"For Liberty" illuminates need for better political organization

Last weekend, the movie "For Liberty," received two proper premieres at the Campaign For Liberty Northeast Regional Conference and in Manhattan, sponsored by the New York City Campaign For Liberty. 

Without a doubt filmmakers Chris Rye and Corey Kealiher should be commended for their hard work (1 year in the making) on an inspiring documentary of the grassroots movement that fueled the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign. Sitting in on both premieres I found myself a bit misty-eyed which would then shift to laughter and at times anger. Whatever it was, I felt that charge I had experienced in winter 2007 when money bombs (the $6 million kind) were falling from the sky. The film portrays the grassroots as a true force to be reckoned with.

However, the Campaign For Liberty Michigan State Coordinator, Adam de Angeli, provides important critiques of the film's subject and stresses that the excessive praise of the grassroots may have indirectly placed a stamp of disapproval to the official campaign staff when the film omits any diagnoses of what went wrong and why we weren't able to see the political results we were all hoping for.