A Movie for Our Times!

A movie for our times … and not one Kansas Podunk has watched it.

Old Timers and Young Folks should enjoy this re – dux edition of a Frank Capra classic (many of his WWII scenes are included) the movie was considered, in its prime, a propaganda piece against the Axis Powers. Another version appeared last year from independent filmmakers, and it is earth shattering, resounding among us like an earthquake.

Portions of the film were made at the Abilene, Ks. Eisenhower Presidential Library.

This movie pierces the heart of the conservative political machines running Kansas today.

This movie should be viewed by every card – carrying Republican in Kansas who is looking for a way out of this nightmare we have created for the world’s people.

This movie is for grandpa and grandma and Cousin Jill out along the river.

This movie will help all viewers understand when and where America recklessly swerved down a dangerous path.

This movie will help us, all, to find a way to survive.

THE MOVIE
Portrayed in this revision of Capra’s classic is the logical ruin ahead for those that refuse to resist.

Emminent scholar, Chalmers Johnson is interviewed along with, Gore Vidal, and many others who describe in common sense terms the historic folly of handing the levers of power over to the "military industrial complex" creating a vast imperialist empire of 725 - plus military bases in over 100 countries on the planet.

A tragedy of massive human proportion that will result in the needless deaths of billions of people throughout the world.

Scoff at the numbers, scoff at the writer, but the fight for the world’s energy reserves has begun in earnest, and unless we act in resistance, as citizens, against our political rulers – our whole world is at stake.

Unless we act in resistance, unless we struggle, unless we learn; from every act of resistance worldwide, we are condemned to repeat the same.

“Billions of our brethren are at stake,” a visitor to my farmhouse once said.

We must learn to live together to learn how to live.

The greedy hollow headed idiocy that rapes this planet is criminal.

We must all learn to be stewards to this earth, and we must all learn to prosecute, hunt down and imprison those that hasten environmental ruin on our planet.

The time is now, lend what aid you can to those who have decided to act in resistance.

As President Bush chooses Kansas to launch his campaign to convince all Americans that indiscriminate electronic spying on American citizens without judicial review is necessary, I grieve for my family and the many readers of this journal.

All of our country’s leaders, Democratic and Republican, have betrayed us, and our ancestors (Witness below fellow Kansan ‘Ike’ Eisenhower, his right hand in weakened health, lucid, barely clinging to power; rather than let the Mad – Boy Nixon take over his official duties, spelling out in his “farewell address” the nightmare we live so clearly in today).

Great leaders have come from the commons of Kansas and the midwest; you should, consider playing the trailer on this web site:

Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki

Here is a web site to a movie that cries out for review in Kansas by Kansans.

It opened last year on the coasts, and other than the Sundance Film Festival award, did not come to Kansas.

Don’t throw your hands up into the air and say you can’t do anything about our country.

Listen to some of Eisenhower’s family members describe just how far the priorities of the nation have shifted away from a small government, viable military defenses and toward an imperialist war machine fueled by the Iron Triangle.

Click the link above, and watch the trailer, explore the web site.