This film has a number of really great facts that they use to make their assertions failingly. It involves a lot of research that might enlighten someone who doesn’t have a rudimentary knowledge of what this administration has been up to for the last six years. In other words, someone who has remained purposefully ignorant. But chances are, if you’ve viewing this, it’s not the first time you’ve run into this stuff.

This movie is essentially like watching a conspiracy theorist ramble on for two hours. You have an Uncle Milt, and he thinks the government is out to get us, and this is like that guy rambling on and on and even bringing up all of the evidence he’s collected, but none of it has causality, there’s a lot of unanswered questions that are rhetorically leading like Christians ask through metaphor, and it’s in all honesty using the tactics that Fox News uses to scare and change our opinion without realizing it, which is inadvertently funny.

Is the government out to get us?

Will they implant us all with chips?

Where is the tax code?

This is a film in large part about a sympathetic point that most people agree upon. The tax system sucks, the government has too much power, the overreaction of security after 9-11 has some fascistic elements that are scary as hell, and we need to do something to stop it. That is an admirable series of statements.

The problem is, this film, like guys who stand on corners with placards and tell you that the government has black helicopters, tries to insinuate that some sinister motive is trying to create a New World Order without providing any evidence beyond illogical corollary.

They point out that the tax code is unconstitutional and isn’t on the books, and go to great lengths to try and ask people where the law is, for a full hour. They even answer their own complaint through an interview...that later rulings established the ground rules for the IRS even though there’s no official law, but because they never listen, they don’t get that. So they go from a sympathetic viewpoint, that we’re taxed too much and it goes to stupid crap, to the illogical conclusion, that it’s a conspiracy from a law that doesn’t exist. No it’s not. It’s just retarded bureaucracy, not a conspiracy.

We need to reapportion taxes, yes, but not because there’s no original source for the taxes, but because we’re running around like chickens with our heads cut off whining about how there’s no law taking our taxes instead of passing the new law to reform it. Morons.

It then takes a ninety degree turn halfway through and begins a litany about how we’re all about to be hit with RFID tags and that they’re going to start throwing us all into detention camps and stripping away our rights.

People know these laws exist. Thank Christ they’re not enforcing them too broadly on innocent Americans, but one, it has nothing to do with the income tax or a New World Order, just frightened conservatives reacting in fear to a group of terrorists they can’t control. They’re not going to start rounding up the middle class. It’s just a crappy law that can
potentially be misused and has to change. It’s awful that they’re that sloppy with our laws, but it doesn’t mean they’re trying to destroy people, and this documentary asserts that we’re a hair’s breadth away from a fascist state. No.

We have fascist crap going on, and I cite it at length and often, but we are nowhere near a fascist state. We do not have freedom of speech. We are not a representative democracy, our votes are being cheated. But, it is still within our power to change this system back to what it was, a fact this documentary continually ignores, asserting sophomorically that the
government is doing this without our permission (when we elected them), without precedent (when those we elected set said awful precedent), and even encouraging us in somewhat of a socialist fashion to overthrow the government.

Hey, I like wienies over the fire of discontent, but Christ, where’s the voice encouraging people to un-elect the pseudo-fascists and change the laws? How about if you’re going to bitch about fascism, you encourage the DEMOCRATIC PROCESS over anarchism and open rebellion?

Closing with an admonition to “come join us” at their website and sign up to be tracked, this film fails utterly to be more than a piece of inarguable garbage fluff that has interesting statistics. Which is tragic, because with this kind of a film you can attract a large audience, so your viewpoint and logic should be much more focused, centered, solution-oriented and presenting an argument your opponent would accept.

Instead it’s paranoid crap that hides behind creative wording, like Bush’s programs. I’m guessing somewhere along the lines of their research of the Bush Administration they learned the universal precept that scaring people shitless will sell a concept, but that doesn’t mean you have the facts to back what you’re saying up.

And that gets people killed in both Iraq, and in wrongheaded demonstrations that go violent.

Scary parallel, huh?

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