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like this is our moment this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that wall 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 free that sums up the

spirit of a people yes we came. here this week to. take seriously. and if this is good again. it isn't so they can't have it when they have a plan bowling danger. for barack obama and the democrats at the sweepings of power with the promise of oil and citizens uprise called the tea party movement a message to their message was not going to be government spending to health care and climate change legislation and no to what balmy himself obama is because he's thinking if only because it's been too you seem to obama's presidency tea party

candidates and 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 jungle way they were sending a message to. 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 the nominee and in particular the accusations that the protesters were pawns in a code power play by small group of billionaires and corporate players they're recruiting them. to do the bidding of corporate america this is not some corporate sponsored thing these citizens' groups are called us i mean the pre-training being back make some billionaire. person or people prove he is not going to be interested

in the story just like to make it. who. was known to be. a 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. is the so-called purpose we think obama is really a kenyan this robot where the first step in a cost of historical figures if i can the spirit of the american revolution was at

the boston tea party from which this movement takes its name beginning with 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 well the tea party idea was first right during this on a rant i see n.b.c. reporter rick sanchez this is america how do you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage you want to take it to have a chicago tea party in july i mean capitol hill want to show up to lake michigan on a star orgon. testifying to the crossroads 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 thousand 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 in attendance. was something brewing and we had on april fifteenth eight hundred fifty plus tea parties across this country would one point two million people in attendance. 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 you cannot be not sure going to iraq and bring back our nominee promise turn our own making our interest to crack house arrest the jammed up front that people must come back and pound back out. while many factors are involved. i was particularly interested

what role being played by a group called americans for prosperity a. mission to engage citizens in the nine of limited governments and free markets essentially they are active for radical form of capitalism with private enterprise nor government as the guiding force in society of the to kill or interest with a trace benefactor brothers charles and. according to the forbes list of the richest americans the coke city koofi with personal fortunes estimated at more than twenty billion dollars. to find out more i've come to the annual convention of americans for prosperity. world peace and seeing himself publicly from the tea party movement david quite is known to play a very hands on role i have. and sure enough as representatives of the groups by

hundred thousand members reported on their activities a leader was there to hear 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 that. on their activities over the last year we don't organize huge tea parties all throughout the state we have had the largest tea party in the state the largest taxpaying tea party in the nation on april fifteenth. i vote we prevail 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. on our liberties we are going to. or make your life let's

thank the members flatly deny the charge the fire astroturf the name given to fight grassroots organizations that are essentially corporate fronts it's non-church 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 tory sleep publicity shy brothers and their company koch industries 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's 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 they're primarily a 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 in wichita kansas davies and green can 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 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 used this public sentiment to forward their corporate agenda this charge of profiteering was especially evident in thai of peace opposition to a proposed climate change bill that would have calmed profits of oil industry players like coke 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 law passed and they went into high gear attacking obama from day one even started before the obama administration attacking any climate legislation may have run for years in the summer hot air tours where they run what looks like a grassroots activist campaign around the country with a process and t. shirts and hats and handouts and little bends and small towns in fact it's a corporate funded 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 but you know as trite. well noted that looking prosperity and jobs this country is heading in the wrong direction.

and that reaction is that big got more. control over health care take a look like. oh yes. attack attack attack they re framed it as 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 for want of what is basically a massive trillion dollar tax on american energy users the phone it's 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's run bring in the cap and trade bill it's a marxist regime basically abomination gratian the democratic party is going to call it to 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 on 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 and therefore i know i am i live in apartment i have two kids and a wife struggling but does it feel sorry for me thing that some dispelling you know we're not corporate sponsors period and everything's grassroots our organization itself with the ground up no budget no low budget nobody better rethink the free i don't know the web site for free you know gone to great lengths to make this happen and it's all in the name of liberty and justice. i don't where our founding fathers

have proposed this country a number of them. but i have paid a far more than just tool for the quote spoil interest as evidenced by their leading role in opposing another of obama's assaults on liberty health care reform . that would have sane governments that. running short american and breaking the private health insurance want to leave is. here. for veteran political operatives and i f p 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 their 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 was 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 cap and trade going to do to your job and to your utility rates and we just say if you want to get that in here ways to get active this goes to the heart of how the clerks might 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 koch'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 medicine 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 night he 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. 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 the koch brothers changed course deciding that of 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 there's no one profit groups are allowed to keep they've done this i think things confidential as is the case with many groups including green place but these lakes ninety ninety eight budget reveals just how much money citizens were sent to corner me or saved from a wide variety of donors. more troubling was the fact that citizens for a sound economy took money through an astroturf 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 late ninety nine to 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 if 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 big tobacco or old blue almost anything to protect their own freedoms one campaign of particular relevance was 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 posing a new tobacco tax to help pay for their plan tobacco company philip morris funded i

major grassroots effort by the group. citizens for a sound economy also worked and in hand with the health insurance industry in the state the reforms are running a few camps on the clinton plan a soviet style socialized medicine that would lead to denial of viable health kate friedman they said they supported democrats including first lady hillary clinton as they attempted to explain the reform and there was. i always like. that. there's a lot of yeah like going on there. yes trying to was that dire shortage of. health care people are making sure every single american is it. one person who was worked on coalitions with citizens for a sound the corner me is when to push for

a formal health insurance industry spin doctor turned whistleblower about these deceptive practices. they have 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 themselves 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 partial ok benefit of using front groups is that they can say things that the company couldn't actually get away with sign 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 that it involves mending ethics or violating ethical standards they will do that terms like government takeover of 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 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 but people who put those sentences together do it for a purpose and they know that that will that will evoke a certain emotion. over twenty five years these campaigns tapping into people's distrust of government and since that individual is attracted to saws will follow in this race so much so that within hours of bricks and tele he's making his famous tea party lines and i have pace was able to often you know on national television possibly nines to get the movement started reading i've got i've got five hundred thousand people who signed our petition against the stimulus bill i'm willing to email all of them and tell them to come out to your event just seems ready and they

weren't the only one in two thousand and four and internal rift actually caused citizens for a sound economy possibly going to two groups the second will call. so freedom with . will no longer financially connected to the courts freedom would spread a similar note of corporate funded free market activism from day one they worked on the ground to help small groups organize tea party events and when i for a couple of months the movement was running out of steam and freedom works helped to break their anger for mooching threats socialized medicine. some anonymous crighton merican very deep pockets each tiem to find a multi-million dollar campaign by the power to some good folks some great americans come to us and say they were concerned about this health care if you end and they could see this train coming down the pike and they want to do something about it are born man and said you know a lot of americans for prosperity wants to be a part of that. as i have paid. around the country.

for some time and. i'm going to follow. your help. i want to make sure. you're. also. seeing a citizen of. some potentially life saving drugs could be with go and see your scripts and. democrat politicians. and we started doing this wittering the. people sort of.

the worst. change members of congress. police are called. if you're a senior citizen. are you and the american people know that is on our side. well congress eventually passed and very much compromised health care. by then

opponents would help make someone popular health care become a major factor in the democrats the three 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 that they wanted to repeal health care. but to properly understand the close influence on the rising movement is 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 and 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 codes to forward a corporate agenda an anti regulatory agenda there is no better example of how the small poly coordinated network of groups thought regulation in their almost single handed effort to manufacture debate as a global warming this two thousand and eight study one hundred forty one poops 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 of a if they members.

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