Consequences" that pertains to the Second Amendment. I forget the name of the author, but I thought it a very good read.

Author is John Ross. Great read! If you liked that, see also Enemies Foreign and Domestic & Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista by Matt Braken http://matthewbracken.web.aplus.net/

[quote:3vpuulug]First, the 16th amendment was NEVER ratified by all 50 states, yet somehow it made it into the Constitution.

1. In 1913, there were 48 states in the Union. Hawaii and Alaska were not admitted until 1959.

2. Ratification of amendments to the Constitution requires that 3/4 of the states to ratify the amendment, not a unanimous ratification.

So it only required 36 states to ratify the amendment as presented for the now 16th amendment to become law. I've read (but not yet researched) that even THAT number was not meet, since some states may have modified the text of the amendment before voting, which some say negates that states ratification.

Your other points sippy I concur with. The IRS likes to play fast and loose about who must pay income taxes and who may not, and has been reluctant to address the question in an open court of law.[/quote:3vpuulug]

Sin,
I haven't found any research which backs up the government's claim that this is an actual amendment. I too have not been able to find the exact numbers which were met, but I don't believe it was enough for ratification.

http://www.freedomtofascism.com/index.html


America: Freedom to Fascism
By Matt Hutaff
Oct 10, 2006

Aaron Russo's compelling new documentary reveals an America betrayed long ago... and a glimmer of hope that we can still fix things.


Midway through Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism I turned to a friend and found him looking shell-shocked. "Everything okay?" I whispered.

"Ignorance really is bliss," he answered.

The look of discomfort remained on his face until we left the theater. "I've known most of the information they presented for a couple of years," I said. "But it's wild to see it all put together like that."
"You've known about this stuff for that long?"
"Yeah," I shrugged as we walked towards our cars.
"Man, how do you get through the day?"
That's a good question.

* * * * *

Like you, I don't enjoy the prospect of living in a United States ruled by fascism. It's a near-totalitarian government of fear and intimidation, the very kind we fought to abolish in World War II.

Yet current affairs push our country away from the freedoms ensured by our forefathers. These past several years, Americans have shouldered an unspoken acceptance of domestic surveillance, rampant militarism, secret prisons, torture and cloak-and-dagger criminal proceedings while our heads of state reject the very checks and balances set forth in the Constitution. The recent passage of the Military Commissions Act buries one of the most basic rights granted any human being, the centuries-old concept of habeas corpus. That, coupled with the possibility of legislating civil disobedience as terrorism, means any American critical of the government is an enemy of the state to be whisked away without due process, without committing a crime, in perpetuity. The land of the free has abdicated its liberty.

For those who have been watching as the Bush administration runs roughshod over the Bill of Rights, the road to fascism grows ever wider. For director and producer Aaron Russo, however, that road was under construction decades ago. Where does he pinpoint the moment our nation died? With the dubious ratification of the 16th Amendment.

America: Freedom to Fascism is a compelling and troubling account of how the wealth of our nation was silently passed from its citizens to a handful of powerful bankers in 1913. That's the year the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment were introduced, giving a privately held corporation the means to control our finances while ensuring its interest payments through the strong arms of the newly-formed Internal Revenue Service. Ever since then, Russo suggests, Americans have been gradually conditioned to accept fewer freedoms and a lower standard of living... all the while considering debt and servitude as distinctly American values.

Russo's first and most cogent point is simple: Americans are not required to pay a federal income tax. That's a bold statement to make, as few people believe that such a fraud could be perpetrated for so long. My father, himself an accountant, insists that the income tax is a very real thing. Russo takes that same belief to IRS employees and simply asks them to cite where it says an unapportioned income tax is required of us all. Guess what? They can't. In a telling segment Sheldon Cohen, former commissioner of the IRS, goes so far as to reject Supreme Court rulings and the Constitution as benchmarks over what is legal with regards to taxation. Russo also interviews members of the tax honesty movement as well as disenfranchised IRS agents who agree that no law on the books conjures up a requirement to send the government part of one's hard-earned paycheck. Russo then showcases court cases where those accused of tax evasion have won precisely because the prosecution cannot provide evidence of a legal federal income tax law.

It's shocking to have it hammered into your head over and over that you've thrown your money away for nothing, but repetition is good; it helps knock loose the deeply entrenched belief that we owe a portion of our livelihood to our government.

The Federal Reserve Act is also singled out. Voted on by a skeleton crew of senators right before the Christmas recess in 1913, it turned over the business of printing money to the Federal Reserve, a private institution. That one seemingly innocuous act plunged our nation into massive debt and price manipulation. Russo points to a study done during the Reagan administration that showed that every penny of federal income tax collection went to paying down just the interest of money graciously "lent" to us by the Fed. Meanwhile, the value of the dollar has plunged to 4 cents on the dollar and Americans are struggling to get by with less income and more debt.

Most important, however, is the unifying theme of government oppression. Far from being a free nation, the United States is regulated to the point of absurdity. National identification cards, internal borders, RFID chips in money - why is the government so intent on monitoring its own citizens? Is it to combat terrorists or fellow Americans who realize they've been raked over the coals? We torture our own citizens, we eavesdrop on their conversations and their e-mails. We spend money we don't have to fight for freedoms abroad that we no longer enjoy here.

What are Americans doing about it? Not much. Many are terrified of fighting the IRS and confused by the function of the Fed. After all, how does someone fight big government?

While Russo can't claim to have all the answers, America: Freedom to Fascism is a film you must see. Even though it's not a highly polished production like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, it does what Moore couldn't - namely, instill you with a sense of rage over how badly our government manipulates and mistreats its constituents to further its own ends. This isn't a partisan attack on one particular political party; it's an attack on a corrupt and wasteful system with a few recommendations to help us reclaim our country from those who would bankrupt it. And though Russo plans to release it on the internet as quickly as possible, try to support it in theaters as well. After all, box office talks louder than word of mouth.

Can we avert a complete descent into fascism? It's possible... but only if we demand our freedoms and refuse to accept that a government that serves us can take them away from us.

View the original article here.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3 out of 4 Star Review from TV Guide Online
by Ken Fox

Read full review here

Law-abiding Americans who hand off a solid chunk of their salaries to the IRS might be interested in what filmmaker Aaron Russo has to say on the subject of income tax. According to Russo, a Hollywood producer responsible for such films as THE ROSE and TRADING PLACES, the land of the free hasn’t been all that free since 1913, when the first of two frauds changed the United States forever. A handful of powerful bankers – including J.P. Morgan, Paul Warburg and John D. Rockefeller – pressured the U.S. government into passing the 16th Amendment, the so-called “income tax amendment,” even though it was never legally ratified by a sufficient number of states. Why? Because these same interests engineered “fraud” No. 2, the passing of the Federal Reserve Act, later that same year: It granted a handful of powerful, privately owned banks the power to issue money and control its value. The income tax enforced by the amendment was slated to finance the resulting national debt owed these banks; in short, the tax on citizens’ labor wouldn’t wind up in the coffers of the U.S. government, earmarked to subsidize public services and infrastructure maintenance, but in the back pockets of a handful of capitalists.

Russo, who at first seems genuinely wary of antitax activists’ claims that a direct, unapportioned tax on citizens’ wages and labor (as opposed to, say, a corporation’s profits and gains) is unconstitutional and therefore illegal, sets for himself what initially seems a fairly straightforward task: Finding the law that requires ordinary Americans to file a 1040. But the deeper Russo digs, the less he finds, leading him to suspect what others before him (including a number of former IRS employees) came to realize: That the elusive law used by the IRS to seize Americans’ lawfully gained properties and even throw them in prison simply doesn’t exist, and pressuring the IRS to produce the law they use to prosecute nonfilers is at best an exercise in futility and at worst a trigger for intimidating threats of “enforcement actions.”

Russo is a clearly a healthy minded skeptic who tries to get both sides of the story. In addition to interviewing tax experts, attorneys and a former IRS criminal investigator, he attempts to speak with representatives from the IRS itself: Few return his calls, and Homeland Security shows up when Russo attempts to film outside the IRS offices in Washington. In the end, the unavoidable question remains: Even armed with the galling knowledge presented in Russo’s film, who in his or her right mind is going to take on the IRS?


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

New film details troubling patterns in American society
By Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper

October 5, 2006

There are few overtly political films released in recent memory that are invoking more agreement across ideological lines than Aaron Russo’s America: Freedom to Fascism, which opens Friday at the Belcourt for a one-week only showing. Russo’s previous movies have been such highly commercial ventures as Trading Places and The Rose, but he’s now moved into a far more important arena, exploring what he deems the continuing erosion of privacy and civil liberties in America. Even if you don’t share his level of concern regarding the situation or find the use of words like fascism excessive, it’s hard to argue with much of what he presents as evidence backing his theories.

First, Russo didn’t craft this film as an attack on the current administration, nor a look at problems with the war on terror. Instead, he began seeking the answer to a statement presented by individuals in the Tax Honesty movement. He wanted verification that there is a law that requires American workers to pay income tax on their wages and salaries. He tried to get this question answered by going to Internal Revenue Service officials, but with one exception they refused to answer his question. Only former commissioner Sheldon Cohen responded, and he did so with a blockbuster statement. According to Cohen, U.S. Supreme Court rulings are irrelevant in terms of either interpretation or enforcement of the IRS code. He even tells Russo that he’s silly for truly believing that he owes taxes on his wages.

From there, Russo seriously began looking at the IRS from top to bottom, spotlighting examples of cases where people who didn’t file taxes were cleared in court by the failure of the prosecution to produce a law demanding that they do so. But he also shows examples of people who were beaten in court by what looks like abuses of judicial power, with judges instructing juries to ignore the absence of binding law and convict anyhow. Russo subsequently looks at other situations where he feels the government has overextended itself at the expense of individual liberty. These examples include the impending national ID card, the impact of globalization, the demise of acts to protect the environment, the Patriot Act and what he sees as unchecked illegal immigration.

America: Freedom to Fascism could be deemed a libertarian, radical, liberal or conservative film, depending on one’s persuasion, but there’s certainly room for all these views and more in Russo’s cinematic universe. While not recommending people take his advice in terms of paying their taxes, there are plenty of other things here that deserve careful consideration and scrutiny.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Lovers of Liberty, the struggle is just beginning! Get ready...

Are you aware by May of 2008 the law will require you to carry a national identification card?

Are you aware that there are plans being developed to have all Americans embedded with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) computer chip under their skin so they can be tracked wherever they go?
Are you aware the Supreme Court has ruled that the government has no authority to impose a direct unapportioned tax on the labor of the American people, and the 16th Amendment does not give the government that power?

Are you aware that computer voting machines can be rigged and there is no way to ensure that your vote is counted?

Aaron Russo is proud to announce the opening of "America: Freedom to Fascism" in theaters around the country. Tell your friends, family and co-workers - Everyone must see this film! Please forward this email to everyone you know!