[CitizensTruth] Zeitgeist Addendum: New Film - very dangerous (!)

[Ragen Gillam]

This was forwarded to me recently, and I thought I would pass it on.  I had
my doubts about the original Zeitgeist movie, and haven't seen the sequel,
but Mr. Griffin's intelligent analysis makes it certain in my mind that the
movie is nothing but clever disinformation.  

 

Ragen

 

 Friends...

 

 Wow! I finally DID watch the original Zeitgeist film in its entirety a
month or so ago. I'm a big fan of the clip from that film that's on

youtube: "North American Union/RFID chip truth". I liked the film, tho I
wasn't sure what to make of the 1st part on Christianity. So I took it w/ a
grain, thought I'd figure it out in time, & meanwhile be open to it as "food
4 thought".

 Then I saw the "Zeitgeist Addendum" posted on a friend's page, & I watched
maybe the 1st 15 mins of it. It seemed good in the beginning, as it states
that the Federal Reserve is a harmful entity. I figured that the rest would
go into all that only more thoroughly, & I started to recommend watching it
to ppl. Then on the excellent, informative & empowering Alex Jones show (
listen at infowars.com), Jones was analyzing parts of this film & contesting
it. He said that alot of the info in it was false & dangerous. He played
parts of the narrative on the air, & then he gave answers as to why these
statements in the film are wrong. He also said that he's not saying the film
maker is necessarily bad, but IS clearly misinformed. Alex was hoping to
have the film maker on his show soon to discuss these Issues. But apparently
no one really knows who the film maker is? Seems he works in the media tho &
has access to great production tools etc. WOW! No wonder I

  shrugged off watching the original Zeitgeist 4 so long! 

 

 Here is G Edward Griffin's response to the film. He agrees w/ Alex Jones'

view of it. As always, while reading anything by Mr Griffin, it is clear how
well he knows his subject. Again I recommend visiting his site (
freedomforceinternational.org), & watching the video there, "An Idea Whose
Time Has Come", reading the Creed of Freedom, etc, & JOINING FREEDOM FORCE. 

 Here is what he has to say about this new sequel to Zeitgeist. Please take
a look! There is always much to be learned by reading anything by Mr Griffin
as he sites very good points & concepts. Right now, the information he
shares on the world situation is stuff we can no longer ignore.

 

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 ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM - A CRITICAL REVIEW

 ) 2008 by G. Edward Griffin 2008 OCTOBER 9

 

 Hello Mr. Griffin. I'm sure you have heard of the popular movie on the
internet, Zeitgeist. It had three separate parts about Christianity being
fake, the Federal Reserve being a conspiracy and bad, and that the
government was involved in 9/11. Well the sequel just came out, Zeitgeist
Addendum, and it seems very dangerous. This movie screams controlled
opposition/false solution propaganda more than anything I have ever seen.

 

 The movie starts off with why the Federal Reserve is bad. It seems to latch
onto valid concerns that the freedom movement/Ron Paul supporters have been
worried about. But its solution is really, really bad and is already sending
a lot of people in the wrong direction. It goes on to say that money is evil
and has caused every problem in the world. If only we abolished all money
and private property everything would be great. All resources should
collectively belong to all humans of the world.

Intelligent management of resources and technology could allow everyone to
be free. The world would turn into some utopia. All crime would go away and
greed and corruption would go away. We should be a one world community. It
even specifically says that voting for liberty candidates like Ron Paul is
the wrong thing to do. I guess we should give up all hope and let bad
politicians do whatever they want to us.

 

 It is full of doublespeak, wild assumptions, and crazy socialist
propaganda. It also put in more about how religion is bad. I am convinced
this thing was specifically made to stop the liberty movement from achieving
anything. It puts in just enough truths that we believe in to trick people
into following the wrong path.

 

 I think statements about what is wrong with this film from liberty
organizations like Freedom Force International would do a lot of good and
would prevent some people from going in the wrong direction. Some people
might think the best idea is to just ignore it and it will go away. But it
appears to be incredibly popular online and gaining support. Even the most
popular Ron Paul website posted the video. And the most popular Ron Paul
message board has three threads with hundreds of posts talking about it.

Here is the video link.

 Jonathan, 2008 Oct 6

 

 REPLY FROM EG:

 

 Jonathan, I don't like to criticize anything that is helping to spread the
truth about the Federal Reserve and 9/11 but I must agree with the substance
of what you have said about this video. I watched it two nights ago and was
deeply disturbed by its message. At first, I thought it would be best to
just let it play itself out in expectation that most viewers would cross it
off as whacky. However, the production value is high, the effects and sound
score are compelling, and there is enough truth embedded in the beginning to
capture the attention and possibly the trust of many within the freedom
movement. So here are my comments on a few items of

concern:


> 



> 1. The information about the Federal Reserve is, for the most part, 



> right


on target. However, I practically fell out of my chair when the program
repeated that old, silly argument about the Fed not creating enough money to
cover the cost of interest on debt; and, therefore, the world must forever
be in debt. I knew right there that the writer did not read The Creature
from Jekyll Island or, if he did, he forgot my analysis of this common myth.
For those who are interested in that topic, it is fund on pages 191-192 of
The Creature.


> 



> 2. The next jolt came when the program praised Civil War Greenbacks,


calling them debt-free. Actually, Greenbacks were contrary to the U.S.

Constitution and, although they were not fiat money issued by the banks,
they were fiat money issued by the government. That was better than paying
interest on nothing to bankers, but they still wiped out the purchasing
power of American money through massive inflation. They can not correctly be
called debt-free, either, because they represented debt on the shoulders of
the government, which means, of course, on the shoulders of the taxpayers.
It never ceases to amaze me how people think that the solution to money
created out of nothing by those big, bad bankers is to have money created
out of nothing by those nice, trustworthy politicians. Yet, that is what
this program supports.


> 



> 3. There is a lengthy segment in which the author of I Was an Economic


Hit Man, John Perkins, tells the story of how propagandists in the U.S.

manipulated public opinion to support military action against several Latin
American countries. Then Perkins says that these propagandists scared
Americans by telling them that the leaders of these countries were Marxists
who were aligned with the Soviets. This, of course, is a half truth that is
just as dangerous as a total lie. It is true about the propagandists and
their strategy to scare the public into supporting military intervention in
those countries, but it is false to portray those dictators as great
humanitarians who cared only for the well being of their people. That is
total bunk. They WERE aligned with the Soviet Union and they WERE part of a
Marxist/Leninist strategy to dominate Latin America; a strategy that
continues to this day.


> 


 There was plenty not to like on both sides of that struggle, but

objective historians would never depict the Rhodesians (the CFR crowd in the
U.S.) as bad guys but depict the Soviet puppets as good guys. In his book,
Perkins reveals this same slant. He exposes the foul tactics of
international corporations, the IMF, and World Bank, but he never mentions a
Leftist dictator, such as Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez without praising them.
Perkins is a collectivist aligned with the Left, and that strongly
influences his telling of this story. Yet the producers of the video make no
mention of this bias and give him an inordinate amount of time to present
his slanted view without challenge.

 


> 4. Perhaps the biggest insult to our intelligence is the main theme of


the program. It is that profits are the root of all our problems today.

That being the case, we must change mankind to reject profit and we must
work together on some other basis. It is never quite clear what that basis
is, but, whatever it is, it will be administered and directed by an elite
group, at least in the beginning. I was stunned by the fact that this is
pure Marxism. Mark theorized that people had to be re-educated (in labor
camps, if necessary) to cleanse their minds of the profit motive. He and his
disciples, such as Lenin and Stalin and Khrushchev, said that, eventually,
the character of man would be purged of greed, and then the state would
wither away because it no longer would be needed. Sure! We saw that in the
Soviet Union and China, right? Yet this Marxist nonsense is exactly what is
offered in this video program. It is Communism without using the name.

 

The profit motive is neither good nor bad. It can be applied either way
depending on social and political factors. The desire for profit is merely
the desire to be compensated for our labor, our creativity, our knowledge,
or even for our risk. Without profit, very little would be accomplished in
the world - not even if everyone spent a few years in labor camps to be
re-educated. It is a basic part of man's nature and is the mainspring of
human progress, as Henry Grady Weaver described it in his book by that same
title. Throughout history, whenever man lived in a system that allows him to
be rewarded for his work, there has been great productivity and abundance.
By contrast, where social engineers gained control of the state and
restricted people from receiving the fruits of their labor, productivity
fell, and scarcity was the norm.

 

 The profit motive functions differently in different political systems.

In a free system where government does not intervene in the market place,
the profit motive always will manifest itself as competition, each person or
each company trying to deliver better quality products and services at lower
prices. That was how it used to be in the early days of America, and that is
what led to the greatest outpouring of productivity and abundance the world
has ever seen. However, in a collectivist system where government controls
every conceivable aspect of economic and commercial activity (the system
that now exists in America), the profit motive always manifests itself as a
quest for political influence and laws to favor one group over another. The
net effect is to eliminate competition in the market place.

Under collectivism, success is achieved, not by creating better products and
services for less cost, but by controlling legislators and government
agencies. It is a system of legalized plunder, as Frederic Bastiat called it
in his famous treatise, The Law. Unfortunately, it is the system that
dominates most of the world today.

 Zeitgeist Addendum ignores this reality. At one point the narrator even
says that the greatest evil in the world today is "the free enterprise
system." That's an incredible statement, especially inasmuch as the free
enterprise system has been dead for several decades. It lives in name only.

The whole world now is in the grips of non-competitive monopolies and
cartels that have forged partnerships with governments. All of the evils to
which this program alludes are the result, not of the free enterprise
system, but of the abandonment of free enterprise and the adoption of
collectivism. This program creates a mythological boogeyman and then
advocates more of the very thing that has brought us to the mess we are in
today.

 

The enemy of mankind is not profit. It is a political system of big
government. Yet, this program is supportive of some of the most notable
big-government collectivist on the planet. Marxist/Leninists may be enemies
of collectivists in Washington, DC, but they are collectivists in their own
right. The Communist model is no better than the Nazi model.

 

 There is much more that could be said about other program topics such as
technology supposedly being our salvation, about the a future world in which
no one has to work, and about common ownership of land, oceans, natural
resources, etc. but, for the most part, these merely are sub issues to the
ones already described, so I will spare my readers the pain of further
discourse.

 

 In summary, this program does NOT offer a cure. It offers a mega dose 

 Of the disease itself.

 

 Ed Griffin, 2008 Oct 9

 

 

 

      

 

 

 

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