Liberty Bound

Liberty Bound grew out of a desire to do something productive with my growing disillusionment with the United States Government and its aggressively intimidating foreign policy. Protesting and letter-writing and email-sending and local politics had become undeniably ineffective. The media, local or otherwise, failed to cover any of it. The White House & Congress ignored it. I saw what Michael Moore did with his films and realized film can touch the public’s mind. The same people who religiously watch the evening news and consider it an accurate report of current events devoid of any PR or propaganda go to see movies. People who are out on the streets in protest and exercising their rights en masse go to see movies. America is a movie-going nation. Even those who don’t read or do, watch movies.

Through Liberty Bound I attempt to uncover as much information from behind the media curtain as possible. What you find in Liberty Bound was reported in the media, just not the corporate-owned mainstream media. To find more accurate stories, citizens must look to sources without business-paid or government-controlled agendas: the media of the people, by the people, for the people. Corporations hold a short leash on many local media outlets as well as network and cable stations.

Liberty Bound attempts to expose unreported civil liberty violations in the United States. It contains the stories of people interrogated by the Secret Service for doing such benign things as sending an email or facing the “wrong” direction during a Bush speech. It shows how a police interrogation can result from a philosophical discussion in post- 9/11 America.

Liberty Bound asks unanswered questions about the horrible day of September 11, 2001. I track the timeline of that historic day though a series of unprecedented events and talk with a man who formerly worked at the World Trade Center. I, along with the rest of America, want to know what happened that day.

Liberty Bound examines the reasons for going to war with Iraq and shows how each reason given by the Bush Administration was either bogus or exaggerated for desired ends, which have since come out even in mainstream media sources over the past few months.

From the unanswered questions and unprecedented events of 9/11 to the unjust, illegal war & occupation of Iraq, our government has been lying to us. They lied to us about foreknowledge; they lied to us about weapons; they lied to us about danger. Liberty Bound sets out to expose those lies and to get the US & World population thinking about our so-called “benevolent Empire.”

Something to think about: This is a government of, by, and for the people. It is essential that the people know what’s actually happening. American citizens have been silenced by fear. The greatest cure for fear is education. Liberty Bound encourages its audience to seek out alternative & foreign news, to ask questions, and to act your conscience. The people of the United States will only be crippled by fear if they let themselves be. Increasingly, fewer and fewer Americans are informed of current events and history. More and more Americans throw up their hands and say “what can I do about it.”

Liberty Bound is what I did about it.