It's depressing to see how many people actually believe the material presented in this "documentary" is true. The movie claims to expose a huge, hidden plan to financially and politically enslave the American public.
The first portion of the movie "reveals" that there is no law requiring individuals to pay income tax. Somehow they think that the US Code of laws passed by Congress isn't law? For the income tax section, read Title 26 U.S.C. § 1; it's all online at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/. Maybe laws passed by Congress are unconstitutional? Could happen. Try reading the Sixteenth Amendment, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Sounds pretty clear. The claim is that the 16th Amendment wasn't properly ratified. Before typewriters and copy machines, getting the states to ratify identical text was a challenge. Some documents from states certifying the 16th amendment's ratification had trivial errors: "States" not capitalized, "income" instead of "incomes", missing commas or the word "levy" instead of "lay". The Secretary of State obtained verbal confirmation from the Legislatures involved and declared the Amendment passed, which was the correct legal procedure. The film maker conveniently neglects to mention whether this is why he claims the 16th Amendment invalid.
Next the film asserts that the Federal Reserve was created and is currently controlled by powerful bankers with the goal of financially enslaving middle class America. Really? The Fed Chairman Bernanke from Princeton has never worked in the public sector, was appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. The other board members have similar credentials. Created by powerful bankers (photos of J.P. Morgan are shown in the movie) to control the economy? Excuse me, but before the Federal Reserve, J.P. Morgan and other powerful bankers already had control of the money supply. Read the history of the the Free Silver movement, or Agrarian Populism. Farmers in the Midwest were under Morgan's thumb and were begging for government oversight. Morgan himself got on board after the Bank Panic of 1907 where he had to inject his own money to prevent total financial collapse. When Morgan saw the light, the final obstacle to a National Bank was removed. Claiming the Federal Reserve was created by Morgan, or some shadowy banking overlords is outright deception.
The film spirals downward into paranoid fantasy when it begins to claim there a plans to embed RFID tracking chips into all U.S. citizen to obtain total control of all aspects of our lives. Evidently some reviewers here accept this uncritically. Wake up. Read more than one book that contains a different viewpoint than your own. The majority of Americans aren't deluded, believers in this movie are.
The first portion of the movie "reveals" that there is no law requiring individuals to pay income tax. Somehow they think that the US Code of laws passed by Congress isn't law? For the income tax section, read Title 26 U.S.C. § 1; it's all online at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/. Maybe laws passed by Congress are unconstitutional? Could happen. Try reading the Sixteenth Amendment, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Sounds pretty clear. The claim is that the 16th Amendment wasn't properly ratified. Before typewriters and copy machines, getting the states to ratify identical text was a challenge. Some documents from states certifying the 16th amendment's ratification had trivial errors: "States" not capitalized, "income" instead of "incomes", missing commas or the word "levy" instead of "lay". The Secretary of State obtained verbal confirmation from the Legislatures involved and declared the Amendment passed, which was the correct legal procedure. The film maker conveniently neglects to mention whether this is why he claims the 16th Amendment invalid.
Next the film asserts that the Federal Reserve was created and is currently controlled by powerful bankers with the goal of financially enslaving middle class America. Really? The Fed Chairman Bernanke from Princeton has never worked in the public sector, was appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. The other board members have similar credentials. Created by powerful bankers (photos of J.P. Morgan are shown in the movie) to control the economy? Excuse me, but before the Federal Reserve, J.P. Morgan and other powerful bankers already had control of the money supply. Read the history of the the Free Silver movement, or Agrarian Populism. Farmers in the Midwest were under Morgan's thumb and were begging for government oversight. Morgan himself got on board after the Bank Panic of 1907 where he had to inject his own money to prevent total financial collapse. When Morgan saw the light, the final obstacle to a National Bank was removed. Claiming the Federal Reserve was created by Morgan, or some shadowy banking overlords is outright deception.
The film spirals downward into paranoid fantasy when it begins to claim there a plans to embed RFID tracking chips into all U.S. citizen to obtain total control of all aspects of our lives. Evidently some reviewers here accept this uncritically. Wake up. Read more than one book that contains a different viewpoint than your own. The majority of Americans aren't deluded, believers in this movie are.