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Who's Afraid of 'Rocky Mountain Heist'?
Townhall.com ^ | October 17, 2014 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 10/17/2014 5:28:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

Free at last! I'm silent no more. Now, the story can be told.

Democrats here in my adopted state of Colorado did not want the new political documentary I hosted to see the light of day. They lost. This week, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction declaring that our movie deserved the same free-speech rights as a "traditional" (translation: old-guard liberal) news organization.

"Rocky Mountain Heist," produced by David Bossie's Citizens United and directed by Jason Killian Meath, tells the story of how a wealthy quartet of liberal millionaires and billionaires in Colorado -- known as the "Gang of Four" -- took over the once-red state of Colorado in the course of a decade.

As a conservative journalist in both "old" and "new" media for more than two decades, I've used my First Amendment rights to follow the radical left's money and connect the dots for readers and viewers. The media marketplace has been too long dominated by liberal corporate statists allied with Big Government, cloaked in the pretense of institutional objectivity.

The 10th circuit panel of three judges unanimously rejected speech-stifling arguments that our expose was somehow an "electioneering communication" subject to onerous disclosure requirements -- from which the likes of the Denver Post or Colorado public radio are arbitrarily exempt. It's "government putting its thumb on the scale," Citizens United super-lawyer Ted Olson argued in court -- treacherously elastic and prone to abuse.

A six-year resident of Colorado, you can imagine my amusement, sitting in court last week in Denver, listening to government officials capriciously attack our film (which they hadn't seen) as a "drop-in attack ad" from nefarious, out-of-state interests.

Reality check: The nearly-hour-long film illustrates how the Gang of Four coordinated their campaign targets and spending behind closed doors. We report on how they drafted up elitist plans to "educate the idiots." With commentary from journalists, local and state Republican lawmakers, and even one political science professor (who ironically testified against Citizens United's right to equal media treatment!), "Rocky Mountain Heist" traces how the liberal scions and their "Colorado Democracy Alliance" captured the governor's mansion, the state legislature, and two Senate seats.

As I've reported previously, CODA spawned the national Democracy Alliance. "Over the past nine years," the organization brags to potential contributors, DA has "aligned leaders in the progressive movement and political infrastructure" to "achieve victories at the ballot box and in policy fights." Their agenda spans "social justice," "climate change," "voting rights," gun control, illegal alien amnesty, campaign finance and sustained "strategic investment" to turn red states blue.

Colorado activists in our movie inform voters how Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper pandered to his wealthy patrons and out-of-state special interests. Interviewees enlighten viewers on how Hickenlooper imposed radical laws and regulations restricting economic and personal freedoms on energy businesses, gun owners and entrepreneurs. The deep-pocketed progressive donors funneled gobs of undisclosed money to astroturf groups and a network of liberal non-profits -- all while screaming about the need for "transparency" and the "people's right to know." "Rocky Mountain Heist" shows how the "Colorado model" is migrating to Texas and Virginia, and highlights how liberty-loving Coloradans have been fighting back.

Our documentary, as Ted Olson argued, expresses core "political speech that is at the heart of the First Amendment's protected activity." Here's what's so rich: So-called "progressive" champions of transparency (with names like "Colorado Ethics Watch") intervened to try and stop Citizens United and me from educating my fellow Coloradans -- and the rest of the country -- just weeks before a critical midterm election.

What are the opponents of "Rocky Mountain Heist" so afraid of? An informed citizenry, an independent media, and conservatives willing to go to the mat for their constitutional rights.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: citizenunited; colorado; gangoffour; texas
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To: rrrod

As a National Review author stated, the Democratic Party is a vast criminal conspiracy masquerading as a political party.


21 posted on 10/17/2014 7:26:30 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connaît les siens")
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To: Carry_Okie
This is what you do to a song like this to get the movie to stick: They've have pulled this little gambit for 27 years, building homes is a game they've played before.
Left California behind them, to turn a buck again, you might say they bought a key for every door.
When they first came to the mountains, they saw massive real estate, and ranches that they'd buy for a song.
They just strain the truth till broken and they don't really care, for the wolves are fast, and it don't take them long.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
The shadows of the ranchers as they watch their life slowly die.
Rocky Mountain Buy-ing Colorado. Rocky Mountain Buy.

He was born up in the mountains, and saw yuppie crowds below, taking everything as far as they could see.
And they say that he got crazy once when they tried to take his land, and force him into a conservancy.
Now he walks in quiet solitude, knowing he is not alone, bureaucrats watch every step he takes.
To fine him till he's off his land and just taking more and more, more profits for the crooks in real estate.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain Buy, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
Learn why God won't listen to your casual reply.
Rocky Mountain Buy-ing Colorado. Rocky Mountain Buy.

Now his life is full of wonder, in his heart still grows the fear, of a simple thing he can not comprehend.
Why they try to burn the mountains down to pull in a couple more, more people, who once cared for the land.
They're still talking preservation, while the forests slowly die, overstocked with trees that they they won't let him thin,
They're still building new apartments, and they'll just cram him in there too, with the help of politicians.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain Buy, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
Soon he'll be a poor man, an apartment he will buy,
Rocky Mountain Buy, the Colorado Rocky Mountain Buy, I've seen it raining fire in the sky.
Toke that marijuana, keep everybody's high
Rocky Mountain Buy-ing Colorado. Rocky Mountain Buy.
Rocky Mountain Buy-ing Colorado. Rocky Mountain Buy.


22 posted on 10/17/2014 7:54:46 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (the environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Correct, there are only evil Democrats and stupid ones. The evil ones rely on the stupid ones to stay in power.


Exactly right. The leaders are pure evil and they use the stupid ones, the Useful Idiots/sheep.


23 posted on 10/17/2014 8:03:36 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Nice job


24 posted on 10/17/2014 10:10:11 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: MileHi
Thank you. Sustainable Development is a racket, a way to buy cheap and sell dear, a way to imprison the people and put a gun to their heads, all in the name of protecting "Nature" ignorant of how the land will die without care, just as it has done before over and over for thousands of years.

Our only recourse and potential salvation is to get people back on the land. It is what the Sabbath year was to be all about.

I hope that is sufficiently cryptic. :-)

25 posted on 10/17/2014 10:19:09 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (the environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics)
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To: Carry_Okie

Fantastic.


26 posted on 10/17/2014 10:31:47 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.r)
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To: MileHi; namvolunteer
I just dashed that off in a few minutes, so it probably could use a few tweaks, depending upon the artist's rendition.

BTW, you have my permission to send that to the producers or activists of your choice (with attribution of course). I've been on to this Sustained Develop-Mint real estate racket for fifteen years. More importantly, I know what to do about it legally, socially, and technically.

Anyway, you know where to find me.

27 posted on 10/17/2014 10:57:34 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by politics)
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To: Kaslin

It would be nice if there were a transcript of the video.


28 posted on 10/17/2014 3:07:49 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Carry_Okie
Sustainable Development is a racket...

Yes, it certainly is.

29 posted on 10/17/2014 3:35:00 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Harry Truman was leftist garbage. Dewey ‘48!!

Want a democrat President that wasn’t horrible, you gotta go back to Cleveland, and before him, maybe Polk. They’ve been pushing up daisys for a loooooooooong while, as has Jefferson.


30 posted on 10/17/2014 4:04:41 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: Kaslin

So who exactly is this “gang of four”?


31 posted on 10/17/2014 4:30:00 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Lice, rice, dice, mice, spice, Feist (a breed of dog), twice, nice etc. Now get to work on a lyric.


32 posted on 10/18/2014 6:27:56 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I don’t know your age but a “D” student of my generation finished high school with far more education than the average college graduate today. When they have a bachelor in history and cannot name the only president of the CSA they are not qualified to ENTER high school as it existed in my youth. By the way, I AM NOT exaggerating.


33 posted on 10/18/2014 6:32:04 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: Rummyfan

“They cannot win in a free forum of ideas.”
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The left will win in a free forum of ideas when a pissant eats an elephant for breakfast.


34 posted on 10/18/2014 6:35:17 AM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Zeitgeist ?

.


35 posted on 10/18/2014 6:38:02 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Trteamer
So who exactly is this “gang of four”?

Some very wealthy leftists: Tim Gill, Rutt Bridges, Jared Polis and Pat Stryker.

36 posted on 10/21/2014 6:23:37 PM PDT by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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