The Believer

And it came to pass after these things

that God tested Abraham,

and said to him, "Abraham."

And Abraham said, "Here I am."

And God said, "Now take your son--

your only son whom you love, Isaac,

and go unto the land of Moriah

and offer him there as a sacrifice

on a mountain that I will show you."

So...

everyone, what's really going on here?

It was a test of Abraham's faith,

of his devotion to God.

Danny, as usual, you have something to add?

It's not about Abraham's faith.

It's about God's power.

God says, "You know how powerful I am?"

I can make you do anything I want,

no matter how stupid--

even kill your own son,

because I'm everything and you're nothing."

- Hey, Yeshiva-bukah. - What?

Get up!

Get the fuck up!

What the fuck do you think this is?!

Do you think this is a fucking test?!

You think God's going to provide a fucking ram

instead of you? No!

Do me a favor...

why don't you fucking hit me, okay?

Hit me.

Hit me!

Hit me, hit me, hit me. Fucking hit me.

Hit me, please!

You fucking kike!

It will no longer be possible to say that the country

has a unified set of core beliefs.

At that point we will cease to be a nation

in the traditional sense, and will become instead

a confederation of specific interest groups

like medieval principalities.

And at the same time, we will flow into the anonymous

undistinguished sea of the global market.

The economic advantages of this arrangement are obvious...

Where I grew up in South Boston,

when a kid would walk down the street,

everybody knew his name.

He runs out in front of a car, some old mick'll say,

"Jimmy Dunn, you get back on that sidewalk and you stay there."

Then he graduates high school,

he goes and sees his uncle down at the gasworks

or a priest's brother at the shipyards.

He gets his apprentice papers.

Eight years later he's making $16.50 an hour,

he's got four kids, he's playing ball and going--

Hey everybody.

Today, that kid walks down the street,

it's filled with trash,

half the faces are black,

shipyard's closed.

Only jobs left at the gasworks are set-asides,

and by the time he drops out of high school,

he'd rather get a job at the Burger King.

So he drinks, does crack, whatever.

When he hangs himself on his front porch at 23,

the only people that'll mourn him are a few of his buddies...

and his mom.

The soul of this country

is being destroyed.

And the only thing the present government can offer us

is free trade, mutual funds, and IPOs.

The average man is crushed less by accumulated wealth

then by lack of leadership, lack of community,

culture...

and the sense of emptiness he cannot fill on his own.

That's why I'm a fascist.

It's the only form of government

that can address our fundamental needs.

What about race?

This isn't the time for that.

I disagree. I think race is central

to everything we're talking about here.

Spiritual life comes from race, from the blood.

Without that, we're no better than the Jews.

What's wrong with the Jews?

Carla.

Look it, the point is the modern world is a Jewish disease.

- All right? - What disease?

Abstraction.

They're obsessed with abstraction.

So what would you propose, then?

Killing Jews.

That would be a catastrophic mistake.

People hate Jews. Do you agree?

They used to. Today, that's not an issue.

No. No, no. Deep down,

beneath all the tolerance that they learn on television,

nothing's changed.

The very word makes their skin crawl.

It's not even heat, it's just--

it's like the way you feel when a rat runs across the floor.

You want to step on it. You just want to crush it.

You don't even know why. It's a physical reaction,

and everyone feels it.

Jew.

So which ones would you kill?

Barbara Streisand. Kissinger.

- Dershowitz. - Roseanne!

We don't want celebrity obscuring the issue.

Which is what?

At first, no one will know why the victims are being killed.

You wouldn't announce it?

I'd say nothing, and after about one or two,

people try to find a reason, an answer.

And when it comes out, the public will be outraged.

It will look like Germany all over again.

Isn't that what we want?

Germany all over again?

Only done right this time.

And when people find out that rich, successful,

brilliant Jews are being killed,

they'll be glad.

And they won't say anything, not even to themselves.

Once someone says it aloud,

they'll think, "That's exactly what I was thinking."

And it'll all spread from there.

It always does.

They're not gonna say nothing.

He's got a point.

You're not in school. What do you do?

I drive a forklift...

over at the Big Boy warehouse in Queens.

Young man...

Lina Moebius.

And you are?

Daniel Balint.

Balint?

It's German.

Are you with the FBI, Mr. Balint,

or any other law enforcement agency?

I was about to ask you the same thing.

So...

what are you really after, Daniel?

Hmm?

Do you want to just kill Jews,

or do you have something larger in mind?

Curtis thinks your ideas would marginalize us.

Curtis, we're already marginal.

That's our appeal.

We're saying what no one else has the guts to say.

Who would you kill first?

Ilio Manzetti.

Former ambassador to France,

managing partner at Damon & Schwarzchild.

It's an investment banking house.

- He's Jewish, Manzetti? - Totally.

His parents immigrated from Bulgaria when he was 11.

How would you do this?

I need some time to assess his routines and his security,

but ideally?

On a New York City street, midday,

with a small caliber automatic without a silencer.

Why no silencer?

'Cause you want it to be an event.

Why don't you come visit us in the country?

We have a retreat. You might find it interesting.

Bring your friends if you like.

He reminds me of Karl when I first met him.

I thought we agreed.

Anti-Semitism is exactly what we're trying to leave behind.

Killing Manzetti.

Did you see how they reacted to him?

Yes, of course, in this room, where people aren't embarrassed

to call themselves Nazis.

It's a romantic movement, Curtis, it always has been.

- Lina-- - Look,

I don't care about the Jews one way or another,

but it has a power.

A thousand-year Reich barely lasted a decade.

You really want to go down that road again?

In America of all places?

Order and discipline aren't exactly the national virtues.

He's very bright.

He speaks well.

So what do we do with him?

Bring his friends? We're not his friends.

Hey Danny, you fuck the girl yet?

- He liked her mom. - Her mom?

That was her mother?

Fuck you!

You, get the fuck out of the way!

Fucking niggers!

Why don't you go back to Rwanda and give each other AIDS?!

- Let's go, motherfucker. - Come on, you fat bitch.

What, you like it in here?

Shut the fuck up.

You ever read "Mein Kampf"?

Hitler had some of his best ideas in prison.

Daniel Balint.

Hey, shut the hell up.