“And now we have a police state forming under the Department of Homeland Security, all “justified” by the “War on Terror” and its spawn, the PATRIOT Act. MOLON LABE, antarget shootind the new movie, MIDNIGHT RIDE, will fill you in on the details as to what the Constitution says about all this, especially the Militia System and Martial Law. Follow the progress via MidnightRide.us.” – J Jaeger
Daily Bell: How are you? Any new projects in the works?
James Jaeger: I’m fine. Been very busy with the release of MOLON LABE and a number of shorter documentaries the past year. MOLON LABE – How the Second Amendment Guarantees America’s Freedom was inspired by Edwin Vieira‘s book, The Sword and Sovereignty and the movie we are working on is tentatively entitled, MIDNIGHT RIDE – When Rogue Politicians Call for Martial Law.
MOLON LABE and MIDNIGHT RIDE are sister films. MOLON LABE explains what the Second Amendment and Militia Clauses are and MIDNIGHT RIDE explains what will happen if WE THE PEOPLE fail to apply them. The new movie is inspired by Dr. Vieira’s new, Amazon-available book, By Tyranny Out of Necessity – The Bastardy of “Martial Law.”
Daily Bell: Can you expand, please? Is funding an issue?
James Jaeger: Funding is always an issue; however, it seems to be getting easier with every production because, as people become familiar with our products, they become more comfortable donating because they know what they will get. All of our films are thus donor-financed and in-house funded from the proceeds of past productions. Due to suppressive and onerous security regulations, we are no longer “equity finance” our films. And we would never dream of using bank loans for anything.
Between the larger feature films, we like to produce smaller public service interstitial programs. This past year we produced and released SPIRIT OF TESLA, THE CHATTERBAND, PORCFEST 2014 and EVOLVEFEST 2014.
SPIRIT OF TESLA was shot at the New Yorker Hotel in January of 2014 for the annual event of the Tesla Science Foundation, the largest Tesla association in the U.S. The New Yorker was the last place Nikola Tesla stayed before his death on 11 January 1943. Check out the film and you may be excited about attending the next Memorial Conference at the New Yorker Hotel on 10 January 2015.
Physicists, electrical engineers, technology experts, educators, authors, UN staff members and politicians from all over the U.S. and the world come to this conference every year, so it’s an incredible learning and networking opportunity. The SPIRIT OF TESLA film and information on the conference are available at TeslaScienceFoundation.org.
Having been a professional musician (electric bass) for many years, I have a fondness for music and live performance. Thus, our production company films bands and concerts regularly. Our last concert was of THE CHATTERBAND, probably the largest dance band in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania area, headed up by Paul Martone.
I might add that Matrix Productions is working with Paul on the development of a feature film that will be a musical. Paul has written all of the music and, in my opinion, it’s every bit as good as the music in GREASE and WEST SIDE STORY. You can see our recent 8-camera shoot of The Chatterband at mecfilms.com/chatterband.
PORCFEST 2014 was shot over the course of seven days of principle photography in Lancaster, New Hampshire where over 2,000 people from almost every state in the nation, and many foreign countries, congregate to discuss the concept and practice of “freedom” every June 21st to June 29th.
This immense annual festival features endless seminars on every subject imaginable, from libertarian and anarcho-capitalist politics, to bee-keeping and survival gardening, to polyamorous relationships. The PORCFEST (short for Porcupine Freedom Festival) is sponsored by the State of New Hampshire and its “Free State Project.” You can see the film and find out more about this event at mecfilms.com/porcfest and you can find out about the PORCFEST at Porcfest.org.
And lastly, we just wrapped production on EVOLVEFEST 2014 which takes place every summer in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. EVOLVEFEST is less cerebral and political than PORCFEST and more yoga and musical. The Luminaries, a well-known rap band, flew out from LA to perform a song dedicated to Nikola Tesla. The song, entitled, “Free Energy,” as well as the festival, can be screened at mecfilms.com/evolvefest.
Daily Bell: Please expand on your Tesla project.
James Jaeger: Good timing that you would ask this question. We just finished another draft of our screenplay, TESLA – The Poet of Electricity. Thanks to input from many researchers and Tesla experts, including Nikola Lonchar, President of the Tesla Science Foundation, many have called this screenplay the best, if not most original, depiction of Tesla’s life ever.
True, it does portray J.P. Morgan and Thomas Edison as the antagonists, but we are hoping this is not an impediment to one of the studio/distributors making the picture. After all, HISTORY2 and other mainstream outlets, have recently run documentaries about Tesla that acknowledge the antagonistic relationship between Tesla, Morgan and Edison. If you want to follow the project or read an excerpt from the screenplay, you can do so at PoetOfElectricity.com.
Daily Bell: How did “Molon Labe” do? You received good feedback, from what we could tell.
James Jaeger: MOLON LABE has been our most successful film so far. Over 100,000 people watched it for free or purchased DVDs in the past year. Unfortunately, it did not go viral like FIAT EMPIRE because the Left is not on board with the militia issue or the right to “keep and bear.” FIAT EMPIRE went viral because both the Left and the Right supported it, if not for opposite reasons.
The Left views the Federal Reserve as a big bad corporation and the Right views the Federal Reserve as big bad government. Since a reasonably accurate definition of the Fed is “a quasi-private, government-sanctioned banking cartel,” it can be characterized as either government or corporate. In short, Dems disdain big corporations and GOPers disdain big government.
Daily Bell: What’s the state of gun control in the US these days – better or worse?
James Jaeger: There are arguably five reasons WE THE PEOPLE have the inalienable right to “keep and bear” weapons: 1) target shooting, 2) hunting for food, 3) self-defense, 4) deterrent against tyranny and 5) our role in state militias per the U.S. Constitution. The NRA seems to specialize in points 1, 2 and 3. Gun Owners of America seems to specialize in 3 and 4 and Oath Keepers seems to specialize in 3, 4 and 5.
Unfortunately, the gun-control lobby seems to specialize in ignoring 1 – 5 even though over 169 million people were murdered by their governments in just the past century. This includes over 61,000,000 murdered by the Soviet State, 35,000,000 murdered by the Communist Chinese State and 21,000,000 murdered by the Nazi State.
And now we have a police state forming under the Department of Homeland Security, all “justified” by the “War on Terror” and its spawn, the PATRIOT Act. MOLON LABE, and the new movie, MIDNIGHT RIDE, will fill you in on the details as to what the Constitution says about all this, especially the Militia System and Martial Law. Follow the progress via MidnightRide.us.
Daily Bell: You interviewed Tea Party individuals for “Molon Labe.” What’s the state of the Tea Party these days?
James Jaeger: We interviewed Walter Reddy, one of the key founders of the Tea Party, for MOLON LABE and we just finished interviewing him again for MIDNIGHT RIDE. I don’t really follow the Tea Party or the Occupy Wall Street movement any longer because both of these movements have been co-opted to a greater or lesser degree by the Republicans and Democrats, respectively.
As we expressed in an earlier film entitled, SPOILER – How a Third Political Party Could Win, such produced in association with the Foundation for the Advancement of Free Market Thinking, we don’t place too much faith in the DemoPublican Party. My feeling now is that the Libertarian Party offers the best hope for America. As a Libertarian since about 1985, I like this party because it blends some of the best aspects of the Dems and the GOP.
I like the Dems’ anti-war and anti-drug war positions and I like the GOP’s anti-tax and pro-free market positions. WE THE PEOPLE can’t have it all, so let’s rally around a reasonable position, study and better apply the principles in the Constitution. Then we’ll bring this nation back to greatness.
Daily Bell: What is the state of the militia movement in the US?
James Jaeger: Dismal, but getting better. Although the militia that assembled at the Bundy Ranch confrontation was not a constitutional militia, it did serve as a demonstration of how effective state militia could be at balancing an overly aggressive federal government. This is part of the balance of powers envisioned by the U.S. Founders. This is also the reason rogue politicians and tyrants hell-bent on attaining absolute power have eroded the Militia of the Several states over the past 100 years – they are too effective.
All Americans need to do is revitalize the state militia system – per the Constitution – and they will be able to remedy all of the other aberrant conditions we are experiencing today. A militia in every state would be able to repeal all legal tender laws, reinstate gold and silver coin as money (per Article I, Section 8 & 10) and eject or jail the Federal Reserve bankers as the opportunistic and predatory criminals that they are.
But in order for these things to happen Americans need to better understand the full import of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The first 13 words – “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State” – are almost always glossed over. We explain what these words mean in MOLON LABE. We also explain what the other three Militia Clauses – Article I, Section 8, Clause 15; Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 and Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 – mean.
One organization that understands the full import of the Second Amendment and the Militia Clauses is Oath Keepers. Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly-serving military, reserves, national guard, veterans, peace officers and fire fighters who promise to fulfill the oath they swore when they took office, such oath being to support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Hopefully, other gun organizations like the NRA and GOA will join with Oath Keepers and realize all five reasons Americans – and citizens in every nation – have the inalienable right to keep and bear arms as part of their local militia.
Daily Bell: You mentioned freedom of the press in your last interview. Better or worse, in your opinion?
James Jaeger: Worse. I have been reading Snowden-books lately and these paint a dismal picture of the surveillance state’s impingement on free-speech rights. Two must-read books are The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald. These books lay out the nature and extent of the documents Edward Snowden released to the worldwide public. And they ARE extensive.
One of the things Greenwald highlighted in his book is the cozy relationship the mainstream media and the government have with each other. The media actually calls up the government and lets them know what they are going to report on before releasing it to the public.
Government lawyers are then given the chance to invalidate and threaten the media reporter in an attempt to chill his free speech. This all happened to Greenwald and the team that released the Snowden materials. This is why they had to go to The Guardian, a non-U.S. publication, rather than the Washington Post with its “muddled, pro-government voice.”
Greenwald chronicles this process of bastardization of the press in great detail in his book. I am going to try to interview Glenn Greenwald for MIDNIGHT RIDE if possible.
Daily Bell: The US seems to be embroiled in even more wars these days – probably as a function of a professional, standing army. Are these serial wars ever going to stop? Is the threat of Islamic terrorism coming to the US a real one?
James Jaeger: The United States became a “national security state” when President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which created the CIA. Six years later the fledgling CIA took down the government of Iran and has been destabilizing the Middle East ever since. To this end it created the Mujahideen, which morphed into al Qaeda and now ISIS. Their belief seems to be that Western Civilization cannot survive without a perpetual state of war.
As John Quincy Adams once said, and we like to think, “America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.” Actually, the U.S. has been built on constant wars, aggression and imperial expansion from 1609 Jamestown to the 2014 Middle East war being waged by Obama and previously by Bush.
War is the American Way and the idea that we live in a democracy is foolhardy. The elite that dominates the financial and military complex has been using ideology and propaganda to trump up and exaggerate foreign threats for centuries. Citizens have but the merest voice and this is due in part to the endless money that floods into politics. The current ISIS “threat” is little more than a continuous chain of undeclared wars, oil profiteering and support for the military-industrial complex.
Look at history, like when the CIA recruited 50,000 Muslims, trained and supplied them with weapons produced by America’s military-industrial complex and then designated them “freedom fighters” against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Today the very same U.S. Government calls them “Taliban terrorists.”
In short, the U.S. military-industrial complex has a vested interest in a permanent state of tension and war. The present and growing “national security state” requires enemies and functions to manufacture them just as it manufactures weapons. In short, the “terrorists” are not in the Middle East, they’re in Washington, DC.
Our new movie, MIDNIGHT RIDE, will discuss the DC terrorists and what to do about them when they call for martial law after their fiat currency system melts down.
Daily Bell: The Pentagon has promised a sustained bombing campaign in the Middle East to smash ISIS. What is ISIS and will a bombing campaign help?
James Jaeger: The bombing campaign will help the military-industrial complex’s stocks on Wall Street and the City of London‘s financial district. It will also help the Intelligence community preserve a demand for their “services.” I am reminded of something Ron Paul said long ago:
If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the “poor”; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GATT, or “fast-track”; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal and limited. – Ron Paul, 1998.
We seem to have replaced the Constitution with one simple policy: When discussions fail, bomb them. That’s the U.S. foreign policy and even the American Way. That’s what the U.S. does best. And now it doesn’t even use humans to do the actual bombing – the humans are too busy drinking beer and popping pharmaceuticals – it uses robots. So folks, let’s face it: Technology is being weaponized to ridiculous, and even cowardly, extents.
WE THE PEOPLE of Earth have allowed a relatively small group of people to commandeer the world’s technologies and, under the rubric of “national security,” use them to build weapons and wage perpetual war. The basic “justification” for more weapons and war is security, the idea that the world is a dangerous place.
But consider this: Would you agree that negative news is more easily passed than positive news? Possibly because, over the eons of human development, it was always more important that the tribe be informed of any potential threats coming their way than it was to be informed about other matters. So nature has, in essence, designed us all to pass negative news much more readily than positive news.
If you agree with this, further consider this: Since most of the news that the worldwide news organizations pass is the negative news, most of us hardly hear about the positive news out there. Thus, I posit that there is more positive news out there than negative news and the reason there is more positive news is because civilization is still here.
If there were more negative things happening in the world, civilization would no longer be here. So, if positive events exceed, or greatly exceed, negative events, then for every negative story you see in the news – on CNN, FOX or MSNBC, for instance – there must have been two, or even three, positive stories that were NOT reported.
Thus, if FOX tells us that ISIS must be bombed, you can be sure that FOX failed to tell us that scientists have recently discovered an “on-off switch for aging cells” or an “environmentally friendly hydrogen generator” is being created or “a long-lasting, water-based nuclear-energy-powered battery” is on the horizon – all actual positive news stories that you probably didn’t hear about.
So here’s what people probably need to do. Adopt the position that governments do NOT need secrecy and there should be NO “top secret” documents. Only individuals should have secrets, not governments. Governments should not have secrets because if they have secrets then the people they serve cannot keep them under control. If they cannot be kept under control, it does not matter what wars they may have won or lost as a result of the secrets.
This also means central governments should have little or nothing to do with security. All security is really local, as militia systems of the past have demonstrated and the reason the Militia System established by the Founders works. It’s a local system. Where was the multi-trillion dollar, central government on September 11th when our disgruntled oil-partners from Saudi Arabia were flying jets into our buildings? Probably out having a beer. And no matter how many trillions such beer-drinking, pharma-popping politicians waste on national security, their promise is as hollow as the promise of virgins for brainwashed Muslims in the afterlife.
Daily Bell: What happened to the peace in Iraq?
James Jaeger: There never was supposed to BE any peace. Why do you think the Iraq Army was disbanded by the Bush Administration? It generated TOO MUCH peace. Why do you think strongman Saddam Hussein was removed from power? He kept TOO MUCH peace. Why do you think Israel – the Jewish State – was established right in the middle of what’s shaping up to be the Islamic State? The powers-that-be – terrified of TOO MUCH PEACE in the post-World War II era – hatched a “genius” plan.
Seeing how much money could be generated by war-related bank loans and manufacturing, they wanted to assure future business through future wars. So, what better way to keep the global war machine buzzing than to dump 14 million Jews right into a hornet’s nest of 1.4 billion Muslims in the Middle East? And then, as if to prove that they were more brilliant than the human imagination can comprehend, they made the entire WORLD dependent on the OIL that comes from the Middle East hornet’s nest.
So folks, this is where we are on what Carl Sagan called the “pale blue dot.”
Daily Bell: What’s going on in Ukraine? Is the US going to end up in a new Cold War with Russia?
James Jaeger: If the U.S. Empire has any say it will. But consider this: The U.S. has never bombed anyone that could bomb it back. The only countries the U.S. bullies are countries that have no means of bombing us back. Even Germany and Japan were incapable of bombing U.S. cities back during World War II. Since then, the U.S. Empire has bombed endless cities and nations that had no possibility of bombing us back. Places like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Hanoi, Haiphong, Cambodia, Laos, Belgrade, Baghdad, Fallujah and all over Iraq and Afghanistan come easily to mind.
And let’s not forget places where Washington’s clients were given advanced military weapons and tacit permission to bomb, kill and maim people in Indonesia, Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Congo, Angola, Lebanon and Palestine. For a nation of people that is outraged by the bombing and murder of OUR citizens on September 11th, we sure are morally anesthetized when it comes to acknowledging the crimes that OUR actions, votes and taxes have made possible.
Since Russia has the means of bombing us with not only their drone robots but also nuclear weapons, you can be sure the Nazis in DC will think twice about bullying them like they have bullied all manner of smaller nations. And this is, of course, why all the nations that have nukes don’t want any other nations to get nukes. Nukes, for a nation, are no different in principle than a militia in each of the several states. So the same anti local-defense mentality runs like vomit at all levels of central government-think.
But there is a method to all the bombing madness. The strategy is always to stir up a pretext for more “national security” so the government has an excuse to expand forever. And every government does the exact same thing. In essence, they are all partners in the same scam, no matter what their transient “enemy status” is with each other.
The Department of Homeland Security and the NSA want to “justify” their jobs – not get blown up, as they would if the U.S. went up against any nation like Russia. But, as we saw on 9/11, the Pentagon is an easy place to blow up, even if trillions of dollars were supposedly spent defending it. What DID they really spend the money on? Seems they would have spent some of it on more than one camera focused on the wall where the jet supposedly crashed into the building on 9/11.
The U.S. should stop trying to pick a fight with Putin. The Russians are good people and Putin is just trying to keep his job. And how bad could Putin be if he gave a new home to Edward Snowden?
Pat Buchanan has been saying for years (in books that too few Americans have read thanks to the ADL-infested mainstream media) that after the Cold War ended we should have stopped NATO from pointing weapons at the Russians. This, if nothing else, would have been a polite gesture, a gesture that any country that claims to be about freedom and liberty would have done by now. But no, the beer-drinking, porn-watching, pharma-popping Baby Boomers that ooze out of Washington DC were too insensitive to have any common Christian decency. So it seem that the Dems and atheists are right, the United States is definitely NOT a Christian nation.
Daily Bell: Are we entering a new phase in the West of prolonged serial warfare in the Middle East and Africa?
James Jaeger: Yes, but even worse, Western governments are now profiling their own citizens with the aim of making war on their own people, as we see clearly by the activity of DHS in America. The police are being militarized and equipped for combat within our own cities and towns. DHS is hoarding millions of hollow-point bullets for government agencies and departments. Fusion Centers interface local law enforcement with DHS, which also can command a good deal of the U.S. military’s domestic “peace-keeping” operations, as we see with troop training at Ft. Stewart for assignment to NorthCom in Colorado.
Conflict in the forms of culture wars, ethnic hatred, class warfare, religious clashes, dissent and objections to the loss of freedoms fan the flames of DHS’s burning desire to monitor every American via the NSA and the military/police use of drones over our back yards. It’s a never-ending, choreographed system of conflict on which the sharks of the military-industrial complex and the Federal Reserve feed. Continue reading . . . (midway down page on DailyBell)