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CITIZENS UNITED, THE MOVIE

A NEW FULL LENGTH FEATURE DRAMATIC FILM

Watch The Lastest Video Preview From The Movie

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.

For your interest, here is a link to the full script.

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.

The Last War Crime movie trailer and screeners

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Part 1: Alito In Wonderland
Part 2: The Constitution Gets Wagged By The Law
Part 3: Dictionary Dunces
Part 4: An Exception Becomes Constitutional Doctrine
Part 5: A Priest On The Bench
Part 6: Your Lip Service Is Their Controlling Authority
Part 7: Now They Represent You, Now They Don't
Part 8: Job Pay Discrimination Based On Religion
Part 9: But I Thought At Least Birth Control Was Safely Legal

An Exception Becomes Constitutional Doctrine: The Hobby Lobby Errors, Part 4
Where we last left our wayward Supreme Court opinion writer, Alito was using the Dictionary Act (a law) to justify a de facto constitutional amendment (declaring all corporations to have the rights of real people).

In response we heard from a number of right wing operatives, protesting, "No, no, no, this is just about interpreting one law (the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act or RFRA), not about laying down a broader constitutional doctrine."

Horseradish . . . or maybe it's bull radish.

On page 18 of the decision, Alito clearly embraces with both arms the principle of "protecting the free-exercise (of religion) rights of corporations." Whoa, horsey. Stop it right there.

Corporations have NO such rights. What Alito has done here is argue his case using his preordained conclusion as the sole evidence. Anyone who thinks that Alito will not cite HIMSELF in his next opinion, saying "In Hobby Lobby we found the corporations have this constitutional right, and to be consistent with that we must now also . . . ," is a fool. We already told you the current rogue 5 member majority is contriving a multi-decision chain of precedents here.

What the RFRA in fact does is create an exemption for an "eligible organization" DEFINED as one that "holds itself out as a religious organization," which is to say one with that primary objective. Did everyone just catch that fact that the RFRA goes out of its way to articulate a much more LIMITED definition of "organization" than all business entities of any kind?

As we pointed out last time, Alito's bogus Dictionary Act argument was that anytime "person" is used it must also include all manner of corporations, even to the point of how to read the Constitution. His argument is that all business entities are constitutionally equivalent not only with each other, but with real people as well. But the Dictionary Art expressly LIMITS itself in its first line with the language "unless the context indicates otherwise." (See Part 3 of this series)

So what Alito has done here is blatantly disregard the narrow definition Congress intended for dedicated religious organizations, which Hobby Lobby clearly is not, and rule that the exemption must also now extend more broadly to other business organizations not so narrowly defined, if only their owners claim to have their own personal religious beliefs. Except that either you're a church or else you are not.

To put it another way, even if you assume that Alito's definitional argument had any constitutional validity at all, the definition of "eligible organization" in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act SUPERSEDES the broader definition in the Dictionary Act. He has converted an expressly limited exemption into a wholly unintended constitutional upheaval. Again, Alito cannot even properly read a law as it defines itself, let alone be trusted to unilaterally amend the Constitution by judicial fiat.


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