Documentary

Deconstructing the International Rules-Based Order

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12 Round Productions that appears on credit card statements causes some confusion, but that’s the production company of our film Lies of Omission. Since nearly all of my financial support through Substack goes to keep 12 Round websites alive and allows me to follow issues and work on posts, it has another purpose.

Along with others, I’m working on another documentary, this one will probably not use crowd-sourced funds. I’ve never been comfortable with that method, but it’s one that most small filmmakers encourage, because it demonstrates the support for the film and encourages financial backers.

We used this method in making Lies of Omission and this readership really came through. I appreciate that. Those funds made up roughly 1/3 of the total production costs, we funded the other 2/3rds ourselves from private funds. We’re going to try a different method this time, relying on the contacts made since Lies of Omission came out. Hopefully, we’ll convince larger production companies to provide the financing and let us focus on the quality and content of the film.

The reason we feel compelled (and one must feel compelled to take on the thankless and often humiliating job of producing a film) to make another documentary is because we are at a crucial moment in American history, a pivotal point that has only occurred four other times: the American Revolution, the Civil War, the establishment of the administrative state and World War II. We call these “deflection points” where the nation fundamentally changed. Obama didn’t have to do that, most of what he leaned on had already been built.

This is an opportunity to show the American people the importance of this moment, when there are those in government who understand that everything has to change, not to tinker around the edges or pass impressive sounding bills that do nothing. The United States of America will not survive another four years like the past four years. We have been traveling down the wrong road since the end of World War II and we have to change direction, do a complete 180.

What has to change? We can’t have a politicized justice system. We can’t have blind accounts receiving tax dollars. We can’t have unamerican and hostile NGOs siphoning off billions of dollars to create the illusion that communist policies are popular. Our military needs to focus on the threats and weapons systems that are pertinent to how wars are fought today, not 70 years ago. We must make sure that statistics offered by the government are accurate, not bent to please one political party or another. We need the truth, in all things. We need a transparent government in every way possible other than maybe troop movements.

Most of all, we cannot have the government of the United States operating against the will and interests of the American people. While that might sound like an obvious statement, congress today is proving that the senators and representatives elected by the people have no interest whatsoever in protecting the people from government, but government from the people, even if that bankrupts the whole system and violates national security. That has already happened and we must stop it and the only way to do that is to apply the antiseptic qualities of bright light.

That’s what we intend to do with this new documentary, show first that what happened after WWII was just as important as any other deflection point. We need to expose how it veered away from its purpose of defending the American people and securing their freedoms and created a global monster that destabilized the world, then was turned against the American people to secure the power of the banks, intelligence community and the press all leading to, in effect, a totalitarian state where either federal or state governments controlled every aspect of life. We need to show how the treasury has been looted to destroy the United States. We want it to be inconceivable to work toward any other goal than to deconstruct the International Rules-Based Order and free America of the globalists and the corrupt.

The question is: What can a documentary do? The answer is that today the world is visual. The filmmaking industry is different with “conservative” voices not being totally shut out as they were when we made Lies of Omission. With the right distribution, we can get this film into theaters first, instead of having to go straight to DVD. We have a spot open at the distributors that got Lies of Omission into several streamers including Amazon, Roku, YouTube TV, Tubi and several others. The biggest challenge Lies of Omission had was PR, we just didn’t have the funds to do it right. It was more important to spend money on the film itself. All right, lessons learned.

While this is all in the very early stages, having contracted for some of the things we’ll need to approach funding sources, it will be something that we could only hope for in Lies of Omission, which, by the way, is still pertinent today. The message was important and despite Trump’s first term, those issues have only become more obvious. The purpose of this one is to point out what needs to take place right now and will be filmed assuming a lot more people are awake to the dangers of a massive bureaucracy operating without subjecting themselves to oversight. What will unfold with DOGE and Kash Patel, hopefully, will make the headlines seem in perfect conjunction with this film, only it will show that this is a decades-long battle beyond Trump. Whatever head start Trump can give is welcome, but those bleeding the treasury dry, with a knowledge of how to do it and keep it secret cannot be eradicated in one, two or even three presidential terms. The economics of what they done might make all of it moot, but we would then pivot to the most important topic.

A little about that. One of the most popular documentaries ever filmed was “The Thin Blue Line” and was intended to focus on a judge who had presided over more murder cases than any other, but in reviewing one of those cases, the producers realized that the story depicted in “The Thin Blue Line” was the important story to tell and focused on that instead. It was a smart move.

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