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- If you listen to Benito Mussolini,

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he knew a thing of two about fascism.

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He said that fascism is the merger

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of state and corporate powers.

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Now people will deny that and they'll say

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that's not exactly what he said,

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but if you really look into
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(cheerful piano tune)

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- [Voiceover] Milk is an
important part of every good diet.

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Use the best grade of
milk available to you.

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Disease may be contracted through

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drinking unsanitary raw milk.

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(milk splashes)

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(sirens wail)

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- [Voiceover] In 2010, there
was a simultaneous raid

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on two different locations in California.

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Heavily armed agents stormed
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arresting several US citizens

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for dealing in a restricted substance.

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Now drug raids happen
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it's just one of the ways the authorities

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keep us free from malicious
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Only this wasn't a drug raid.

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The substance being sold
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or even bootleg hooch.

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It was milk.

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- This is an example of
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the government is in routing
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In this case, the government operates

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on a public interest
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is inherently unsafe,
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for bacteria and because
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the argument is, it
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increased risk for consumers such that,

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it shouldn't be available, this is the

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position of the Food
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And the government cracks
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and they do so with brute force,

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sending in storm troopers essentially,

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and shutting down the milk
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and confiscating all of the milk,

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regardless of whether
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- [Voiceover] The FDA raided
this organic market in order

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to keep us safe from the
dangers of unpasteurized milk,

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buying and selling
unpasteurized milk that is.

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They have no problem with
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if, say, you find a
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and decide to milk it yourself,

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(mooing)

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but a reputable farmer trying to

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sell some to willing
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Although this organic market was a club,

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with each member having
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the potential risk of drinking raw milk,

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this was not good enough for the FDA.

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Had these people not realized that

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raw milk is a gateway food, what next,

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people eating cheese, knocking back

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raw oysters, sushi, or
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Luckily the FDA was there to step in

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and save these adults, at gunpoint,

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from the dangers of raw milk.

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- The reason why pasteurized milk

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doesn't come under this scrutiny,

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and the reason why raw
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eggs, raw oysters, sushi, why they don't

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come under the same FDA scrutiny,

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is that the major milk manufacturers,

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are a principle lobby within the FDA.

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They have very small
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and so if in Whole Foods and other places

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there are significant numbers of consumers

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who come in to buy raw milk products.

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on the large milk processors.

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- [Voiceover] The California milk raids

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were not an isolated event.

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Over the past few years,
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all across the US to crack down

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on the sale of many organic products,

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but despite any claims of
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one thing is clear, the actions of the

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regulatory agencies, and by extension,

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the politicians that manage them,

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are not motivated by any
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to stay in power, that takes money.

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- The problem with the US political system

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is that it revolves around money.

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And so, immediately, that
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of those who can afford to play

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in the system and those who can't.

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To run for office, you need
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you need about 11 million
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So if you don't have
money, where do you go?

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You go to the people who have a hand

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stretched out with money,

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ready to fund your campaign,

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but they're gonna want
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because, of course, they're not giving

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this money for charitable reasons.

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It very clearly advantages big businesses

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because they have more capacity

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to devote resources to influence buying.

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- [Voiceover] Political
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just another arsenal in the marketing

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tool box of large companies.

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Only instead of promoting themselves,

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they use this influence to
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and the key to it all are lobbyists.

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- People think that we live in a

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free market society, and we don't.

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Big government and big business

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are way too closely aligned today,

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especially in the United States,

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and this, you know, is
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We have cronyism, we don't have capitalism

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in the United States, especially when it

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comes to the military, and then

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big medicine, big food, like Monsanto,

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you know, with all the GMOs and stuff.

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Most people don't want it, but yet

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it's being forced on
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such leverage in Congress through

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all the lobbying of the food industry.

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- [Voiceover] So, what is lobbying?

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Well, simply, lobbying is the act of

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influencing decisions made by legislators,

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and regulatory agencies, you know,

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the guys who make the
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who exert this influence
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Well connected professionals with

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slick suits and slicker tongues.

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Lobbyists tend to be experts in

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the fields they lobby for,

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they advise law makers on how to make sure

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Americans are getting the most

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benefit from the laws they pass,

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while also reducing potential harm.

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It's a good idea, why wouldn't
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Here's where things get screwy.

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Sometimes the law makers decide

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the cash is greener on the other side,

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so they become lobbyists themselves.

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They leave government and join

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a private company, taking their

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connections and influence with them.

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This phenomenon is called
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people going from regulating an industry

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to working in that same industry,

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and sometimes back and
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Corporations love having
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on their payroll, so they do everything

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they can to lure them over,

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and for their part,
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by making a few choice laws to

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benefit their future employers.

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comes a host of new laws that benefit

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some companies, hinder others,

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but business keeps rolling and in the end,

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no one really gets hurt,
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- You'll see members of Congress

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who will take on issues defending

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one particular special interest,

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and then go out to work for that

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special interest after they leave,

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and the same is true of
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Iin fact, that's considered the normal way

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to do business in Washington.

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- Big government and big business

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essentially are the same, are they not?

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What's the difference
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and a government agency,
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buys the politicians
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and the politicians do as they're told

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in passing laws that the corporation

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would have passed had the
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- [Voiceover] Sadly, this
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and it's not specific
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rather, it seems that many of the agencies

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which have the power to influence

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our daily lives are corrupted
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- When you have delegated
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and government officials and agencies

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to regulate the economy, it
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It's too tempting for people not to use

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that power for their own personal agendas,

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and the revolving door is merely proof

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of the fact that when you give government

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and it's agencies the
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it always, always, will
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- Nine tenths of all Federal law

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is not the product of those we elect,

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but rather the product
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of these bureaucratic agencies.

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So we do not have a
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in the United States, what we have instead

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is an unlimited bureaucratic alogarten

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in which these bureaucratic agencies

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operate largely without
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- This isn't a representative
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they only represent the most powerful

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and the people that give them
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The corporations, the multi nationals

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have taken over, whether it's agriculture,

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whether it's broadcasting, whether it's

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pharmaceutical, whether it's retail,

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you name the field, a few control it all.

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- [Voiceover] Slow down,
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- [Voiceover] Laws and regulations

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are essential to any modern society.

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There were some activities that need

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to be controlled or prevented for the sake

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of the common good, which side of the road

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you can drive on, whether a five year old

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should be able to buy a bottle of Jack,

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how many return trips you can make

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to a buffet in a single sitting.

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(glass shatters)

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Okay, maybe scratch that last
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But with so much collusion
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and the industries they regulate,

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the laws governing our daily lives

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are becoming excessive, unnecessary,

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and often, downright nonsensical.

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Keeping the public safe and free

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is no longer the primary goal
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- There is little done
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that is not influenced by a choice

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to favor one special
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with a public interest veneer,

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but underneath they're the product of

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negotiation between industry
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to create a barrier to
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actions taken have enormous
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both eliminating competition to a company,

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and enhancing their economic status.

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- [Voiceover] This relationship between

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big business and government agencies

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not only affects their
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but all of us in our day to day lives.

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- What you wanna do in economy

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is you wanna produce the
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that are in greatest demand,

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and no one knows that except the market,

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but when politicians come in and they

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substitute their own judgement,

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generally they're not even trying

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to outguess the market, and figure out

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what's best for us, they're generally

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just trying to give an advantage

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to one particular individual or

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a group of individuals at
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and so there are clear winners and losers.

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Whoever's on the receiving
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or, you know, a government expenditure,

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versus who's getting regulated or taxed,

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but regardless of the
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collectively we lose,
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resources are allocated in
a less than optimal way.

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- If you can pay enough money,

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you can make sure that you win

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on whatever issue you are concerned about.

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Maybe it's stopping legislation,

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maybe it's to get something passed,

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but ultimately, you're
looking to shape policy,

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and that policy has real
impact in our daily lives.

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It shapes what kinds of product
we can buy at the store,

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it shapes how safe those products are,

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it shapes what we are allowed
to know about those products.

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- [Voiceover] The FDA's war
against unpasteurized milk

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is just one example of the way

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large food producers are
using their connections

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in Washington to limit our
choices at the grocery store,

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while increasing their own profits,

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but it is by no means the only example.

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- Big government is in a
collusion with big agriculture.

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There were never any scientific studies

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that determined that GMO food

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is equivalent to
conventionally grown food.

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The Food and Drug Administration in

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the United States said,
"Well, Monsanta has vouched

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"for the safety of GMO
food, and Monsanto said

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"the FDA has certified it is safe."

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That's big business, and
big government together.

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(peaceful music)

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- [Voiceover] But, some
small, independent farms

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are choosing not to
use patented GMO crops,

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or work for larger agribusiness concerns,

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some just wanna supply their local area

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with nutritious, farm fresh food.

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One such farmer is Joel Salatin.

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He runs his farm based on an innovative

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and radical new technique which he calls,

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letting his animals out to pasture.

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Sounds crazy, but maybe
he's on to something.

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- We have a very different set of,

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of production and processing criteria.

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First of all, our animals move,

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they're not in great big confinement

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animal feeding operations, our animals

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don't do drugs, we don't vaccinate,

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we don't medicate, and we run our farm

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on the closed carbon cycle, as opposed to

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buying in chemical
fertilizer from outside.

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So, you know, the localization,

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the carbon cycle, animals move around,

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the lack of pharmaceuticals, all of that

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is 180 degrees different than today's

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industrial, global,
petroleum based food system.

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- [Voiceover] It turns out,
there is a healthy market

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for traditionally farmed meat and produce,

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so why are there so few independent farms

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operating around the country?

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- [Voiceover] The story of Chicago

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and its great stock yards
symbolized the amazing

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economic revolution that was underway.

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On the farms, machines
and improved techniques

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of agriculture began to
produce an abundance of food

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for consumption both at home and abroad.

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The new world of mass production

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required increasing
concentrations of capital,

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pooling the investments of many people,

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the corporation became the means

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to starting vast new enterprises.

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- The globalization and
corporatization of everything

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is gradually making it
more and more difficult

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for independent farmers,
independent people

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in the food system to
market to their neighbors,

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to friends, to family, to whatever,

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and you do think everyday about

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what bureaucrat is going
to invade my life today.

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Every single time the government

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penetrates the market place, it always

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favors the biggest players
because they're the ones

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that are able to buy favors to curry

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concessionary privileges
in a regulatory climate.

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And so I know that many of the

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consumer advocacy folks
mean well when they say,

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"We need more oversight,
we need more regulations

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"for this bad thing that
happened over here.".

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What they don't realize
is that by the time

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that regulation actually gets enacted,

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and filters down to the farm level,

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it always, always, always,
hurts small producers

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and helps the large producers.

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- It's the revolving door, don't
eat healthy, only eat crap.

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A few companies control everything,

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there's only a small group
of agribusiness companies

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that control the entire food production.

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They're putting everybody out of business.

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They don't want any competition.

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- The small farmer's always a threat.

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If 50 million people in the United States

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decide on their own that they would

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prefer to buy their
produce from small farmers

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or at Farmers Markets because
they think it's healthier,

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that's a defection out of the system.

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The government doesn't want that,

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and Monsanto certainly doesn't want it

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nor do any of the big
agribusiness companies want it.

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So better to do anything possible

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to wipe out the small farmer in America,

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make him go bankrupt,
make him sell his land,

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which is then taken over by some larger,

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agricultural entity,

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until eventually the entire
food chain is controlled

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by big corporations and big government.

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- [Voiceover] The regulations forced upon

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small independent farms like Joel's,

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have created a hurdle which limits

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the size and scope of his operation,

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and whether these regulations
are well intentioned,

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or imposed just to give an
unfair advantage to the big guys,

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the end result is that
many of the products

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Joel would like to sell
have been deemed illegal.

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- The things that we would like to do

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from curing meat to selling
raw milk, for example,

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you know, we would love to sell raw milk,

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and we have customers who would love

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to get raw milk, but it's illegal.

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We just had a health department inspector,

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they told us that our slaughtering shed

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for the poultry was illegal,
and wanted to close us down,

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and their contention was
that if it's actually

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open to the air, it's
inherently unsanitary.

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(chickens clucking)

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What's so fascinating is a feed lot,

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in deplorable conditions,
with no trespassing signs,

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gets away with almost anything,

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but because we are extremely transparent,

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outdoors, you know, out
here, it makes us vulnerable

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to the anthropomorphism
of ignorant people.

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- [Voiceover] You're
probably thinking that

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these agricultural regulations
are meaningless to you.

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If these regulations are
limiting your choices,

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how come you can walk down any aisle

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in the supermarket and find
dozens of different brands,

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and hundreds of different foods?

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I mean, how much choice do we really need?

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- The average person walks
into the supermarket right,

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and they see all this
stuff on the shelves.

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They say, "What do you
mean I don't have choice?

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"I can get Count Chochula
breakfast cereal,

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"Fruit Loops, Cracker
Jacks," whatever, okay,

408
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"I can get potato chips from
10 different companies."

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You know, "What do you
mean I don't have choice?"

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And so, it's a hard sell, because people

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have a hard time understanding
what they can't get.

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You know, what you can't get is raw milk,

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what you can't get is
backyard slaughtered poultry

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that never went through a
great big processing plant.

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There's a tremendous amount of

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artisanal heritage type food
that is unavailable now,

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because it has been
criminalized and outlawed.

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- [Voiceover] In the end,
it comes down to risk.

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Some things, like raw
milk, are just too risky

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to let out to the public.

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After all, contaminated raw milk could,

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theoretically, be as harmful as poison.

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00:21:50,917 --> 00:21:53,741
(plane engine roars)

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Actual poison, on the other
hand, is apparently fine.

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00:22:00,126 --> 00:22:02,234
- If you wanna talk about risk,

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00:22:02,234 --> 00:22:06,401
isn't it fascinating that the
very entity that gave us DDT,

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00:22:07,996 --> 00:22:11,968
that gave us Mad Cow,
that gave us cloning,

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00:22:11,968 --> 00:22:15,855
that gave us GMOs, these
are very risky things.

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I mean, whether or not
you believe in 'em or not,

430
00:22:17,853 --> 00:22:22,020
you have to appreciate those
are all very high risk things.

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00:22:23,292 --> 00:22:26,716
And they're the ones that we say,

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"I wanna put my faith in you for my food."

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00:22:31,855 --> 00:22:35,785
I think people participate in
risky behavior all the time.

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00:22:35,785 --> 00:22:37,644
You know, I think if
you're feeding your kids

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pasteurized milk, Cocoa
Puffs, Count Chochula cereal,

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00:22:41,127 --> 00:22:44,257
and Fruit Loops, that's risky behavior.

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00:22:44,257 --> 00:22:46,300
But the government has decided that

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that's not risky behavior.

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What's risky behavior is
drinking a glass of raw milk.

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- [Voiceover] When it comes down to it,

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00:22:56,515 --> 00:22:59,584
not being able to get raw
milk isn't that big a deal.

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00:22:59,584 --> 00:23:01,870
I mean, who needs raw milk when

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00:23:01,870 --> 00:23:04,695
you can get deep fried mozzarella sticks,

444
00:23:04,695 --> 00:23:07,277
or tasty, tasty chicken fingers?

445
00:23:07,277 --> 00:23:09,860
After all, food is food, right?

446
00:23:11,528 --> 00:23:12,799
- I think it's important to realize

447
00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:17,338
that in 1979 when the first
USDA Food Pyramid came out,

448
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you know, with grains on the bottom,

449
00:23:19,778 --> 00:23:22,853
that was the beginning of the
obesity and Type II epidemic

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because it put
carbohydrates on the bottom.

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And, you know, it's
quite a profound reality

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that America today would
be far, far healthier

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00:23:35,273 --> 00:23:38,595
if the government had
never told us what to eat.

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(oil sizzles)

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- [Voiceover] So, maybe
you overdue it slightly

456
00:23:43,299 --> 00:23:45,926
on the saturated fats
and the imitation cheese,

457
00:23:45,926 --> 00:23:50,268
who cares, we've got access to
the best drugs in the world.

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00:23:50,268 --> 00:23:53,386
Whether you have a
resting heart rate of 116,

459
00:23:53,386 --> 00:23:55,448
that third cheeseburger has you sweating

460
00:23:55,448 --> 00:23:58,277
like Shaq at the line, or
you're just feeling queasy

461
00:23:58,277 --> 00:23:59,853
from all the drugs you're taking.

462
00:23:59,853 --> 00:24:02,860
There are drugs out there to help you,

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00:24:02,860 --> 00:24:05,646
and we can all agree, if there's one area

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00:24:05,646 --> 00:24:09,696
where we want strict regulations,
it's pharmaceuticals.

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After all, no one wants unsafe medicine

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00:24:12,476 --> 00:24:14,643
getting out to the public.

467
00:24:16,427 --> 00:24:18,244
- There are, of course, several drugs,

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00:24:18,244 --> 00:24:22,947
many drugs, that are
helpful, but what concerns me

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is that a significant minority,

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significant minority
of drugs that have been

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approved by FDA, have been
approved over the FDA's

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own medical reviewers'
objections on safety grounds,

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and many, many, unsafe
drugs have been admitted

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into the marketplace that actually

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00:24:40,770 --> 00:24:43,549
cause death, liver
failure, kidney failure,

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00:24:43,549 --> 00:24:46,660
heart attacks, these
drugs are on the market,

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00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:50,327
many of them still, and
are approved yearly.

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- [Voiceover] It is thanks to
such rigorous quality control

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00:24:54,976 --> 00:24:58,350
by the FDA that a drug
like Vioxx, which caused

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over 100,000 heart attacks,
tens of thousands of deaths,

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00:25:03,315 --> 00:25:06,318
was swiftly pulled from the market,

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after only five years, and 2.5 billion

483
00:25:11,344 --> 00:25:15,094
in profit for the
pharmaceutical giant Merck.

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00:25:16,059 --> 00:25:18,755
- When an FDA commissioner
knowingly approves

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00:25:18,755 --> 00:25:21,695
an unsafe drug like Vioxx and keeps it

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on the market even though there are

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00:25:23,252 --> 00:25:25,910
140,000 heart attacks from Vioxx,

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00:25:25,910 --> 00:25:28,987
and 60,000 deaths from it, and still

489
00:25:28,987 --> 00:25:32,320
stands in defense of that company Merck,

490
00:25:33,681 --> 00:25:35,034
there's something wrong here,

491
00:25:35,034 --> 00:25:36,588
there's something dreadfully wrong.

492
00:25:36,588 --> 00:25:39,164
Why can't that person be held accountable,

493
00:25:39,164 --> 00:25:40,802
and yet they get away with it.

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Not only do they get away with it,

495
00:25:42,174 --> 00:25:44,474
but in the case of the
commissioner who did that,

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00:25:44,474 --> 00:25:47,176
Mr. Crawford, he ends up being employed

497
00:25:47,176 --> 00:25:50,119
by a company called Policy Directions Inc

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00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,546
at a very high capacity, and that

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00:25:52,546 --> 00:25:54,629
company represents Merck.

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00:25:55,532 --> 00:25:58,282
(dramatic music)

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00:26:20,179 --> 00:26:23,451
(machine hisses)

502
00:26:23,451 --> 00:26:24,472
- [Voiceover] Perhaps the Vioxx

503
00:26:24,472 --> 00:26:26,764
incident was just a one off event.

504
00:26:26,764 --> 00:26:30,258
There are a whole host of
helpful drugs in the marketplace,

505
00:26:30,258 --> 00:26:33,970
and the FDA shouldn't be
scrutinized for one little slip up.

506
00:26:33,970 --> 00:26:38,601
I mean, it's not like this
is happening regularly.

507
00:26:38,601 --> 00:26:41,389
- The FDA says that all of these

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00:26:41,389 --> 00:26:45,556
pharmaceutical drugs that
are everywhere in America,

509
00:26:46,453 --> 00:26:48,621
they're safe and
effective, that's how they

510
00:26:48,621 --> 00:26:52,833
get out into doctors
offices and drugstores,

511
00:26:52,833 --> 00:26:55,326
and that's why people ingest them.

512
00:26:55,326 --> 00:27:00,314
Well, 106,000 people every
year in the United States

513
00:27:00,314 --> 00:27:04,654
are killed by FDA approved
pharmaceutical drugs.

514
00:27:04,654 --> 00:27:07,472
The FDA admits this on their own website,

515
00:27:07,472 --> 00:27:10,949
but they say nothing about
taking responsibility for it,

516
00:27:10,949 --> 00:27:14,199
it's just another medical fact to them.

517
00:27:16,382 --> 00:27:18,876
- [Voiceover] Huh, over 100,000 deaths

518
00:27:18,876 --> 00:27:22,041
from prescription drugs every year.

519
00:27:22,041 --> 00:27:24,233
You'd think with all the stringent testing

520
00:27:24,233 --> 00:27:27,965
the FDA does before it lets
a drug out onto the market,

521
00:27:27,965 --> 00:27:32,132
they'd detect some of these
life threatening side effects.

522
00:27:33,201 --> 00:27:34,804
- [Voiceover] These are
the bottles which finally

523
00:27:34,804 --> 00:27:36,853
will find their way to doctor's offices

524
00:27:36,853 --> 00:27:38,862
and clinics all over the country.

525
00:27:38,862 --> 00:27:40,415
Even as they reach the end of the

526
00:27:40,415 --> 00:27:43,331
production line, other
tests are in progress

527
00:27:43,331 --> 00:27:45,938
and samples are sent to the government.

528
00:27:45,938 --> 00:27:47,572
The manufacturer's protocol is

529
00:27:47,572 --> 00:27:50,808
first reviewed, then subjected to

530
00:27:50,808 --> 00:27:54,558
a whole battery of
complex, scientific tests.

531
00:27:56,061 --> 00:28:00,124
- The FDA's whole system
of drug review is bogus.

532
00:28:00,124 --> 00:28:02,821
It's designed to protect and advance

533
00:28:02,821 --> 00:28:04,628
the interest of the drug industry.

534
00:28:04,628 --> 00:28:05,726
A lot of people don't realize this,

535
00:28:05,726 --> 00:28:09,226
but FDA never tests the drugs it approves.

536
00:28:10,726 --> 00:28:14,005
FDA does no independent testing at all.

537
00:28:14,005 --> 00:28:16,990
It relies entirely on the testing

538
00:28:16,990 --> 00:28:19,521
done by the drug advocate, the proponent

539
00:28:19,521 --> 00:28:21,601
of the drug application that has

540
00:28:21,601 --> 00:28:24,472
a self interest and a
conflict of interest,

541
00:28:24,472 --> 00:28:29,317
that party is looked to for
all of the drug testing.

542
00:28:29,317 --> 00:28:31,484
They do their own testing.

543
00:28:32,552 --> 00:28:34,842
- [Voiceover] So the FDA
does no independent testing

544
00:28:34,842 --> 00:28:38,011
of the drugs it approves, but with so many

545
00:28:38,011 --> 00:28:40,957
new drugs being manufactured,
can you blame them

546
00:28:40,957 --> 00:28:42,088
for outsourcing the testing

547
00:28:42,088 --> 00:28:44,274
to the drug companies themselves?

548
00:28:44,274 --> 00:28:47,748
After all, if you can't
trust a multi-billion dollar

549
00:28:47,748 --> 00:28:51,665
pharmaceutical conglomerate,
who can you trust?

550
00:28:52,540 --> 00:28:54,429
- There have been multiple
instances of corruption

551
00:28:54,429 --> 00:28:57,510
in this process where negative information

552
00:28:57,510 --> 00:28:59,930
has been kept away from the FDA

553
00:28:59,930 --> 00:29:02,230
so the FDA will approve a drug.

554
00:29:02,230 --> 00:29:06,029
In fact, Sanofi-Aventis,
with this drug Ketek,

555
00:29:06,029 --> 00:29:08,850
relied principally on a clinical trial

556
00:29:08,850 --> 00:29:12,465
that FDA's medical reviewers
were sharp on the case

557
00:29:12,465 --> 00:29:14,826
discovered didn't even happen.

558
00:29:14,826 --> 00:29:16,159
They made it up.

559
00:29:17,213 --> 00:29:21,812
And there were FBI
investigations and prosecutions.

560
00:29:21,812 --> 00:29:23,194
But what did the FDA do?

561
00:29:23,194 --> 00:29:26,228
The medical reviewers said
that the commissioner,

562
00:29:26,228 --> 00:29:30,133
gee, they relied on a
fraud for this application.

563
00:29:30,133 --> 00:29:31,674
We should deny it.

564
00:29:31,674 --> 00:29:34,373
But the FDA commissioner granted it.

565
00:29:34,373 --> 00:29:36,514
He put Ketek into the market.

566
00:29:36,514 --> 00:29:38,853
So you see, it's that degree of influence

567
00:29:38,853 --> 00:29:40,793
and corruption that makes it impossible

568
00:29:40,793 --> 00:29:44,126
for the American people to be protected.

569
00:29:50,373 --> 00:29:52,737
- [Voiceover] With drugs
being approved by the FDA,

570
00:29:52,737 --> 00:29:55,837
despite the objection of
their own medical reviewers,

571
00:29:55,837 --> 00:29:57,937
there can be little
doubt the revolving door

572
00:29:57,937 --> 00:30:01,801
is alive and well in the
pharmaceutical industry.

573
00:30:01,801 --> 00:30:04,187
And just in case you do have some

574
00:30:04,187 --> 00:30:06,197
tiny shred of doubt remaining,

575
00:30:06,197 --> 00:30:09,056
consider the case of Billy Tauzin.

576
00:30:09,056 --> 00:30:13,223
You may want to have some
anti-nausea pills on standby.

577
00:30:14,993 --> 00:30:17,661
- Congressman Billy
Tauzin was the head of the

578
00:30:17,661 --> 00:30:19,783
energy and commerce
committee in the House.

579
00:30:19,783 --> 00:30:22,242
He was the man assigned
the task of ensuring

580
00:30:22,242 --> 00:30:24,584
that a provision would be put into the law

581
00:30:24,584 --> 00:30:27,679
that would prevent the entire government

582
00:30:27,679 --> 00:30:31,884
from negotiating down the
per unit price of drugs

583
00:30:31,884 --> 00:30:36,304
required to be acquired
under Medicare Part D,

584
00:30:36,304 --> 00:30:38,104
based on volume.

585
00:30:38,104 --> 00:30:40,715
So in other words, they're forced to pay

586
00:30:40,715 --> 00:30:44,625
whatever price the drug
industry sets per unit

587
00:30:44,625 --> 00:30:48,105
for the drugs purchased
under Medicare Part D.

588
00:30:48,105 --> 00:30:50,964
And that is something that
could enable a drug industry

589
00:30:50,964 --> 00:30:54,504
at its will to bring the nation
to its knees financially.

590
00:30:54,504 --> 00:30:57,444
And so it is that this
provision was put into

591
00:30:57,444 --> 00:30:59,664
the law and the Bush Administration.

592
00:30:59,664 --> 00:31:03,459
Tauzin left the government,
left his position in Congress,

593
00:31:03,459 --> 00:31:05,344
became the head of the
Pharmaceutical Research

594
00:31:05,344 --> 00:31:07,535
and Manufacturers Association.

595
00:31:07,535 --> 00:31:10,463
And made the highest
salary they had ever then

596
00:31:10,463 --> 00:31:13,630
paid to that date, $2.5 million a year

597
00:31:14,475 --> 00:31:17,806
as a compliment for his
selling out the nation

598
00:31:17,806 --> 00:31:20,223
to protect the drug industry.

599
00:31:22,846 --> 00:31:25,291
- [Voiceover] So while the
government may be choosing,

600
00:31:25,291 --> 00:31:28,031
often poorly, which food
and drugs they think

601
00:31:28,031 --> 00:31:30,490
are safe for us to have,
at least they aren't

602
00:31:30,490 --> 00:31:33,407
trying to force any of them on you.

603
00:31:34,590 --> 00:31:37,090
Except, perhaps, for vaccines.

604
00:31:39,131 --> 00:31:41,074
George Lambert is a representative of

605
00:31:41,074 --> 00:31:42,885
the New Hampshire statehouse.

606
00:31:42,885 --> 00:31:44,317
He has a leading proponent for

607
00:31:44,317 --> 00:31:47,234
vaccination of choice in his state.

608
00:31:49,918 --> 00:31:51,077
- When I got to the
statehouse, somebody asked me

609
00:31:51,077 --> 00:31:54,057
if I would work on a bill
for vaccination choice.

610
00:31:54,057 --> 00:31:56,797
The more research I did,
the more I found out that

611
00:31:56,797 --> 00:31:58,517
in the risk of an
epidemic, they can go out

612
00:31:58,517 --> 00:32:01,684
and vaccinate everyone without choice.

613
00:32:02,939 --> 00:32:05,060
- To say that vaccines are compulsory,

614
00:32:05,060 --> 00:32:08,560
which in the US is the struggle right now,

615
00:32:10,074 --> 00:32:13,074
every state has their own exemptions

616
00:32:14,459 --> 00:32:16,859
that parents can claim.

617
00:32:16,859 --> 00:32:19,839
But now, the push is on to say

618
00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:22,499
that we're gonna force
you to get vaccinated,

619
00:32:22,499 --> 00:32:23,919
whether you like it or not.

620
00:32:23,919 --> 00:32:27,099
You don't have the freedom to decide.

621
00:32:27,099 --> 00:32:29,280
- If we talk about medical
safety and freedom,

622
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:30,739
everybody should have the choice

623
00:32:30,739 --> 00:32:33,689
as of what medical procedures they want.

624
00:32:33,689 --> 00:32:35,359
You can get a medical exclusion,

625
00:32:35,359 --> 00:32:37,039
you can get a religious exclusion,

626
00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:39,399
but you can't get a
consciousness exclusion.

627
00:32:39,399 --> 00:32:41,489
We had an issue in New Hampshire

628
00:32:41,489 --> 00:32:44,376
a couple years ago where there were some

629
00:32:44,376 --> 00:32:46,441
injections that were contaminated,

630
00:32:46,441 --> 00:32:49,621
that might actually contain meningitis.

631
00:32:49,621 --> 00:32:51,142
But if you were required
to get a vaccination

632
00:32:51,142 --> 00:32:52,857
or an injection, how do you know

633
00:32:52,857 --> 00:32:54,703
the injection isn't contaminated?

634
00:32:54,703 --> 00:32:56,104
But if you want your
children to go to school

635
00:32:56,104 --> 00:32:58,223
or participate in any of
these other activities,

636
00:32:58,223 --> 00:33:00,024
the government says, "You either do this,

637
00:33:00,024 --> 00:33:01,774
"or you're excluded."

638
00:33:02,724 --> 00:33:04,884
That's the problem because
when the news says,

639
00:33:04,884 --> 00:33:07,004
"There's something that
puts your life at risk,"

640
00:33:07,004 --> 00:33:11,004
you should be able to
make an educated decision.

641
00:33:13,354 --> 00:33:14,626
- [Voiceover] That's what freedom really

642
00:33:14,626 --> 00:33:16,128
comes down to in the end.

643
00:33:16,128 --> 00:33:18,710
The freedom to decide, for good or bad,

644
00:33:18,710 --> 00:33:20,290
how you wanna live.

645
00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:22,050
And that freedom should not be overruled

646
00:33:22,050 --> 00:33:25,529
by the government, except
in the most extreme cases.

647
00:33:25,529 --> 00:33:29,696
Or to keep us safe from the
most diabolical threats.

648
00:33:30,814 --> 00:33:34,512
- [Voiceover] Weed, grass,
ganja, joint, dooby,

649
00:33:34,512 --> 00:33:38,217
doo, chronic, haste,
lobo, loco, loveboat, bud,

650
00:33:38,217 --> 00:33:40,817
buddah, blunt, pot,
pat, pin, cheeba-cheeba,

651
00:33:40,817 --> 00:33:44,772
four two zero, and
hasheesh or hash for short.

652
00:33:44,772 --> 00:33:48,154
No matter what you call it,
no matter what hip street led

653
00:33:48,154 --> 00:33:50,995
it's referred, or reefer to buy,

654
00:33:50,995 --> 00:33:53,055
it all comes from the same stash.

655
00:33:53,055 --> 00:33:54,638
It's all marijuana.

656
00:33:55,555 --> 00:33:58,388
(chilling scream)

657
00:34:00,195 --> 00:34:01,894
- [Voiceover] Marijuana, one of the most

658
00:34:01,894 --> 00:34:04,695
dangerous drugs known to mankind.

659
00:34:04,695 --> 00:34:07,004
Responsible for almost
as many deaths per year

660
00:34:07,004 --> 00:34:09,654
as asteroids or shark attacks,

661
00:34:09,654 --> 00:34:12,875
it can cause an otherwise
healthy adult to giggle,

662
00:34:12,875 --> 00:34:15,155
or get a bit hungry.

663
00:34:15,155 --> 00:34:16,745
Thankfully the brave men and women

664
00:34:16,745 --> 00:34:19,855
from numerous agencies
have been waging a tireless

665
00:34:19,855 --> 00:34:22,235
and expensive war against this

666
00:34:22,235 --> 00:34:24,568
dangerous plant for decades.

667
00:34:27,275 --> 00:34:29,675
- The war on drugs is a war on the people.

668
00:34:29,675 --> 00:34:32,555
It's a war to fight the
pharmaceutical industry.

669
00:34:32,555 --> 00:34:35,290
So they get to sell
their psychotropic drugs.

670
00:34:35,290 --> 00:34:37,873
I mean, Jesus, how many people?

671
00:34:39,379 --> 00:34:41,540
Then I hear horror stories
from their children

672
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:43,115
whacked out on Vicodin.

673
00:34:43,115 --> 00:34:44,859
Oh, that's a beaut.

674
00:34:44,859 --> 00:34:46,442
Yeah, how about a little Oxycontin,

675
00:34:46,442 --> 00:34:48,081
you know, to make you happy.

676
00:34:48,081 --> 00:34:50,542
Feel some pain, this'll get rid of it.

677
00:34:50,542 --> 00:34:52,421
But don't get high, man.

678
00:34:52,421 --> 00:34:54,481
No weed, it's gonna kill ya.

679
00:34:54,481 --> 00:34:56,398
You saw Reefer Madness.

680
00:34:59,862 --> 00:35:02,821
- [Voiceover] Reefer Madness
is a celebrated PSA film,

681
00:35:02,821 --> 00:35:04,684
produced for the US government.

682
00:35:04,684 --> 00:35:08,413
Known for its even-handed
and unbiased approach to

683
00:35:08,413 --> 00:35:11,483
the subject of marijuana,
which it claims is

684
00:35:11,483 --> 00:35:14,594
worse than heroin, it saved generations

685
00:35:14,594 --> 00:35:16,743
from the dangers of marijuana.

686
00:35:16,743 --> 00:35:19,304
Even a single puff of Mary Jane

687
00:35:19,304 --> 00:35:21,643
can make you dance like a fool,

688
00:35:21,643 --> 00:35:23,284
laugh uncontrollably,

689
00:35:23,284 --> 00:35:24,963
(bellowing laugh)

690
00:35:24,963 --> 00:35:27,384
or violently murder your friends.

691
00:35:27,384 --> 00:35:30,801
(thud) How embarrassing.

692
00:35:32,163 --> 00:35:35,223
NORML is a nonprofit
organization whose aim

693
00:35:35,223 --> 00:35:39,390
is to legalize cannabis
throughout the United States.

694
00:35:41,318 --> 00:35:43,405
- There are 800,000 people a year

695
00:35:43,405 --> 00:35:46,225
arrested in the United
States on marijuana charges.

696
00:35:46,225 --> 00:35:48,940
90% for possession only.

697
00:35:48,940 --> 00:35:53,107
So over a 40 year period now,
that's roughly 27 million

698
00:35:55,886 --> 00:35:58,727
people have been arrested
on marijuana charges.

699
00:35:58,727 --> 00:36:01,447
So it's created a huge universe of people

700
00:36:01,447 --> 00:36:05,614
who have been effectively
screwed by the government.

701
00:36:06,802 --> 00:36:11,692
When we sued the DEA in the
classic case, NRML versus DEA,

702
00:36:11,692 --> 00:36:15,382
the judge ruled in 1988
in his final decision

703
00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:18,341
that marijuana quote "is the safest,

704
00:36:18,341 --> 00:36:21,942
"therapeutic substance known to man."

705
00:36:21,942 --> 00:36:24,583
That's a pretty strong indictment

706
00:36:24,583 --> 00:36:27,083
against the rest of the drugs.

707
00:36:28,443 --> 00:36:29,824
- [Voiceover] So the courts acknowledged

708
00:36:29,824 --> 00:36:32,343
that marijuana is the most therapeutic

709
00:36:32,343 --> 00:36:36,510
substance known to man, but
since as early as the 1930s,

710
00:36:37,584 --> 00:36:40,023
marijuana has been the
subject of countless,

711
00:36:40,023 --> 00:36:43,356
heavy-handed, and fallacious propaganda.

712
00:36:45,764 --> 00:36:46,913
- [Voiceover] Long-term use of marijuana

713
00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:49,303
can lead to a psychological dependency.

714
00:36:49,303 --> 00:36:50,953
Soon, you'll be taking all sorts of

715
00:36:50,953 --> 00:36:53,483
measures to get your fix.

716
00:36:53,483 --> 00:36:55,294
People will start calling you names like

717
00:36:55,294 --> 00:36:58,588
Pothead, or Smokey McBongwater,

718
00:36:58,588 --> 00:36:59,845
losing all motivation,

719
00:36:59,845 --> 00:37:02,276
it's likely that you'll
drop out of school,

720
00:37:02,276 --> 00:37:04,866
take a sudden liking to sitar music,

721
00:37:04,866 --> 00:37:08,165
and maybe even get felt
up by a cop or two.

722
00:37:08,165 --> 00:37:11,806
- Marijuana has been propagandized by the

723
00:37:11,806 --> 00:37:14,700
United States government
and its surrogates

724
00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:18,117
at the state level for at least 75 years.

725
00:37:19,830 --> 00:37:24,031
There are 1,200 Partnership
for Drug-Free America ads,

726
00:37:24,031 --> 00:37:26,871
and 85 to 90 percent of those ads

727
00:37:26,871 --> 00:37:28,660
have been against marijuana.

728
00:37:28,660 --> 00:37:31,050
And the name alone, Drug-Free America,

729
00:37:31,050 --> 00:37:33,967
deserves nothing but pure laughter.

730
00:37:34,890 --> 00:37:37,491
Drug hypen Free America?

731
00:37:37,491 --> 00:37:41,420
This is the most drug-adult
society in human history.

732
00:37:41,420 --> 00:37:43,511
And the Drug-Free America Association

733
00:37:43,511 --> 00:37:44,970
was originally founded by the

734
00:37:44,970 --> 00:37:47,431
alcohol, tobacco, and
pharmaceutical companies,

735
00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:50,270
which, last I checked,
their business model

736
00:37:50,270 --> 00:37:52,103
is distributing drugs.

737
00:37:53,491 --> 00:37:56,231
- [Voiceover] Personal
feelings about marijuana aside,

738
00:37:56,231 --> 00:37:58,190
there is no denying the fact that

739
00:37:58,190 --> 00:38:00,190
criminalization of the substance

740
00:38:00,190 --> 00:38:03,591
bears little parity with other
substances in the same area,

741
00:38:03,591 --> 00:38:05,841
such as alcohol or tobacco.

742
00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:10,353
But with all the millions being
spent on preventing its use

743
00:38:10,353 --> 00:38:13,393
and prosecuting individuals who use it,

744
00:38:13,393 --> 00:38:14,976
who stands to gain?

745
00:38:16,973 --> 00:38:20,533
- There are entities out
there that strongly lobby

746
00:38:20,533 --> 00:38:24,252
for the status quo to stay in place.

747
00:38:24,252 --> 00:38:27,945
Law enforcement, the
very government agencies

748
00:38:27,945 --> 00:38:30,214
born of the prohibition, like the

749
00:38:30,214 --> 00:38:31,696
Partnership for Drug-Free America,

750
00:38:31,696 --> 00:38:35,194
the D.A.R.E. program, the
DEA, the drugs are his office,

751
00:38:35,194 --> 00:38:38,554
they will always oppose legalization.

752
00:38:38,554 --> 00:38:40,735
Three would be the alcohol, tobacco,

753
00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:44,374
pharmaceutical companies that
play both ends of the middle.

754
00:38:44,374 --> 00:38:45,814
They try to start things like the

755
00:38:45,814 --> 00:38:47,649
Partnership for Drug-Free America,

756
00:38:47,649 --> 00:38:50,262
but pretty clearly don't wanna really have

757
00:38:50,262 --> 00:38:52,575
a drug-free America.

758
00:38:52,575 --> 00:38:54,537
The fourth entity are companies that

759
00:38:54,537 --> 00:38:57,636
are able to make money
off of the prohibition.

760
00:38:57,636 --> 00:39:00,116
And that would be private prisons,

761
00:39:00,116 --> 00:39:03,506
drug-testing companies,
this is probably the most

762
00:39:03,506 --> 00:39:07,736
naked of our opposition,
because if you get caught

763
00:39:07,736 --> 00:39:10,655
with marijuana, you can
either choose the route

764
00:39:10,655 --> 00:39:13,436
of prosecution and potential conviction

765
00:39:13,436 --> 00:39:17,016
and then going to jail,
or you go to rehab.

766
00:39:17,016 --> 00:39:18,776
Well, even the director of NORML,

767
00:39:18,776 --> 00:39:20,296
if I got caught by police with

768
00:39:20,296 --> 00:39:21,936
a small amount of marijuana,
I'm given a choice

769
00:39:21,936 --> 00:39:24,596
between going to jail and going to rehab,

770
00:39:24,596 --> 00:39:25,738
I'm gonna pick rehab.

771
00:39:25,738 --> 00:39:30,631
And so 80% of their
clientele are effectively

772
00:39:30,631 --> 00:39:33,197
pushed in the door by the government.

773
00:39:33,197 --> 00:39:36,486
So this is an incestuous relationship

774
00:39:36,486 --> 00:39:38,556
that has been set up between the

775
00:39:38,556 --> 00:39:41,036
drug rehabilitation profiteers

776
00:39:41,036 --> 00:39:43,356
and the government that
brings their clients

777
00:39:43,356 --> 00:39:47,116
right to their door,
and we, the taxpayers,

778
00:39:47,116 --> 00:39:49,896
pay for the rehabilitation.

779
00:39:49,896 --> 00:39:53,996
- Now, in the language the
addicts use among themselves,

780
00:39:53,996 --> 00:39:55,797
they never say to each other,

781
00:39:55,797 --> 00:39:58,256
"Let's smoke a marijuana cigarette."

782
00:39:58,256 --> 00:40:02,423
They say, "Let's turn on,"
or, "Let's blast a joint."

783
00:40:03,357 --> 00:40:05,207
- [Voiceover] As with drinking raw milk,

784
00:40:05,207 --> 00:40:07,858
smoking a marijuana cigarette

785
00:40:07,858 --> 00:40:09,907
carries with it obvious health risks.

786
00:40:09,907 --> 00:40:12,547
But whether you want to blast a J

787
00:40:12,547 --> 00:40:14,898
or buy an outdoor slaughtered chicken

788
00:40:14,898 --> 00:40:17,897
from your local farmer,
powerful lobbying groups

789
00:40:17,897 --> 00:40:20,297
have colluded with regulatory agencies

790
00:40:20,297 --> 00:40:22,964
to limit your freedom of choice.

791
00:40:23,977 --> 00:40:27,778
- When the government
violently kicks down your door,

792
00:40:27,778 --> 00:40:31,257
and comes onto your
property with guns drawn

793
00:40:31,257 --> 00:40:34,957
trying to get you to stop,
engaged in a certain behavior

794
00:40:34,957 --> 00:40:39,415
that's harming nobody else,
that is a social injustice.

795
00:40:39,415 --> 00:40:42,328
(sirens wail)

796
00:40:42,328 --> 00:40:43,957
I personally think of cannabis

797
00:40:43,957 --> 00:40:47,162
as just a metaphor for freedom.

798
00:40:47,162 --> 00:40:50,582
I think of it almost
purely, at this point now,

799
00:40:50,582 --> 00:40:52,654
as a discussion over personal freedom

800
00:40:52,654 --> 00:40:55,959
and how much can the government
intervene in your life,

801
00:40:55,959 --> 00:40:59,376
and intervene violently, with guns drawn.

802
00:41:01,574 --> 00:41:03,399
- [Voiceover] Okay,
we've talked a lot about

803
00:41:03,399 --> 00:41:05,649
food and medicine and lobo,

804
00:41:06,978 --> 00:41:08,880
but enough of that hippy talk.

805
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,119
Everyone knows the world
revolves around one thing

806
00:41:11,119 --> 00:41:13,202
and one thing only, milk.

807
00:41:15,479 --> 00:41:19,646
I mean, money.
(cash register dings)

808
00:41:22,343 --> 00:41:25,039
But similar to independent farmers,

809
00:41:25,039 --> 00:41:27,980
small firms in the
financial sector also face

810
00:41:27,980 --> 00:41:32,147
heavy regulations, which
benefit the large players.

811
00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:35,339
- I act in the securities industry,

812
00:41:35,339 --> 00:41:37,398
and there's all sorts
of rules and regulations

813
00:41:37,398 --> 00:41:39,319
that I have to abide by.

814
00:41:39,319 --> 00:41:42,740
The vast majority of it
doesn't protect my customers,

815
00:41:42,740 --> 00:41:44,179
the individual investor.

816
00:41:44,179 --> 00:41:46,579
And that's not why I believe it's there.

817
00:41:46,579 --> 00:41:50,029
That's the excuse that the
politicians give the voters,

818
00:41:50,029 --> 00:41:52,698
but the real reason is
because there are very large

819
00:41:52,698 --> 00:41:54,920
banks and brokerage firms that don't like

820
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,201
small firms like mine competing with them.

821
00:41:57,201 --> 00:41:59,560
And so they wanna tie us up in red tape.

822
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,460
See, they can afford to
pay for the regulations.

823
00:42:02,460 --> 00:42:04,321
It's the small firms that can't.

824
00:42:04,321 --> 00:42:06,120
But they didn't do it
to help the investor,

825
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,481
they did it to help
the big brokerage firms

826
00:42:08,481 --> 00:42:10,686
that wanted protection from competition.

827
00:42:10,686 --> 00:42:13,121
And so that's what
happens, but, of course,

828
00:42:13,121 --> 00:42:17,120
the revolving door is when
these guys leave Washington,

829
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:21,020
they get cushy jobs at the
companies they used to regulate.

830
00:42:21,020 --> 00:42:22,710
And, in fact, they go back and forth.

831
00:42:22,710 --> 00:42:24,581
They go from the industry
to the government,

832
00:42:24,581 --> 00:42:25,740
back to the industry to the government,

833
00:42:25,740 --> 00:42:28,080
and what they're really doing,

834
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,340
is they're pedaling their influence.

835
00:42:30,340 --> 00:42:33,061
They go to Washington to get clout,

836
00:42:33,061 --> 00:42:34,815
to get influence, to make friends,

837
00:42:34,815 --> 00:42:36,295
and then they sell the influence

838
00:42:36,295 --> 00:42:39,462
to the highest bidder when they leave.

839
00:42:43,636 --> 00:42:45,580
- [Voiceover] Sadly, the
finance industry may be

840
00:42:45,580 --> 00:42:48,041
the best illustration of the intertwining

841
00:42:48,041 --> 00:42:50,981
of government and big business.

842
00:42:50,981 --> 00:42:54,020
For example, the current
Secretary of the Treasury,

843
00:42:54,020 --> 00:42:58,020
Jacob Lew, was reportedly
given a $950,000 bonus

844
00:42:59,481 --> 00:43:02,180
by his former employer, Citigroup,

845
00:43:02,180 --> 00:43:05,347
just for taking a job at the Treasury.

846
00:43:06,545 --> 00:43:09,545
(light piano music)

847
00:43:30,603 --> 00:43:34,062
- If you want to see the proof of fascism,

848
00:43:34,062 --> 00:43:38,684
all you have to do is
look at four simple words,

849
00:43:38,684 --> 00:43:40,017
too big to fill.

850
00:43:41,742 --> 00:43:44,542
The larger state and corporate powers,

851
00:43:44,542 --> 00:43:48,003
we, in America, had a
financial crisis in 2008.

852
00:43:48,003 --> 00:43:52,170
(snaps fingers) The whole game changed.

853
00:43:55,485 --> 00:44:00,164
The banks got in trouble,
they bring out Henry Paulson,

854
00:44:00,164 --> 00:44:02,330
the US Treasury Secretary,

855
00:44:02,330 --> 00:44:05,085
former CEO of the Goldman Sachs gang.

856
00:44:05,085 --> 00:44:06,505
It says we have to bailout the banks,

857
00:44:06,505 --> 00:44:08,505
they're too big to fill.

858
00:44:42,616 --> 00:44:45,180
- [Voiceover] The subprime
mortgage crisis of 2008

859
00:44:45,180 --> 00:44:49,347
was the biggest economic crash
since the Great Depression.

860
00:44:50,339 --> 00:44:52,850
In the midst of the
crisis, the financial media

861
00:44:52,850 --> 00:44:57,501
demanded stricter regulations
on the financial industry.

862
00:44:57,501 --> 00:45:00,181
Economist, Peter Schiff,
who predicted the crisis

863
00:45:00,181 --> 00:45:03,329
years in advance,
believes that not only was

864
00:45:03,329 --> 00:45:06,399
Wall Street to blame,
but more importantly,

865
00:45:06,399 --> 00:45:09,735
it was the regulators colluding
with the financial industry

866
00:45:09,735 --> 00:45:13,220
who were responsible for the crisis.

867
00:45:13,220 --> 00:45:14,880
- Well the regulators caused the crisis.

868
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:19,500
It was the regulation
that created the problem.

869
00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:22,879
I was talking about the
coming housing crisis

870
00:45:22,879 --> 00:45:25,546
in 2002, three, four, five, six,

871
00:45:26,540 --> 00:45:28,700
and I was pointing out exactly how

872
00:45:28,700 --> 00:45:31,639
the government and the FED
were creating the problem.

873
00:45:31,639 --> 00:45:32,910
See, the people that now said we didn't

874
00:45:32,910 --> 00:45:35,680
have enough regulation,
where were they back then?

875
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:36,736
Why didn't they say we needed more

876
00:45:36,736 --> 00:45:39,802
regulation in 2004, in 2005?

877
00:45:39,802 --> 00:45:41,662
The fact of the matter
is it was the regulations

878
00:45:41,662 --> 00:45:45,245
that were in place that
caused the problem.

879
00:45:47,342 --> 00:45:49,593
The Federal Reserve, in order
to stimulate the economy,

880
00:45:49,593 --> 00:45:52,677
brought interest rates down to 1%.

881
00:45:52,677 --> 00:45:54,517
And what that did is it enabled people

882
00:45:54,517 --> 00:45:57,465
to borrow money more
cheaply to buy houses.

883
00:45:57,465 --> 00:46:00,164
In the meantime, too,
the government was also

884
00:46:00,164 --> 00:46:05,164
guaranteeing the mortgages,
and this was the real problem.

885
00:46:05,164 --> 00:46:07,346
The way the market regulates banks

886
00:46:07,346 --> 00:46:10,645
is that individuals want a
safe place for their money.

887
00:46:10,645 --> 00:46:13,095
And so they will shop
around for a safe place.

888
00:46:13,095 --> 00:46:16,525
Therefore, market
pressures force the banks

889
00:46:16,525 --> 00:46:19,616
to do prudent things to attract deposits.

890
00:46:19,616 --> 00:46:22,791
But once the government comes in and says,

891
00:46:22,791 --> 00:46:25,128
"Your money is safe no matter what,"

892
00:46:25,128 --> 00:46:27,608
now the customer doesn't
value safety anymore

893
00:46:27,608 --> 00:46:29,347
because the government has guaranteed it.

894
00:46:29,347 --> 00:46:30,907
But the problem with the
government regulation

895
00:46:30,907 --> 00:46:34,907
is it's ineffective and it
ends up being politicized.

896
00:46:34,907 --> 00:46:38,228
Because if you remember,
during the housing days,

897
00:46:38,228 --> 00:46:40,308
as lending standards kept being

898
00:46:40,308 --> 00:46:41,518
lowered and lowered and lowered,

899
00:46:41,518 --> 00:46:43,948
it was the government that was leading

900
00:46:43,948 --> 00:46:46,058
the charge to lower standards.

901
00:46:46,058 --> 00:46:48,748
Because the voters wanted
to buy more houses.

902
00:46:48,748 --> 00:46:51,047
Because housing was thought
of as a way to get rich.

903
00:46:51,047 --> 00:46:53,669
And the only obstacle
was the down payment,

904
00:46:53,669 --> 00:46:55,908
their credit score, and
so it was the government

905
00:46:55,908 --> 00:46:58,968
that was pressuring banks, hey
forget about credit scores,

906
00:46:58,968 --> 00:47:00,768
lower those down payments.

907
00:47:00,768 --> 00:47:03,047
So the banks are risky,
the mortgages are risky,

908
00:47:03,047 --> 00:47:05,228
nobody cares about anything
because the government's

909
00:47:05,228 --> 00:47:06,628
trying to make everything good.

910
00:47:06,628 --> 00:47:07,468
The government is trying to say,

911
00:47:07,468 --> 00:47:10,188
"Don't worry about risk,
because if you fail,

912
00:47:10,188 --> 00:47:12,587
"we're there to catch you,
we're there to prop you up."

913
00:47:12,587 --> 00:47:15,828
And then when it doesn't work,
capitalism gets a bad name,

914
00:47:15,828 --> 00:47:19,995
as if any of this has anything
to do with capitalism.

915
00:47:21,663 --> 00:47:23,303
- [Voiceover] Skipping ahead to 2011,

916
00:47:23,303 --> 00:47:25,428
we find the story of MF Global,

917
00:47:25,428 --> 00:47:28,008
a commodities brokerage firm
headed by former Senator,

918
00:47:28,008 --> 00:47:31,809
turned Governor of New
Jersey, Jon Corzine.

919
00:47:31,809 --> 00:47:33,688
- [Voiceover] It wasn't a pleasant return

920
00:47:33,688 --> 00:47:36,728
to Capitol Hill for former
Senator, Jon Corzine.

921
00:47:36,728 --> 00:47:39,048
He was subpoenaed to tell lawmakers how

922
00:47:39,048 --> 00:47:42,328
the company he headed,
MF Global, collapsed,

923
00:47:42,328 --> 00:47:44,848
and what happened to $1.2 billion dollars

924
00:47:44,848 --> 00:47:46,508
of customers' money.

925
00:47:46,508 --> 00:47:49,418
- I simply do not know where the money is

926
00:47:49,418 --> 00:47:53,585
or why the accounts have
not been reconciled to date.

927
00:47:54,577 --> 00:47:55,970
- [Voiceover] Don't you
hate it when you can't find

928
00:47:55,970 --> 00:47:59,207
your keys, your phone,
or a billion dollars

929
00:47:59,207 --> 00:48:00,728
of other peoples' money?

930
00:48:00,728 --> 00:48:02,395
It's so frustrating.

931
00:48:03,543 --> 00:48:06,368
But as uncomfortable as
Corzine may have been,

932
00:48:06,368 --> 00:48:09,248
sitting there and pretending to feel bad,

933
00:48:09,248 --> 00:48:13,648
others felt a little more
M-Fed by the situation.

934
00:48:13,648 --> 00:48:17,553
- I got burned by the MF Global scandal.

935
00:48:17,553 --> 00:48:21,303
That's when Jon Corzine,
the former Governor,

936
00:48:22,350 --> 00:48:25,290
democratic Governor of New Jersey,

937
00:48:25,290 --> 00:48:27,869
and former Senator of New Jersey,

938
00:48:27,869 --> 00:48:31,369
and former head of the Goldman Sachs gang,

939
00:48:32,310 --> 00:48:34,099
after he did his stint with those,

940
00:48:34,099 --> 00:48:38,016
he was the head of MF
Global, yeah MF, perfect.

941
00:48:40,709 --> 00:48:44,830
MF Global went into my segregated account

942
00:48:44,830 --> 00:48:46,413
and stole my money.

943
00:48:47,730 --> 00:48:51,532
Six figures, and I work hard for my money.

944
00:48:51,532 --> 00:48:53,932
I wasn't speculating in the markets.

945
00:48:53,932 --> 00:48:56,432
He went in and stole my money.

946
00:48:57,392 --> 00:48:59,272
- [Voiceover] While
investigating how this money

947
00:48:59,272 --> 00:49:01,152
was stolen out of his account without

948
00:49:01,152 --> 00:49:03,572
the financial regulators intervening,

949
00:49:03,572 --> 00:49:05,814
Mister Celente's investigations found the

950
00:49:05,814 --> 00:49:08,981
telltale squeak of the revolving door.

951
00:49:11,139 --> 00:49:13,919
A CFTC is the agency which regulates

952
00:49:13,919 --> 00:49:17,298
brokerage firms like MF Global.

953
00:49:17,298 --> 00:49:19,213
At the time of the MF robbery,

954
00:49:19,213 --> 00:49:22,844
the CFTC was headed by one, Gary Gensler,

955
00:49:22,844 --> 00:49:25,427
a close colleague of Corzine's.

956
00:49:33,588 --> 00:49:35,863
- Gary's never once let his team forget

957
00:49:35,863 --> 00:49:38,213
what this is all about,

958
00:49:38,213 --> 00:49:39,738
the American people.

959
00:49:39,738 --> 00:49:41,823
- Do you know what the Commodity's
Future Trading Commission

960
00:49:41,823 --> 00:49:43,718
did to Jon Corzine,

961
00:49:43,718 --> 00:49:46,778
after robbing me and thousands of others?

962
00:49:46,778 --> 00:49:48,999
Nothing, nothing.

963
00:49:48,999 --> 00:49:52,478
Gary Gensler was his
lieutenant at Goldman Sachs.

964
00:49:52,478 --> 00:49:53,538
And he's the head of the

965
00:49:53,538 --> 00:49:56,080
Commodity's Future Trading Commission?

966
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,490
You wanna, I mean, to say that the fox

967
00:49:58,490 --> 00:50:01,740
is watching the chicken coop is stupid.

968
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,577
That's, it's worse than that.

969
00:50:18,602 --> 00:50:20,102
- [Voiceover] The MF Global collapse

970
00:50:20,102 --> 00:50:22,292
is an example of the alliance between

971
00:50:22,292 --> 00:50:26,459
regulators in big business
in the financial industry.

972
00:50:30,526 --> 00:50:34,265
But a more troubling
phenomenon called a bail-in

973
00:50:34,265 --> 00:50:36,598
was recently seen in Cyprus.

974
00:50:38,047 --> 00:50:41,110
- Even in my diarist
predictions in this parliament

975
00:50:41,110 --> 00:50:44,929
over the years, about the
way EU bosses were behaving,

976
00:50:44,929 --> 00:50:47,294
never did I think that they would

977
00:50:47,294 --> 00:50:49,277
in a completely unprecedented manner

978
00:50:49,277 --> 00:50:53,444
resort to stealing money
from peoples' bank account.

979
00:50:54,392 --> 00:50:57,295
(shouts of protest)

980
00:50:57,295 --> 00:51:01,049
- Recently in Cyprus, the
banks had been irresponsible

981
00:51:01,049 --> 00:51:04,074
and it was the public,
all of the depositors,

982
00:51:04,074 --> 00:51:06,879
that paid the price, and
they called it a bail-in

983
00:51:06,879 --> 00:51:10,379
to make it sound different from a bailout.

984
00:51:12,714 --> 00:51:15,384
- What happened was many
of the banks in Cyprus

985
00:51:15,384 --> 00:51:17,695
bought a lot of Greek government debt.

986
00:51:17,695 --> 00:51:18,978
And as you know, over the last few years,

987
00:51:18,978 --> 00:51:21,758
Greek government debt
has all but collapsed.

988
00:51:21,758 --> 00:51:25,918
So that made the Cyprus
banks all but insolvent.

989
00:51:25,918 --> 00:51:27,820
And they went, just like always,

990
00:51:27,820 --> 00:51:29,520
the big banks went with the government

991
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,040
and said, "Hey, we're broke.

992
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,580
"Can you help us out
and steal money for us?"

993
00:51:33,580 --> 00:51:34,581
And that's what they did.

994
00:51:34,581 --> 00:51:38,281
They just said, "Take 50%
of anyone over $100,000.

995
00:51:38,281 --> 00:51:42,281
Take 50% of all their
money, just take it."

996
00:51:43,180 --> 00:51:46,441
- Just the term, bail-in, is a lie.

997
00:51:46,441 --> 00:51:49,641
This is something that is a marketing tool

998
00:51:49,641 --> 00:51:52,141
to basically cover up a theft.

999
00:51:54,783 --> 00:51:57,302
A bailout, they whip up currency

1000
00:51:57,302 --> 00:51:58,962
and they give it to the banks,

1001
00:51:58,962 --> 00:52:00,953
and then the public eventually

1002
00:52:00,953 --> 00:52:03,954
pays for that through
a tax called inflation.

1003
00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:06,724
Because there's now more
currency in existence,

1004
00:52:06,724 --> 00:52:10,044
a bail-in, they skipped the
part of creating currency

1005
00:52:10,044 --> 00:52:12,109
and they just take it from the depositors.

1006
00:52:12,109 --> 00:52:15,004
But basically the banks win at

1007
00:52:15,004 --> 00:52:17,671
the public's expense either way.

1008
00:52:19,844 --> 00:52:22,634
- [Voiceover] But that
was Cyprus, not the US.

1009
00:52:22,634 --> 00:52:25,069
There's just no way the
citizens of North America

1010
00:52:25,069 --> 00:52:29,236
would allow something as
underhanded as a bail-in.

1011
00:52:30,884 --> 00:52:34,404
- Canada actually put in their 2013 budget

1012
00:52:34,404 --> 00:52:36,379
a bail-in clause, the exact same thing.

1013
00:52:36,379 --> 00:52:39,091
They said if the Canadian
banks have problems,

1014
00:52:39,091 --> 00:52:41,346
that they can just take
it from Canadian citizens.

1015
00:52:41,346 --> 00:52:43,306
The US has been talking about it, as well.

1016
00:52:43,306 --> 00:52:44,814
The governments allow these banks

1017
00:52:44,814 --> 00:52:47,064
to do these kind of things.

1018
00:52:48,106 --> 00:52:49,766
- Cyprus was the model to see if

1019
00:52:49,766 --> 00:52:51,406
they could get away with it.

1020
00:52:51,406 --> 00:52:53,573
They got away with it, and

1021
00:52:54,928 --> 00:52:57,608
so, now it's proven successful

1022
00:52:57,608 --> 00:53:01,525
so it is a solution they
can use in the future.

1023
00:53:03,568 --> 00:53:05,911
- [Voiceover] In hindsight,
it seems obvious that the

1024
00:53:05,911 --> 00:53:07,550
financial sector would be rife

1025
00:53:07,550 --> 00:53:09,853
with corruption and backdealing.

1026
00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:12,633
Finance, education, the prison system,

1027
00:53:12,633 --> 00:53:14,913
the military industrial complex.

1028
00:53:14,913 --> 00:53:18,247
Almost every industry in which
there is money to be made,

1029
00:53:18,247 --> 00:53:21,793
has been effected by the revolving door.

1030
00:53:21,793 --> 00:53:25,598
Even relatively new agencies
are subject to its spin.

1031
00:53:25,598 --> 00:53:27,589
If you need proof, try to take some

1032
00:53:27,589 --> 00:53:31,019
nail clippers onto a domestic flight.

1033
00:53:31,019 --> 00:53:34,102
(plane engine roars)

1034
00:53:37,769 --> 00:53:40,083
- When you go to the
airport, the TS agents,

1035
00:53:40,083 --> 00:53:41,853
you know, wanna go out
and they wanna invade

1036
00:53:41,853 --> 00:53:43,109
your privacy, they wanna
look through your bags,

1037
00:53:43,109 --> 00:53:44,779
they wanna do all of this stuff.

1038
00:53:44,779 --> 00:53:46,659
And you don't have the option to say no.

1039
00:53:46,659 --> 00:53:48,379
Once you get in line, you can't get out.

1040
00:53:48,379 --> 00:53:52,379
Now, what is the point
of the entire TSA system?

1041
00:53:53,499 --> 00:53:54,939
It's security theater.

1042
00:53:54,939 --> 00:53:56,403
It's to make people feel scared,

1043
00:53:56,403 --> 00:53:58,219
not to make people feel safe.

1044
00:53:58,219 --> 00:54:00,518
Because the more they can
actually make people feel scared,

1045
00:54:00,518 --> 00:54:02,258
the more they can actually take

1046
00:54:02,258 --> 00:54:04,720
a little bit of their
rights away all the time,

1047
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:06,779
and constantly remind them that they need

1048
00:54:06,779 --> 00:54:09,419
the government to make
sure that their safety

1049
00:54:09,419 --> 00:54:11,252
is well taken care of.

1050
00:54:12,758 --> 00:54:14,159
- [Voiceover] The body
scanners that stop you

1051
00:54:14,159 --> 00:54:17,878
from taking dangerous objects,
like bottles of water,

1052
00:54:17,878 --> 00:54:22,041
onto planes were installed
due to TSA regulations.

1053
00:54:22,041 --> 00:54:24,666
As head of the Department
of Homeland Security,

1054
00:54:24,666 --> 00:54:28,081
Michael Chertoff, required
every airport in the country

1055
00:54:28,081 --> 00:54:30,071
have those scanners installed.

1056
00:54:30,071 --> 00:54:32,238
For our safety, of course.

1057
00:54:33,301 --> 00:54:36,596
- This technology allows
us to detect any item

1058
00:54:36,596 --> 00:54:38,461
concealed on a person's body,

1059
00:54:38,461 --> 00:54:42,378
including molded plastic
hidden under clothing.

1060
00:54:43,261 --> 00:54:44,756
- [Voiceover] The scanners
themselves are built

1061
00:54:44,756 --> 00:54:48,339
and installed by a
company called Rapiscan.

1062
00:54:55,101 --> 00:54:58,221
- Oh yeah, I remember, let me see.

1063
00:54:58,221 --> 00:55:01,023
Chir, Chirkoff, Jerkoff, Chirkoff,

1064
00:55:01,023 --> 00:55:03,264
somebody Jerkoff Chirkoff,

1065
00:55:03,264 --> 00:55:06,303
he was the head of the Homeland Security

1066
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:09,063
right after the underpants bomber.

1067
00:55:09,063 --> 00:55:12,503
Right after that happened,
Chirkoff, Jerkoff,

1068
00:55:12,503 --> 00:55:13,764
whatever his name is,

1069
00:55:13,764 --> 00:55:16,931
he appeared on all the national media.

1070
00:55:18,042 --> 00:55:21,709
We have to get them
X-ray machines in there.

1071
00:55:23,264 --> 00:55:26,347
Rapiscan, Rapidscan, somebody's scan,

1072
00:55:28,383 --> 00:55:30,119
this name of the company.

1073
00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:31,910
You know, they X-ray ya.

1074
00:55:31,910 --> 00:55:33,077
They X-ray ya.

1075
00:55:34,824 --> 00:55:36,241
Oh, son of a gun.

1076
00:55:38,282 --> 00:55:39,115
Wow.

1077
00:55:40,374 --> 00:55:44,169
Chirkoff is a consultant for that company

1078
00:55:44,169 --> 00:55:46,836
after he left Homeland Security.

1079
00:55:48,544 --> 00:55:50,754
(playful music)

1080
00:55:50,754 --> 00:55:52,950
- [Voiceover] Okay,
let's get this straight.

1081
00:55:52,950 --> 00:55:55,200
GMOs safe, raw milk unsafe,

1082
00:55:57,033 --> 00:55:59,989
preparing poultry in the
open air is unsanitary,

1083
00:55:59,989 --> 00:56:03,119
but drugs that cause
heart attacks are fine.

1084
00:56:03,119 --> 00:56:05,969
Blasting a joint will make you wanna kill.

1085
00:56:05,969 --> 00:56:07,469
Getting X-rayed at the airport

1086
00:56:07,469 --> 00:56:09,528
is vital to national security,

1087
00:56:09,528 --> 00:56:11,509
and stealing from your customers is okay,

1088
00:56:11,509 --> 00:56:15,426
provided you do it a
billion dollars at a time.

1089
00:56:16,881 --> 00:56:19,727
With regulatory agencies
so deeply entangled

1090
00:56:19,727 --> 00:56:22,657
with big business, it's
almost impossible to know

1091
00:56:22,657 --> 00:56:26,062
whether the rules we live
by are there for our safety

1092
00:56:26,062 --> 00:56:29,372
or someone else's financial benefit.

1093
00:56:29,372 --> 00:56:32,321
Whatever the reason, the
end result is our lives

1094
00:56:32,321 --> 00:56:35,712
are now so heavily manipulated
by the desires of others,

1095
00:56:35,712 --> 00:56:40,561
and our choices are becoming
more and more limited.

1096
00:56:40,561 --> 00:56:42,622
- That's what government
regulation is all about.

1097
00:56:42,622 --> 00:56:45,082
It's all about limiting your choices.

1098
00:56:45,082 --> 00:56:47,377
The government wants to
make those choices for you.

1099
00:56:47,377 --> 00:56:49,962
They wanna take away
your freedom to choose,

1100
00:56:49,962 --> 00:56:51,182
the choices that you make,

1101
00:56:51,182 --> 00:56:53,152
the types of food that you eat, right.

1102
00:56:53,152 --> 00:56:55,323
All of this is determined
for you by the government.

1103
00:56:55,323 --> 00:56:57,604
And why can't we make choices?

1104
00:56:57,604 --> 00:56:59,903
Alright, that's what freedom is about.

1105
00:56:59,903 --> 00:57:01,304
The politicians think that, hey,

1106
00:57:01,304 --> 00:57:02,704
it's important that we all vote.

1107
00:57:02,704 --> 00:57:03,964
They can trust us to vote,

1108
00:57:03,964 --> 00:57:06,983
but they can't trust us to
make these basic decisions

1109
00:57:06,983 --> 00:57:08,824
about whether we should buy a house,

1110
00:57:08,824 --> 00:57:09,823
or whether we should rent a house.

1111
00:57:09,823 --> 00:57:11,983
Or should we use this
broker or that broker,

1112
00:57:11,983 --> 00:57:14,344
or should I put on my seatbelt,
or should I wear a helmet,

1113
00:57:14,344 --> 00:57:16,304
or should I smoke
cigarettes, or, you know,

1114
00:57:16,304 --> 00:57:18,166
all these choices need to
be made by the government,

1115
00:57:18,166 --> 00:57:20,166
but somehow we're smart enough to vote,

1116
00:57:20,166 --> 00:57:24,144
but we're too dumb to do
just about anything else.

1117
00:57:24,144 --> 00:57:26,444
- [Voiceover] This
over-regulation has implications

1118
00:57:26,444 --> 00:57:29,695
other than just limiting our choices.

1119
00:57:29,695 --> 00:57:32,424
By giving government
agencies the authority

1120
00:57:32,424 --> 00:57:36,027
to regulate our lives, even
in the name of protection,

1121
00:57:36,027 --> 00:57:38,561
it has led to an expansion
of government power

1122
00:57:38,561 --> 00:57:42,066
at the expansive of individual freedoms.

1123
00:57:42,066 --> 00:57:44,147
What's the old saying, give them an inch,

1124
00:57:44,147 --> 00:57:46,187
and they'll take your money, life,

1125
00:57:46,187 --> 00:57:48,362
and favorite dairy products?

1126
00:57:48,362 --> 00:57:50,029
Something like that.

1127
00:57:52,695 --> 00:57:55,346
- The more laws there are,
the more rules and regulations

1128
00:57:55,346 --> 00:57:57,327
there are, the more taxes there are,

1129
00:57:57,327 --> 00:57:58,217
the less freedom you have.

1130
00:57:58,217 --> 00:57:59,567
I mean, that's what freedom is.

1131
00:57:59,567 --> 00:58:01,231
It's freedom from government.

1132
00:58:01,231 --> 00:58:03,302
So when people are free,
it means that they do

1133
00:58:03,302 --> 00:58:04,547
what they want, they don't have to do

1134
00:58:04,547 --> 00:58:07,130
what the government tells them.

1135
00:58:08,147 --> 00:58:10,267
- Career bureaucrats
are usually dedicated,

1136
00:58:10,267 --> 00:58:12,336
pro-regulatory people.

1137
00:58:12,336 --> 00:58:15,446
They are fans of state paternalism.

1138
00:58:15,446 --> 00:58:18,284
A government making individual choices,

1139
00:58:18,284 --> 00:58:21,109
and the result of that is to really

1140
00:58:21,109 --> 00:58:23,989
deprive individuals of sovereignty.

1141
00:58:23,989 --> 00:58:27,794
It makes individuals mere
functionaries of the state,

1142
00:58:27,794 --> 00:58:30,344
rather than people who
can pursue their own

1143
00:58:30,344 --> 00:58:32,744
self-interest and enjoy the benefits

1144
00:58:32,744 --> 00:58:34,827
and blessings of liberty.

1145
00:58:37,749 --> 00:58:40,664
- It really does come down to,

1146
00:58:40,664 --> 00:58:42,209
who owns me?

1147
00:58:42,209 --> 00:58:44,884
Who owns the individual?

1148
00:58:44,884 --> 00:58:48,467
You can't have a system
that denies choice,

1149
00:58:51,509 --> 00:58:54,889
trying to protect us from
the risk of bad choice.

1150
00:58:54,889 --> 00:58:58,722
And preserve the freedom
to make good choices.

1151
00:58:59,970 --> 00:59:01,553
That's the problem.

1152
00:59:02,473 --> 00:59:04,689
You can't have it both ways.

1153
00:59:04,689 --> 00:59:06,522
Freedom requires risk.

1154
00:59:08,784 --> 00:59:10,668
- [Voiceover] Should I wear a seatbelt?

1155
00:59:10,668 --> 00:59:13,014
Is this bank a safe
place to keep my money?

1156
00:59:13,014 --> 00:59:14,681
Do I need insurance?

1157
00:59:16,039 --> 00:59:18,208
We're all so busy with our daily lives

1158
00:59:18,208 --> 00:59:19,888
that making important decisions

1159
00:59:19,888 --> 00:59:23,189
can become overwhelmingly daunting.

1160
00:59:23,189 --> 00:59:27,069
A lot of people prefer the
freedom from making choices.

1161
00:59:27,069 --> 00:59:29,214
Even if it means the choices being made

1162
00:59:29,214 --> 00:59:31,297
for them aren't the best.

1163
00:59:33,209 --> 00:59:37,188
- The idea that government
should make our choices for us,

1164
00:59:37,188 --> 00:59:39,889
is one that a lot of people prefer,

1165
00:59:39,889 --> 00:59:42,508
rather than to make their own choices.

1166
00:59:42,508 --> 00:59:45,008
But once the point is reached,

1167
00:59:46,228 --> 00:59:49,088
like in the form of Soviet Union,

1168
00:59:49,088 --> 00:59:51,988
when choices are made
for you by the government

1169
00:59:51,988 --> 00:59:55,905
to such an extent that
it destroys the economy,

1170
00:59:57,569 --> 01:00:00,778
that it destroys free agency,

1171
01:00:00,778 --> 01:00:03,494
that it renders everyone a servant,

1172
01:00:03,494 --> 01:00:05,411
and the state a master.

1173
01:00:06,589 --> 01:00:10,930
Then at some point, individuals
come in large numbers

1174
01:00:10,930 --> 01:00:12,570
to the conclusion that they're not getting

1175
01:00:12,570 --> 01:00:15,865
what they were promised,
that they are over-taxed,

1176
01:00:15,865 --> 01:00:18,694
they're over-regulated, that
their choices are limited,

1177
01:00:18,694 --> 01:00:20,554
the paternalism is disgusting,

1178
01:00:20,554 --> 01:00:24,174
it's caused me heartache
and I'm going to reject it.

1179
01:00:24,174 --> 01:00:25,674
I want my freedom.

1180
01:00:27,514 --> 01:00:29,193
- [Voiceover] Until that point is reached,

1181
01:00:29,193 --> 01:00:31,894
most people will be content
with their comfortable lives

1182
01:00:31,894 --> 01:00:35,754
and the choices still available to them.

1183
01:00:35,754 --> 01:00:37,454
- The hardworking people don't have time

1184
01:00:37,454 --> 01:00:39,454
to watch or hear what's going on.

1185
01:00:39,454 --> 01:00:43,034
They're working 24/7, they're
tryin' to make ends meat.

1186
01:00:43,034 --> 01:00:45,367
So, what does America watch?

1187
01:00:47,893 --> 01:00:50,489
Hey, you know, Kim Kardashian's pregnant,

1188
01:00:50,489 --> 01:00:54,034
she's gonna have a kid real soon.

1189
01:00:54,034 --> 01:00:56,743
- The media makes sure
we don't dwell very long

1190
01:00:56,743 --> 01:00:59,489
on any really serious issue.

1191
01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:01,493
We've all seen the
phenomenon where there's

1192
01:01:01,493 --> 01:01:04,033
something very serious that comes up

1193
01:01:04,033 --> 01:01:06,538
involving the serious aspects of

1194
01:01:06,538 --> 01:01:08,294
what's going on in the world.

1195
01:01:08,294 --> 01:01:11,188
And it gets on the news for
a very brief period of time.

1196
01:01:11,188 --> 01:01:13,334
And all of a sudden, now
that's been switched off

1197
01:01:13,334 --> 01:01:17,534
and we're soon distracted
with Soapbox Operas,

1198
01:01:17,534 --> 01:01:21,874
and Dancing with the Stars,
and all kinds of things

1199
01:01:21,874 --> 01:01:24,111
that are entertaining, and I'm not saying

1200
01:01:24,111 --> 01:01:26,278
anything against them,
but it's not as serious

1201
01:01:26,278 --> 01:01:28,937
as the lack of everybody's freedom

1202
01:01:28,937 --> 01:01:33,104
through a new amendment to
the Patriot Act, for example.

1203
01:01:33,977 --> 01:01:35,638
- [Voiceover] The media may try their best

1204
01:01:35,638 --> 01:01:39,897
to give us a fair and balanced
opinion of world events,

1205
01:01:39,897 --> 01:01:41,952
but there are now other avenues available

1206
01:01:41,952 --> 01:01:44,785
for those seeking unfiltered news.

1207
01:01:46,877 --> 01:01:49,607
- The way that the net
and the web were built

1208
01:01:49,607 --> 01:01:51,668
involves a lot of decentralization.

1209
01:01:51,668 --> 01:01:54,937
It moves power into the
hands of the peoples

1210
01:01:54,937 --> 01:01:56,458
sending and receiving messages,

1211
01:01:56,458 --> 01:01:58,838
as opposed to the people in the middle

1212
01:01:58,838 --> 01:02:00,317
that are handing them off.

1213
01:02:00,317 --> 01:02:04,484
And that is a scary prospect
for entrenched stakeholders.

1214
01:02:08,358 --> 01:02:11,997
- Any alternative media, other than the,

1215
01:02:11,997 --> 01:02:15,787
the corporate media that
is so rigidly controlled,

1216
01:02:15,787 --> 01:02:17,338
is a threat.

1217
01:02:17,338 --> 01:02:19,377
The internet is certainly a threat,

1218
01:02:19,377 --> 01:02:22,017
because the internet gives almost anyone

1219
01:02:22,017 --> 01:02:23,684
access to the world.

1220
01:02:24,797 --> 01:02:28,347
So, now, are we surprised when the

1221
01:02:28,347 --> 01:02:30,912
political figures who don't like that

1222
01:02:30,912 --> 01:02:35,457
are constantly worried
about how can we stop this?

1223
01:02:35,457 --> 01:02:38,437
Well, the formula has been tried and true,

1224
01:02:38,437 --> 01:02:39,358
and it's always worked.

1225
01:02:39,358 --> 01:02:42,537
Just tell the people that
there's a threat out there

1226
01:02:42,537 --> 01:02:44,417
that only the government can control.

1227
01:02:44,417 --> 01:02:46,298
I mean, there's a threat
of child pornography,

1228
01:02:46,298 --> 01:02:49,818
or crime, or terrorism, or
cyber-terrorism, or something.

1229
01:02:49,818 --> 01:02:53,696
We have to control the
internet for your good, folks.

1230
01:02:53,696 --> 01:02:56,617
Otherwise you're gonna have a big problem.

1231
01:02:56,617 --> 01:02:59,116
That's why they're
working around the clock

1232
01:02:59,116 --> 01:03:01,756
to try and scare people into thinking

1233
01:03:01,756 --> 01:03:03,877
that the internet must be controlled

1234
01:03:03,877 --> 01:03:07,797
by our fine, trustworthy
political figures.

1235
01:03:07,797 --> 01:03:10,287
They wanna be the ones
that control the internet

1236
01:03:10,287 --> 01:03:15,196
and tell the world what is
proper and what is improper.

1237
01:03:15,196 --> 01:03:18,076
- If you look at the history
of communications media,

1238
01:03:18,076 --> 01:03:19,738
people said, "With cable television,

1239
01:03:19,738 --> 01:03:21,696
"we'll finally be free of centralization

1240
01:03:21,696 --> 01:03:23,616
"and with the telegram,

1241
01:03:23,616 --> 01:03:25,462
"we'll finally be free of centralization."

1242
01:03:25,462 --> 01:03:28,972
And really, the worse
case scenario would be

1243
01:03:28,972 --> 01:03:33,317
if we saw that history
just repeat itself exactly.

1244
01:03:33,317 --> 01:03:37,637
If we saw this amazing
decentralized distribution method,

1245
01:03:37,637 --> 01:03:39,557
the most effective one ever produced

1246
01:03:39,557 --> 01:03:40,716
in the history of humanity.

1247
01:03:40,716 --> 01:03:42,856
If we saw it captured by a handful

1248
01:03:42,856 --> 01:03:44,197
of centralized stakeholders.

1249
01:03:44,197 --> 01:03:47,432
And them controlling and surveiling

1250
01:03:47,432 --> 01:03:50,266
the communications that go through it.

1251
01:03:50,266 --> 01:03:52,236
(burger sizzles)

1252
01:03:52,236 --> 01:03:53,096
- [Voiceover] Good things,

1253
01:03:53,096 --> 01:03:56,431
unlike processed cheese, never last.

1254
01:03:56,431 --> 01:03:59,962
In an attempt to regulate yet
another slice of our lives,

1255
01:03:59,962 --> 01:04:02,257
legislative bills are already in the works

1256
01:04:02,257 --> 01:04:05,232
to try and control the internet.

1257
01:04:05,232 --> 01:04:07,692
But rather than wait for pesky red tape,

1258
01:04:07,692 --> 01:04:11,221
like passing laws, the
government has been proactive

1259
01:04:11,221 --> 01:04:13,401
in trying to censor the internet,

1260
01:04:13,401 --> 01:04:15,726
for our safety, of course.

1261
01:04:15,726 --> 01:04:18,042
For example, with the help of their good

1262
01:04:18,042 --> 01:04:20,901
buddies in big finance,
they were almost able

1263
01:04:20,901 --> 01:04:25,721
to shut down the controversial
website, WikiLeaks.

1264
01:04:25,721 --> 01:04:27,946
- Think what you will about WikiLeaks,

1265
01:04:27,946 --> 01:04:30,361
the point is that
members of the government

1266
01:04:30,361 --> 01:04:34,011
were able to just speak
with payment processors

1267
01:04:34,011 --> 01:04:36,941
and create this blockade and say,

1268
01:04:36,941 --> 01:04:39,443
"You cannot transfer money
to this organization."

1269
01:04:39,443 --> 01:04:43,100
And it's not much of a leap
to say, "Wait, hold on."

1270
01:04:43,100 --> 01:04:45,603
The government, or in
some cases companies,

1271
01:04:45,603 --> 01:04:49,444
can decide that nobody can do
business with these people,

1272
01:04:49,444 --> 01:04:53,243
or that nobody can see what
these people are publishing?

1273
01:04:53,243 --> 01:04:55,541
That's obviously a problem in our,

1274
01:04:55,541 --> 01:04:58,985
in our tradition of free speech.

1275
01:04:58,985 --> 01:05:00,905
- [Voiceover] WikiLeaks
was able to survive,

1276
01:05:00,905 --> 01:05:03,886
thanks mostly to a very new concept.

1277
01:05:03,886 --> 01:05:05,553
Decentralized money.

1278
01:05:07,855 --> 01:05:10,028
Unlike most currencies in the world,

1279
01:05:10,028 --> 01:05:13,048
which are created and
regulated by central banks,

1280
01:05:13,048 --> 01:05:16,173
decentralized currency, such as Bitcoin,

1281
01:05:16,173 --> 01:05:18,068
is created by the people.

1282
01:05:18,068 --> 01:05:22,068
And as such, is almost
as impossible to control.

1283
01:05:23,518 --> 01:05:26,768
- Bitcoin's a decentralized
peer to peer currency.

1284
01:05:26,768 --> 01:05:29,143
It's actually an internet protocol,

1285
01:05:29,143 --> 01:05:33,328
kind of like SMTP, that's
how you send emails.

1286
01:05:33,328 --> 01:05:35,489
Well, it's money over internet protocol.

1287
01:05:35,489 --> 01:05:37,988
It's how we can send
money over the internet,

1288
01:05:37,988 --> 01:05:40,747
and we can use it to transfer value

1289
01:05:40,747 --> 01:05:42,667
without having a middleman.

1290
01:05:42,667 --> 01:05:44,208
That means we don't need a bank

1291
01:05:44,208 --> 01:05:46,347
or a money transmitter between us,

1292
01:05:46,347 --> 01:05:47,923
someone like Western Union.

1293
01:05:47,923 --> 01:05:52,008
We can just send money
like we send an email.

1294
01:05:52,008 --> 01:05:54,163
- Bitcoin's, I'm incredibly
excited about it,

1295
01:05:54,163 --> 01:05:57,510
because it's the first
free market private money

1296
01:05:57,510 --> 01:06:00,170
that's also a technological money,

1297
01:06:00,170 --> 01:06:02,350
it's electronic currency.

1298
01:06:02,350 --> 01:06:03,910
The great thing about it
is it's not controlled

1299
01:06:03,910 --> 01:06:06,110
by a central bank, it's
not controlled by anyone.

1300
01:06:06,110 --> 01:06:08,369
It's actually really the people's money.

1301
01:06:08,369 --> 01:06:11,407
So it gives a lot of freedom.

1302
01:06:11,407 --> 01:06:13,685
Why do we have this supply of money

1303
01:06:13,685 --> 01:06:17,051
and the cost of money
or interest rates set by

1304
01:06:17,051 --> 01:06:21,735
some bureaucrats 3,000 miles
away in Washington, D.C.?

1305
01:06:21,735 --> 01:06:24,176
How efficient is that for our economy?

1306
01:06:24,176 --> 01:06:27,360
Because interest rates that
regulate production over time,

1307
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,195
and they regulate all the
production within the economy.

1308
01:06:31,195 --> 01:06:32,595
You know, whether we should save

1309
01:06:32,595 --> 01:06:34,925
or whether we should build something.

1310
01:06:34,925 --> 01:06:37,777
Bitcoin liberates that interest rate,

1311
01:06:37,777 --> 01:06:41,015
because it's a censorship
resistant currency.

1312
01:06:41,015 --> 01:06:45,182
So we don't have to use
their money system anymore.

1313
01:06:47,036 --> 01:06:49,356
- [Voiceover] Decentralized
currencies like Bitcoin

1314
01:06:49,356 --> 01:06:51,428
offer an alternative
to the highly regulated

1315
01:06:51,428 --> 01:06:54,464
and controlled national
currencies of the world.

1316
01:06:54,464 --> 01:06:57,578
But as with the government's
push to regulate the internet,

1317
01:06:57,578 --> 01:06:59,244
attempts to regulate the purchase

1318
01:06:59,244 --> 01:07:02,077
of Bitcoin have already been seen.

1319
01:07:02,964 --> 01:07:06,328
- I recently tried to
start up a Bitcoin ATM.

1320
01:07:06,328 --> 01:07:10,164
I hired some lawyers in
the US and they told me,

1321
01:07:10,164 --> 01:07:12,503
"You're under five different
regulators in the US,

1322
01:07:12,503 --> 01:07:15,278
"you're under banking, finance, money,

1323
01:07:15,278 --> 01:07:18,975
"even telecommunications 'cause
we're using the internet."

1324
01:07:18,975 --> 01:07:20,275
And we looked into the total cost

1325
01:07:20,275 --> 01:07:23,624
just to start a Bitcoin
ATM, a very basic product,

1326
01:07:23,624 --> 01:07:25,445
no less than 25 million dollars,

1327
01:07:25,445 --> 01:07:27,526
because we need all
kinds of insurance bonds,

1328
01:07:27,526 --> 01:07:29,145
there's a money transmitter.

1329
01:07:29,145 --> 01:07:31,564
This is how they keep competition out,

1330
01:07:31,564 --> 01:07:35,164
'cause they don't want competition.

1331
01:07:35,164 --> 01:07:36,545
- [Voiceover] These attempts to control

1332
01:07:36,545 --> 01:07:38,644
increasing amounts of our personal lives,

1333
01:07:38,644 --> 01:07:40,935
have some people very concerned.

1334
01:07:40,935 --> 01:07:43,724
And with each successive
law or regulation,

1335
01:07:43,724 --> 01:07:46,124
the temptation to opt out entirely

1336
01:07:46,124 --> 01:07:48,791
becomes more and more appealing.

1337
01:07:50,484 --> 01:07:52,525
- There are some people
that are abandoning ship.

1338
01:07:52,525 --> 01:07:54,745
They see the ship is
sinking, they don't know

1339
01:07:54,745 --> 01:07:57,925
whether it's gone sink for
sure, or stay afloat somehow.

1340
01:07:57,925 --> 01:07:59,584
They don't wanna stay around to find out.

1341
01:07:59,584 --> 01:08:01,224
They're just leaving
while the getting's good.

1342
01:08:01,224 --> 01:08:03,584
Now, I'm not gonna tell
somebody not to leave,

1343
01:08:03,584 --> 01:08:07,751
'cause I don't know for sure
how bad it may or may not get.

1344
01:08:08,705 --> 01:08:10,485
- [Voiceover] Jeff
Berwick is someone who has

1345
01:08:10,485 --> 01:08:12,904
already decided to opt out.

1346
01:08:12,904 --> 01:08:15,927
To this end, he formed a
expat community in Chile,

1347
01:08:15,927 --> 01:08:18,587
hoping to create a haven
for freedom-loving people

1348
01:08:18,587 --> 01:08:20,804
who can no longer tolerate the government

1349
01:08:20,804 --> 01:08:24,054
encroachment in their personal affairs.

1350
01:08:25,427 --> 01:08:27,507
- We started this community
because we've really

1351
01:08:27,507 --> 01:08:30,347
recognized that a lot of
people around the world

1352
01:08:30,347 --> 01:08:33,482
want to get out of
these western countries.

1353
01:08:33,482 --> 01:08:35,827
Rising taxation, rising regulation,

1354
01:08:35,827 --> 01:08:37,827
people are getting put in jail in the US

1355
01:08:37,827 --> 01:08:40,927
all the time for nothing,
victimless crimes.

1356
01:08:40,927 --> 01:08:42,457
People have done nothing, except for maybe

1357
01:08:42,457 --> 01:08:45,327
drink raw milk, or have
some plants in their pocket,

1358
01:08:45,327 --> 01:08:46,744
called marijuana.

1359
01:08:48,867 --> 01:08:51,147
What we're trying to attract
and what we've been attracting

1360
01:08:51,147 --> 01:08:53,647
is more freedom-minded people.

1361
01:08:54,627 --> 01:08:56,342
Everyone has their own personal story,

1362
01:08:56,342 --> 01:08:58,867
sometimes it's as simple as someone's been

1363
01:08:58,867 --> 01:09:02,547
pulled over like 10 times in
a month and been searched.

1364
01:09:02,547 --> 01:09:03,672
I've seen people who've had their entire

1365
01:09:03,672 --> 01:09:06,087
businesses taken away through regulation

1366
01:09:06,087 --> 01:09:07,642
and fascism in the US.

1367
01:09:07,642 --> 01:09:09,777
There was one doctor
who came down recently.

1368
01:09:09,777 --> 01:09:11,742
He had a practice in the US,

1369
01:09:11,742 --> 01:09:15,867
he had almost 100% cure
cancer rate within one month.

1370
01:09:15,867 --> 01:09:18,922
And he had about 30 swat
team come in one day

1371
01:09:18,922 --> 01:09:20,988
and everything taken by the government.

1372
01:09:20,988 --> 01:09:23,077
And so many people are just had enough of

1373
01:09:23,077 --> 01:09:25,807
being pushed around, stolen, beaten,

1374
01:09:25,807 --> 01:09:29,207
put in cages for nothing,
to have most of their money

1375
01:09:29,207 --> 01:09:30,322
taken away, and even sometimes

1376
01:09:30,322 --> 01:09:33,239
their entire livelihood taken away.

1377
01:09:35,813 --> 01:09:36,832
- [Voiceover] Not all of us can just

1378
01:09:36,832 --> 01:09:39,323
pack up our lives and move to Chile.

1379
01:09:39,323 --> 01:09:42,663
So what practical options are left?

1380
01:09:42,663 --> 01:09:44,413
Identifying the root of the problem

1381
01:09:44,413 --> 01:09:46,496
is a good place to start.

1382
01:09:47,482 --> 01:09:49,863
- The issue is there's this merger of

1383
01:09:49,863 --> 01:09:52,732
what would appear to be private enterprise

1384
01:09:52,732 --> 01:09:54,093
and government.

1385
01:09:54,093 --> 01:09:58,013
And the only way to
break it is to restrict

1386
01:09:58,013 --> 01:10:00,508
the power of the state.

1387
01:10:00,508 --> 01:10:03,568
Once you give the state the power,

1388
01:10:03,568 --> 01:10:07,174
the authority over our
lives in all these areas,

1389
01:10:07,174 --> 01:10:09,833
then there's no stopping
it because then the

1390
01:10:09,833 --> 01:10:11,813
individuals who are in those fields

1391
01:10:11,813 --> 01:10:14,272
are providing medical services, money,

1392
01:10:14,272 --> 01:10:17,358
monetary services, banking services,

1393
01:10:17,358 --> 01:10:20,277
power, and gas, and oil,
and all these services,

1394
01:10:20,277 --> 01:10:23,753
they will gravitate to the government,

1395
01:10:23,753 --> 01:10:26,183
buy off the politicians, make the mergers,

1396
01:10:26,183 --> 01:10:28,393
pass the laws to their best interest,

1397
01:10:28,393 --> 01:10:31,393
and the average, you know,
the gum-chewing public thinks,

1398
01:10:31,393 --> 01:10:34,835
"Oh, well, isn't that nice,
well we voted for these guys

1399
01:10:34,835 --> 01:10:37,275
"so I guess it's in our best interest."

1400
01:10:37,275 --> 01:10:39,400
They don't get it.

1401
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:40,955
If you take all the temptation,

1402
01:10:40,955 --> 01:10:43,635
all the power away from political office,

1403
01:10:43,635 --> 01:10:45,600
the only people who will go into it

1404
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:47,625
will be those who wanna
serve their country.

1405
01:10:47,625 --> 01:10:51,495
'Cause there's no way to
steal anything anymore.

1406
01:10:51,495 --> 01:10:53,725
- The only idea that I have, as far as

1407
01:10:53,725 --> 01:10:55,755
trying to make government smaller,

1408
01:10:55,755 --> 01:10:58,175
is that you, in the United States,

1409
01:10:58,175 --> 01:11:00,475
we've got the Constitution,
but every government

1410
01:11:00,475 --> 01:11:03,215
could pass some sort of amendment to

1411
01:11:03,215 --> 01:11:05,235
their Constitution or whatever,

1412
01:11:05,235 --> 01:11:09,455
that says that for every
law, Act, Code, or regulation

1413
01:11:09,455 --> 01:11:11,315
that these screwballs wanna pass,

1414
01:11:11,315 --> 01:11:13,514
that they've gotta find two old

1415
01:11:13,514 --> 01:11:17,155
laws, Codes, Acts, or regulations
that they have to repeal.

1416
01:11:17,155 --> 01:11:19,034
That's the only way that I can think of

1417
01:11:19,034 --> 01:11:22,195
making government smaller,
and the same thing goes

1418
01:11:22,195 --> 01:11:23,915
for all of the agencies.

1419
01:11:23,915 --> 01:11:26,455
If they wanna open up some other agency

1420
01:11:26,455 --> 01:11:29,705
or department, they've gotta close two.

1421
01:11:32,095 --> 01:11:35,395
- [Voiceover] Individual freedom
is what defines humanity.

1422
01:11:35,395 --> 01:11:37,206
Although, laws and regulations can make us

1423
01:11:37,206 --> 01:11:40,015
feel safe from the threats we may face.

1424
01:11:40,015 --> 01:11:42,295
All the safety in the world means nothing

1425
01:11:42,295 --> 01:11:45,795
without the freedom to live as you choose.

1426
01:11:46,874 --> 01:11:50,957
- Freedom is the most
important and indispensable

1427
01:11:51,834 --> 01:11:54,750
characteristic of mankind.

1428
01:11:54,750 --> 01:11:57,855
We can be induced by
promises from government

1429
01:11:57,855 --> 01:12:01,130
to depart from our liberty,
but there's nothing

1430
01:12:01,130 --> 01:12:03,958
more profound for an individual

1431
01:12:03,958 --> 01:12:08,125
than when they are denied
something they very much need.

1432
01:12:08,997 --> 01:12:12,837
Because they made a decision earlier on

1433
01:12:12,837 --> 01:12:14,476
to part with their freedom.

1434
01:12:14,476 --> 01:12:17,637
And so, when you're terminally ill,

1435
01:12:17,637 --> 01:12:20,077
and you suddenly discover
that you can only

1436
01:12:20,077 --> 01:12:23,917
have access to FDA approved
treatments for your disease.

1437
01:12:23,917 --> 01:12:27,197
And you're told by the
doctors treating you

1438
01:12:27,197 --> 01:12:29,712
that there is no drug
to treat your condition.

1439
01:12:29,712 --> 01:12:33,287
And then, to survive,
you're going to have to find

1440
01:12:33,287 --> 01:12:37,242
something else, and you
discover that your desire

1441
01:12:37,242 --> 01:12:40,217
and your freedom of
choice to attain that end

1442
01:12:40,217 --> 01:12:42,717
are blocked by the Food
and Drug Administration.

1443
01:12:42,717 --> 01:12:45,062
And so, when you need
your freedom the most,

1444
01:12:45,062 --> 01:12:47,696
it's been taken away from you.

1445
01:12:47,696 --> 01:12:49,296
When you've been in a family that has had

1446
01:12:49,296 --> 01:12:52,517
a milk farm for 300 years or more,

1447
01:12:52,517 --> 01:12:54,478
and suddenly federal agents come in

1448
01:12:54,478 --> 01:12:56,902
and they do a raid on your farm

1449
01:12:56,902 --> 01:12:59,997
as if you were a drug kingpin engaged

1450
01:12:59,997 --> 01:13:02,502
in international drug sales,

1451
01:13:02,502 --> 01:13:04,837
and you're only selling milk.

1452
01:13:04,837 --> 01:13:06,457
And then you realize your whole life

1453
01:13:06,457 --> 01:13:09,037
has been turned upside down.

1454
01:13:09,037 --> 01:13:11,197
Or you are a small businessman

1455
01:13:11,197 --> 01:13:14,557
who discovers that just
to operate a gas station,

1456
01:13:14,557 --> 01:13:16,896
you have to comply with EPA regulations

1457
01:13:16,896 --> 01:13:20,096
that will cost you more than it will

1458
01:13:20,096 --> 01:13:23,382
to run the gas station and profit.

1459
01:13:23,382 --> 01:13:24,837
Or you find out that you wanna have

1460
01:13:24,837 --> 01:13:27,481
a food establishment, a restaurant.

1461
01:13:27,481 --> 01:13:29,542
And you discover that federal, and state,

1462
01:13:29,542 --> 01:13:33,036
and local regulations effecting
your food establishment

1463
01:13:33,036 --> 01:13:35,522
are so great, that you have to lawyers,

1464
01:13:35,522 --> 01:13:36,862
and you have to have accountants,

1465
01:13:36,862 --> 01:13:38,962
and you have to have individual,

1466
01:13:38,962 --> 01:13:41,717
specially trained to
comply, and you have to fill

1467
01:13:41,717 --> 01:13:45,042
out all these forms, and you
have to pay all these fees,

1468
01:13:45,042 --> 01:13:47,572
and you have to get separate licenses

1469
01:13:47,572 --> 01:13:51,239
just to be in the
business of reselling food

1470
01:13:52,342 --> 01:13:56,862
others have already manufactured
and put in the marketplace.

1471
01:13:56,862 --> 01:13:58,862
It's the end of liberty.

1472
01:14:09,042 --> 01:14:12,709
- How you regain freedom
is a huge question.

1473
01:14:15,102 --> 01:14:18,935
The individual knows
that he's or she's alive.

1474
01:14:20,124 --> 01:14:23,924
The individual knows
that he or she is free

1475
01:14:23,924 --> 01:14:26,424
to choose a future and a life,

1476
01:14:28,079 --> 01:14:29,162
if they want.

1477
01:14:32,364 --> 01:14:35,124
We either have free societies or we don't.

1478
01:14:35,124 --> 01:14:39,414
There's such a thing as
individual freedom or there isn't.

1479
01:14:39,414 --> 01:14:41,414
That is the bottom line.

1480
01:14:43,343 --> 01:14:46,676
If you want to live a life, a real life,

1481
01:14:48,229 --> 01:14:50,229
then freedom must exist.

1482
01:14:51,605 --> 01:14:54,310
So people have to step up to the plate

1483
01:14:54,310 --> 01:14:57,346
whenever they see individual
freedom threatened

1484
01:14:57,346 --> 01:15:00,346
along any channel of human activity.

1485
01:15:02,524 --> 01:15:04,857
That's where you start from.

1486
01:15:07,615 --> 01:15:10,680
- When I was growing up, New
York was an ugly, ugly city,

1487
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:13,265
where there's violence in
the streets all the time.

1488
01:15:13,265 --> 01:15:14,805
And the way that they cleaned it up

1489
01:15:14,805 --> 01:15:16,405
was by going and getting people to go out

1490
01:15:16,405 --> 01:15:18,565
and say, "No more."

1491
01:15:18,565 --> 01:15:21,105
Well that worked to stop the gangs,

1492
01:15:21,105 --> 01:15:23,821
the same thing works when
you get honest people

1493
01:15:23,821 --> 01:15:25,385
who engage in government.

1494
01:15:25,385 --> 01:15:27,524
And maybe we can stop the government gangs

1495
01:15:27,524 --> 01:15:29,106
from sitting there and dictating

1496
01:15:29,106 --> 01:15:31,525
the terms of our lives and preventing us

1497
01:15:31,525 --> 01:15:33,204
from having the freedom and liberty,

1498
01:15:33,204 --> 01:15:37,037
which we were guaranteed
in an open democracy.

1499
01:15:42,805 --> 01:15:44,805
- [Voiceover] We are all individuals.

1500
01:15:44,805 --> 01:15:46,975
We have the ability to think,

1501
01:15:46,975 --> 01:15:50,725
to decide, and most
importantly, to be heard.

1502
01:15:53,725 --> 01:15:54,950
(milk splashes)

1503
01:15:54,950 --> 01:15:59,033
It may be time to start
crying over spilled milk.

1504
01:16:03,265 --> 01:16:04,695
- Crap, I just spilled this.

1505
01:16:04,695 --> 01:16:06,862
This is not gonna be good.

1506
01:16:08,135 --> 01:16:11,464
- Boy, I just saw those pictures
of Kim Kardashian pregnant.

1507
01:16:11,464 --> 01:16:13,506
I said, "Man, how could a chick like that,

1508
01:16:13,506 --> 01:16:15,322
"why does everybody wanna look at her?"

1509
01:16:15,322 --> 01:16:19,489
Ya know, (chuckles) yeah, she's a star.

1510
01:16:21,053 --> 01:16:21,970
- Well, ah,

1511
01:16:24,672 --> 01:16:27,312
you don't want him in there?

1512
01:16:27,312 --> 01:16:29,442
Go down, go downstairs there, Gepetto.

1513
01:16:29,442 --> 01:16:30,992
- No, I don't know where
you can get any weed.

1514
01:16:30,992 --> 01:16:32,557
(laughs)

1515
01:16:32,557 --> 01:16:33,390
That's a lie.

1516
01:16:33,390 --> 01:16:34,722
(laughs)

1517
01:16:34,722 --> 01:16:36,212
That's a blatant lie, too.

1518
01:16:36,212 --> 01:16:37,260
No, no more today.

1519
01:16:37,260 --> 01:16:40,010
(playful music)