Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State

I really enjoyed this Docu/movie, from start to finish it kept me captivated and also gave me an insight into the general Public's opinions in the U.S on 911 and it's aftermath...something which most of the outside world don't hear (now the US is beginning to sound like China) I'd say something to do with Rupert Murdoch's ability to control the majority of the world's media...demonstrations all over the states in response to the U.S. truth commissions findings and the alleged cover up of 911...very interesting! albeit a little bombast in his approach Alex Jones does an affective job and presents the public with a lot of Un-answered questions.Why he attacks Michael Moore is baffling and this actually takes away from the film.

Alex Jones is an acquired taste to those who like movies like this, and an easy target for those who don't.

A lot of reviews of this film tend to focus on stereotypes not present within this actual film and base it off 'common consensus' of conspiracy-theorists.

A lot of childish reactions have been made as so called reviews, but I'll attempt to actually review the movie.

While very flamboyant and direct in his approach, Alex Jones focuses on Police officers overstepping boundaries and using the Patriot Act to do so. This includes a large section of Alex talking about the arrests of protesters during the RNC in New York. He is somewhat too confrontational at this point and tries to goat on-duty police officers into overstepping their bounds.

The other main focus is 9/11 and the conspiracy he believes lies behind it. Unlike other documentaries on the subject "Martial Law 9/11" tends not to focus on zoomed up footage or the pentagon but rather quotes news articles about the event that were lost in the confusion of the initial days. While not entirely convincing, he brings up perfectly valid points that are dismissed by association by people that (for some reason or another) decided to watch a documentary they knew they were going to hate. For example that only buildings within the WTC complex were destroyed, including WTC 7, while much closer, more damaged buildings stand to this day.

I've also read a lot of lame-duck responses to his section on fires in other buildings throughout the world and them not falling. Instead of acknowledging this as a fact, the responses have been "if that were true the news would have talked about it case closed story over." This is a dangerous way of thinking and you're unintentionally giving truth to Alex's point about unthinking. If a firefighter or physicist expresses disagreement with official events and nobody decides to report it did he really say it?

The movie has flaws, and Mr. Jones can be a hand-full, but don't bother watching it if you already have made your decision. If you read some immature reviews with bad grammar, name calling and run on sentences and it convinced you not to watch this, I doubt you're an intended demographic.

This film doesn't even profess to offer an objective or impartial account of contemporary events and shouldn't be dismissed out-of-hand for not aspiring to such a chimerical, and practically impossible, goal. Given the overt bias that pervades and plagues the mainstream media, perhaps such self-acknowledged subjectivity is a necessary, if not less deviant, methodological approach.

In terms of tone, rhetoric and visual presentation, this documentary issues a rather paranoid, anxious, but nonetheless credible view of the state of the world in which we and our subsequent offspring will live (or perhaps, be condemned?).

Jones uses well-researched, factually-supported arguments, most of which can be verified using mainstream media archives, to irrefutably prove the use of explosives to bring down the Twin Towers and (the third) Building No.7 on the 11th of September 2001. However, this aspect only represents a portion of the film's running time - the rest is dedicated to perhaps more shocking, obscure, (yet consistently supported and appropriately-cited) discussions on the subversive funding of Adolf Hitler by American Internationalists and their relationship with the Bush family: a family that today hold an increasingly arbitrary grip on power in the world's most powerful nation.

Critics of Jones' work tend to resort to two tactics. The first is 'ad hominem': instead of presenting a logical counter-argument to his well-cited and widely-researched discussion, they attempt to attack the character of the man himself, conveniently bypassing the facts rendered. The second is to ridicule the aesthetic presentation and format of his production: an approach which works toward the same end, and intriguingly avoids confuting the empirical arguments presented in the work.

Very much recommended. For more specialised and detailed documentaries scrutinising the official story of 9/11, see the fantastic (and very much BANNED in the Land of the Free) "Loose Change: 2nd Edition" and an equally authoritative lecture recorded at Wisconsin University, Madison and given by the respected academic Dr. Ray Griffin (author of "The New Pearl Harbour" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions").

First of all, ignore the idiot who wrote the previous review- Alex Jones is relevant and captivating, not to mention quite reliable. The film documents a blatant series of absurd contradictions in the Goverments retelling of 9-11, the brutal treatment of protesters during the RNC, and the state of open martial law which is quickly enveloping America. You'd think this film was directed by a radical left liberal right? INCORRECT! Jones is in fact attempting to construct a NEW political paradigm by showing how deep our government's treason (both in this and the former administrations) truly is. Alex Jones makes some initially completely outrageous claims (ie: 9-11 was an inside job) but he backs everything up with REAL footage, credible sources (ie:BBC,ABC,CBS,CNN not "Bubba's conspiracy journal") and interviews with people such as David Gurgen, NYC police chiefs during the RNC,top engineers, and former Attorney Generals. This film is a must see.

I've noticed that more then half of the reviews on film is a 1/10 even though it has a 7.7/10 on this very website.

If you all thought this film was a total joke you wouldn't taken the time to write all those bad reviews. In my opinion if think you are scared because this film is so strong and make very good points and facts, or you just have a lot of trust in the wrong people.

This is a very good documentary!, and it does have a lot of interesting facts in it, sure some things aren't proved but as long as the Us government doesn't tell the truth(or the whole story) we have more reason to believe Alex Jones then them, i mean at least Alex Jones isn't hiding anything, and at least Alex Jones story makes sense.

And if you prefer Michael Moores movies just because those are more professionaly made, you are totally missing the point of an documentary film, as you see in this film: Mr.Moore wouldn't bring up the "hard facts" about 9/11 in his movie Fahrenheit 911 because they weren't true, but because that would be un-American. Its a shame really because before that i respected that man highly.

And for those who say that if Alex Jones is right about the evil police state, why is he still alive? Well its pretty obvious that the government would look even worse if Alex Jones was killed, Especially since cover-ups aren't these guys strongest field.

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