Credits for

GUNS AND WEED: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
A film by Michael W. Dean and Neema Vedadi.

Copyright Michael W. Dean 2011/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

DIRECTED BY MICHAEL W. DEAN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND STAR: NEEMA VEDADI

NARRATION and some story edit advice: Debra Jean Dean

Michael W. Dean: writer, editor, music, songs, producer, camera, actor, additional voiceover, guitar, bass guitar, backup vocals, hype man, audio fluffing and folding, animator, herding cats.

Neema Vedadi: writer, camera, music, songs, rappin', editor, producer, animator, audio fluffing and folding, color correction, herding cats, dog wrangler.

ACTORS:
Neema Vedadi -male anchor/reporter
J-Tizzle - female reporter, Greek chorus, flag walk girl.
Michael W. Dean -Dan Banning, gun guy on phone, driveway statist guy
Mike Mahoney - Crunchy O'Doule
Gene McCarron - rancher fixing fence

INTERVIEWEES and others, in order of first speaking appearance,

CHAPTER 1
Michelle Strandberg, Shane M. Scheid, Cloud 9 and Krystal a.k.a. Kali Kush, J-Tizzle, Neema Vedadi

CHAPTER 2
Susan Callaway (MamaLiberty), The Blurred Vet, Mac R. Frank, Carl P. (in montage only), Lou, Austin Martinson, "Vinnie" Vegas

CHAPTER 3
Sherriff Richard Mack, Elisa Hernandez (with Shannon on lap), Mike Mahoney (as Crunchy O'Doule), Kvyn. Government Self-Defense Class: Dave Dawson, Steve Mankowski, Terrell Troy Hibbert, and Shepard Humphries as Timothy the government life coach.

CHAPTER 4
Jessi Yates (non-speaking, gun in purse). Frank Vedadi (modern minuteman with rifle photo).

CHAPTER 5
Anastasia Ferrell, Eric Underwood

CHAPTER 6
George Earth (voice in presidential election robots skit).

CHAPTER 8
Gene McCarron

CHAPTER 9
Berno, Blurred PickaPulla Guy

CHAPTER 12
Hannah Pflieger

MUSIC credits here.

Ban Banning cartoon image and Kids with TV Frame on smaller video by LCL Hoover

All other original color cartoons: Everett Glenn

Shane Scheid interview camera: Matthew P. Smith

Politician robot video by George Earth
www.georgeearth.com

Frank Kristmann said "Democrats want to melt guns, Republicans want to burn books." (but not the lines before or after that.)

Shane Scheid wrote the narration lines about "taxation cannot happen without coercion" and the one about writing laws until they run out of paper.

Thanks to: Debra Jean Dean, Michelle Strandberg, Austin Martinson, Anna Zhuravleva and all at Karmaceuticals. Also much love and thanks to: MamaLiberty, Free State Wyoming, Free State Project (New Hampshire), Shepard Humphries, Sherriff Richard Mack, Warren Kruse, Boston T. Party, Paul Bonneau, Gerald Gay, Cale Case, and anyone who inspired us, schooled us, or helped us…

…And especially those others who disgusted us enough to make this.

Some non-copyright archive video from Prelinger Archive / Archive.org.

Yukon the dog slowed down as the voice of the bear, and Yukon is also the one-eyed dog in the photo.

Anchor desk background altered from a work purchased from www.AlwaysHD.com

"Angry Peasant" logo designed by and trademark Michael Dean. Drawn by Marshmallowhead Design.

NOTICE: THE OVERALL VIEWPOINT OF THIS WORK IS SOLELY THAT OF THE DIRECTOR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE FILM. EVERYTHING PRESENTED IS OPINION, AND IS NOT MEANT TO DEFAME ANY PERSON OR INSTITUTION. VIEWPOINTS AND OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWEES REFLECT THEIR INDIVIDUAL OPINIONS ONLY, AND DO NOT NECESSARILY INDICATE AN ENDORSEMENT OF OTHER VIEWPOINTS AND OPINIONS EXPRESSED ELSEWHERE IN THE WORK, OR BY THE WORK IN ITS ENTIRETY. ACTORS, MUSICIANS AND ALL OTHER CONTRIBUTORS NOT IDENTIFIED ABOVE SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS EXPRESSING ANY VIEWPOINT AT ALL.

Movie Website and contact: www.GunsAndWeed.com

IMAGES IN THE MOVIE:

Image over Shane of gun goons with pencil-neck bureaucrat from cover of the very excellent book "Government by Emergency" by Dr. Gary North.

Photo of Sherriff Lee Baca by David Markland. Sheriff Mack photo of Mack back in the day from http://sheriffmack.com/

Many of the images in the movie were created by Michael W. Dean, Neema Vedadi or Debra Dean.

Movie is released within copyright with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Non-original images are Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, or GNU Free Documentation License, or are public domain. Some media used from Wikipedia and Flickr within those agreements. They were altered from their original form in a creative and unique way. Here is, in no particular order, a list of those images and their authors:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aster_newyorkcity_lrg.jpg from NASA. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Boston_-_College_Tours_2009_-_Group_3_026.jpg by Hellohowareyoudoing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Sears_Tower.jpg by Daniel Schwen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LAX_LA.jpg by Michael Zara. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SF_From_Marin_Highlands3.jpg by Paul.h. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg by aoc.gov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macro_cannabis_bud.jpg by Ryan Bushby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montana_Map.jpg by nationalatlas.gov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ProhibitionSign2.svg by GravisZro. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buchenwald_Slave_Laborers_Liberation.jpg from U.S. Defence Visual Information Center, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Schumer_official_portrait.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dianne_Feinstein,_official_Senate_photo.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Reid_official_portrait_2009_crop.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Official_portrait_of_Barack_Obama.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker_Nancy_Pelosi.jpg, 2000px-Map_of_USA_with_state_names_2.svg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raid_at_elk_lake.jpg by C.H.J Snider fonds, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Chivalry.jpg by John L. Magee, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:.223_Remington.jpg by Francis Flinch, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:7.62_x_54_R_cartridge.svg by Francis Flinch, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-031-2436-03A,_Russland,_Hinrichtung_von_Partisanen.jpg by Koch, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Stalin.jpg by Margaret Bourke-White, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S62600,_Adolf_Hitler.jpg by Unknown, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Holder_official_portrait.jpg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George-W-Bush.jpeg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fangs_01_rfc1036.jpg by Marco d'Itri, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punishment_sisyph.jpg by Tiziano, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supply-and-demand.svg by Pawe Zdziarski (faxe), Astarot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hop2.jpg by Johnny Shumate, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CoffeeShopMaastricht.JPG by Gaúcho, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_claw_closeup.jpg by Howcheng, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yevgeny_Onegin_by_Repin.jpg by Ilya Yefimovich Repin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flounder_camo_md.jpg by Moondigger, ghetto-of-lublin-poland-police-invasion-persecution-of-jews-nazi-germany-1940-history-pictures-photos-images-001 by anon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hurricane_Katrina_August_28_2005_NASA.jpg by Jeff Schmaltz, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Khmer_Rouge_Victims.JPG by Albeiro Rodas, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg by Dick DeMarsico via LOC, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KatrinaNewOrleansFlooded_edit2.jpg by U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Niemi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Felipe_Calderon_20090130.jpg by Remy Steinegger, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saguaro_Sunset.jpg by Saguaro Pictures, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_US_2009.jpg by Steve Petteway, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteHouseSouthFacade.JPG by UpstateNYer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281825-1905%29_-_Song_of_the_Angels_%281881%29.jpg by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (photo by Phaedriel/Archive 59), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_Randolph_Hearst_cph_3a49373.jpg by J.E. Purdy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reflecting_pool.jpg by Dtcdthingy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weckmann_%28Werkstatt%29_Gefangennahme.jpg by Niklaus Weckmann - photo by Andreas Praefcke, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vermont_fall_foliage_hogback_mountain.JPG by chensiyuan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jazzing_orchestra_1921.png by Robert Runyon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minute_Man_Statue_Lexington_Massachusetts.jpg by Daderot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Juneau_Alaska.jpg by Robert A. Estremo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nagin2June2006.jpg by Jeffery Schwartz, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Grasshopper_-_Amsterdam_-_by_day_-n%C2%B01-.jpg by Gacio, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transaction_at_a_Farmers%27_Market.JPG by TriviaKing,

A few other photos were grabbed off the Interwebs and homesteaded in accordance with Fair Use. All were altered from their original form in a creative and unique way. There are a very few images that we cannot find attribution for. If your work is in in the film, please let us know and we'll be glad to credit you on this website.

SOUND EFFECTS:

Most of the SFX were created by Michael W. Dean. The following Creative Commons files were taken from The Freesound Project. (Authors unknown, the site doesn't allow searching by file name. If your sound is here, please let us know and we'll credit you.)

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