Aaron Russo died last weekend. You might not know him, but if you’ve seen “The Rose” or “Trading Places” then you know his work. Famous in music, film, television, and theater, Rosso won a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy. In the 70’s, he helped guide the musical careers of performers like Led Zeppelin, Janice Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and The Who.
It would have been easy for someone with his level of success to rest on his laurels, but Mr. Russo was not that kind of guy. There is an ill wind blowing in our nation and throughout our world, and rather than spend the rest of his life dinning on Champaign and caviar, Aaron Russo decided to take a stand.
In the 1990s he produced and starred in a video entitled “Mad As Hell” in which he criticized NAFTA, The War on Drugs, the National Identity Card, and government regulation of alternative medicine.
More recently, he produced "Freedom to Fascism", a documentary covering many subjects including the IRS, the Federal Reserve, national identity cards, Diebold electronic voting machines, globalization, the degeneration of The United States of America into a police state under the guise of anti-terrorism efforts.
Our legal process gives extra weight to deathbed confessions. In his final days, Russo kept to his guns, slamming out world's would-be dictators till the end.
Aaron Russo’s spectacular career gave him exceptional access to the cult of power hungry elitists who run our world. Rather than drink from their fountains of blood, Aaron turned on them and exposed them for what they are; violent, degenerate, inbred, perfidious morons who hold their positions over us not by ability or virtue, but by the fact that they would stoop lower to satiate their greed than most of us could stomach.
If you have yet to see "Freedom to Fascism", I urge you to do so soon for it may soon be too late.
Monday, August 27, 2007
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4 comments:
Powerful.
This sucks.
I didn't know he died. We need him!
My 25 year old son found Freedom to Fascism so important that he bought the DVD. We need to be sure to keep Russo's work alive to educate more people.
Thanks for posting this.
I'm feel sad.
Thanks TaiC.
Indeed Scott.
Hi Carol,
the struggle for freedom is not something that is ever over and done with. It's is imperative that each generation takes the task to heart. To that end people like you and I have a lot of work to do, or as Robert Frost would say "miles to go before we sleep".
Things can seem sad at times like this. But really, it's just a fact that life comes with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
I hope that when our times come, people like your son will pick up with what we have left to do.
The future is a frightening and beautifully brilliant spectacle.
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