we're putting our hands inside the pants of six year old children wow all this in the name of national security so politicians vote to extend the patriot act yet again is the safety of society more important than individual freedom. absolutely it's a reversal. of the everybody would be about the situation that we're in is probably all in the class. it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor or somewhere in between seems everyone thinks they're part of the middle class these days so why are americans ignorant about the income inequality proven by statistics.

and with that as the only warning a swat team bust into an x. marines home shooting and killing him so as reports of police brutality rise in america is this the reason americans don't stand up for what they believe. and that's all folks is the g eight summit comes to an end it promises billion dollar aid to arab states urging could dottie to go we'll have a report from v france. good evening it's friday may twenty seventh eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren mr they're watching our t.v. now provisions of the patriot act words that to expire today but lo and behold at the eleventh hour last night congress voted overwhelmingly to extend them until two thousand and fifteen not just as a refresher these provisions allow wiretapping without identifying who or what. it

is being surveyed and it also allows law enforcement to access any tangible thing during investigations also separately soon it will be required that your cell phone has a chip so the government can reach you directly via text message meanwhile intel from osama bin ladin is layer house lawmakers calling for amtrak to have a no ride list and homeland security is talking to you through p s a's at wal-mart in all of this what's happening to privacy and individual liberties is it being replaced by fear and more importance paid to this a curator of the collective society first though we'll get to that we'll analyze that but our tea parties were in important iowa is going to tell us what kind of presidential text messages you can be expecting on your cell phone. the country that created blackberries and gave birth to i phones. has more than three hundred million wireless users and in the name of national security the u.s. government will soon have a direct link to each and every handheld device it's like

a police officer's gun it's there for a good reason to hope that we never have to hold for gathered at the scene of the september eleventh terrorist attacks federal in new york city officials joined the c.e.o.'s of the four largest wireless carriers to announce the nation's new tech tools and alert system enabling the president and government agencies to blast every american with text messages warning of character rights weather disasters and kidnappings the cell phone alert system will launch in new york city and washington d.c. by the end of this year expanding nationwide there after wireless users may have the option of not receiving certain alerts no americans will not be able to opt out of its messages sent by the u.s. president opponents say politicians are promoting more fear while providing little protection now we have a system of mandatory and inescapable alerts through every cell phone in the land

in the event that the government decides that something is happening the we ought to know about them just as the introduction of the patriot act came right after nine eleven so this new kind of technological invasion comes to us without any public discussion right after the assassination of osama bin laden and why you professor and author mark crispin miller says americans are living in an age of creeping authoritarianism and scare tactics the use of fear for any kind of government that craves more control over people's wives and thoughts is that it makes people. malleable it makes them more beauty and i mean you go to any airport today and you can see this in action people are meekly taking off their shoes making the getting groped under the auspices of airport safety babies senior citizens and everyone in between must now endure pat downs or pass through body

scanners before boarding in the case of muslim americans that may not be enough six days following the killing of osama bin ladin for him alms on two separate u.s. flights were illegally kicked off planes for looking suspicious and you have a few hate mongers who the who can can can. evoke those notions you know enough with people who they play on people's emotions to play on people's ignorance about islam and muslims you see and also this war is creating a climate of fear you see if you see something suspicious in the parking lot or in the store say something immediately in december the department of homeland security began encouraging americans to report suspicious activity to the country's largest food retailer wal-mart partnership with bosch and ken has been accused of perpetrating a climate of panic and subsequent need for more surveillance you need to create an enemy for people to rally behind and list wars and the fact that we're spending

over fifty percent of our taxes on war and our national defense and there's really no threat directly to this country and they need to keep validating this spending following the assassination of enemy number one and american lawmaker called for an increase in rail safety funding and the creation of a no ride list as u.s. officials warn of more terror threats following good lot in death many americans remain concerned others are left wondering about the dangers for seeking too much liberty for security. archie. and for more earlier i was joined by john whitehead he is president of the rutherford institute and i asked him if say fifty years ago three patriot act. americans felt more strongly about their privacy and civil liberties and felt government more primary role was to protect the individual rights of law abiding citizens and secondary was catching bad guys and the safety of society collectively he said. i think nine eleven changed

people's perspective all the sudden you coldest air of these huge terrorist threats never terrorist everywhere and all that i thought was tell just people who work the sea and they say basically that's true as far as up high the groups like that working in the united states there's not much so but people. probably has the side that we have all the terrorists around the country all these things which as we see says the level that really happened and that's why they got the usa patriot act. live through congress in less than a month. and the law by george bush and that's something that is that seems to continue today you you argue that this point of view these priorities have changed and you could argue that was witnessed with what we saw with overwhelming support by congress of this extension of the provisions of the patriot act we thought the eleventh hour last night with this sentiment from rand paul who opposed the

extension being that anyone who speaks out is criticized so i kind of want to back up a little bit because when you talk about a decade ago when people were generally more concerned with liberties we were also in an ideological battle the west in the united states versus the soviet union and the soviet union having kind of the inverse of those priorities where the safety of society was always more important and societies more important than the individual do you think that dynamic was kind of driving people in the united states decades ago to to really be fighting for their individual liberties. yeah i think so and with this change. america's become much more of a status society we now accept the fact that under the paper that the f.b.i. can come into your home under what they call sneak and peek searches and not even tell you you are that if they've been in your home and rifle through your papers and download stuff on your computer they can go to your edge of your school and

your educational records and the school could i tell that they that actually the f.b.i. then are getting your records or your business records say they are your bank records so that if the government decides you are a threat for example i speak out against the practice if i considered a threat i definitely know that probably the f.b.i. knows right spend money on and they can actually without basically minimum court supervision going into everything i've ever done every book ever bought so there might be definition is so broad of the a.p. that but the f.b.i. is actually infiltrated in places like baltimore praised the quakers who are going down the street these are quakers you know very peaceful people and especially to see if they're really terrorists but there's more there intimidation tactics so that's what we're seeing and i think what they really want to point out here was ron widen the senator from oregon recently he's on the senate intelligence committee he just announced that there is a class there is

a classified paper that it's much broader than what we see happen in the government doing much more invasive things that we thought he wouldn't say what. and yet you mentioned that americans don't really oppose it because the ideology has changed so my question to you bigger picture is have that communist ideology some of that to the united states with so fiercely fighting against decades ago only ten trained in american law and the psyche of this country as witnessed by the patriot act if you will is communism i say we're more like china today then china is like. and. if it was what we're seeing in terms of swat team or a f.b.i. raids of people who have who are free speech activist in their homes seizing their laptops what we're seeing is we're moving into a police state and back i would say were we are in a police state the fourth minute which is the provision here all this requires a judge's carefully look at the evidence of war see if you're doing something

criminal well under the paper that you don't have to do that more. warrant to rubberstamp and you have all the sunny police the standing in your apartment that go through your door now they're really going new-york so i'm not the only one saying this but many of the people out there i work with and civil liberties organizations on the left wing in the right way are saying the same thing lately. but now many in congress are if the passage of the patriot act was an example of their sentiment that was john whitehead president of the rutherford institute now meanwhile the gap is growing steadily in this country between the rich and the poor whining as study after study shows the wealthiest are controlling more and more of the wealth and the poor are hanging on to less and less now whether the surprises you or not it's most likely not compelling you to do anything at least if you're like the majority of the population and as artists christine for the discovered there's a reason for that most people and the upper and lower classes aren't even aware of

this gap and wealth. you could say it's a typical afternoon the sun is shining and people are out shopping across town the same thing only here those who live in the area describe it like this i think it's one of two or three neighborhoods in washington that really still functions as a village it's like a village in washington i think it's paradise actually. paradise not a word you'd likely hear spoken about this part of town first so look at least a good guess what will be a straight from southeast both a few miles and a world away there are instead other ways of describing life. greedy but guess what we do we just see the organ a less musical version like this. what we've found to be surprising because when we

ask people what class they see themselves then we got very similar answers both here in this neighborhood in southeast washington d.c. for the median income is twenty nine thousand dollars and housing looks like this. and here in this neighborhood georgetown in northwest washington d.c. the houses look like this and the median income is nearly one hundred forty thousand dollars a year and you can call it or better really closely round this area i think there are a lot of them yeah the i.r.s. and our current president might think we're filthy rich but you know i don't think we're absolutely consider myself absolutely do you think this is a lower class neighborhood or upper class neighborhood or a middle class neighborhood this is a middle class neighborhood to me right in the middle we economists like gary burtless isn't surprised i can tell you what people thought up to about five years ago i think over eighty five percent of americans thought they were in the middle

class. a recent study found that americans believe the richest twenty percent only hold about fifty nine percent of the wealth the actual number eighty four percent but ideally they said the breakdown should be much more equal but clearly it's not america was a country that sort of stood stayed together historically with great unity on the glue that we all figured if we work hard we play by the rules we do better than our parents and they would do better than their parents and our kids would do better than us economists say that is no longer the case in the united states and that we've gone from being one of the most overly mobile countries in the developing world to the least a trend that changed course in the one nine hundred seventy s. perhaps one reason can be seen here take a look at this the blue line shows how much the pay of c.e.o.'s has gone up since the ninety's that yellow line at the bottom that's the pay of minimum wage workers and it has gone down nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz says the

increase in concentration of wealth has been enormous would happen in the last couple decades is twenty for a quarter of all the income goes to the upper one percent around forty percent depending how you measure it or the wealth goes to the upper one percent it's a reality that doesn't seem to trickle down to those in the lower tiers in terms of fact i think everybody would be a get out a situation that we're in is probably. nobody's above and nobody's below in washington christine for sound r.t. . and earlier i spoke with jordan as devout from the people's exhibit a national people's action they've organized protests against the big banks for example and i asked person why if the statistic statistics don't support this do people still believe that they're in the middle class. a lot of people you know are at one level or another where but they might not notice or to sleep they might not. be thinking

about it in those terms but i think a lot of people you know they feel that they're struggling to know that they're struggling they might not think of it in terms of percentages of you know their percentage of the wealth united states but they think it in terms of i can't find a job i can't pay for an operation and so forth so the people that we talk to in neighborhoods all over the country every day are well aware that there's a great injustice being centered around then why aren't they taking to the streets why aren't they calling for major change why are they calling for even as you know some analysts that they revolution fighting abraham lincoln in his inaugural speech talking about how it's the people's right to revolt against a government that's not serving them absolutely well i say that there actually are more and more people taking to the streets to take the lead in recent years and in recent months just on the seventeenth we saw thousand people protesting at the at the shareholder meeting at j.p. morgan chase this is in columbus ohio. a lot of us watched with great attention what was happening in wisconsin when there were workers' rights are being attacked and i think a lot of people are getting more money more more and more angry it's

a big country and a big ship takes a longer time to turn and you know that's a really interesting question that i have for you what would you say the average turnout just in general for your events aside from that ohio one so i'll be honest i'm a survivor a lot of these and there's a lot of times you know there's more media then activists and then the protests that we cover but quite often it's just the opposite as well where there will be tens of thousands of people who as was the case in wisconsin as well as a political reason because i thought i'm just curious in general over the last couple years what have you seen is that right just on may twelfth in new york city there were about ten to fifteen thousand people protesting against wall street abuses saying that wall street isn't do their fair share to help those that encourage recovery last year is what would that what the crowd is then like one one year ago one year ago what it is actually one year ago it was about ten thousand people this year it was about fifteen thousand people what's interesting is. is that the mainstream media particularly doesn't cover these things as well as

they're going to say you know some smaller right wing groups ok so this is really interesting because one of the things at a forum that i was that was a lot of economists that they kind of saw it as being a turning point as far as what we really need to pay attention to this social inequality thing is wisconsin they saw that as a turning point and it's interesting that in ohio you've got a big turnout is able to morgan shareholders meeting because we've seen when i was reporting in new york we've seen some similar events that drew a handful of people to do you think that there is a real kind of reaction to this inequality happening in the midwest i think more and more people in you know in urban suburban and rural areas are waking up to the fact that you know large corporations and particularly the financial industry need to do more to pay their fair share to fix the economy that they broke they need to pay their fair share in taxes that bank of america got a six hundred sixty six million dollars tax reform last year paid no taxes last year as you know but why focus on the banks because they're just doing what they can get away with under a law while the banks. one the financial industry and their practices

predatory approach predatory lending mortgage speculation led to the current financial crash that we're in right now certainly they're doing better than ever and stuck you know jamie diamond for example new york forty million dollars in bonuses in compensation last year c.e.o. pay goes to the chart that we just saw being an astronomical increase in their pay wages have stagnated for the last thirty years that everybody else but we just saw our most recent statistics that came out show that actually corporate profits contract a little bit in the first quarter of declining point nine percent compared to the growth the prior quarter three point three percent and we've had several quarters where the you know the story that we've been telling is that corporate profits have been a record and meanwhile unemployment is still horrible but now we're seeing corporations gain hit a little bit is this show that maybe everybody is getting a little bit worse because there's all this negative economic statistics about unemployment claims going up unexpectedly and things like that as i say well there's a lot of reasons with unemployment claims. not going up but they did go up. for the

unemployment claims going up. but what we're saying is that the financial industry in particular is doing very well the corporations are are hit and miss but the financial industry is doing very very well right now right that's true that's true at the same time you mention that all these people are protesting what are they hoping to get because we don't really you mention the mainstream media doesn't really cover them we cover those protests we've covered these movements but they're not getting the press attention and they're not calling for revolution you know where's the outrage where is that then i think the outrage is there at the it's i think it's under the surface and it's we're seeing more and more of it you know just last year we passed a financial reform bill that creates a consumer a consumer protection agency the banks thought tooth and nail against that and lost that fight and they wouldn't have lost it but for the fact that people were taking the streets in protest protesting in favor of it. but also an opponent of reform bill though a lot of banks got a lot of lines a lot of economists and financial experts say that too big to fail still exists but

answer reform didn't didn't address though there is still that huge issue of operation of a lot of seasoning up along the lines of the whole well stratification well distribution one thing that's interesting the study that our reporter cited another part of that was that they asked thousands of people to pick what country they would want to live in based on the wealth distribution and blindly they chose sweden ninety two percent of people of faith we did as a country with a very very different idea about well about welfare then united states critics in united states would call it socialist because the show that most americans actually would rather have these kind of policies in place you know i think maybe if maybe they would have had firsthand experience with them you know i say that you know what we know about wealth inequality is and this is an important point is that it's not just bad for the people at the bottom that countries with wealth with great wealth inequality by and large have worse worse health in the population you know what. you're rich or poor worse education were lower. educational achievement

whether you were poor or rich more violence in society which no one wants you know high rates of incarceration and the key thing is economic instability. those during asked about with national people's action and one of the issues that he just brought up was instability as we've seen in other countries so one things we're trying to get is why are more people revolting in the united states despite their situation and some analysts suggest that there's a culture of fear in the united states before we get to that we have some analysis i want to play a video that's just come out of a spot raid earlier this month in arizona the sheriff's department just released this video and what you see is the view from the helmet cam of one of the officers i'm going to talk you through but let's let's roll that video. so this is the swat . that siren you just heard is what according to authorities was supposed to warn the

people inside the family inside that the police were there to serve a search warrant you know they were running. they not like. you could hear it. they banged on the door. and what you are about to see is the swat team opening fire here hearing seventy one rounds being shot hitting graner sixty times they killed him and the swat team his attorney said that graner had a rifle when the swat team entered and that he had said i've got something for you and that the team opened fire and his wife told a.b.c. affiliate in tucson that she and her husband didn't know the men breaking into her home were swat officers now this is a father of two he's a former marine who had served twice in iraq and the swat team believe he was associated with a marijuana smuggling operation that's what the warrant was for he had no prior record nothing illegal was found in his home his four year old was at the house at

the time he you know who knows what he saw and originally the police said that the suspect fired turns out he did not and no disciplinary action has been taken that happened earlier this month the beginning of the month now earlier i was joined by george henninger he's founder of survive and thrive t.v. we talked about the impact of these kind of tactics on people's sense of their rights but i first asked him how this video sits with him. it doesn't sit well with me at all in fact i'm getting inundated with images and videos on the internet of police abuse and police police authoritarianism you know i'm a pretty mainstream conservative guy but when i see police officers disregard the constitution and step all over our civil rights and our rights to live freely i mean this seriously upsets me and there is a culture of fear in america from the conservatives and the people on the left that we don't we won't stand for this and there will not be

a revolution in less people can get it through the heads of police officers that they can't commit these types of crimes on the american people and the same time you know we just saw a report earlier that people are being imprisoned in some cases they're going jail time for debt collectors fines and in addition you know we've seen that twenty six hundred arrests have been made since obama took office and activists all of this do you think that is as you said that you believe that this is a culture of fear or do you think that people really feel that they can't speak their mind anymore hit the street if they do are they afraid that they're going to be arrested i prayed that they're going to be found out that they're in debt and be put in jail i mean what do you how do you accept them. well as we as the crimes of the federal reserve and the crimes of our government and the military industrial complex start to unfold and we start seeing higher inflation and people can't

afford food they're not going to be able to hide it so you're fooling yourself if you don't think that the government is going to come down hard on anybody that is a so-called activist these activists are going to be called terrorists and they're going to use the authority of the state to come down hard on us so what i'm looking for in the future as we see price increases in food as we see people not being able to hold a level a basic standard of living the government is going to distract us with either a war or externally another war or in some cases i believe they're going to use the military or police of authorities against the american people i'm talking martial law rounding up of individuals that can afford to pay for it necessary items and put them in camps that's what i believe a vengefully this is going to lead to an oblique connection there from george tenet

our founder of survive and thrive t.v. now as we're on the topic of war which he mentioned the united states continues to plunge money and resources into the nato military operation in libya but now possibly a new hope for diplomacy is coming out of the g. eight summit and of the front it's wrapped up russia has now joined international pressure against colonel gadhafi in libya speaking to close russian president dmitry medvedev confirmed that russia will be sending an envoy to meet the rebels and benghazi and moscow has agreed to become a peace mediator in libya for more r.t. correspondent anything now we brings us the very latest from france. new world new ideas host france put that concept on the g eight table at a time when it looks like old ways aren't working a war in libya on the front line with the euro crisis in the background leads to questions like this you know it is the man who saved tens of thousands of civilians

and garcia will he be known as the man who wants to economic ruin and never ending war in libya he must go g eight leaders agreed word for word in their declaration about the taffy saying he has lost all legitimacy now it's understood behind closed doors there was harsh debate on the sidelines russia was asked to step in and broker a cease fire it accepted and will send an envoy and we are in touch with mosul it's the new forces in benghazi and representatives. we haven't broken a diplomatic ties but i think it's useful in any case because we're trying to make closer approaches that use only reasons for the escalation of violence which is still ongoing and we discussed it at the g eight declaration says that we could have you regime has lost its legitimacy you must step down russia's approach to interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign nations differs dramatically from the west which appears eager to back some countries but not others it's interesting

to intervene in libya it does not suit us to intervene in bahrain those and those rational economic political it's not iraq you need to. do it nations agreed up twenty five billion dollars support package to arab nations that have toppled autocratic regimes and are struggling to build so-called new democracies on the euro there were statements like this to school or to go up because the euro is you everything that gets raised in the future the euro will threaten europe as a whole so while huge spending cuts continue in an attempt to prevent euro extinction so will the mission in libya and the spending of billions create leaders my. i've reached consensus on khadafi but can the west now afford to push pick and choose politics even further russia's deputy foreign minister claims a resolution on syria won't even be read let alone signed by russia after the disaster in libya and he's now artsy there.