. >> my name is peter goodman and i am a native san franciscoan and i have been in the picture framing business on polk street to 40 years, the strength of the merchant district of polk street is that it is made up a lot of little businesses, independent businesses, and unlike fillmore street or union street or chest nut street, reducing parking would be the death of many of my friends and neighbors. my picture framing business would deteriorate, you can't carry a oil painting or a valuable piece of artwork on a bike or in the backpack. it is critical that the parking remains the way that it is. now as a property owner i never received a notice from the mta of this change, none of us have. aren't we part of what is going on? this is going to effect property values. and it is going to effect rents. and we have not been notified. they are friends of the small business associations. and the merchants, they hold the critical planning meeting in december and i worked 12 hours a day, six days a week to stay alive and that is when they hold the critical meeting and say that they reach out? th

peter goodman is the executive business editor. lost in the political scandal is a simple fact. the internal revenue service was acting in the public interest when it opted to train its -- and tea party and affiliated groups. portraying taxation is a form of tyranny. the tea party is no less of a mass celebration than the invasion of the american people 37. >> joe, there's a fundamental mistake in that. they were not training auditoring power. these are groups applying for a government benefit. >> but that's not the point. what you actually see in print is that there was nothing -- and i heard you say something that maybe they thought they were doing the right thing because these nasty tea party people need to be stopped. >> i just think that's more spin on the ball. >> even brian williams, i was watching last night, and there is something -- even brian williams -- >> do you think that it is a to go the soviet union's way, the idea that the irs could be used as a -- i mean, they can control your life. they can put you in jail. you have no recourse. they own you. and it's a frigh

all we need is people like amy goodman and peter and c-span2 hold this kind of convention. people think it will be controlled and they hear about a a convention, but it's just open discussion. there's nothing to control. this would allow for this discussion you are talking about where it that people can actually come together and build a consensus. so at any point will c-span and democracy now start talking about needs and her political connections? >> guest: is growing a little bit more. >> host: i'm sorry, moving onto another caller. go ahead. >> guest: i would have to make the comments instead of talking about something i don't know as much about. >> caller: you brought tears to my eyes for the first time watching c-span, making your remarkable witness. i can now listen to "democracy now!" live on my station. i appreciate all of the of ability to capture this on c-span. i would like to recommend that you have more authors and book reports but also have stories to tell, particularly about 9/11 and the war on drugs. thank you very much. >> guest: we talk about book authors

goodman. [applause] >> thank you, jeff. it is an honor to be here with all of my colleagues and to peter at the national conference on media reform is critical right now. especially on this weekend, 45 years ago, april 4, 19 68, dr. martin luther king was gunned down in memphis, tennessee. he had gone there to organize with sanitation workers. for that crime, he had lost his life. a year to the day before he was killed, april 4, 1967, dr. king spoke at riverside church in new york city. he uttered those words about the united he loved, about states, that it is the the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. was speaking out against the vietnam war, something even his closest inner circle warned him against. he said you are the most powerful person on earth, you got the civil rights act, you got him to agree with you, why would you alienate him now? dr. king said, this was all a seamless web, this concern about human rights at home and abroad. for the next year, he was increasingly outspoken about war. , fromsponse of the media the "new york times" to "the whatngton post," decrying he said at the riverside church,