George Rebane
This week with friends, Jo Ann and I attended showings of the two titled movies about the state of our country and its portents. They are excellent albeit disturbing summaries of the notions and issues that we have been discussing on RR for the last five years. Definitely worth seeing for those whose political outlooks range from conservative to middle roaders. Progressives might be interested to know how well their machinations are both perceived and known. Here’s a short summary of the films.
‘Pale Horse’ (trailer) is loosely based on the 1991 book of the same name by the late naval intelligence analyst and conspiracy theorist Milton William Cooper. Its theme consists of historical re-enactments of patriotic warnings and exhortations to maintain our founding principles (constitutionality), and to remain an independent sovereign nation-state. These are interleaved within a more-or-less coherent progress of statements by recent national leaders from both parties which supports the contention that America is being prepared for entry into a ‘new world order’ of a global community of nations (or regions?). Organizations such Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Tri-lateral Commission, in which many of our national elites are members, are indicted for their mysterious roles in herding us into the coming brave new world.
To accomplish this objective, the film highlights certain preparations that are directed toward making America a compliant and weakened nation militarily, economically, and spiritually. In sum, the case is made that America’s influence in the world must be drastically reduced to proceed to such a world order. The UN’s Agenda21 (q.v.) being implemented through its growing host of worldwide ICLEIs, under the guise of "local governments for sustainability", is the machinery that operates to make it all happen through massive national regulations and non-recourse international accords.
‘Pale Horse’ (available from Amazon) is being shown to conservative audiences by political and issue-activist organizations as special programs to which members are invited to bring friends. The film was shown locally in Grass Valley last Tuesday by CABPRO.
‘2016’ (full name ‘2016, Obama’s America’) is now running on big screens nationwide. We saw it last Thursday at the Roseville UA multiplex. The film is based on the book of the same name by Dinesh D’Souza, best-selling author and national political commentator and college president, who also writes for National Review. It is well produced by Gerald Molen who gave us the Academy Award winner ‘Schindler’s List’.
The movie first takes the viewer through a journalistic odyssey over four continents, meticulously assembling what is known about Barack Obama’s life. In it we follow D’Souza all over the world as he visits the sites of Obama’s past, interviews the people who knew Obama that include his relatives and mentors. D’Souza’s interviews and presentations of known facts proceed in a quiet and reasoned manner – there is no evident hyperbole. The excellent use of graphics helps the viewer through an otherwise difficult tangle of relationships that always surround(ed) Obama.
What emerges is a very coherent narrative of the seemingly purposive journey of a young man who grew into, and was subsequently raised and educated in a total immersion of anti-colonial communist ideology. To be sure, the film did not cover the huge gaps in Obama’s background that are still sealed. And were I to criticize its composition, I would have liked to have seen more emphasis on the camouflaged holes in our President’s past, holes that to date the lamestream has mysteriously overlooked.
It quickly becomes clear to the viewer that even one such relationship of Obama’s, were it to be mirrored in a Republican, would have ended that politician’s public career. Instead, for our President the outrageous anti-American statements and sentiments of his relatives, teachers, colleagues, and mentors have rolled down his back without leaving a mark.
The last quarter of ‘2016’ is an analysis of how the accomplishments of his first term have neatly dovetailed with the anti-colonial globalist belief system that he has brought to the White House. D’Souza completes his analysis by presenting, through Obama’s own words, what our President seeks to accomplish after being re-elected, and what America may look like given the success of such efforts.
Without overstatement, the case is well made that Barack Hussein Obama is a stranger to mainstream American thought and culture. Instead, he is a well-managed and presented fringe ideologue whose good looks and public charm fit into the norm of past charismatic leaders who took their nations down new and untrodden paths. And he definitely comes across as a man who sees the American presidency as a stepping stone to higher office.
My takeaway from both films was one more corroboration of the collectivist wave that is being promoted across the world under programs such as the mentioned UN’s Agenda21. The films' narratives advanced the notion that, to promote their global objectives, the actions of America’s progressive elites are easy to predict in fields such as education, healthcare, business, energy, environment, labor, religion, and government. In each of these the left will automatically back policies that will diminish America, whether it will be to further destroy real educational opportunities, or to reduce/eliminate the rewards of individual initiative and/or entrepreneurship.
As presented, in the striven ideal world, people in the future will belong to classes harmoniously arranged in a government organized structure in which individual liberties are reduced to permitted actions within the narrowest constraints. A structure wherein everyone’s very sustenance and every benefit will be readily recognized to issue only from and through the benevolence of the collective, as projected through the manifold and omnipresent arms of government.
Targeted for this election year, both films take the strong position that the reelection of Barack Hussein Obama for a second term as President would be an existential disaster for America.
[27aug12 update] Thanks to the folks who asked and the theater owners who responded – '2016' will open at our own Del Oro Theater in Grass Valley this Friday, 31 August 2012. Go see it, and take a friend.
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