Try To Remember Ron Paul For Aaron Russo

[corbettreport]

http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20070825_in_memoriam_aaron_russo.htm

In Memoriam Aaron Russo
Patriot community mourns loss of "gentle giant"

James Corbett
Corbett Report
25 August, 2007

The patriot community mourns the passing today of Mr. Aaron Russo, one of the leading freedom fighters in the current struggle against the forces of tyranny. Mr. Russo died August 24, 2007 at the age of 64.

Mr. Russo is perhaps best known to the patriot community as the genius behind Freedom to Fascism, one of the premiere documentaries exposing the private nature of the Federal Reserve, the illegality of the income tax and the people's fight against encroaching tyranny. He is also known for bringing Led Zeppelin to America for the first time, managing Bette Middler, producing Eddie Murphy's smash hit Trading Places and even designing the first ladies' bikini underwear.

He will be remembered for his tireless efforts to expose the truth of the top-down control on our present society, including a startling interview conducted earlier this year by Alex Jones in which he discusses his former friendship with Nick Rockefeller, who admitted to Mr. Russo that the ultimate goal of the globalist elite was a microchipped population, and that an "event" was going to trigger a bogus war on terror and invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq—months before 9/11 ever took place.

Truly the world has lost not just a man of peace and champion of freedom today, but a remarkable human being and example of what those of us lucky enough to be born into a free society are truly capable of achieving. The Corbett Report extends its sincere and heartfelt condolences to Mr. Russo's family and friends.

[psychicpollution]

I wonder if Alex's sudden break from the live show is related to Aaron's passing?

If that was the case, I wish they would have had a re broadcast of a show that featured Aaron Russo. I think that would be a good tribute to him.

[St Elmoe]

My heart is darkened this day......

The best way he can be honored is to keep fighting the good fight.

God Bless you Aaron, the work you did late in life will not be in vain!

[Dig]

Although Aaron would surely not approve, it would be diingenuous to cover up how I feel at this moment.

May Auden's words allow me to get past these feelings and back on track to carrying his message to the millions he began to awaken:

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

Yes this poem was recited in a famous movie and captured much of how this shock hit me.  I could not find the words myself and these seemed to be the only ones that fit.  This seems to be some of the only music that fits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic

I promise this mood with not continue more than 24 hours, but to deny it would only make it worse and I feel it is a natural expression of what loss means.  I can also only think about the next 10 generations that will bear the burden of our wins and losses in the here and now.  This war is becoming more real for me every day and losses like this continue to strengthen my resolve in ways I never previously fathomed.

I am sure that Aaron would prefer the following words and they do lie beyond the sadness I currently feel, and they represent more of how my long term feelings about him will be felt:

_______________________________________________

Gone yet not forgotten, Although we are apart, Your spirit lives within me, Forever in my heart.
_______________________________________________

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.
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Don't be sad-

I am in a snowflake,

I am in the rays of sun,

I am in the sparkling of stars
Weep Not For Me
_______________________________________________
Weep not for me though I am gone
Into the gentle night
Grieve if you will, but not for long
Upon my souls sweet flight.

There is no need for tears.
I am at peace, my soul is at rest
There is no pain, I suffer not,
For with your love I was so blessed.

I am in a place of comfort
The fear now is gone.
Put those things out of your thoughts,
In your memory I live on.


Remember not my fight for breath
Remember not the strife
Please do not dwell upon my death
But celebrate my life

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I'm Still Here

Friend, please don't mourn for me
I'm still here, though you don't see.
I'm right by your side each night and day
And within your heart I long to stay.


My body is gone but I'm always near.
I'm everything you feel, see or hear.
My spirit is free, but I'll never depart
As long as you keep me alive in your heart.


I'll never wander out of your sight-
I'm the brightest star on a summer night.
I'll never be beyond your reach-
I'm the warm moist sand when you're at the beach.


I'm the colourful leaves when Autumn's around
And the pure white snow that blankets the ground.
I'm the beautiful flowers of which you're so fond,
The clear cool water in a quiet pond.


I'm the first bright blossom you'll see in the spring,
The first warm raindrop that April will bring.
I'm the first ray of light when the sun starts to shine,
And you'll see that the face in the moon is mine.


When you start thinking there's no one to love you,
You can talk to me through the Lord above you.
I'll whisper my answer through the leaves on the trees,
And you'll feel my presence in the soft summer breeze.


I'm the hot salty tears that flow when you weep
And the beautiful dreams that come while you sleep.
I'm the smile you see on a baby's face.
Just look for me, friend, I'm every place!

Author Unknown

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[XPIOLT]

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I never met the man in my life but when I heard that he passed away today I wept.

Rest in Peace My Friend
               

[Rock]

Very Very Sad,


My heart goes out to the family,


Rock

[thegarkoblog]

once upon a time in a mythical land called America there was a man named Aaron Russo.
America was a free land of free people who did free things freely but with respect for law, honor, truth and God.
But this had been many decades prior to Aaron’s time.
America had become a land of people who were oh so very proud of what it had been, “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, but which were majorly oblivious to the fact that it no longer was. For the people were no longer free people but had been enslaved by greedy bankers so that every aspect of their lives was run by a corrupt elite few and yet the people thought they were still free.
So America was in almost all aspects a mythical land of people who were living as if free while being enslaved. A more tragic story has never been told.

Americans were so blind in their belief that they were still free that they even cheered when their leaders forced other countries to be free like America no matter how many Americans and people of the foreign land had to die and in spite of the fact that the evidence of their enslavement was all around them in terms of financial duress, illegal taxation, drug pushing and mental pseudoscience and labeling of the people and lies, lies and more lies from every media outlet, politician and corporation and yet people still went to ballgames and celebrated their independence and told the whole world how great it was to be American in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Can you dig it?

Well, one day, Aaron Russo decided that this could not be. That people had to wake up. That he was going to wake people up and that this was his mission and that he would expose the greedy bankers and get people to take back their freedom and that people would listen to him and that it was worth whatever price he had to pay in order to wake people up so that they would see that they were no longer free and they would do whatever they had to do in order to take back their freedom.

And Aaron told a truth that had never been told before and he told it in a way that it had never been told before with class, humor, dignity and above all, honesty, and he did this at great expense of his personal finances and his personal health and Aaron died.

But before he died he had lit a fire for freedom within millions of people who were now aware that they had been lied to, that they were not free people and who turned from sheep into patriots willing to fight for their freedom in the span of one viewing of Aaron’s story and you can tell me about all the great men of the Bible and of all ages past and the many people who dot the landscape of history and stood up for freedom and for liberty, the Martin Luther Kings, George Washingtons and Ghandis. But no man has ever stood with so much courage alone in a time of universal deceit and told the truth in such a way that it changed everything just from telling of the story and telling of the truth.
But this is just the beginning of the story.
And the rest is history.
And the rest is up to you and me.
To fight for freedom
and preserve Aaron’s legacy.
GARKO
http://thegarkoblog.info

[AmericasPatriot]

Thats a shame, freedom to facism was a very good movie, and trading places is one of my fav movies, i always watch it when its on tv.

His most important work in life, besides his family, was "Freedom to Fascism".   Now millions of people know about the corrupt IRS and their fraudulent system thanks to Aaron.   

He will be missed but the fight will go on with each one of us carrying the torch of freedom which will be used burn the New World Order to the ground and shine the light of liberty upon the future for all mankind.

Godspeed in the next life Aaron.

[Biggs]

I am afraid that America was never really free, even in the golden age of freedom, prior to 1913 and the creation of the Fed, then the following world wars, well then the Indians were being genocided, 12 million or so of them. So in reality it was not a free land at all.

Prior to that there was slavery, again not much freedom here.

Which is not to say that the US constitution if enforced, would not be a huge boon to freedom, for it surely would.

Having said the above, your post is an excellent read, RIP Aaron Russo

[Phineas]

[Colin]

Thank you Aaron.  Your purpose was served beautifully.  You did a wonderful job.  Come back again if you can...  Peace to you brother.

Colin

[Lord Carpainter]

This is terrible.

Rest In Peace, Aaron Russo.

[Rock]

I will merge this thread later with the thread Aaron lost to cancer.  But for now, I would like you to listen to this song and remember he gave it his best at the end.

Pictures, thoughts will be welcome.





Rock

[Sgt. Spline]

I most whole heartedly endorse this sentiment, and express my gratitude as well. Aaron, even though you have left us, I wanted you to know that I finally convinced (coerced) my wife into watching A:FTF just days before your departure. You did more in 2 hours, than I've been able to do in 2 years.

God Speed dear friend. Though we'd not met, your works shall be welcomed in my home for the duration of my days. I pray that you have found the peace which passes all understanding.

[Xare]

Very sad indeed,

 But I am Glad that he was brave enough in his last years to give us such a wonderful film.

[DM]

RIP.

Thank you for your efforts.

[jbrid1138]

I just saw this // sad news for sure. 

[agentbluescreen]

Thankfully, though he has left our presence and his insight, wit and wisdom will be sorely missed, we have not lost our true friend and fellow patriot, Aaron Russo!

We have been blessed by his body of work and remarkable insights, and hopefully in his passing more people will hear his words, see the truth and rejoin the reawakening of the Remnant of the pacific Republican Liberty movement that so animated our forefathers in their revolutionary quest to bring the loving blessings of true constitutional freedom and good will, on an individual basis to all of their fellow men, of all persuasions, both within and without this greatest example of all nations.

Another great patriot and champion of freedom wrote these words, which I feel exemplifies and illustrates Aaron's insights and the great battle that he joined and undertook on our behalf in his latter days:

"I see in the near future a crisis approach which unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations  have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln

Will we choose Republican Liberty?  Abraham, Martin, John and Aaron did...

[Petro]

I dont believe in heros..but Aaron Russo [is] my hero. Sue me

[Sgt. Spline]

Aaron Russo,

This is the kind of man that I would seek to write a novel about.

Suppose if you will, a man that had long established himself as a hollywood insider... who forsakes it all in order to bring the truth to the public.Now that's good movie making.

[jbrid1138]

Do it, write it, I'll read it -- we can all go see it.

[huckleberryhound]

It was Freedom To Fascism that first woke me up to the NWO and 911.  Aaron was a true patriot!

[floppinthenutz]

r.i.p. mr. aaron russo

[David Rothscum]

Such a hero, the video where he exposed Nick Rockefeller was great, I'll never forget him.

[Salem]

RIP

[Ron in Los Angeles]

Opened my mind.....even in the mainstream his work was awesome.  Trading places was as much a morality tale as a popular comedy! The man was great, he will be missed!

[ApplesauceNinja]

God bless Aaron Russo and his family.  God blessed us with this great patriot.  This bright, funny, inspiring man and
stalwart defender of liberty will be missed.  Aaron, brother, I mourn you.  But, I look forward to meeting you one
glorious day.  Rest peacefully, brother. 

[Alle]

Aaron Russo left life with a good conscience, he knew that whatever might or might not await him he used his life to do good. You can get how rich you want and have all the stuff in the world, but at that point of life i can imagine the conscience is the only thing that matters, as one caller to, if im not mistaken, The Piper Report on republicbroadcasting said, he talked about the conscience following you all the life and advising you what to do, and thats the only thing you have with you when you die. He interpreted it religiously and stated your conscience remember all your actions so that in the purgatory process all would be adressed. I have nothing against people getting weatlhy as long as they do it in a decent way, but really what matters is you actions that for others in the world.

Again, Russo left life with a good conscience, i want to be able to do the same, make sure you can to.

[1776blues]

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I never met the man in my life but when I heard that he passed away today I wept.

Rest in Peace My Friend
               

Great tribute to a great man. Thanks for the pic, it says a lot!

[flintlock]

Aaron......My wife and I will miss your sweetness very much...you have inspired us all to wake up and fight the fight for truth and justice......to you and yours we send you many blessings.....RIP sweet angle of man

[echoes]

god bless you aaron russo, you great patriot.  you are one of heroes, and i don't have many.

[yuri22]

This is a copy of something I found on www.makethestand.com 

Transcribed from video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msfxiodoMQQ

PART 1

I decided to make this movie, America--Freedom to Fascism, and explain to people how America’s changing and who’s behind the change, and where it’s coming from.  And why we as a people have to oppose it and stop it, otherwise we’ll be nothing but serfs and slaves to a bunch of elites.  I don’t want to see that happen—I’m not going to live my life that way and carry an I.D. card.  I’m not going to put a chip in me, I don’t think anybody should.  I think people better wake up to what’s really happening in America.  That’s why I made this movie, to alert people to the truth.  I just posted it on Google, so everybody can watch it for free.  They can order it in DVD, I have it on my website [www.freedomtofascism.com ]. 

Interviewer quotes Thomas Jefferson: “I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but with the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform them.”

Exactly, he’s right. People have to be informed, and that’s why I made this movie. They have to understand what their rights are, that they have rights because they’re born. They’re human beings. They have God-given rights as humans. Everybody believes that America is supposed to be a democracy. They put that into our brains every day. We’re fighting for democracy. America’s the greatest democracy that’s ever been. Well the truth be known, America was never supposed to be a democracy. In actuality, democracy is one of the worst forms of government there is. Because in a democracy, 51% of the people control 49%. If you’re part of the 49%, you’re not a free person.

The majority doesn’t rule your life. That’s called "tyranny of the majority". America was founded as a constitutional republic, not as a democracy. The word "democracy" is not written into the constitution one time. It’s not in the Bill of Rights one time. It’s not in the Declaration of Independence one time. The founding fathers, who were brilliant men, hated the idea of a democracy. Hated it, because they said, if 51% control 49%, that’s like two wolves and a hen voting about who they’re going to eat.

In America, you have rights because you were born. You have God-given human rights. In a constitutional republic, 99% of the people can’t take away the rights of 1%. You have your rights because you were born, and it’s not up to the government to give you a privilege. It’s not up to the majority to say you can do this or you can’t do that. As long as you don’t commit violence against other people, as long as you don’t commit fraud or thievery--steal from other people--you can do what you want with your own life. It’s up to you. It’s your life and you make your own choices.

Because we each own our own life. I own me, you own you, and the government doesn’t own any of us. And because we own our lives, that means we own our labor. Our labor is private property to us. Each one of us owns our own labor.

Because we own our labor, if you work for somebody, giving them our labor, we’re giving them something we owned. And if they give you dollars in return, they’re giving you something they owned. It’s an agreed upon exchange between two people. It’s not taxable because there’s no gain, there’s no profit. It’s an exchange. The Supreme Court ruled that the word "income", just the word "income", is defined as a corporate gain, a corporate profit. Not wages, not labor.

Fascism means big corporations, big government working together to stifle and suppress the people. When you pay a tax on your labor, that's fascism because it’s the corporation that is supposed to pay the tax based on their profits, not you based on your labor. You own your labor. They can't tax that.

Of course the government and the corporations work together. They tax you, instead of the corporations. Last year [2005], people paid something like $950 billion out of their labor for taxes, whereas the corporations only paid $200 billion. That’s obscene, the whole thing’s a joke, it’s wrong. But it’s part of the fascism of what’s happening to America.

They take advantage of the people’s lack of knowledge, lack of understanding. But when I tell that to people, they say to me, "But Aaron, where’s the money going to come from to run the government." And then I have to explain to them that none of the money that you pay in taxes—not one penny of it—goes to run the government, goes to infrastructure of this country or the services you expect from the government. It all goes to pay interest to the banks, and it all goes to waste.

See, people say, "How are you going to have highways, if you don’t have an income tax on your labor?" Well, the tax on gasoline pays for highways, not your income tax. How do you pay for schools? Well, the local property taxes. Your taxes don’t pay for schools—your income tax. Your income tax on your labor goes to pay the bankers, and it goes to pay the waste.

You see, up until 1913, the government could print its own money, and there was no interest on it. Because the government had the legal authority to print the money, and so there’s no interest to pay. But in 1913, the government made a decision, because they were bribed—the people in Congress were bribed—to allow the banks make the money for America, instead of the government. And because the banks are making the money for America, when the government needed money, they had to borrow it from the bankers. And because they were borrowing from the banks, they had to pay them interest. And because they were paying the bankers interest, they decided to put a tax on your labor, to pay the interest to the banks. So your labor went to give the banks more profits.

That was the whole fraud. But it’s actually worse than that, because now that the banks could make the money for America, they control the government. Because they make all the money, they decide who gets what.

The biggest corporation in the world is the Federal Reserve System. They make the money. All the other corporations feed off the nipple of the Federal Reserve System. They’re the ones who make money out of thin air. When you go to the bank—let’s say you want to open up a business, and you want to borrow $50,000 or a million dollars, whatever the number may be, you go to the bank and you fill out these loan forms, and you’re hoping and praying this loan officer will give you the money you want. He approves the loan, and all of a sudden in your bank account, there’s $50,000 or a million dollars. Where’d that money come from?

Most people think it came from other people’s deposits. No--they made it out of thin air. It’s electronic money, digits. They made it out of thin air, and all of a sudden it’s in your bank account. These guys can make the money out of nothing, because the government gives them that permission.

So now these guys make the money out of nothing, but you have to give them your labor and pay them back the principle and the interest for something that cost them nothing to make. You see, it’s not the government doing this, it’s these private banking interests doing this. So you work for years of your sweat, to give them back something that they made in an instant. They control the government in the same way.

These bankers want a world without borders. See, all the banks of the world control their governments. Here’s what you have to understand. Money today is made by central banks. Central banking is one of the major planks of the Communist Manifesto. So is the graduated income tax. So in America, that they say is a capitalist country, two of its major things are right out of the Communist Manifesto. We’re heading to a Communist world government, is what’s happening here.

I want you to understand what the ultimate goal is. And I was friends with one of the Rockefellers—we used to talk about this all of the time. What they’re trying to achieve is a one world government without borders where the bankers control the governments of the world. They want to have everybody in the world chipped, with a microchip. A computer RFID chip, which stands for Radio Frequency Identification. They can track you wherever you go, and all the information about you is in that chip in your hand. And all the money will be on that chip. There will be no more cash. It’s called a "cashless society". All the money will be nothing but those digits that they make. Whenever you buy something, you’re going to put your hand underneath a machine reader.

And what happens is, let’s say you want to protest something that’s going on. All they do is turn off your chip, and you can’t buy food, you can’t pay your mortgage, you can’t do anything. So their goal is to have everybody chipped with this RFID chip, which is happening now by the way, and that’s part of the law the Bush signed, that by May 2008, everybody has to have a national identification card, which is going to come in your driver’s license, which will have a chip on it as well. That’s the next step before they implant everybody. There are signs that they implant people already. We have a clip in the movie where you see Senator Bideman talking to a Supreme Court justice, saying, "You’re going to have to decide whether we can implant people with these chips and track them wherever they go."

So once you understand what the ambition is, the goal of chipping everybody, and the cashless society, you understand that when that actually happens, we’ll all be nothing but slaves. They’ll track us wherever we go, they’ll take whatever money they want out of your chips whenever they want to, and you’ll have nothing to say about your own life. They’ll decide everything for you. You’ll become a robot. They’ll control your labor like they’ll control your life. And I’m saying you’d better wake up and not let that happen.

The only way to stop that, is to have civil disobedience. Do what Martin Luther King did, do what Ghandi did, to do what our founding fathers did, and not allow the individual to be controlled by big institutions.

Interviewer: non-violent non-participation.

Exactly, what government tries to do is to get your cooperation with everything. Once you stop cooperating, they have nothing. I’m not going to accept that card. I hope nobody accepts that card. Everybody listening to this: do not accept a national ID card, even if it’s in your driver’s license. Because that’s the next step before they implant everybody. You must understand that. Do not accept that chip. Stop cooperating with them. Refuse to cooperate—that’s the only way you’re going to win. If everybody joins together to stop cooperation, we’re going to win the game. Because this world is about us, the individuals, not about big institutions telling us how we have to live our lives.

The only way to win the game is to shut down the Federal Reserve System. These people live in a world today where the Federal Reserve System has all this respectability. That’s what the media does, they give them respect. But the truth is, these are the most evil people on the face of the earth. They have to be stopped.

The Federal Reserve System is illegal. It’s unconstitutional, it’s totally illegal. The government has to go back and start making the money, not these private banks. Because as long as the banks make money they can control the government, and they’re going to control us. We’re headed into a fate of slavery. It must be stopped.

I made the movie to make people understand, in detail, how this is happening. How they work the money system, how the income tax works, why there’s no law that requires you to pay tax on your labor, how the Supreme Court has ruled that on many occasions. I have an interview in my movie with the IRS Commissioner, and he’s telling me that the 16th Amendment to the Constitution allows them to tax the labor of the people. And I said, "Well, what about all the Supreme Court decisions that that’s not the case?" You know what he said to me? He said the Supreme Court decisions do not apply to the IRS. He had no answer to the question other than that.

So people must wake up and realize, you own your own labor and you own your life. Live the life you want to live. Be the individual you choose to be. Don’t become a robot and slave to the government and to these bankers. Because that’s what they’re trying to accomplish. You’ve got to wake up. Go to my website, FreedomToFascism.com and see some of the clips from the movie. Go see the movie.

You’d better wake up. Because they’re doing it in such a subtle way, people don’t realize it’s happening to them. They keep America polarized. Whites against Blacks. Jews against Arabs. Red states against blue states. Republicans against Democrats. The truth is, both political parties are disgusting. They’re both controlled by the banks. Neither party cares about the people of this country. The Federal Reserve System controls both parties. It doesn’t matter whether George Bush is in office or Hillary Clinton is in office. The same things going to happen, you’re going to have the same war in Iraq. It has to be stopped.

The fact is, the people of this country if they don’t wake up to what’s really happening here, and not be polarized, that we’re going to be finished. We’ve got to all join together: Whites, Blacks, Spanish, everybody. Join together and stop the banking interests from controlling the country.

The motto of my movie is, "One People, One Movement, Freedom for All". The whole idea of life is to be a free person. To live the life you choose to live. We’re all different, and we should all express our differences in the best way possible. That’s what’s good about life, that we’re all different. That’s the beauty of life. Otherwise we’re nothing but boring robots.

Imagine this—if Hillary Clinton became president of the United States, that would mean that for twenty-five years, we’ve had nothing but Bushes and Clintons being the president of this country. Do you think that’s all we’ve got here? Why do you think that is? It’s a farce, a joke.

[yuri22]

PART 2 of 2

The media doesn’t tell you anything about what’s going on in this country. Folks, do you know you just lost the right to habeus corpus? Maybe you don’t know what habeus corpus is. That means they can have you arrested and put away in jail for life without a trial today, without a lawyer. They can take you off the street and put you away. You have no more rights here.

Interviewer: They can sentence you to death.

They can torture you. They can do what ever they want to you. There’s no more justice in this country.

We’ve lost habeus corpus. Do you see anything about it inn the press? No. All you see in the press since they took away habeus corpus is this guy Mark Foley sending email to some page about being a homosexual. For weeks, that’s all you’ve seen on the press. As if that’s more important than the loss of your rights. That’s all the press talks about, because they divert you from the real issues.

The media in this country is controlled by the Federal Reserve System, by the banks, and they let you know what they want you to know. And they give you tidbits. But the real main issues? They don’t tell you that. They don’t tell you that you have to have an ID card by May 2008. Did you see that in the press anywhere? No!

Did you see them talking about the RFID chip? They only tell you how wonderful it is. Let’s get everybody chipped, and we can identify who everybody is now.

I’m telling you, go watch this movie and wake up to what’s happened to your country, and to the world, and stop it. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198&q=

You can get a DVD and have house parties. Go show it to people. Show it to everybody you know folks. I’m telling you, this is for real. America’s becoming a police slave state and you’d better wake up to the truth of what’s happening in this country.

The problem we have is that young people don’t pay attention to politics. They don’t pay attention to what’s happening to their country, and one day they’re going to lose because of that. They’re going to be trapped. It’s time to start paying attention, because we’re in a crisis in this country. We are in a major crisis. And we need youth in this country working together—Whites and Blacks and Jews and Christians and Spanish, everybody to stop being polarized and join together and join forces, and shut down the Federal Reserve System. If you shut down the Federal Reserve System, you’re going to shut down that illegal tax on your labor. It’s going to go away.

It will help you protect the environment, because corporations won’t get away with their nonsense any more. You see, by shutting down the Federal Reserve System you can bring America back to what it was intended to be, when Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Washington fought for this country. That’s what you want to return this to. You want this country to stand up for the rights of the individual, not for the rights of the institutions.

Interviewer: What about alternative money systems?

You should have sound money, where the government makes the money, and has it backed by something intrinsic like gold or silver. So the money has real value. Right now, the money we use in America, although you can buy things with it, and it’s a medium of exchange, is no more valuable than Monopoly money. It’s no different from Monopoly money, except the government says you have to use it. If the government didn’t tell you you have to use a dollar bill to buy things by law, nobody would use a dollar bill. It’s just a piece of paper. It’s not redeemable for anything. There’s no value in it, it’s just paper.

At one time, for every twenty dollars you had, you could get an ounce of gold. The paper was just a receipt for the money. Money was the gold, and the paper was just the receipt so you could get your gold. It’s more convenient. But now, they’ve taken your receipt and said, "See, that’s the money". And the bankers have taken the gold.

What people have to understand is that money is not a digit, money is not paper. Money is something that has real value. That’s why the bankers don’t want you to have real gold, because they can’t manufacture it out of thin air. It’s only because they can manufacture the money out of thin air that they control everything.

In America between 1800 and 1910, a loaf of bread never changed in price. It was the same thing for a hundred years. A house cost the same thing. There was no inflation. They weren’t making money out of thin air. Now, people can’t save any money for the future, because between interest rates, inflation of the currency, and income taxes—what I call "the three evil i’s"—you can’t save money. You can’t prepare for the future. And the income tax, the inflation and the interest rates, it’s all going to the banks.

Here’s what you have to understand: Let’s say my father, in 1955, which is really not that long ago, bought a house on Long Island, New York for $27,000. Recently that same house sold for about $1.2 million. It’s the same house. People think that house went up in value. What really happened is, the dollar went down in value. It takes more dollars to buy the same object.

They’re just printing it out of thin air. And the more you print of something, the less it becomes worth. That’s why people today can’t afford to retire. They don’t know how much money it takes to retire anymore. People are so scared about the future because there’s no sound money. There’s no standard to go by anymore. There’s no standards. And the reason that is, is because the banks control the money and they want to own you. They keep printing it out of thin air.

So you’d better wake up to what’s really happening. Think of Barry Bonds, the great baseball player. If he went up to bat, to play the game, if he didn’t have a bat in his hand, he couldn’t hit a home run. The bankers couldn’t control us if they didn’t have the Federal Reserve System and a way to make the money. It’s their tool. The same way Barry Bond’s bat is his tool, the Federal Reserve System is the tool of the bankers to own us, to control us. Because they do it through the money system.

And that’s what people have to realize, because people will do anything for that money. Bill Clinton was doing the same thing with the wiretapping when he was in office. Under a program called ECHELON. He was wiretapping everybody’s phones. That’s not what America’s about. Government has no right to tap your phones. You’d better wake up folks. You’d better wake up. We’re heading into slavery. We’re heading into serfdom. And the young people in this country better wake up.

I’m 53 years old now. I’ve had a great life. I’ve been very blessed. This is not about me. This is about the future of the country and the freedom of the individual. This is what our founding fathers fought for. The truth is that you can’t be happy in this world unless you’re free to be who you choose to be, and you’re not going to have that option very much longer. I’m telling you folks, go to Google and watch the movie. Go watch the movie and you’ll get it. Just go watch the movie on Google. I beg you, I urge you. It’s your life.

It takes everybody working together. It takes a synergy. It takes everybody who sees this to put out an email letting other people know where they can watch the movie. And then people know about it. Edmund Burke said it very well, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." That’s all it takes. Do nothing, and they’ll win.

I mean, do you think it’s easy to be free? For a thousand years on this planet, there was no freedom here. We got it in America because of what our founding fathers gave us. They gave us a chance to be free. And we’re blowing it, we’re giving it back, we’re losing it. What happened in America was a very rare occurrence. But we had it for a while. And now we’re losing it, and it’s time to preserve it and get it back, and keep the idea of freedom alive.

The truth is, this battle’s been going on for years. If you look at all of our presidents who were assassinated--McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln and Kennedy--all four of them were against the Federal Reserve System. Do you think that’s a coincidence? I don’t. This has been a battle going on since the time of Jesus. I’m not a religious guy, in terms of organized religion. I am a deep believer in God. But it goes back to the time of Jesus, and who did Jesus get angry against? The banks!

Look, I want to tell you a story. I was friends with one of the Rockefellers, and he came to my house one night, and we were talking. He said to me, "Aaron, what do you think the Women’s Liberation movement was about?" And I said it was about women having a right to make as much money as men, and having a right to work, and be equal to men. And he looked at me, started laughing and said, "Aaron, you know what, you’re an idiot." I said, "Why am I an idiot, what are you talking about?" He said, "Do you want me to tell you what that was about?" And I said, "Yeah, please tell me." "We, the Rockefeller family and our foundation supported women’s lib, and we helped make it happen. And there were two reasons why."

I said, "What were the two reasons?" So the first reason was, "We couldn’t tax half the population before women’s lib." And the second reason was: "Now with women’s lib, we get the kids in the public schools real early. We can indoctrinate them how to think. And we can teach them to think that the State is the parent. To rely upon the state and the government, not on the family. Now with both parents working, the parents can’t take care of the kids anymore, so they look to us. We can indoctrinate them at an early age. That’s what women’s lib was about."

And it just blew my mind. Because it was a hoax, that it was such a noble thing, about human rights, yet what was behind it was really evil. That’s how they think.

It’s like the social security card. When social security first came in, it used to say right on the card itself, "Not to be used for identification." Because people back then never wanted ID cards. They wouldn’t allow it in America. That’s what they did in Nazi Germany. They wouldn’t allow it in America. So the social security number was thought not to be used for identification. It was supposed to be this noble thing, so they would have money when they retire. Does it say that on the social security card anymore? No, of course not. Again, it started that way, but ultimately they take it away. It’s like the frog-in-the-pot theory. You take a frog and you throw it into a pot of boiling water, and it will jump right out. You can take the same frog, and you put it in a pot of warm water, and you slowly turn the heat up, and he sits there until he boils to death.

We’re like the frog. They’re doing it a little bit at a time, so you don’t notice what’s happening. You won’t pay attention to what’s happening. And that’s what it’s about. Social security is the greatest evidence of that. Now, can you go anywhere without giving your social security number? No. It’s your tag. It’s your number.

After 911 did you see the government protecting you by shutting down the borders so the terrorists couldn’t get into the country? No. They tell you you’ve got to have an ID card. What that was about was them telling people we have to control you. And where’s the reason why? We’re fighting terrorists. Let me tell you something, the war on terrorism is the war on your freedom.

Come on, what’s happening here is beyond the pale. They don’t care what the people want. I don’t know if your audience knows about SPP, or if you’ve covered SPP or not. The Security and Prosperity Partnership of America. They’re trying to incorporate America, Canada and Mexico into one country, by 2010.

Interviewer: I don’t think a lot of Canadians would be happy about that.

They’re not. But the fact is they’re doing it. It doesn’t matter if they’re happy about it. They don’t care about it, because they’re controlled by the banks. And they have a new currency called the Amero they want to bring in. Instead of the dollar you’re going to have the Amero. Just like the Euro.

I don’t want to live in a North American Union. I don’t want to live that way. Do you see the people of America being told about it or even asked about it? No. One person is talking about it, and that’s Lou Dobbs on CNN. He’s talking about it. He’s the only one. You don’t see NBC, ABC, CBS talking about this whole change in the nature of our country. You don’t see a word of it on television. I don’t know what Lou Dobbs’ agenda is, but he’s telling the truth in this particular situation. The fact is that you have agreements made between these three countries and the people of America know nothing about it. Why? Why isn’t the press reporting it?

The answer is—it’s real clear—the bankers don’t want them to. Because they know the people don’t want it, and they’re going to resist it. And they don’t want to meet any resistance.

Wake up, just wake up. Stand up and fight back. Stand up for your rights. Don’t allow them to turn you into slaves.

Just watch the movie. You can watch it for free. Take the hour and a half. There’s a lot of funny stuff in the movie. Go watch the movie and wake up to what’s happening. I promise you, you’re not going to regret it.

People are waking up, and they don’t want it. Do you think people want this war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan? But they’re doing it anyway. They’re doing it in spite of what people want.

Interviewer: Until 2010. The Defense Department announced that troops will be in Iraq until 2010.

They will be there forever. They want it to be part of the one world government. They just built the biggest military base ever in the history of the world in Baghdad now. They spent billions and billions--they’re never going to leave. Wake up to that.

And our children will die for these bankers. Did you see that quote by Henry Kissinger in the movie? Where he said—how did he put it—he said, "Soldiers are basically just mindless idiots to be used for making the New World Order."* And then Robert Reich, who was in the Clinton administration: "The dirty little secret is, America’s domestic policy is now run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America’s foreign policy is run by the International Monetary Fund."

* [ Editor: The correct Kissinger quote is, "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." ]

There’s so much out there if you’ll just take the time to look at it and wake up. I promise you, there’s nothing more important to this country than what we’re talking about right now, right here. This is it. There’s nothing more important in my life. The founding fathers fought for something to give us freedom, and we have to fight to get it back. It’s going away so quickly. I’m just trying to do what’s righteous. I’m trying to do the right thing, nothing more than that.

What people don’t know is the media won’t talk about this. The media knows it and won’t talk about it. That’s the problem we face, and nobody knows what’s going on out there. That’s why the Internet is so important. And to the people listening: let’s spread the word, and let’s organize, and let’s have civil disobedience. Let’s get it back. Let’s stand up for our rights and our freedoms. That’s it.

There’s nothing I won’t do to win this battle. I’ll take the bullet if I have to. That’s OK.

Stand up for it. Take control. Let’s all join together and win this battle, because we can. If we all cooperate they can’t do anything. It’s in our hands.

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The documentary that intrigued Nick Rockefeller:

Aaron Russo: Mad as Hell: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1584595362217609102

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The documentary that intrigued Nick Rockefeller:

Aaron Russo: Mad as Hell: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1584595362217609102

A most excellent documentary, a great find.  Loved the shots of AR when he was younger -- a boxer.  A 'fighter' all his life.