By Jessica Reed
openDemocracy forums' user Stephen Lendman posted an interesting set of remarks about the controversial movie America: From freedom to fasiscm, directed by Aaron Musso.
"The film first focuses on the US Internal Revenue Service showing that the federal income tax on an individual's wage-paid labor is illegal and unconstitutional because there's no law written requiring that anyone pay it.(...) The film goes further as well showing how our freedoms are being eroded by fascist laws like the USA Patriot Act (...) by George Bush's power-grab giving himself, on his say alone, the right to assume dictatorial powers if he wishes."
Ironically, the description of the movie sounds dangerously similar to the parody piece published by the satirical Onion magazine this week under the title "Bush grants Self permission to grant more power to Self".
Well, my high school history teacher used to always tell us young naive kids that 'reality often surpassed fiction'...
Elsewhere: New York Times' review of the movie + other critics are very ambivalent.
