'America: Freedom to Fascism' Makes a Mess of the Mess We Are In
By NATHAN LEE Published: July 28, 2006
There are a number of problems with “America: Freedom to Fascism,” not least of which is a title so meaningless it would make Wittgenstein’s head explode.
Let us agree that “America” is a political and economic entity, and that the movie examines a little-known controversy of its operation; namely, certain ambiguities surrounding the 16th Amendment to the Constitution that have led some to argue — to the point of winning lawsuits against the I.R.S. — that there is no law requiring citizens to pay income tax.
“Freedom” is trickier, meaning one thing to President Bush and quite another to the singer George Michael. For the filmmaker Aaron Russo, freedom in America ceased to exist with the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, at which point money became an abstraction, and a shadowy cartel of bankers initiated their plans for world domination.
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