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.
Last time we pointed out that Alito erred by conforming the
Constitution to the law, not the other way around as it should and
must be. But it gets worse. It turns out he cannot even properly read
the law.
As Alito's big slam dunk point, he argues that corporations must be
given all the constitutional rights of real people because of the
Dictionary Act. This is the very first law passed by Congress, 1 USC
Section 1. And in pertinent part, here is what it says.
"In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the
context indicates otherwise . . .the words 'person' and 'whoever'
include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships,
societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;"
Leaving aside the question of whether "whoevers" should have the same
constitutional rights as real people, all this says is that in
interpreting a LAW, which would mean the obligations thereunder, that
various business entities, known in the legal jargon as artificial
persons, should also
be so obligated.
What it does NOT say is that for the purpose of interpreting the
CONSTITUTION, that corporations should be the same as real people, or
have any of the RIGHTS enshrined therein. And yet, Alito uses the
Dictionary Act as proof that his plutocratic reading of the
Constitution is correct.
In doing so, Alito makes clear he cannot even properly read the very
first phrase of the very first law passed by Congress, limited by its
own express terms to "determining the meaning of any Act of
Congress."
Would you like to know what else is in the Dictionary Act? Check this
out:
"the words 'insane' and 'insane person' shall include every idiot,
insane person, and person non compos mentis;"
To which we would add, any Supreme Court purported justice who does
not know the difference between a law and a constitutional right
should be included in the definition of "insane person."
