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fundamental truth that out of many we are one that won't we breathe we hope and where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't we will respond with that timeless creek that sums up the spirit of a people yes we came. here to this city to. take seriously. and then this is good you know it isn't so they can't have it when they've been. injured. or run for barack obama and the democrats have to sweepings of power with the promise of and citizens are programs called the tea party movement and then miss it was known to be government spending not to health care and climate change

legislation and notes what made him so i bought it because i think that if the people because this thing to you seem to work on this president's 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 challenge all way and we're sending a message too. and they see it as a 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 phenomenon and in particular the accusations that the protesters were pawns in a covert power play by a small group of billionaires and corporate players they're recruiting their. to do the bidding of corporate america this is not some corporate sponsored thing these

citizens' groups are progress the media portrays it being based on billionaire. person or people who is not here to be too serious a story just like to make it. who . was known to be. one 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 bertha's we think is really

a canyon this robot where the first step and the cost of historical figures evoking the spirit of the american revolution has a cost and 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 crisis so while the tea party idea was first right during this on a rant by c. and b. say reports of bricks and telly this is america all even people want to take your neighbor's mortgage you want to take advantage of chicago tea party in july i can kapleau so i want to show up to lake michigan out of the star. 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 scientology had his way and there were about twenty two people that got together on a conference call and we decided to have around the tea parties one week from that day we had fifty tea parties with thirty thousand people and attend the who thought it was something brewing and we have on april fifteenth eight hundred fifty plus tea parties across this country with one point two million people in it and. but if the tea parties began as a bipartisan are prizing against government waste they quickly morphed into an all out attack on president obama and his entire policy agenda i cannot write my children to brompton doctor not to frown turn our writing are interested in croc

factories the camera that's right behind us come back and power back you. know many factors are involved in this shoot i was particularly interested what role being played by a group called americans for prosperity. their mission is to engage citizens in the nine of limited government and free markets essentially they are activists for a radical form of capitalism with private enterprise not government is the guiding force in society of the to kill or interest with a chief benefactor brothers charles and david koch according to the forbes list of the richest americans the koch citicorp fifty with personal fortunes estimated at more than twenty billion dollars. to find out more i've come to the end you convention of americans for prosperity.

distancing himself publicly from the tea party movement david quote is known to play a very hands on role with i have a. and sure enough as representatives of the groups by hundred thousand members reported on their activities they later was there to keep 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. on their activities over the last year we don't organize huge tea parties all throughout the state we have mad the largest tea party in the state the largest tax day tea party in the nation on april fifteenth. i vote we've now twenty nine people already organized 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 slap on our liberties we're either going to. or make your life. i thank the members flatly deny the charge that the i.r.s. rights are the name given to fight cross roots organizations they're 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 korea sleep publicity shy brothers and their company coach the industry i turn to a man who's been investigating them for a number of years. from the environmental group greenpeace koch industries is the company nobody has ever heard of it's the second or first largest private company

in this country we don't even know how much money they make primarily refining company and pipeline company they now have expanded into paper and chemicals acquiring other companies in recent years there worldwide based here in the united states and wichita kansas davies and green can assert that americans for prosperity are essentially just a low beam to look 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 what 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 use 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 are passed and they went into high gear attacking obama from day one even started before the obama administration attacking any climate legislation they've run for years these summer hot air tours where they run what looks like a grassroots activists campaign around the country with a cross and t. shirts and hats and handouts and little vents and small towns in fact it's a corporate funded propaganda tour as i write in philadelphia for one of the forty it's who are events and i have peace railed against the climate change deal known

as cap and tried legislation oh. well there is just trust. us this country is heading in the wrong direction. and that direction is. more. control over health care take control of our. lives. attack attack attack be reframed it is 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 fourth 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 at americans for prosperity is educating americans to understand the threat to our to our future what's motivating the government is trying bring in the cap and trade bill it's a marxist regime basically abomination ration the democratic party is going to call it the left so extreme now it's about seizing control over our lives with total government scheme and it's going to destroy jobs to the first country. a local tea party is also one hand to lynyrd support and one thing that i really want to get through to people is that this is not some corporate sponsored thing we are poor i know i am i live in an apartment i have two kids and a wife struggling but this is a feel sorry for me thing that i'm just telling you no we're not perfect sponsors period and everything's grassroots our organization itself was from the ground up

no budget not low budget nobody been everything free of on the website for free we you know gone to great lengths to make this happen and it's all in the name liberty and justice. i don't want a founding father to propose this country be a republic. but a.f.p. a far more than just tool for the cops 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. running short of americans and breaking the private health insurance monopoly. out of here. for veteran political operatives and a.f.p. president team phillips the group success lies in their ability to tap into the american spirit of individual ism all americans have

a long tradition of individual ism and a good healthy skepticism toward their government made 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 far as i can 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 active 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 on a much to 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 won't term prosperity net 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 night a night the libertarian party campaign in which to run for vice president the party's political platform is an insight into just how radical his views and those of the free market movement. i 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 boys 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. 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 groups 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 donors and radical ideological goals. undertaxed look these nonprofit groups are allowed to keep their donna's identities confidential as is the case with many kurds including greenpeace but this lake north hundred ninety eight budget reveals just how much money citizens for a sound the cornea was saved 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 not a ninety millions of internal tobacco industry documents have been made public the documents showing how citizens for a sound economy and other free market groups were secretly paid millions of dollars to fight tobacco taxes and regulations using what they called a retail sales effort they pitched these to their own members as a tax on individual freedoms by the government the idea being that while people may not be moved to fight on behalf of the tobacco belt loop almost anything for take their own freedoms one can kind of particular relevance with the lading role citizens for a sound economy played in killing the last major attempt to reform the health care

system with the clinton administration closing a new tobacco tax to help pay for the plan to back our company philip morris funded a major grassroots effort by the group. citizens for a sound economy also went hand in hand with the health insurance industry the street the reforms are running a few camps from the clinton plan to soviet style socialized medicine that would lead to a denial of vital have kid treatments they said this supports democrats including first lady who was late to explain the reform and love there isn't all. that yours. was yeah i. was. trying to throw out that it was worthy of the charge of.

gary barnes to make sure that every single american that it was. one person who was with one coalitions with citizens for santa corner me is going to call for a form of health insurance industry spin doctor turned whistle blower about these to sit if practices. they have insurance industry is very much like a backhoe industry and 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 their stories if they want to be told and getting the word out that they want to get out according to when to push on a kate benefit of using front groups is that they can say things the company couldn't actually get away with sighing themselves they're hired guns and they do what they are told to do. and it doesn't matter necessarily what the tactics are sometimes that it involves

a min being ethics or highlighting ethical standards and they will do that terms like government takeover of the health care system is one that has been used 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 you know would be effective slippery slope toward socialism and united states socialism still has the scala taishan of something that is kinda communism if not even worse with people who put those senses together and do it for a purpose and i 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 i'm attracted to saw as well following so much so that within hours of rick's and tele that he's making he's playing this tea party rights and i have to pay stossel was able to offer you know national television off a million nines to get the movement started right i've got i've got five hundred

thousand people who signed our protection against the stimulus bill i'm willing to email all of them and tell them to come out to your event disintegrating and they weren't the only ones two thousand and four an internal review actually closed citizens for a sound economy. group the second call. so freedom was well no longer financially connected to the court's 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 at threats socialized medicine well i have some anonymous great americans who are very deep pockets each team to find a multi-million dollar campaign for the some good go some great americans come to us and say they were concerned about this health care issue and they could see this

train coming down the pike and they want to do something about it are born madden said you know wot 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 a carbon copy of the ninety ninety four it's us. who. are going to blow. your cover. but we want to make sure. that you're. also. scaring senior citizens. some potentially lifesaving drugs could be would go and sit in your scripts and home and wait democrat politicians.

and we started doing this we're doing the facebook and email. and. people showed up . and said. the worst. democrats his. change members of congress. police are called. if you're a senior. for you and the american people know that truth is on

our side. well congress eventually passed a very much compromised health care. why then opponents would help make someone popular health care crime a major factor in the democrats to freak entry trails maintain 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 clips on the rising movement there's a much bigger picture to be sane the koch's exert influence a number of ways which we know that they fund front groups like americans for prosperity the search 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 one nine hundred seventy s. 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 full advocates like the coax 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 with the global warming this two thousand and eight study one hundred and forty one ports skeptical of global warming found that out of a 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 other resident policy experts such as myron ebell of the competitive enterprise institute saying here talking to a group of

a of pay members. issues the same or similar the huge decision on the market amidst the stalemate in palestinian israeli peace making a storm of diplomatic activity is truly palestinian leaders. wealthy british style . is not tied. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on r g. h i'm arriving here broadcasting live from washington d.c.