AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM (2006) *** It's pretty obvious from the start that Aaron Russo is particularly inclined to believe strange things about the government. That's understandable enough, I think, as anyone with a brain in their head and Washington and Jefferson's philosophies close to their heart has to have noticed that something has gone very wrong. And to his credit, after getting initiated and side-tracked into a lot of (fairly compelling, actually; but wouldn't today's congress just enact it anyway if they understood that it wasn't already there?) legalese about whether we should have to pay income taxes, his broad net starts pulling at the bigger stuff: the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, the one-party system, the way the IRS has trumped the most fundamental concepts of property rights, the contempt of the oligarchs for the civil liberties or aspirations of the doomed. Russo's a likable enough guy and if he clings to his arguments it's because no one's refuting them very well. Loudly yes, but not well. So it's clear that he's on to something. Too many things maybe, there is a sense of shotgun approach to it all, with issues flying all over the place and quotations so dear that you can't help wonder if they might have been taken just a little out of context. The Republican libertarian Ron Paul comes out of it all looking well but this is not partisan stuff: it is instead the kind of look at the fundamentals that we're going to have to do in order to work ourselves out of this mess.
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