peace and freedom party is ending empire you know abolishing the cia abolishing all of these agencies that are for oppression and then violence and then using that money or human needs i watched the presidential debate last week and they kept on talking about entitlement but then most entitlements are called human rights and so we need a party that puts human need a corporate greed. we just recently had joel stein on and i asked her about this and i just want to get your take as well what do you say to people who continue to vote for the lesser of two evils mentality get trapped in that paradigm and consider anything other than voting for one of the two establishment candidates will perpetuate the system as a wasted vote well i think that. you know that's really easy the two corporate parties the democrats the republicans are the party of last great they're the party of the war machine they're the party of economic. oppression and environmental devastation so if you actually give your precious vote some one of those parties you're supporting things that are anti human they don't own o

and peace. that means unlike most major political parties, we support of economic freedom and social freedom.nd the question we are going to address today as to is to what extent the tea party movement shares those libertarian values in toto. we have with us today the authors of the new cato -- tea party pena and is actually a breakthrough and certainly brings information to the table that has been missing and that is our study, the libertarian verse of a tea party, so you can find free copies here at the event or if you're at home you can go to our web site cato.org and download a copy for free. david kirby and emily mcclintock said three and first we will turn to david kirby. david kirby's vice president of development and manages freedom works, and rowing fundraising operations. he is also a policy analyst at the cato institute. before joining freedom works david served as campaign executive director for the institute for humane studies at george mason university where he led a multi-million dollar fund-raising campaign for ihs's 50th anniversary. david is also executive director of the am

and peace. we support of economic freedom and social freedom. today we will talk about to what extent the tea party movement shares those values. today, we have guessed that brings information to the table that has been missing. that is the libertarian roots of the tea party. if you are at home, you can go to cato.org endowment a copy for free. -- and download a copy for free. today, we will turn first to david kirby, vice president of development and growing fund- raising operations. he is also an analyst here at the cato institute. he served as the campaign executive for george mason university. and you have interned for senator ted kennedy. [laughter] both of which appear with cato, and cato.org, and now, a libertarian roots of the tea party. all of the leading national magazines on politics, politico, national review online, and other publications. his research has been sighted at the wall street journal. he holds a master's degree from the kennedy school at harvard. he also has a bachelor's degree in lettering. david? [applause] >> want to start with a story about the matchup of conservatives.

and contraception. >> i'm one of those catholics. [laughter] >> in this case the institution i believe still has religious freedom, but other parties are involved, and they have their freedom, too. their religious freedom and peaceholic institutions receive government funding for their operations. so, you have here the attention of the two different conflicting rights going on here. the rules proposed by the obama administration first said that peace church institutions had to provide contraceptive health care insurance for their employees. not only the u.s. catholic bishops but many other catholics and many other proponents of the religious liberty oppose the obama administration regulations but to its great credit the obama administration then proposed a compromise that such employees would be covered for contraception but the institution would not have to pay for it. now ms. fluke called that a brilliant solution as i recall, and in many ways i think it was. here was a conflict situation how can you keep everybody happy. now, no compromise is perfect by definition. but, nonetheless, it seems to me this was an ideal way to handle the situation. unfortunately, the united states bishops failed to go along with t

prominently members of the party,-- in greece complaining about the your mean union and really mocking the idea of you winning a peace prize. >> well, in dem om-- democracy, freedom speech, that is what we have in europe and we don't want to change that. so people are free to criticize. but if you take a look at the facts, you know, 70 years ago,here s a second world war in the territory of the earth, millions of people have died, 50 years ago, countries who are now in the european union were behind the iron curtain. you know. 30 years ago 40rx years ago my country was in a dictato dictatorship. you know, i don't think people can forget that. we don't forget that. and we want to prevent it from happening again. and that's why we are so committed to this political construction. of course we have difficulties today, you know, financial crisis, they had had a particar impact in euro area, particularly some of the most vulnerable countries in the area. if you look in europe, solutions are always pointing to further and deeper integration. no one is suggesting to sort of stop the european union. everybody suggesting to deepen it. >> suarez: but when are you on the str