While checking the Apple Movie Trailers site I came across a trailer for America: Freedom to Fascism. From watching the trailer, it seems to be the most prominent example yet of the tax protestor lunacies about the legality of the US income tax system. Except rather than being promoted through dodgy seminars and mimegraphed leaflets, it’s going to be on cinema screens across a country.
Needless to say, it is all completely unbalanced. Here’s a handy list of the ‘experts’ the trailer shows are in the movie:
- Dr. Edwin Vieira, a ‘constitutional expert’ (who once threatened the life of a US supreme court justice), promoting his idea that the 16th amendment was never ratified. Which is not true.
- G. Edward Griffin, from ‘Freedom Force International’, who promotes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as being true. Which is despicable, anti-semitic rubbish.
- Congressman Ron Paul, a Libertarian representative from Texas. Probably wishes he hadn’t agreed to be in this film.
- Katherine Albrecht, an RFID-chip scare-monger.
- Peter Gibbons, a tax attorney who I’ve been unable to find anything substantial on the Internet. Which is probably not a good sign for his authority.
- Joe Banister, described as a ‘former IRS agent’. A former IRS agent who sells a range of tax protestor books and videos.
- Sherry Jackson, another ex-IRS agent. Nothing new here, just another tax protestor.
- James Bovard, another one with a
This gaggle of tax protestors seems to have nothing new to say. Just the same old rubbish about flags with tassels, the 16th amendment, and so on. Surely there were better ways to waste money than to make a documentary about them.