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.
Today we are back for more of page 18 of the Hobby Lobby
ruling where we started. What Alito does next here is justify
personhood for corporations by emphasizing that
"An established body of law specifies the rights and obligations of
the PEOPLE [emphasis in original] (including shareholders, officers
and employees) who are associated with a corporation in one way or
another."
Alito then gives an example of how, "extending Fourth Amendment
protection to corporations protects the privacy interests of
employees and others associated with the company."
Notice what Alito has done here. TWICE he has invoked the interests
of their employees as a wedge to grant corporations full personhood
rights.
But then . . . a mere 2 sentences later . . . he has forgotten all
about the employees and their rights, and now all he is concerned
about is protecting "the religious liberty of the humans who own and
control those companies [Hobby Lobby, etc.]." Now all of a sudden
it's the employees be damned.
Now all that matters is the moral self-righteousness of a handful of
corporate owners, and they can ride roughshod over the religious
freedom of those same employees Alito used to grease corporate
personhood in the first place. Now, a rhetorical legal heartbeat
later, the Supreme Court no longer represents the interests of the
employees. Now they serve the corporate masters only.
This is the mother of all switcheroos. Folks, it does not get any
more intellectually dishonest than this.
But we are still not even close to being done with this. Next time in
part 8, "Job Pay Discrimination Based On Religion."
