The tag line says it all -- "Liberty or Tyranny." We have to make the choice. There's nothing in between. And what I managed to watch of the film itself only spells the message out in more detail.
The problem with the tag line is that it's a logical fallacy called "false dilemma." You don't REALLY have to choose between "liberty" and "tyranny" at all. Every society -- if it exists at all -- has something in between. Liberty means the freedom to go about your business in some sensible way without harming yourself or others. That's how we usually define it anyway. It doesn't mean freedom to do whatever you want. That would be chaos. Here's how Judge Learned Hand put it:
"What is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few."
And a little bit of tyranny, meaning formal social control, is necessary for the survival of any community, otherwise we'd be living in a Hobbesian world of maniacs who were constantly robbing each other, slitting each other's throats, and driving up and down residential streets blaring twelve-tone music from a huge speaker in our open trunks. You want the walls of your house to shake with vibration from the bass frequencies of hexachords, do you? I thought not.
The film is propagandistic junk embodying one man's paranoid vision of how the global culture is evolving. Barack Obama is only a corporate tool who plans to turn the US over to the New World Order and have a global currency instead of good solid greenbacks.
How is this view substantiated? Well, for one thing, we hear Newt Gingrich say that it's true. For another, there is a two-second audio clip of the president saying that the Federal Reserve should have more power. How much proof do you want? A written plan (the long form, of course) of bullet points like that published by the Project for a New American Century? It's not worth further attention except from those who score high on the "paranoia" scale of the MMPI. They should find what they're looking for here. Obama's "Green Police" will be able to enter your house, rate it for energy efficiency, and make you pay for the examination. Next step: the jail house. Right.
The problem with the tag line is that it's a logical fallacy called "false dilemma." You don't REALLY have to choose between "liberty" and "tyranny" at all. Every society -- if it exists at all -- has something in between. Liberty means the freedom to go about your business in some sensible way without harming yourself or others. That's how we usually define it anyway. It doesn't mean freedom to do whatever you want. That would be chaos. Here's how Judge Learned Hand put it:
"What is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few."
And a little bit of tyranny, meaning formal social control, is necessary for the survival of any community, otherwise we'd be living in a Hobbesian world of maniacs who were constantly robbing each other, slitting each other's throats, and driving up and down residential streets blaring twelve-tone music from a huge speaker in our open trunks. You want the walls of your house to shake with vibration from the bass frequencies of hexachords, do you? I thought not.
The film is propagandistic junk embodying one man's paranoid vision of how the global culture is evolving. Barack Obama is only a corporate tool who plans to turn the US over to the New World Order and have a global currency instead of good solid greenbacks.
How is this view substantiated? Well, for one thing, we hear Newt Gingrich say that it's true. For another, there is a two-second audio clip of the president saying that the Federal Reserve should have more power. How much proof do you want? A written plan (the long form, of course) of bullet points like that published by the Project for a New American Century? It's not worth further attention except from those who score high on the "paranoia" scale of the MMPI. They should find what they're looking for here. Obama's "Green Police" will be able to enter your house, rate it for energy efficiency, and make you pay for the examination. Next step: the jail house. Right.