Extreme ideologies… fringe viewpoints… conspiracy nuts… who isn’t tired of such things? Aren’t we all just too busy with more important things to be bothered by these other apparent wastes of our time?
Let me ask you a question: what if just one of these seemingly radical viewpoints was true? How would you know… unless… you gave it a fair hearing? So let’s try one on for size:
WHAT IF your government were involved in a long-term plot to make an inevitable transition to a police state, which itself is only a stepping stone to the ultimate goal of becoming a dictatorship?
WHAT IF this were the case? Would you want to know about it? I wonder: what would it take to convince you that it was true?
Certainly there’s no way to convince you unless you make one absolutely necessary choice: you must CHOOSE to give the idea a fair hearing. Unless you do that, no matter how true the matter may be, you will have chosen a deliberately ignorant perspective by refusing to consider the idea fairly and honestly.
Are you deliberately ignorant, my friend? I sincerely hope not. So then, let me invite you to consider some facts that, if true, ought to scare the pants off of every American citizen today.
And with that invitation, my responsibility ends and yours begins. You can never, ever again say that you didn’t know… becuase today… right now… I’m inviting you to CHOOSE to know something that you may not be aware of.
Aaron Russo, who produced the movie “Trading Places” (starring Eddie Murphy), “The Rose” (starring Bette Midler) and other well known films, has produced a documentary film that recently opened in select theatres nationwide. In addition to selling a DVD of the movie, he has decided also to release this video for FREE on Google Video. While it might not make much sense to air a movie in theatres, sell a DVD and give the whole thing away for free, Russo believes that the information is so crucially significant to the well-being of this nation that he’s decided to do all that he can to make the information available to as many people as possible.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.
We are no longer a government by free opinion; no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
—then-president Woodrow Wilson, 1919
See for yourself exactly what it was that then-president Wilson regretted so much, and discover how relevant his regrets of more than 90 years ago have proven to be almost prophetically true.
So please… if you don’t give any other idea a fair hearing, I implore you to give this one it’s due consideration; watch Aaron’s video now: America: Freedom to Facism (clicking this link will open in a new tab/window). Then, if his facts persuade you as they have me, please share it with everyone you know… and ask them to do the same.
The future of American Constitutional freedoms depends on more of us understanding the shocking truths in Aaron Russo’s documentary film, and then for us to band together as “we, the people” to—gasp!—do something about it. It may already be too late but I’m not willing to give up so easily; hopefully, neither are you.
Please… watch the video now. Thank you!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Stephen Neitzke // Nov 2, 2006 at 5:25 am
Excellent appeal, Richard. But you comments box is haywire. It’s not wrappign, and I can’t see what I’m typing. Oh. It wrapped at “what I’m typing”. I’ll leave it for you to deal with.
2 Richard // Nov 2, 2006 at 11:29 am
Thanks for the heads-up, Stephen. Will take a look at it later today and try to figure out what’s gone wrong.
Thanks, also, for your encouragement. Hope you watched the video, or intend to, and that you’ll return to comment more about your thoughts on what you saw. Take good care of yourself.
update: Just visited your site and see that you have both seen the video and commented about it there. Wonderful analysis! Have added your site to my page of favorites and will be visiting again soon!
3 Richard // Nov 3, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Hi, Stephen. Just a followup comment to let you (and others) know that I fixed the undesireable textbox behavior that you experienced. It seems to be a bug specific to IE as I had no trouble when browsing in Firefox.
Anyway, I do appreciate the heads up you gave me. I wonder if that badly-behaved textbox was the reason more people (using IE) didn’t comment on my site.
Onward and forward! Thanks again!
4 Anonymous // Mar 15, 2007 at 1:19 pm
The people at Wikiquote say the “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country” is misattributed to Wilson: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Woodrow_Wilson
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