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- 2006
- Cinema Libre Studio
- 1 h 35 m
- 2006
- Cinema Libre Studio
- 1 h 35 m
Summary Aaron Russo's fiery diatribe against the direction America is heading.
- 2006
- Cinema Libre Studio
- 1 h 35 m
- 2006
- Cinema Libre Studio
- 1 h 35 m
America: Freedom to Fascism
43
7.3
Summary Aaron Russo's fiery diatribe against the direction America is heading.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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45% Mixed
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5 Reviews
27% Negative
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3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
43
27% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
27% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Mostly it's about taxes -- namely, the argument that the Federal Income Tax, enacted in 1913, is unconstitutional and has been ruled as such by the Supreme Court, and that no law exists today requiring Americans to pay it.
Provocative but also infuriating, this alarmist documentary argues that the levying of a federal income tax in 1913 was unconstitutional and set America on the road to fascism.
The strong case built in pic's first half is weakened by the vaguely argued contention in the second that the land of the free is becoming anything but. Attack focuses on the Federal Reserve, the Patriot Act, the abolition of the gold standard, and not-yet-ratified plans to introduce identity chips on currency and in citizens in the future.
The film raises more questions than it could possibly hope to answer fully, devolving from an intriguing look at an enticingly obscure issue into a more broadly based mess.
From the tax debate, the documentary suddenly gets scattershot, going after the Patriot Act, laws against vitamin sales, election fraud, and Hurricane Katrina response (apparently a plot to grab people's guns), building to the standard New World Order line, which discredits any valid points Russo may have.
Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism can't even think straight, it's so mad.
Gives the Michael Moore muckraking-underdog treatment to the kind of delirious conspiracy theories generally associated with mentally ill homeless people screaming at passersby to stop stealing their brainwaves.
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Production Company
Aaron Russo Productions
Release Date Jul 28, 2006
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Website
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/