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way to get it right is it so create can't have it when they think they are injured . they. are wrong for barack obama and the democrats have to sweeping to power with a promise of hope and charting a citizens' uprising called the tea party movement and they miss it was known to be government spending not to health care and climate change legislation and no it's what made him so obvious because he doesn't get it because it's been too you seem to obama's presidency tea party candidates emerged to sweep the republicans to victory in the house of representatives thirty two percent of the candidates who were elected last night across this country are affiliated with the tea party there's the tea party john elway they were sending

a message to. and they see it as repudiation of the president and his policies. what does it feel like. feels bad. i came to the united states to examine the tea party phenomena and in particular the accusations that the protesters were pawns in a car the power play by a small group of billionaires and corporate players their recruiting their. to do the bidding of corporate america this is not some corporate sponsored thing these citizens' groups are told us the media portrays it being based on billionaire. person or people prove it's not here to be interested in the story just like to make it.

was the. name. of come to kentucky the heart of tea party country it's more than a year before the movement will organize to become a force at the two thousand and ten elections the diverse group of protesters here are united by a combination of anger and patriotism is all american families and militia groups trolling for new members of this the so-called persons who think he's really a kenyan this robot where the first step in a cost of historical figures evoking the spirit of the american revolution was a boston tea party from which this movement takes its name beginning less than a month after obama took office the protests reflected a mounting anger at both democrats and republicans legislating massive bailout packages in response to america's economic process so while the tea party idea was

first rights during this on a rant by saying they say reports of bricks and telly this is america how do you people want to pay for your neighbor's norgate you want to begin to have a chicago tea party in july i mean kapilow so i want to show up the lake michigan out of the start. testifying to the cross roots nature of the uprising the vast majority of tea partiers a middle class americans with little or no experience in political organizing i'm just i'm on that was tired of seeing what was going on in my country and i decided to do something about it. the day after rick say in telling he had his way and there were about twenty thousand people that got together on a conference call and we decided to have around the tea parties one week from that day we have fifty tea parties with thirty thousand people in attendance. to talk

is something brewing if we have on april fifteenth eight hundred fifty plus tea parties across this country with one point two million people and it's in. but if the tea parties began as a bipartisan not prizing against government waste they quickly morphed into an all out attack on president obama and his entire policy agenda. not charenton problem doctor not a promise to write our own making our crying transparent crock. so i could jam back that's how i got paperless contacts and probably. was well many factors were involved in the shoot i was particularly interesting role being played by a group called americans for prosperity. their mission is to engage citizens in the nine of limited governments and free markets essentially they are activists for

radical form of capitalism with private enterprise not government as the guiding force and so i see a particular interest with a chief benefactor brothers charles and david koch. according to the forbes list of the richest americans the cloak city kofi with personal fortunes estimated at more than twenty billion dollars. to find out more come to the annual convention of americans for prosperity. wealthy sensing himself publicly from the tape possible movements by because he is known to play a very hands on role with i have pate. and sure enough as representatives of the groups by hundred thousand members reported on their activities they later was the execute the news it's now my great pleasure to. begin my favorite part

of the summit conference and that is the report by representatives of each of the twenty five chapters a on their activities over the last year we helped organize huge tea parties all throughout the state we have led the largest tea party in the state the largest tax day tea party in the nation on april fifteenth. i vote we we've now twenty nine t. parties organize dozens of tea parties mr chairman our grassroots efforts are engaged they're energized and they're ready to fight for their freedom and if you try to raise our taxes and clamp on our liberties we're either going to. or make your life. thank you members flatly deny the charge that they are astroturf the name given to fight grassroots organizations that are essentially corporate fronts it's nonsense that

there is no such thing among our our people as astroturfing i'm here with four hundred fifty other people from north carolina and we're all individuals. to find out more about the recent curiously publicity shy brothers and their company koch industries i turn to a man who's been investigating them for a number of years. diabetes from the environmental group greenpeace koch industries is the company nobody's ever heard of it's the second or first largest private company in this country we don't know how much money they make they're primarily a refining company and pipeline company they now have expanded into paper and chemicals firing other companies in recent years there worldwide based here in the united states in wichita kansas davies and green critics assert that americans for prosperity are essentially just a low being tool for koch industries david koch deliberately founded these groups

to intervene in the government to reduce taxes on corporations to reduce the impact of environmental laws. that intersected with rock became the tea party movement an uprising against the government and against governments writ large against taxes and against health care regulations so they basically used this public sentiment to forward their corporate agenda this charge of profiteering is especially evident and i have peace or position to propose climate change that would have come profits of oil industry players like koch industries. in two thousand and nine after the obama administration came on there was massive momentum towards climate regulation suddenly there was a real possibility of getting new good laws passed and they went into high gear attacking obama from day one even started before the obama administration

attacking any climate legislation they would run for years these summer hot air tours where they run what looks like a grassroots activist campaign around the country with a bus and t. shirts and packs in and out in little vents in small towns in fact it's a corporate funded a propaganda tour as i arrived in philadelphia for one of the forty it's who are events and i have peace railed against the climate change bill known as cap and tried let's just. call them. that will keep america's prosperity intrigued by jobs this country is heading in the wrong direction. and that's reaction. more. control over health care take all of our. lives. attack attack attack they reframed it's cap and tax as opposed to the term cap and trade term for carbon trading and went

on the attack and declared this part of the obama agenda to impose new government regulations and grow the government global warming regulation equal to socialism attacking green jobs and renewable energy as some imposition on people's freedom this is the last stop in this leg of what we call our hot it's who are we exposing the fraud of what is basically a massive trillion dollar tax on american energy users the following is a green jobs and government subsidized alternative fuels and what we're doing in americans for prosperity is educating americans to understand the threat to our to our future what's motivating the governments around bringing in the cap and trade bill it's a marxist regime basically the obama administration of democratic party is going to call it the left so extreme now it's about seizing control over our lives it's

a total government scheme and it's going to destroy jobs to this country. a local tea party is also one hand to lend their support the one thing that i really want to get through to people is that this is not some corporate sponsored thing we are for i know i am i live in apartment i have two kids in a white struggling but this is a feel sorry for me thing to just telling you no we're not going to talk period and everything's rescuers are organizations so with my ground no budget not low budget nobody better rethink free a bill on the website for free you know going to great lengths to make this happen and it's all in the name liberty and justice. i don't want our founding fathers had proposed this country to be a republic. but i have paid a far more than just tool for the court's oil interests as evidenced by their

leading role in opposing another of obama's assaults on liberty healthcare reform. that would have seen the government stepping in. american and breaking the private health insurance probably. not appear. for veteran political operative and i f t president team phillips a group success lies in their ability to tap into the american spirit of individual ism well americans have a long tradition of individual ism and a good healthy skepticism toward our government i mean about the worst thing you can say in america is i'm from washington d.c. and i'm here to help instantly americans go wait a minute i don't trust that for a second and so i are coalition americans for prosperity we go out and we educate americans on hey here's the threat here's what this health care bill is going to do

the take over here's what happened trade going to do your job and to your utility rates and we just say if you want to get at it here are ways to get back to this goes to the heart of how the clerks not be manipulating tea party protesters and a fair proportion if i have peace and support it's on a much too political and personal financial gain because while americans might have a healthy skepticism about government i wonder how many of them really share the cook's extreme vision of a free market economy you and i know that free market principles make sense for american families american jobs and i want term prosperity and that is essential at a time when the very foundations of our nation are being challenged. government has become a monster crippling the economy and devouring personal liberties this poster is from a not a ninety libertarian party campaign in which david koch ran for vice president the

party's political platform is an insight into just how radical his views and those of the free market movement are they saw the abolition of the department of energy the environmental protection agency the food and drug administration and a host of other public health and safety bodies not to mention social security welfare the public school system and of course huge tax cuts across the board but after spending over two million dollars of their own money on the campaign and receiving just one percent of the thought of this change course deciding that if people wouldn't come to their philosophy they take their philosophy to the people they created and invested in a network of free market curds including the establishment in one thousand nine hundred four of a grassroots group called citizens for a sound economy that was the forerunner to americans for prosperity

a number of documents have emerged from the citizens for a sound economy dies which give a candid insight into how these groups work to discard corporate dharnas and radical ideological goals. undertaxed look he's known profit groups are allowed to keep their donors identities confidential as is the case with many critics including graeme pace but this late ninety ninety eight budget reveals just how much money citizens for a sound economy received from a wide variety of donors. more troubling was the fact that citizens for a sound economy took money through an asteroid to campaigns directly on behalf of a number of these hidden dharnas. then there was they work for the tobacco industry thanks to a major legal settlement in the light ninety ninety millions of internal tobacco industry documents have been made public the documents show you how citizens for a sound economy and other free market groups secretly paid millions of dollars to

fight tobacco taxes and regulations using what they call a retail sales if they pitch these to their own members as a tax on individual freedoms but the government the idea being that while people may not be moved to fight on behalf of big tobacco. almost anything to protect their own freedoms one can kind of particular relevance with the lady wrong citizens for a sound economy played in killing the last major attempt to reform the health care system with a clinton administration posing a new tobacco tax to help pay for the plan to back a company philip morris funded i major grassroots effort by the group. citizens for a sound economy also whip hand in hand with the health insurance industry reforms by running a few from the clinton plan was soviet style socialized medicine that would lead to

denial of bottles of kid treatments they said this supports democrats including first lady hillary clinton as they came to explain the reforms and above there is no doubt. that europe. was yeah i. was. trying to crowd out there was that you are to. health care regard to make sure everything the american in. one person who has worked on coalitions with citizens for a santa corner me is when to close i'm a former health insurance industry spin doctor turned whistleblower about the specific practices. the health insurance industry is very much like the tobacco industry it's held in very low regard by the public and they know that they have

very little credibility and sells so they have to establish these front groups to carry their messages for them they do this so that a third party is telling the stories that they want to be told and getting the word out that they want to get out according to when to a partial ok benefit of using front groups is that they can say things the company couldn't actually get away we sang them so they're hired guns and they do what they are told to do and it doesn't matter necessarily what the tactics are sometimes and if it involves a ethics or a violation ethical standards they will do that terms like government takeover of the health care system is one that has been has many times to scare people away from reform and it's misleading no plan before congress would have come anywhere close to a government takeover but nonetheless it's a term that the industry knew would be effective slippery slope toward socialism and united states socialism still has the connotation of something that is akin to

communism it's not even worse the people who put those sentences together do it for a purpose and they know that that will that will be a focus certain emotion. over twenty five years these campaigns tapping into people's distrust of government and since the individual is a trusted saw as well following this story so much so that within a hours of bricks and tele making his famous tea party who writes it and i have paid stossel was able to offer to get on national television possibly lead nines to get the movement started to read it i doubt i've got five hundred thousand people who signed our contention against the stimulus bill i'm willing to email all of them and tell them to come out of your event that stands ready and i want the only one you two thousand and four and internal reef actually closed citizens for a sound economy displeasing to two groups the second call. so freedom one will no longer financially connected to the courts freedom works in a similar model of corporate funded free market activism from day one they worked

on the ground to help small groups organize tea party events and when after a couple of months the movement was running out of steam freedom works helped to break their anger through mooching threats socialized medicine. that i have paid some anonymous great americans with very deep pockets to find a multi-million dollar campaign for the brutal some good oh some great americans come to us and say they were concerned about this health care issue and and they can see this train coming down the pike and they want to do something about it are born men and said you know what americans for prosperity wants to be a part of that. as i have paid. to hold events around the country they campaign was to be an almost carbon copy of the ninety ninety four excess sometime in the late sixty's. and.

they want to make sure. that. they also. scaring senior citizens. some potentially lifesaving drugs could be with you know in senior citizen. democrat politicians. and we started doing the twittering that. people showed up. and said. the worst. and democrats.

change members of. police are called. if you're a senior citizen. or you and the american people know that truth is on our side. well congress eventually passed a very much compromised health care. opponents to help make it so unpopular health care became a major factor in the democrats the freak entry thousand and ten older voters in the last midterm split evenly this time they were overwhelmingly voting republican and why did they vote six out of ten said they wanted to repeal health care.

but to properly understand the cook's influence on the rising movement there's a much bigger picture to be saying the koch's exert influence a number of ways when we know that they fund front groups like americans for prosperity the service astroturf effort they also throw money straight into the political machine so they funded millions of dollars towards political candidates specific candidates they also of course have lobbying money coming into washington so they're sending lobbyists up to forward their agenda the more more insidious stuff is starting in the one nine hundred seventy is a number of free market think tanks were born at the cato institute the heritage foundation heartland institute these groups were purpose built by right wing philanthropist like the koch's to forward a corporate agenda and the regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the small poly coordinated network of course afford regulation in their almost single

handed effort to manufacture debate as a global warming. two thousand and eight study one hundred and forty one ports skeptical of global warming found that out of the ninety percent of them were written and or published by free market think tanks at the heart of what opponents have called the denial machine. the resident policy experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying here talking to a group with a of pe members. shares the same money to play the he's visited by the market amidst the stalemate in palestinian israeli peace making a storm of diplomatic activity is truly palestinian leaders.

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