We are excited to announce that we have now completed post production on
Citizens United, The Movie. And we are now doing film festival
submissions and considering other screening opportunties.
In Citizens United, The Movie, we take on the issues of corporate
personhood
and accountability, money as speech, the remote control drone murder of civliians, and
more.
The new video clip preview is a call to action, dramatizing the moment that the
activists in our story are reacting to the Citizens United supreme court
decision, in particular the 2010 State of the Union speech where the
President addressed it with members of the Supreme Court in attendance.
We open with a hypothetical, but true to their writings and speeches,
conversation between founding fathers James Madison and Alexander Hamilton,
about the propriety of empowering corporations as artificial persons.
We then cut to a modern day TV PR ad for a major defense contractor,
highlighting with this juxtaposition the extent to which corporations
have taken over the concept of "We, The People".
And then we jump right into the middle of our main story about Occupy
America, an activist group mobilizing a movement to amend the constitution
to negate corporate personhood, while they struggle with a government
attempt to entrap a couple of their members in a phony terrorist
plot.
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NEW TRAILER FOR THE LAST WAR CRIME MOVIE
We also just posted a fast paced, right to the point new trailer of our first full length feature dramatic film, The Last War Crime movie, which is ready for theatrical distribution now.
In just 60 seconds, you can get the flavor of this ground-breaking production. To find out if our heroine was successful in her mission, you will have to
actually watch the movie, and screeners are now available at the same link below.
We promised to do a series on the errors in the
Hobby Lobby decision that just came down and is already creating such
havoc. We're going to do this in plain English so that you too can make
sense, or in this case nonsense, of a Supreme Court decision.
So let's begin. The core of the new legal lunacy in the Hobby Lobby opinion
is found on page 18, and it starts like this:
"As we will show, Congress provided protection for people like the
Hahns and Greens by employing a familiar legal fiction: It included
corporations within RFRA's definition of person."
Let's focus here on the words "familar legal fiction." Yes, all too
familiar at this point. The Hobby Lobby case represents the clearest
statement yet that in the opinion of these five supreme word twisters,
corporations must have all the same rights as real people (but of
course none of their obligations, liabilities or responsibilities).
They admit it's all a "fiction," a complete fairy-tale. It's like
when Alice in Through The Looking Glass challenged the total
corruption of the English language and was told,
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
And before you wonder if this is a fatuous illustration, this very
language has been cited in over 250 US Court decisions, including two
by saner Supreme Courts. We strongly suspect that the author of this
story, Lewis Caroll, must have known his share of corporate attorneys
and right wing, reactionary judges.
Alito says "corporation" MEANS a natural "person," but only for his
own agenda driven purposes. What they are doing is systematically
building a wall of precedents, brick by brick, so that the
proposition that corporations can completely overrun the power of the
actual people will be legally unassailable.
And they must be stopped. And the only meaningful way to stop them is
to pass and ratify a constitutional amendment to declare an end to
this nonsense. And the threat of impeachment is an excellent strategy
as well.
