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| | Issue #19.24 :: 01/09/2008 - 01/15/2008 | Land of the free?
Augusta State student and Le Chat Noir team up to present a new film series that raises questions about Americans’ access to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
| BY STACEY HUDSON
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AUGUSTA, GA - Mike Kashani believes that 9/11 might have been an inside job. Al Gore fooled the Nobel committee. And the Internal Revenue Service should be abolished.
But don’t call him a conspiracy theorist. He prefers the term “truth seeker.”
“We’re obviously being lied to every day by the government and the mainstream media,” Kashani said. “They’ve obviously abandoned their post as watchdogs for freedom, if you ask me.”
And he’s not alone in his beliefs. The rise of new media means easier access to broadcasting capabilities, allowing a new generation of documentarians and filmmakers to produce and distribute their messages across the world. Kashani, a communications student at Augusta State University, has banded together with friends and fellow believers to make four of these films available for free at Le Chat Noir.
“The films that we’re showing, they’re all part of the truth movement,” he said.
And they can cast doubt on accepted ideas — take the Federal Reserve, examined in the first film of the series, “America: From Freedom to Fascism.” It’s not part of the structure of U.S. government; it’s a private bank. But it controls the nation’s economic integrity.
“[The film] kind of connects the dots between money creation and inflation,” Kashani said. “It’s important for everybody to understand who’s benefiting from the policy that we’re seeing.”
“Loose Change: Final Cut” argues that the 9/11 devastation may not have been a terrorist attack, but a coordinated effort between international agencies — or perhaps even an inside job.
“I really was never very political until after 9/11 and when I first started looking at this information… It really just pissed me off,” Kashani said. “There’s no way some superman in a cave hooked up to a dialysis machine can make this happen… with 19 thugs from Saudi Arabia.”
The series delves deep into issues that may not even concern the average American, but it also raises questions about the influence private interests have on government policy. The film “Global Warming or Global Governance” questions the science and proposed public policy behind Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the movie “End Game” examines the secret society known as the Bildeburg Group. It includes wealthy political families like the Bushes, the Cheneys and the Rockefellers, along with the executives of multinational corporations.
“The implication is that these guys are influencing global events,” Kashani said.
Kashani said that his group is presenting the films so that Augustans have access to the information they present. He doesn’t expect people to accept that information without question. That would be contrary to the spirit of the series.
But if citizens don’t demand answers to their questions, Kashani said, “It really just freaks me out to think about it, and where it’s headed from here.”
Truth Movie Series
“Loose Change: Final Cut,” Thursday, Jan. 10
“Global Warming or Global Governance,” Tuesday, Jan. 15
“End Game,” Thursday, Jan. 17
Le Chat Noir
7 p.m.
Free
lcnaugusta.com
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