1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 2 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,959 MAN: "September 11, 1777. 3 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,799 "My loving wife, 4 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,391 "these past few months away from you and Nathaniel have been difficult, 5 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,670 "and I miss both of you terribly. 6 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,866 "We have all made sacrifices, starting with our commander. 7 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:27,959 (GUN FIRING) 8 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:31,759 "We face the most powerful army in the world. 9 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,225 "In our last battle we felt the bite of their artillery." 10 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,546 Fire! 11 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,839 "But we held firm and pushed them back. 12 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,199 "Our commander did not let us fail. 13 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,159 "We trust him. He keeps our spirits high." 14 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,431 COMMANDER: Battalion, attention! 15 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,799 MAN: "General Washington reminds us 16 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,839 "that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness 17 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,399 "are our unalienable rights and we will not give them up to the crown. 18 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,559 "When the war is won, America will be the first nation 19 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,079 "to freely choose its own way. 20 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,999 "Today will be another test of our will as we face General Howe, 21 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,359 "whose troops outnumber us by the thousands. 22 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,879 "The American cause now rests on providence and General Washington." 23 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:44,679 Hold the line, boys! 24 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,679 Hold the line! 25 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,462 MAN: Ready, fire! 26 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,308 Fire! 27 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,101 Fire! 28 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,469 Charge! 29 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,824 (SHOUTING) 30 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:40,187 (WASHINGTON GRUNTING) 31 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,661 COMMANDER: General Washington! 32 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,159 Fall back! Retreat! 33 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,479 Fall back! Retreat! 34 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,479 - COMMANDER 1: Advance! - COMMANDER 2: Retreat! 35 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,262 Fall back, company! 36 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,421 (GRUNTING) 37 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,071 DINESH D'SOUZA: Imagine the unimaginable. 38 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:43,062 What if George Washington had been killed by a sniper's bullet? 39 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:54,068 What if the Civil War had torn this country into two or 10 countries? 40 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,862 What if Hitler got the atomic bomb first? 41 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,947 What would the world look like if America did not exist? 42 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,710 (RADIO CHATTERING) 43 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,703 MAN: (SINGING) From farmers in the fields 44 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,542 to the tallest of the towers that fall and rise 45 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,799 1-7-7-6, the names upon the list 46 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,630 of all the ones who gave until they died 47 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,879 Don't you hold back 48 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,839 I can see in your mind 49 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:34,943 and your mind will set you free 50 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,919 Rise to the top of the world 51 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,199 America 52 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,110 America, don't you cry 53 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,239 Lift me up 54 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,199 Give me strength to press on 55 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,119 Rise to the top of the world 56 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,279 America 57 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,302 America, don't you cry 58 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,039 Lift me up 59 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,159 Give me strength to press on 60 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,479 Rise to the top of the world 61 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,670 D'SOUZA: I love America. 62 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:17,719 I chose this country. 63 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,879 (SINGING) America, don't you cry 64 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:24,879 D'SOUZA: And like millions of immigrants, I've been blessed by my life in America. 65 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,559 (SINGING) Give me strength to press on 66 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,239 D'SOUZA: This country does something truly unique. 67 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,944 It allows you to write the script of your own life. 68 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,679 A chapter of my script was making the film 2016. 69 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:49,879 It surprised Hollywood and the media by becoming a runaway hit. 70 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:54,266 It became the number two political documentary film of all time. 71 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,919 In the film I made three predictions. 72 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,119 The federal government would grow bigger 73 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,839 as America's role in the world grows smaller. 74 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:09,199 Under President Obama, the national debt would double. 75 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,319 This administration would undermine our allies 76 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,909 and strengthen our enemies. 77 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:22,101 Seeing these predictions come true, I'm scared for the future of America. 78 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:28,022 But I believe we can be strong again unless we choose another path. 79 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:33,039 A century and a half ago, a young Abraham Lincoln 80 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,902 issued a prophetic warning. 81 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,719 Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant 82 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,879 to step the ocean and crush us with a blow? 83 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:50,999 Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined 84 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,279 with a Bonaparte for a commander 85 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,559 could not by force take a drink from the Ohio. 86 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:02,982 At what point then, is the approach of danger to be expected? 87 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:08,799 I answer that if it ever reach us, it must spring up from amongst us. 88 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,468 It cannot come from abroad. 89 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,399 If destruction be our lot, 90 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:19,119 then we ourselves must be the author and finisher of it. 91 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,199 As a nation of freemen, 92 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:28,589 we must live throughout all time or die by suicide. 93 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,239 D'SOUZA: How do you convince a great nation to author its own destruction? 94 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,119 You start by telling a new story. 95 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,839 'Cause if you got a business, you didn't build that. 96 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:40,919 (AUDIENCE AGREEING) 97 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,959 Somebody else made that happen. 98 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,119 D'SOUZA: What President Obama is really saying 99 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,839 is that the wealth and abundance of American life 100 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,350 are not earned, they're stolen. 101 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,959 But it's not just President Obama. 102 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,159 MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Thievery was a critical element 103 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,439 to the expansion of American empire. 104 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,159 MICHAEL MOORE: This is a nation founded on genocide 105 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:08,865 - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) - and built on the backs of slaves. 106 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:13,062 MAN: Moving borders. They call it American imperialism. 107 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,119 D'SOUZA: Obama didn't create this movement. 108 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,599 It created him. 109 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:21,199 JEREMIAH WRIGHT: Not God bless America. God damn America. 110 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,639 WARD CHURCHILL: European expansion, conquest, colonization, genocide. 111 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,759 HOWARD ZINN: American foreign policy has been aggressive 112 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,319 and imperialist for a very long time. 113 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:36,519 It was expansionist immediately starting right after the Revolutionary War. 114 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,519 D'SOUZA: Incredible as it may seem, 115 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:43,862 there are people in America who want a world without America. 116 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,270 Their indictments against America start at the very beginning. 117 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,061 (SHOUTING) 118 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,239 D'SOUZA: What are the words that come to mind 119 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,989 when you hear the phrase, Christopher Columbus? 120 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:19,666 (DOOR CLOSING) 121 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,670 I know your name. 122 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,260 What's your unit? 123 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,942 Lieutenant Colonel John Fer of the United States Air Force. 124 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:43,559 And ends 400 years later in America with the Trail of Tears 125 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:48,799 where 18,000 Native Americans were forced to march 2,000 miles, 126 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,479 leaving a third of them dead. 127 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,423 What words come to mind when you think of the word "America"? 128 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,319 A sadness. For me, it's just a great sadness. 129 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,910 I think of all the hundreds of nations that were destroyed. 130 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,919 D'SOUZA: In 1845, Mexican territory covered most of Texas, 131 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,559 New Mexico, Arizona and California. 132 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,559 I like Chicano nationalism. 133 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,799 I really do prefer Hispanic culture to Anglo-Saxon culture. 134 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,639 And you say, "Well, why don't you move back to Mexico?" 135 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,119 I don't have to. I'm in Mexico. 136 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,199 And like I tell my Chicano students, 137 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:48,599 maybe after there isn't a United States, we'll still be here, like the Indians. 138 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,479 D'SOUZA: So to put it biblically, you are in America but not of America. 139 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,599 I'm not of America, no. 140 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,479 D'SOUZA: Charles Truxillo is a professor of Chicano studies 141 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,439 at the University of New Mexico. 142 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:06,182 He's a leading representative of a movement trying to reclaim Mexico's lost lands. 143 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:13,919 Did the United States steal half of Mexico in the Mexican War? 144 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:20,479 Yes, and the wealth of those areas. California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, 145 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,199 the oil, the minerals, 146 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,359 would have made Mexico a premier economic power, 147 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,391 like it's becoming now. 148 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,839 When I went one time with my father to Mexico to visit relatives, 149 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,879 we were in an old classroom 150 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,679 and they had a map of North America up in the classroom. 151 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,759 And it had the area that's the American Southwest 152 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,239 from Texas to California cross-thatched 153 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,519 with the colors of Mexico and the United States, 154 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:52,226 and they had named that area provincias perdidas, lost provinces. 155 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,559 They have killed us, beat us, 156 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,559 drugged us, knocked us and raped us and robbed us. 157 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,103 Done everything but the right thing. 158 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,319 MALCOLM X: We don't see any American dream. 159 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,944 We've experienced only the American nightmare. 160 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:29,239 WRIGHT: We took Africans from their country to build our way of ease 161 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,501 and kept them enslaved and living in fear. 162 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,679 DYSON: Well, obviously as a black person in America, 163 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:44,039 it's, um, a part of the wretched history of this nation 164 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,799 that my foremothers and forefathers were not seen as fully human. 165 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,559 D'SOUZA: I spoke to the African American scholar Michael Eric Dyson 166 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,719 at Georgetown University. 167 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,719 Has Obama's election and re-election... 168 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,599 Doesn't that say something about the end of racism? 169 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,079 I would not deny at all that American has made enormous progress. 170 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,759 Are we there yet? No. 171 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,759 America doesn't want to confront the vicious inequalities 172 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:10,599 that it set loose in this nation. 173 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:14,439 Absorbing things that are not yours. Taking stuff that is not yours. 174 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:19,079 We can say thievery was a critical element to the expansion of American empire 175 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,750 and the establishment of the American way of life. 176 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,639 D'SOUZA: 150 years ago at the height of slavery, 177 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:31,879 another man made an even more passionate indictment of America. 178 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,663 The American slave, what is your 4th of July? 179 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:42,144 I answer a day that reveals to him more than all other days in a year, 180 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,030 a gross injustice. 181 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,199 Your celebration is a sham. 182 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:54,479 You profess to believe that of one blood God made all nations 183 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,919 and hath commanded all men everywhere to love one another. 184 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,959 Yet, you notoriously hate 185 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,839 and glory in your hatred all men whose skin are not colored like your own. 186 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,479 D'SOUZA: Meet Frederick Douglass. 187 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,159 Born a slave, he escaped to freedom 188 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,784 and became a champion of the antislavery movement. 189 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,439 DOUGLASS: You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery 190 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,559 to throw off a three-penny tax on tea 191 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,799 and yet wring the last hard-earned farthing 192 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,390 from the grasp of the black laborers of your country. 193 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:29,199 There is not a nation on the earth 194 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,679 guilty of practices more shocking 195 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,719 and bloody 196 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:40,062 than are the people of the United States, than on this 4th of July. 197 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:54,319 BILL AYERS: We like to think of ourselves as a peace-loving people. 198 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,679 If they said, "We're going in for the oil," we'd say, "No, don't do it." 199 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,382 But instead they say, "We're going in for democracy." 200 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,919 Has the United States been a force for good or ill in the world? 201 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,719 For the people we conquer, 202 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,390 the Vietnamese, we killed a couple million of them, 203 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,427 not a force for good. 204 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:29,119 D'SOUZA: MIT professor Noam Chomsky is a leading critic of American imperialism. 205 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:33,439 There's a reason why most of the world regards the United States 206 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,159 as a predatory colonial power. 207 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:40,079 We overthrew the democratic government of Guatemala in 1954, 208 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:44,399 Iran in 1953, Cuba in 1961. 209 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,310 Then Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, 210 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,667 on through the world. It's not a pretty record. 211 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,831 (SHOUTING) 212 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,479 We are the 99%! 213 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,719 Whose street? Our street! Occupy Wall Street! 214 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,759 We've never had anything like this in this country 215 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,239 where we take on economic issues like this. 216 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,719 If you want money, after you get that million, you want a billion. 217 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,479 After you get a billion, you want a trillion. After you get a trillion, you want a zillion. 218 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,262 There is no end. There is no line. 219 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,639 D'SOUZA: The charge against capitalism is that greedy, selfish business owners 220 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,024 steal from people. 221 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:35,879 They create gross inequality by depriving people of their fair share. 222 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,999 OBAMA: And it's only right that we ask everyone to pay their fair share. 223 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,959 Asking everyone to pay their fair share. 224 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,159 Pay their fair share. 225 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,559 There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. 226 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:47,759 Nobody. 227 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,399 You built a factory out there. Good for you. 228 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,679 But I want to be clear, you moved your goods 229 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,879 to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. 230 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,599 You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. 231 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,279 You were safe in your factory 232 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:11,146 because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. 233 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,719 D'SOUZA: It doesn't matter whether you're making profits 234 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,559 from a hot dog stand in Times Square 235 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,662 or if you're the biggest company on NASDAQ, 236 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:26,586 capitalists are under fire. 237 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,959 MOORE: Until we change the system, and let's use the C word here. 238 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,039 We're talking about capitalism. 239 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,279 If it's a more comfortable word for you, greed. 240 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,559 That's just another word for it. 241 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,799 This ultimately has to change. 242 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,959 How much more are you going to make them suffer? 243 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:49,551 Because some day they're not gonna take it anymore. 244 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:56,239 D'SOUZA: These are the indictments against America. 245 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,039 We stole the country from the Native Americans. 246 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,799 We took half of Mexico in the Mexican War. 247 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,359 We stole the labor of the African Americans. 248 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:13,464 And today our foreign policy and our free market system are forms of theft. 249 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:21,599 These indictments developed separately and each has been around for a long time. 250 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:27,119 But now they've come together in a single narrative of American shame. 251 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:29,879 One professor pulled this narrative together. 252 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,519 His name is Howard Zinn. 253 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,599 ZINN: I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America 254 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,679 from the viewpoint of the Arawaks. 255 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,959 Of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves. 256 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:46,221 Of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees. 257 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,439 D'SOUZA: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck grew up in the same 258 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,919 South Boston neighborhood as Zinn. 259 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,919 They gave him a nice plug in their movie Good Will Hunting. 260 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,679 You want to read a real history book, 261 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,759 read Howard Zion's People's History of the United States. 262 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,639 That book will knock you on your ass. 263 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,519 D'SOUZA: Zion's book has made him quite the celebrity. 264 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,079 What I didn't realize is that from the very beginning, 265 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,159 from when Columbus met the Arawaks, 266 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:18,184 there was... It was just nonstop, um, 267 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:23,519 violence and, uh, (EXHALING) and, uh, just taking over. 268 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,479 They're bullying people and taking over their resources. 269 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,479 D'SOUZA: Howard Zinn is the most influential historian of the past 50 years. 270 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,839 His book has sold over two million copies, 271 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,799 becoming required reading in most colleges and many high schools. 272 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,319 Even Tony Soprano's kid had to read it. 273 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,839 His history teacher, Mr. Cushman, 274 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,119 is teaching your son that if Columbus was alive today, 275 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,679 he would go on trial for crimes against humanity, 276 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,621 like Milošević in, you know, Europe. 277 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,599 Your teacher said that? 278 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,199 It's not just my teacher. It's the truth. 279 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,345 It's in my history book. 280 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,501 (GUN FIRING) 281 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,787 D'SOUZA: This is the new story of American shame. 282 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,199 Are our lives, innocent on the surface, 283 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:25,986 part of a ruthless engine of looting, exploitation and murder? 284 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,559 It's a powerful critique. 285 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:33,709 We can't just dismiss it with chants of liberty, freedom, rah, rah, rah. 286 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,759 The critics are raising the primary question of justice. 287 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:42,510 ALL: ...with liberty and justice for all. 288 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,639 D'SOUZA: Read the Declaration of independence. 289 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,786 It's a cry against injustice. 290 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:56,790 For the American founders, liberty was the solution to that injustice. 291 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,839 This is not just an attack on the 1%. 292 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,119 It's an attack on all of us. 293 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:08,239 We are a nation of immigrants and settlers. 294 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,547 And we are the ones accused of these crimes. 295 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:19,429 If these things are true, something has to be done about them. 296 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,665 (DOORBELL RINGING) 297 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,679 - There he is. - How's it going? 298 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,239 - Good. Come on in. - Good to see you. 299 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,839 - Been a while, hasn't it? - It has been. 300 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,719 Reagan had called the Soviet Union, you remember, an evil empire. 301 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,679 - Yeah. - And the Soviet Union has dissolved. 302 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,599 So, who's the new evil empire? 303 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,839 Well, you're sitting in it. 304 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,239 D'SOUZA: One of the most vocal critics of America 305 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,599 is Professor Ward Churchill. 306 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,879 He gained notoriety right after 9/11 307 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,799 by suggesting some of the people in the World Trade Center 308 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,079 were like Nazi war criminals and deserved what they got. 309 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,279 If the US had the atomic bomb earlier, 310 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,279 chances are pretty good it would have dropped it on Nazi Germany, 311 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,279 and certainly, for a Jew, that would be a good idea 312 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:17,399 because to destroy an evil regime is a good thing. 313 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,839 Yeah. 314 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,987 So if you could drop a bomb on the United States, would you do it? 315 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,387 Well, if it would be justifiable 316 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,679 in the context you just described, 317 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,679 then by the same logic, it would be justifiable here. 318 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,879 It's not one set of rules for everybody else 319 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,060 and another set of rules for the United States. 320 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,226 D'SOUZA: That is American suicide. 321 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,759 But there is an alternative remedy for this theft and injustice. 322 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,519 Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, 323 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,064 and begin again the work of remaking America. 324 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,679 D'SOUZA: To remake America 325 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,463 you have to unmake the America that's here now. 326 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,079 You are about to witness the very exciting story 327 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,039 of a city and its people. 328 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:19,279 It is the story of a city seeking new horizons. 329 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:23,462 Yes, Detroit is enjoying its finest hour. 330 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,359 D'SOUZA: Obama's remaking involves economic redistribution 331 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:30,159 never before imagined. 332 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:35,184 It's aimed at returning centuries of stolen goods. 333 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,279 Detroit was once the richest city in the world, 334 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,759 the pinnacle of America. 335 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:46,910 If America goes the way of Detroit, that would be another kind of suicide. 336 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,359 But is suicide the price we must pay for justice? 337 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:56,384 If our wealth is stolen, then we must give it back. 338 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,119 So, is America guilty as charged? 339 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:16,984 It depends on whether the story of American shame is true or not. 340 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,559 I came from India to America 30 years ago. 341 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,911 I know a world without her. 342 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,559 When I hear young people on the campus 343 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,582 repeat the Zinn narrative of American shame, 344 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,180 I know they haven't been told the whole story. 345 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,519 Is Howard Zinn a real historian? 346 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,759 No, Howard Zinn is not a real historian. 347 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,399 He constantly has misstatements of fact. 348 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,319 More than misstatements, actual proven untruths, 349 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,944 and he doesn't care that it's inaccurate. 350 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:03,079 D'SOUZA: Professor Ron Radosh is a leading scholar of American radicalism 351 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,279 and a contemporary of Howard Zinn. 352 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,719 Now, you used to be a member of the US Communist Party. 353 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,559 Right, I left it because I realized that the ideology 354 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,799 and the practice had no relation to American reality. 355 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,159 Howard Zinn left because it was not revolutionary enough. 356 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,039 What he does is try to create a glossary 357 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,879 of radical heroes who the new movement he wants to build should emulate. 358 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,799 That's why he's writing this book. 359 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,479 He was writing to try and inspire a social movement among young people 360 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,879 who would act as revolutionaries. 361 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,821 That's his purpose, not history. 362 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:46,519 I got into history with a very, sort of, modest objective. 363 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,541 Uh, I wanted to change the world. 364 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,359 If you read his book, 365 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,799 America is the single most oppressive nation in the world. 366 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,039 America is intrinsically evil. 367 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,199 He wants us to understand how bad America is. 368 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:08,759 And then, we will join him in creating a new social revolutionary movement. 369 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,351 D'SOUZA: If Howard Zinn gives us a twisted picture of America, 370 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,319 is there a more reliable source? 371 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,387 (FOLK MUSIC PLAYING) 372 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,999 Meet Alexis de Tocqueville, 373 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,639 a French aristocrat who traveled through America in 1831 374 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,981 and wrote the classic book Democracy in America. 375 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,439 Tocqueville witnessed America first-hand. 376 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,110 He saw the founding principles in action. 377 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,919 He saw Americans as very entrepreneurial. 378 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,599 Choose any American at random 379 00:30:54,600 --> 00:31:00,545 and he could be enterprising, adventurous, and above all, an innovator. 380 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:04,919 (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) 381 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:10,919 Tocqueville observed how no one bows or scrapes before another in America. 382 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,439 America is the only country where we call the waiter "sir," 383 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,063 as if he were a knight. 384 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,670 (MUSIC STOPS PLAYING) 385 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:45,999 (CROWD CHEERING) 386 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,190 (MUSIC RESUMES PLAYING) 387 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,870 (CHOIR SINGING) 388 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,399 D'SOUZA: Tocqueville witnessed the importance of Christianity. 389 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,719 He saw faith shaping not only people's inner life, 390 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,707 but also their political life. 391 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:26,666 He wrote, "Religion must be regarded as the first of their political institutions. 392 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,959 "When a private individual meditates an undertaking, 393 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:40,079 "he never thinks of soliciting the cooperation of the government. 394 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,865 "Rather, he does it himself or in collaboration with others." 395 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,999 - God bless you, sir. - God bless you. 396 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,399 D'SOUZA: "In the end, the sum of these private undertakings 397 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,309 "far exceeds all that the government could have done." 398 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,791 Now, Tocqueville did recognize the things that Zinn talks about. 399 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,719 At one point, Tocqueville stood on the Ohio-Kentucky border. 400 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,919 He looked north and he saw industrious Ohio. 401 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,181 He looked south and he saw idle Kentucky. 402 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,279 "On both sides," he commented, "the soil is equally fertile. 403 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,799 "The situation just as favorable." 404 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,946 So what explained the difference? 405 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,959 "Slavery," Tocqueville said, "degrades work. 406 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:44,559 "It produces a people without energy, without a spirit of enterprise. 407 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,830 (SLAVES SINGING) 408 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,839 D'SOUZA: "Slaves have no incentive to work 409 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,305 "because they don't get to keep the fruit of their labor." 410 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,799 MAN: Thank you all for coming out to auction today. 411 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,959 D'SOUZA: "And masters become lazy because there are slaves 412 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,359 "to do everything for them." 413 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,679 MAN: We're gonna sell them here 'cause they are ready to work. 414 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,439 We're gonna start this auction off with this strapping young buck right here. 415 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:09,759 This one right here is fresh out of the water. 416 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,359 We're gonna open this auction up at $200. 417 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,959 Do I have $200? Who's gonna bid 300? Who's gonna bid 300? 418 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,759 D'SOUZA: When Tocqueville saw slavery, 419 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,199 when he saw the treatment of the Native Americans, 420 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,870 he knew none of this was uniquely American. 421 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,024 In fact, it was part of a universal conquest ethic. 422 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,239 Most countries are founded in conquest. 423 00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:43,343 Europe, conquest, conquest and more conquest. 424 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,239 Look at Britain. 425 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:47,279 Before becoming an empire, it was conquered 426 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,719 by the Norman kings of France and earlier by the Romans. 427 00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:55,879 Before the British came, India was invaded by the Persians, 428 00:34:55,880 --> 00:35:01,711 the Mongols, the Afghans, the Arabs and Alexander the Great. 429 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,039 Conquest was how wealth was acquired. 430 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:09,301 Not through entrepreneurship, invention or business. 431 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:15,585 Historically, every culture has despised entrepreneurs and merchants. 432 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,439 In India, we have the caste system. 433 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,199 Who's at the top? The Brahmin or priest. 434 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,631 The entrepreneur is one step from the bottom. 435 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,559 The Islamic historian Ibn Khaldūn 436 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:33,300 says that looting is morally preferable to entrepreneurship or trade. 437 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,639 Why? Because looting is more manly. 438 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,743 In looting, you have to beat the guy in open combat to take his stuff. 439 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,559 America is based on a different idea. 440 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,788 The idea of acquiring wealth not by taking it from someone else. 441 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,479 Instead, wealth can be created 442 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,741 through innovation, entrepreneurship and trade. 443 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,906 Let's take a look at Manhattan. 444 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,119 Reportedly in 1626, 445 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:22,986 Native Americans sold Manhattan to the Dutch for $700 in today's money. 446 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:28,628 There's land all over the world now that you can buy for $700. 447 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:34,990 But when the Dutch bought Manhattan, there was no Manhattan. 448 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,599 Prices are astronomical today 449 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,782 because of what's been built over the past 300 years. 450 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,959 Manhattan is the creation of the people who built it, 451 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,823 not the original inhabitants who sold it. 452 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:57,028 Manhattan represents the new American ethic of wealth creation. 453 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,024 An alternative to conquest. 454 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:07,140 It's time to respond to Zion's story of American shame. 455 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,188 Did America steal the country from the Native Americans? 456 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,159 Much of this critique focuses on Columbus 457 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,119 and the actions of the Spanish conquistadors. 458 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,079 But Columbus never even landed in America. 459 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,799 And the actions of the Spanish, 460 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,310 - that was 150 years before America. - (GUNS FIRING) 461 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,039 Zinn blames America for the sins of the Spanish 462 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,710 and the Portuguese and Great Britain and France. 463 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,748 What about all the broken treaties since 1776? 464 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,279 Well, the very idea of a treaty is a departure from the conquest ethic. 465 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:50,020 The conquest ethic was very simple, you win, I lose. 466 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,199 This is not a defense of relocation 467 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,319 or the way the Native Americans have been treated. 468 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,559 Some restitution is due. 469 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,719 And some has been made. 470 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:04,199 In the case of the Black Hills, American courts acknowledge 471 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,919 the land was taken in violation of the Laramie Treaty of 1868. 472 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:14,706 $1 billion, fair market value of the land plus interest, has been set aside. 473 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,385 But the Sioux have rejected it. They want the land. 474 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,428 But is it their land? 475 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,319 In the late 1700s, the Sioux took that land from the Cheyenne, 476 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,103 who had earlier pushed out the Kiowa and the Arapaho. 477 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,479 Land possession is part of a long history 478 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,719 in which the stronger Native American tribes displaced weaker ones. 479 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:41,919 The Native Americans, too, subscribe to the conquest ethic. 480 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,919 But what about the charge of genocide? 481 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,319 In the two centuries after Columbus, 482 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,079 the Native American population declined by 80%. 483 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,359 But it wasn't due to warfare. 484 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,519 Rather, as historian William McNeill points out, 485 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,079 they contracted diseases, 486 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,239 measles, typhus, smallpox, cholera and malaria, 487 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:04,942 to which they had no immunities. 488 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:10,079 Now, this is tragedy on a grand scale, but it's not genocide 489 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,671 because genocide implies an intention to wipe out a people. 490 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,039 Just a century and a half earlier, 491 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,639 one-third of the population of Europe was wiped out 492 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,919 by a series of bubonic and pneumonic plagues. 493 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,239 Those plagues came from Asia, and the Europeans had no immunities. 494 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:30,988 We don't call that genocide. 495 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,879 I understand the pain of Charmaine White Face and others 496 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,439 over the loss of an old way of life, 497 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,919 but the Native Americans, if they wanted, can return to that way. 498 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:44,559 Instead, they have exercised the right of tribal self-government 499 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,559 and many have chosen to build resorts, casinos 500 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,262 and other entrepreneurial businesses. 501 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,186 Did America steal half of Mexico in the Mexican War? 502 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,279 It seems cruel. 503 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,079 We took the land of these Mexicans 504 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,279 and now we won't even allow them to come back 505 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,268 and work as laborers on land that used to be theirs. 506 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,465 I asked Texas Senator Ted Cruz what started the Mexican War. 507 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,719 What prompted the Texas Revolution, 508 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:30,439 the Texians, who were part of Mexico at the time. 509 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,319 General Santa Anna, who was the dictator in Mexico, 510 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,599 began stripping away the rights of Texians. 511 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,999 And indeed, they began to revolt to protect their freedom and independence. 512 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,159 And so the Texians fought a revolution, 513 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,879 just like our founding fathers in America did, 514 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,959 and won their independence from Mexico. 515 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,199 D'SOUZA: Texas joined the American union, 516 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:56,144 and its border dispute with Mexico precipitated the Mexican War. 517 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,479 America won that war. 518 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,599 As a result, American troops were in Mexico City. 519 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,559 We took all of Mexico. 520 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:09,106 Then we retired its debt and gave half the country back. 521 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,799 The people who ended up on the American side of the border 522 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,423 were made American citizens. 523 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:23,199 Temo Muniz is a law student active in Hispanic politics. 524 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,639 Would you consider yourself Mexican American? 525 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,519 Mexican is the adjective. 526 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,079 American is the noun. 527 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,639 I am a proud Texan born and raised. 528 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,559 I'm an American of Mexican heritage. 529 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,199 Do you believe in the American dream? 530 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:38,999 Definitely. I've seen it first-hand. 531 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,639 My dad was a shepherd boy 532 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,919 from the mountains of San Luis Potosí Mexico. 533 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,279 He pretty much bootstrapped his way to building 534 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,959 one of the largest manufacturing companies in his industry sector. 535 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,559 Like I said, we started from the bottom. We had, uh, nothing. 536 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,999 Uh, dumpster diving to sell things, to resell things. 537 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,439 Selling chips at the park at the age of six. Collecting cans. 538 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,199 Unloading cotton bales at the age of 13. 539 00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:07,119 So, I've witnessed it. I've lived it. And I know the American dream is alive. 540 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,279 What is your American dream? 541 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:10,759 Well, I'm still in search of it. 542 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,519 I'm in law school right now. 543 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,239 And I hope to really be an influence to my community. 544 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:19,959 We're cut from the same cloth as any American who has a pioneer spirit. 545 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:24,599 What would your life be like today if you were in Mexico? 546 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,959 If we had the same American dream in Mexico, 547 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,279 we'd probably be extorted by the cartel kingpins. 548 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,759 Asking us for 10%, 20% of the fruits of our labor. 549 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,199 We wouldn't even have the natural right to bear arms 550 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,399 to defend ourselves against the cartels. 551 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:44,639 It's hard to build any kind of dream when you're living under tyranny. 552 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,639 I've heard of las provincias perdidas, the lost provinces. 553 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,359 The truth of the matter, Dinesh, is that we don't care about that. 554 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,439 We're here in America. We're building up the American dream. 555 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,279 We're successful. We've tasted freedom and liberty. 556 00:42:58,280 --> 00:42:59,839 We're not going back. 557 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,159 What would you do if the American Southwest 558 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,119 were somehow to be returned to Mexico? 559 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,159 Uh, I'd be moving to Minneapolis. 560 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,239 So you'd want to stay in America? 561 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:13,944 America is where I was born and Texas is where I'm gonna die. 562 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,159 D'SOUZA: And he's not alone. 563 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:21,519 How long have you been in border control law enforcement? 564 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,839 Dinesh, I was a border patrol agent on the border for 26-plus years. 565 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,519 Now, how many people would you say in a year 566 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,079 surreptitiously cross the border? 567 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,039 Probably in the millions. 568 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,039 And these are people obviously crossing from the United States into Mexico. 569 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:42,919 No, they're people crossing from Mexico into the United States. Yes. 570 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,359 But don't you have Mexican Americans 571 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,919 who are trying to cross back into their old country? 572 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,039 Uh, I've never seen one illegally try and cross back into Mexico, no, never. 573 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:53,559 They prefer it here? 574 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,421 Obviously. 575 00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,559 D'SOUZA: I wonder how many people in Mexico today 576 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,389 wish the United States had kept all of Mexico. 577 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:25,239 The enslavement of African Americans was theft. 578 00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:27,669 Theft of life and labor. 579 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,719 Were the American founders hypocrites in affirming that all men are created equal 580 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:38,141 while approving a constitution that allowed slavery to continue? 581 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,919 This was debated by the Republican Abraham Lincoln 582 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,622 and his Democratic opponent. 583 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,119 So if you desire Negro citizenship, 584 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,999 if you desire to let them move into our state to settle with the white man, 585 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,839 then by all means, support Mr. Lincoln and the black Republican party 586 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,719 who are for Negro citizenship. 587 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:09,785 (AUDIENCE BOOING) 588 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:18,426 The authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men. 589 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:24,319 They did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. 590 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,959 They did not mean to say that all were equal in color, 591 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:34,861 size, intellect, moral developments or social capacity. 592 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,119 They define with tolerable distinctness 593 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:44,064 in what respect they did consider all men created equal. 594 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,839 Equal in certain inalienable rights. 595 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:53,068 Among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 596 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,879 They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth 597 00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,439 that all were then actually enjoying this equality. 598 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:05,941 Nor yet that they were about to confer them immediately upon them. 599 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,519 They simply meant to declare the right, 600 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:16,182 so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. 601 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,399 D'SOUZA: Lincoln recognized that the founders 602 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,519 could not have outlawed slavery and still had a union. 603 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,399 No Southern state would have joined such a union 604 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,467 and slavery might have lasted much longer. 605 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,359 Earlier in his career, Frederick Douglass 606 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,039 had called Lincoln the white man's president. 607 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,119 There was a movement in America supported by many blacks 608 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:42,399 and even by Lincoln to relocate blacks to Africa. 609 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:47,239 But meeting Lincoln restored Douglass' faith in America. 610 00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,559 Douglass condemned that movement. 611 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,919 He didn't want to leave America, nor did he want to destroy America. 612 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,879 He wanted to participate in America. 613 00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,039 He wanted to make this country his home. 614 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,788 Now, take the Constitution. 615 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,839 According to its plain reading, 616 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:10,399 I defy the presentation of a single proslavery clause in it. 617 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,599 On the other hand, it will be found to contain principles and purposes 618 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,304 entirely hostile to the existence of slavery. 619 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,742 I do not despair at this country. 620 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,239 There are forces in operation 621 00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:29,548 which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery. 622 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:36,984 D'SOUZA: For the first time in history, a great war was fought to end slavery. 623 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:43,306 300,000 Northern soldiers died in that war. 624 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,919 They died to secure for the slaves 625 00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:53,024 a freedom that the slaves were not in the position to secure for themselves. 626 00:47:56,240 --> 00:48:01,343 Even the Civil Rights Movement was not a break with the American founding. 627 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:06,949 In a sense, we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. 628 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,861 When the architects of our republic 629 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,959 wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution 630 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,027 and the Declaration of independence, 631 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,543 they were signing a promissory note 632 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,429 To which every American was to fall heir. 633 00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:30,599 D'SOUZA: Where did Martin Luther King get his promissory note? 634 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,439 Not from the segregationists. 635 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,746 He got it from the Declaration of independence. 636 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,159 It was the American founding that established the principles 637 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:47,263 that made possible the success of the Civil Rights Movement. 638 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,999 The topic of race, more than any other, generates taboos. 639 00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,546 And taboos are the enemy of history and of truth. 640 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:09,359 In the early 17th century when slavery started in America, 641 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,064 another group was brought to this country by force. 642 00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:19,839 They were white indentured servants. 643 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,871 (SCREAMING) 644 00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:32,667 Starting in 1618, children were captured from the streets of London 645 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,746 and sold into colonial America. 646 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,959 But it didn't stop there. 647 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,479 Over the next century and a half, 648 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,799 another 150,000 Irish men, women and children 649 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:59,462 were declared soldiers of war by Britain and sold into colonial indentured servitude 650 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,306 with many landing in Virginia and New England. 651 00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,599 Indentured servitude was not slavery. 652 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:12,021 It didn't have the same ideology of racial dehumanization. 653 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:17,021 And it was for a limited period, typically seven years. 654 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,399 Yet, these people often had their term extended 655 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,467 or died before they got their freedom. 656 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,079 Indentured servants worked side by side with slaves. 657 00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,191 (GRUNTING) 658 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:43,386 For many years, white indentured servants outnumbered black slaves. 659 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,959 Our next story, one you won't find in Howard Zinn, 660 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,708 is set in South Carolina, 661 00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:02,143 where we encounter one of the most feared plantation owners in the South. 662 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,587 Meet William Ellison. 663 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:23,279 Born himself into slavery, Ellison was freed as a young man. 664 00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,199 He became a blacksmith, then a mechanic for cotton gins. 665 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:28,639 And then went into farming 666 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:33,239 where he eventually owned 1,000 acres and 60 slaves. 667 00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:35,759 He was also known as a slave breeder, 668 00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,159 a practice shunned even by most white slave owners. 669 00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,749 That's a fine young one for you. 670 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:49,719 D'SOUZA: When the Civil War broke out, Ellison supported the Confederacy, 671 00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:51,839 investing in Confederate bonds 672 00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,908 and supplying food and provisions for the Confederate army. 673 00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:00,039 Ellison's story is told by the African American scholar 674 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,719 Henry Louis Gates. 675 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:06,239 Gates and other scholars estimate that in the period before the Civil War, 676 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:13,664 there were approximately 3,500 free blacks who owned more than 10,000 black slaves. 677 00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,719 In South Carolina and Louisiana, 678 00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:19,879 Gates points out, the percentage of free blacks 679 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,199 who owned slaves was approximately the same 680 00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,719 as the percentage of whites who owned slaves. 681 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:30,879 These episodes illustrate the universality of the conquest ethic 682 00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,479 and the uniqueness of the American response to it. 683 00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,959 Slavery existed all over the world. 684 00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,439 The Egyptians had slaves. The Chinese had slaves. 685 00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,919 The Africans did. American Indians had slaves long before Columbus. 686 00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:49,439 And tragically, slavery continues today in many countries. 687 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,986 What's uniquely Western is the abolition of slavery. 688 00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:59,399 And what's uniquely American is the fighting of a great war to end it. 689 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:03,079 Zinn wants a narrative of American shame. 690 00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,759 That's why he leaves these stories out. 691 00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:11,022 And that's why we have a moral obligation to put them back in. 692 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,951 And here's someone else who gets left out of Zinn's narrative. 693 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,079 Good afternoon. I'm Madam Walker and this is my daughter Lelia. 694 00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:32,024 D'SOUZA: Meet Sarah Breedlove, also known as Madam C.J. Walker. 695 00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:37,944 She started selling her own hair care products door to door. 696 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:04,469 Madam C.J. Walker became the first self-made female millionaire in America. 697 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,869 - They're ready for you. - Thank you. 698 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,679 Good morning, madam. 699 00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,860 Good morning, ladies. Get back to work. 700 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,999 See, ladies, you don't have to define yourself 701 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,999 by your current station in life. 702 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,839 But only by your vision of who you can become. 703 00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:31,079 WOMEN: Yes. Yes. 704 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,519 - Today you see a success. - Yes. 705 00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,359 And I hear many of you say, "But, Madam Walker, 706 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:39,540 "I just don't have the opportunities you had." 707 00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,621 And I respond, "Really?" 708 00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,108 I was the first freeborn in my family. 709 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,823 Orphaned at age seven. 710 00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,479 Married at 14 and widowed with child by 20. 711 00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,039 WOMEN: Mmm-hmm. 712 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,559 WALKER: I'm a woman that came from the cotton fields of the South. 713 00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:57,639 WOMEN: Yes. 714 00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,199 WALKER: From there, I was promoted to the washtub. 715 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:01,879 From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. 716 00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:02,959 WOMEN: Uh-huh. 717 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,159 From there, I promoted myself to the business 718 00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,999 of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. 719 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,559 Yes! (CHEERING) 720 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:14,439 I have built my own factory on my own ground. 721 00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,620 I got my start by giving myself a start. 722 00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,239 Ladies, there is no flower-strewn path to success. 723 00:55:22,240 --> 00:55:25,750 And if there is, I haven't found it. 724 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:30,199 If I've accomplished anything in my life, it's because I was willing to work hard. 725 00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,519 You can do something new today. 726 00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,559 And don't be too haughty. 727 00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,399 You can always go to that washtub for a seat. 728 00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:39,079 D'SOUZA: What a role model. 729 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:42,279 So why is she left out of the history books? 730 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,079 Because she confounds the shame narrative. 731 00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:48,119 She's an African American success story. 732 00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,319 In a way, she sounds like Martin Luther King. 733 00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:55,599 King once said, "Every man must write with his own hand 734 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,759 "the charter of his Emancipation Proclamation. 735 00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,639 "We are all in this country a minority of one 736 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:08,948 "and how we succeed or fail depends on our efforts." 737 00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:40,119 D'SOUZA: Did America get rich by simply stealing from other countries? 738 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:44,119 Starting with the Vietnam War, another charge surfaced, 739 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:46,119 America the imperialist. 740 00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,079 We will build a revolutionary youth movement 741 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,639 capable of actively engaging in the war against the imperialists. 742 00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,959 We will escalate our attacks until imperialism is defeated in Vietnam. 743 00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:58,319 D'SOUZA: That was Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground. 744 00:56:58,320 --> 00:56:59,999 He bombed the Pentagon 745 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,679 and says he wished he could have done more. 746 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,679 He's now a college professor. 747 00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,159 And who are his agents of American imperialism? 748 00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,119 Meet John Fer. 749 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,759 I always adored flying. 750 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:17,959 And I built and flew model airplanes since I was five years old. 751 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,759 And so eventually become a pilot in the Air Force. 752 00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,066 D'SOUZA: But things didn't work out so well for John Fer. 753 00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,231 (RADIO CHATTERING) 754 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:29,359 (MISSILE HISSING) 755 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,266 (EXPLOSION) 756 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,519 FER: And they blew the airplane out of the sky. 757 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,319 I landed on the ground 758 00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,149 and then I was marched off to the interrogation room. 759 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,507 (GRUNTING) 760 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,505 (SCREAMING) 761 00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,191 (SHRIEKING) 762 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:05,119 I was absolutely shocked at the threshold that I had to cry uncle. 763 00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:07,868 I wanted to turn off the pain. 764 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,479 D'SOUZA: Why did you go to Vietnam? 765 00:58:13,480 --> 00:58:17,039 I believed that we were doing the right thing 766 00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:20,839 of helping the South Vietnamese stand on their own two feet, 767 00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,679 so that one day then we could extract ourselves 768 00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,359 and we would have a free South Vietnam. 769 00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,159 I was there to give opportunity 770 00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:33,626 for the South Vietnamese people to exercise their own destiny. 771 00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,679 D'SOUZA: John Fer would spend the next six years 772 00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,543 in the famed POW prison, the Hanoi Hilton. 773 00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,220 FER: I came home to a different America. 774 00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,519 D'SOUZA: Whatever you think about the Vietnam War, 775 00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:02,541 America wasn't stealing from the Vietnamese. 776 00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,719 And in Iraq, we spent a whole bunch of money 777 00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:12,559 and then we turned over the oil fields to the Iraqis. 778 00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,831 Under the conquest ethic, we would have kept it. 779 00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,399 In Afghanistan after 9/11, 780 00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:23,199 the US military, even while bombing terrorist targets, 781 00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:27,586 was delivering food rations to Afghan civilians. 782 00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,799 And far from stealing, America rebuilt Germany and Japan 783 00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,184 after World War ll. 784 00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:45,184 Contrary to the Zinn narrative, we're not the bad guys of the world. 785 00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:50,719 As Colin Powell said, 786 00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:57,382 "The only land that America asks for abroad is land to bury our dead." 787 01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,799 Finally, capitalism. Does it rip off the consumer? 788 01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,279 Welcome to Delish Dinesh. 789 01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,359 - Can I help you? - I'll take a hamburger. 790 01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:20,519 $1.95. 791 01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,479 D'SOUZA: Maria just paid $1.95 for that hamburger. 792 01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,999 Ek burger jaldi banao. 793 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,559 D'SOUZA: But the cost of me making the hamburger, 794 01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,959 with food, labor, rent, insurance, advertising, permits... 795 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,919 Hey, boss, soda machine broken again. 796 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,861 - ...equals $1.79. - (SIGHING) 797 01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:42,190 Leaving me with a whopping 8% or 16 cent profit. 798 01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:46,439 The best way to judge if I'm ripping her off 799 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:50,747 is to see what it would cost for her to make the burger at home. 800 01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:59,823 Maria's burger has the same stuff as Delish Dinesh. 801 01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:04,479 But when you add it up, Maria's homemade burger 802 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:06,799 costs $2. 22. 803 01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:11,266 That's 27 cents more than the burger at my restaurant. 804 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:15,661 And that doesn't even factor in the time that it cost her to make it. 805 01:01:16,040 --> 01:01:18,399 Does this work for the big companies, too? 806 01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,759 STEVE JOBS: And we are calling it iPhone. 807 01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,700 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 808 01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:27,151 D'SOUZA: Steve Jobs, did he rip people off? 809 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:32,509 He created products that people didn't even know they wanted or needed. 810 01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:34,519 But once he made them available, 811 01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,479 they clamored for them and stood in line to buy them 812 01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,719 and freely spent their money for them. 813 01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,079 There's no rip-off. 814 01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:45,919 Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, 815 01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,191 but through the consent of the consumer. 816 01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:53,559 To see why there's so much inequality, 817 01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:57,879 consider the example of Zinn's own disciple Matt Damon. 818 01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:00,469 Here he is in The Bourne Ultimatum. 819 01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:07,079 Here he is in The Bourne Identity. 820 01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,399 How does Matt Damon make so much more money than you? 821 01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,799 Is it because he works harder than you 822 01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:18,108 putting in an intense six weeks filming to earn several million dollars? 823 01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:22,119 Could it be because of his unbelievable skills? 824 01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:24,470 Please. 825 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,759 There's only one reason Matt Damon makes so much money. 826 01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:32,239 The consumers who buy tickets to his movies. 827 01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:34,783 In other words, 828 01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:36,901 you. 829 01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,159 ELIZABETH WARREN: You moved your goods to market 830 01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,239 on the roads the rest of us paid for. 831 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:49,999 You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. 832 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,599 You were safe in your factory 833 01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:59,545 because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. 834 01:03:00,720 --> 01:03:03,199 D'SOUZA: Is Senator Warren right? 835 01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:06,639 Entrepreneurs and business owners do use public services, 836 01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:09,229 but so does everyone else. 837 01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:11,719 Let's say, a successful business owner 838 01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:14,759 makes four times as much as the average employee. 839 01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:18,479 But she also pays four times as much in taxes. 840 01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:22,119 Do her kids get four times more attention in public school? 841 01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:25,639 Does she get to drive four times as fast on the freeway? 842 01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:29,279 Will the fire department arrive four times faster? 843 01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,744 No. Not at all. 844 01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,549 What about the rest of the world? 845 01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,871 Does capitalism promote global injustice? 846 01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:44,546 From businesses in the Middle East 847 01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,748 to factories in South America 848 01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:52,039 to entrepreneurs in China, 849 01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:55,186 the world is embracing the free market. 850 01:03:56,000 --> 01:04:00,519 Does it seem to you ironic that this sort of entrepreneurial capitalism, 851 01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:05,839 that this recipe has become so controversial at home here 852 01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:10,439 while it is being enthusiastically embraced in so many other parts of the world? 853 01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,519 D'SOUZA: I spoke to Jagdish Bhagwati, 854 01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,759 a professor of economics at Columbia University 855 01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:19,199 and a leading researcher on global capitalism. 856 01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,079 How many people have been lifted out of poverty in India? 857 01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,199 Over 200 million people are, you know, 858 01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:29,519 in less than 15 years, have pulled out of poverty. 859 01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,719 D'SOUZA: And in China the number is even greater. 860 01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,879 Far greater. It's about 400 to 500 million people. 861 01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:36,759 'Cause they started earlier. 862 01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:42,719 Capitalism, entrepreneurial capitalism is the most important moral case. 863 01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:46,559 So there's no reason for us to be apologetic. 864 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:49,039 It's the other guys who should be apologetic. 865 01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,799 'Cause every bit of experience shows 866 01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:56,471 that they're the ones who really undermine the fortunes of the poor. 867 01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,719 D'SOUZA: And when it comes to helping the poor through charity, 868 01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:04,079 you may be surprised at who cares the most. 869 01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:08,639 Meet Arthur Brooks, head of the American Enterprise institute. 870 01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,159 One of the things that we typically find 871 01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,559 in our modern conversation about who's charitable 872 01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,399 is that folks who believe in greater government transfers, 873 01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,359 more income redistribution, 874 01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:22,399 they believe they're the most charitable members of society. 875 01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,079 When you look at the data, a different picture emerges. 876 01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:28,399 What we really find is that folks who are on the conservative side, 877 01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:32,879 especially the religious conservative side, give away the most. 878 01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:34,879 About four times as much. 879 01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:39,471 About four times as much of their resources as people who are on the secular left. 880 01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:46,948 D'SOUZA: And if you're struggling in America, is it still possible to pull yourself up? 881 01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,879 I believed that my problems were somebody else's fault. 882 01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:52,439 I believed that America was so inherently racist 883 01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,279 that I didn't need to mainstream. 884 01:05:54,280 --> 01:05:57,839 And I believed that the poor were poor because the wealthy were wealthy. 885 01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:00,719 D'SOUZA: I met with my friend Star Parker. 886 01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:02,879 You were on welfare for how long? 887 01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,999 I was in and out seven years, but three-and-a-half years consistently. 888 01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,879 Did it ever occur to you to go looking for work and if not, why not? 889 01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,519 Why bother? Why would I go out and find work 890 01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:14,279 when somebody else was willing to send me a check on the 1st and the 15th? 891 01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:15,999 My life go in a little black hole. 892 01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:17,999 And that's where I was living. 893 01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:21,159 When some people looked me in the eye and pointed their finger in my face 894 01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:23,799 and told me my lifestyle was unacceptable to God, 895 01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:28,319 and when they said that, I didn't even know there were churches, 896 01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:32,159 but there was something about their conviction that got my attention. 897 01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:34,839 I finally went to church with them and heard the gospel 898 01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:36,999 and I changed and I went back to college. 899 01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,479 I got a degree. I started a business. 900 01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,159 And now I run an organization today 901 01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:45,639 and am a nationally syndicated columnist and an author. 902 01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:49,662 D'SOUZA: For me, Star Parker is the quintessential American. 903 01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:54,319 She draws on those classic American virtues that Tocqueville talked about, 904 01:06:54,320 --> 01:07:00,789 individual initiative, community, faith, to help herself and others. 905 01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:06,182 So is the wealth of America based on theft? 906 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:08,903 Actually, no. 907 01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:13,743 The wealth of America isn't stolen, it's created. 908 01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,239 MAN: All right, this way. This way. 909 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,919 D'SOUZA: The ethic of conquest is universal. 910 01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:21,039 What's uniquely American is the alternative, 911 01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:25,506 equal rights, self-determination and wealth creation. 912 01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,839 If America did not exist, 913 01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:31,719 the conquest ethic would dominate the world once again. 914 01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:33,719 America isn't the problem. 915 01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:36,229 America is the answer. 916 01:07:36,400 --> 01:07:38,119 Tocqueville knew that. 917 01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,106 I know it. 918 01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,629 And so does U2's Bono. 919 01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:45,879 It's not a right-left issue. 920 01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:47,719 It's a right-wrong issue. 921 01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,999 And America has constantly been on the side of what's right. 922 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:54,239 Because when it comes down to it, 923 01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:58,467 this is about keeping faith with the idea of America. 924 01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,159 Because America is an idea, isn't it? 925 01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,784 I mean, Ireland is a great country, but it's not an idea. 926 01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,079 Great Britain is a great country. 927 01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,384 It's not an idea. 928 01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,679 That's how we see you around the world. 929 01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:16,759 As one of the greatest ideas in human history. 930 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:18,279 Right up there with the Renaissance. 931 01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,119 Right up there with crop rotation 932 01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,470 - and the Beatles' White Album. - (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 933 01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,351 You and me are created equal. 934 01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:31,670 If we have dignity, if we have justice, then leave it to us, we'll do the rest. 935 01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:34,719 This country was the first 936 01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:38,981 to claw its way out of darkness and put that on paper. 937 01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:43,199 These aren't just American ideas anymore. 938 01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:46,983 There's no copyright on them. You brought them into the world. 939 01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:53,784 These truths, your truths, they're self-evident in us. 940 01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:41,839 D'SOUZA: But now we turn to a political question. 941 01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:47,159 If America is a force for good, why are they trying to make us feel bad? 942 01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:49,319 Who's behind this? 943 01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:54,399 The shaming of America is not accidental. It's part of a strategy. 944 01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:57,159 SAUL ALINSKY: This becomes a contest of power. 945 01:09:57,160 --> 01:09:59,959 Now, power has always gone into two areas, 946 01:09:59,960 --> 01:10:01,999 those who have money and those who have people. 947 01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:03,919 We have nothing but people. 948 01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:07,519 If an organizer doesn't have any idea what to do about it, 949 01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:09,919 he hasn't got any damn business being in there. 950 01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:11,319 Do I make myself clear? 951 01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,519 D'SOUZA: Who was Saul Alinsky? 952 01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:19,119 Saul Alinsky was a man of the left, and very far to the left. 953 01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,279 To pin it down, he was a democratic socialist. 954 01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:26,239 Meaning that he wanted the United States to become a socialist country, 955 01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:31,159 but he was willing to see that happen slowly through the democratic process. 956 01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:35,759 You tell them that I'm meeting with my staff and with the fight leaders on Friday at noon. 957 01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:39,239 D'SOUZA: I spoke to scholar and author Stanley Kurtz, 958 01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:41,879 who's done extensive research on Alinsky. 959 01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:45,159 STANLEY KURTZ: Well, Alinsky wants to polarize. 960 01:10:45,160 --> 01:10:49,079 He wants the people he calls "the haves" to feel guilty 961 01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:53,148 and he wants the people he calls "the have nots" to feel resentful. 962 01:10:53,480 --> 01:10:57,119 D'SOUZA: Alinsky perfected the art of the political shakedown. 963 01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:00,519 ALINSKY: I have, on occasion, remarked that I felt confident 964 01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:03,239 that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday 965 01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:05,999 to subsidize a revolution for Saturday, 966 01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:09,599 out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday, 967 01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:13,559 even though he was certain to be executed on Monday. 968 01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:18,470 D'SOUZA: While finishing graduate school, Alinsky sought out an unusual mentor. 969 01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:26,828 Frank Nitti, Al Capone's number two in the Chicago mob. 970 01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:30,631 Known as a thug or a hoodlum. 971 01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:34,185 Also known as a racketeer and gangster. 972 01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:37,359 ALINSKY: Nitti took me under his wing. 973 01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:40,799 I called him the professor and I became his student. 974 01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:44,999 Nitti's boys took me everywhere, showed me all of the mob's operations 975 01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:47,999 from gin mills and whorehouses and bookie joints 976 01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:51,199 to the legitimate businesses they were beginning to take over. 977 01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,999 Within a few months, I got to know the workings 978 01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,180 of the Capone mob inside out. 979 01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:01,279 D'SOUZA: Alinsky saw up close the ease with which the Mafia 980 01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:05,985 could extract money through theft, intimidation and murder. 981 01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:09,719 But he figured out a way to do it without going to prison. 982 01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:14,159 How is it the haves prosper while we struggle just to survive? 983 01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:17,679 He wanted to build from the ground up 984 01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:21,799 by creating a sort of coalition of community organizations 985 01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:25,583 that he hoped to establish all across the country. 986 01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:29,519 ALINSKY: The one thing I've come to realize 987 01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,359 is that any positive action for radical social change 988 01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:35,540 will have to be focused on the white middle class 989 01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:40,260 for the simple reason that this is where the real power lies. 990 01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,039 D'SOUZA: The American middle class is decent. 991 01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:47,061 It wants to live up to its own ideals. 992 01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:52,799 Alinsky knew that if he could show a gap between people's lives and their ideals, 993 01:12:52,800 --> 01:12:56,549 he could exploit their shame to gain power. 994 01:12:57,800 --> 01:13:04,064 Alinsky became the godfather in the art of using shame for political shakedown. 995 01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:09,359 But he needed an army of recruits to carry out the shakedown. 996 01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:11,664 And he knew where to look. 997 01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:16,559 The 1960s saw the birth of a new generation 998 01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:20,239 alienated from its parents, alienated from America. 999 01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:22,639 Ripe pickings for Alinsky. 1000 01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:24,519 But first he had to straighten them out. 1001 01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:26,999 I have a hell of a lot more love than you have 1002 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,559 because I'm willing to go out and get corruptive for it. 1003 01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:33,399 I'm willing to fight for it. I'm willing to stick my life on the line on it. 1004 01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:37,119 And you're just willing to stick around and talk about love and hippies 1005 01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:39,743 and not do a damn thing. 1006 01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:43,679 D'SOUZA: Alinsky wrote an instruction manual 1007 01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:46,303 for this new army of shakedown artists. 1008 01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:53,839 In Rules For Radicals, we discover that the mobster Frank Nitti 1009 01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,781 was not Alinsky's only mentor. 1010 01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:00,909 (ALINSKY READING) 1011 01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:11,559 D'SOUZA: Alinsky was an atheist. 1012 01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:14,501 What could he possibly learn from the Devil? 1013 01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,319 Three things. Polarization. 1014 01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,279 We've got to get away from all this reconciliation jazz 1015 01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:24,319 and all this friendship and all that kind of business. 1016 01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:25,839 D'SOUZA: Demonization. 1017 01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:29,919 They'd love to see all the Negroes in America living on the reserves. 1018 01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:32,119 D'SOUZA: And deception. 1019 01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:35,079 ALINSKY: You do what you can with what you have 1020 01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,908 and close it with moral arguments. 1021 01:14:41,480 --> 01:14:46,310 D'SOUZA: Today, Alinsky's influence can be seen across academia, 1022 01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:52,111 the media 1023 01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:00,190 and government. 1024 01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:06,279 And his most famous disciple lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. 1025 01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:09,159 I don't think there's any doubt that Barack Obama 1026 01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:13,599 really hasn't leveled with the American public about his political past. 1027 01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:16,679 And this is probably the most dramatic example. 1028 01:15:16,680 --> 01:15:20,559 Obama first encountered Alinskyite organizing 1029 01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:22,799 at a series of socialist conferences 1030 01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,759 that he attended when he lived in New York City as a young man. 1031 01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:31,199 Those conferences touted Alinskyite organizing as the next big political wave 1032 01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:34,839 and as the best way to bring socialism to America. 1033 01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:38,319 And those same conferences touted Chicago 1034 01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:41,879 as the place to find the very best Alinskyite organizers. 1035 01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:46,119 D'SOUZA: Clearly Obama has mastered the Alinskyite strategy of deception. 1036 01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:47,479 We will keep this promise. 1037 01:15:47,480 --> 01:15:49,639 If you like your doctor, you keep seeing your doctor. 1038 01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:50,879 If you like your doctor... 1039 01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:53,559 If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. 1040 01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:57,439 Save a typical family an average of $2,500. 1041 01:15:57,440 --> 01:16:00,199 I'll make our government open and transparent. 1042 01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:01,719 We're building a transparent process. 1043 01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:03,239 No matter what you've heard, 1044 01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:07,479 if you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep it. 1045 01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:11,159 If you don't have insurance, you'll finally be able to afford it. 1046 01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:14,479 D'SOUZA: Alinsky would be so proud of Obamacare. 1047 01:16:14,480 --> 01:16:18,741 It's a masterpiece of distortion and extortion. 1048 01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:20,599 Here's the distortion. 1049 01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:24,239 Obama gives the impression that he is colluding with us 1050 01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:26,559 against the insurance companies. 1051 01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:31,868 But in reality, he's colluding with the insurance companies against us. 1052 01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:38,159 He's forcing Americans to buy insurance who don't want to buy it. 1053 01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,799 And this makes the insurance companies very happy 1054 01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:45,141 because it means more profits for them. 1055 01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:50,759 With the corporate and the bank bailouts, it was the same deal. 1056 01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:52,759 Obama embraced the bailouts. 1057 01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:54,759 He recognized it was a way 1058 01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:59,146 for the federal government to gain control over those institutions. 1059 01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:03,759 What these naive corporate executives don't realize 1060 01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:06,679 is that while they might make a profit on Sunday, 1061 01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:09,667 they could be gone by Monday. 1062 01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:13,145 But Obama wasn't the only disciple. 1063 01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,559 KURTZ: Well, when Hillary was still in high school, 1064 01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:39,679 she fell under the spell of a Methodist youth minister. 1065 01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:43,399 And at that time Hillary had been a Goldwater girl. 1066 01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:48,788 A conservative growing up in a perfectly conventional American suburb. 1067 01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:55,468 But this very charismatic Methodist minister drew Hillary sharply to the left. 1068 01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:09,999 Mr. Alinsky, this is Hillary. 1069 01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:13,226 - A pleasure. - Nice to meet you. 1070 01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:17,359 - Are you enjoying your work back there? - I am. 1071 01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:18,679 Well, you'll have a lot of it. 1072 01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,711 (INAUDIBLE CHATTERING) 1073 01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:43,039 D'SOUZA: After high school, Hillary met with Alinsky again 1074 01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:46,879 at Wellesley College, where she invited him to speak. 1075 01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:49,105 (INAUDIBLE) 1076 01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:55,071 Later, Alinksy would offer her a job, but Hillary turned it down. 1077 01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:01,719 When she got to college, she decided to focus 1078 01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:04,399 on Alinsky as her senior thesis work. 1079 01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:07,159 Hillary was looking to Alinsky for a way 1080 01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:11,439 to put her existing leftist ideology into practice. 1081 01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:15,079 But in studying Alinsky. Hillary came to the conclusion 1082 01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:19,479 that Alinsky organizing could never truly transform America 1083 01:19:19,480 --> 01:19:22,599 unless it somehow was connected more deeply 1084 01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:25,039 To the core of the American political system. 1085 01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:31,599 Alinsky always opposed tight relationships between community organizers and politics. 1086 01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:36,828 So this is where Hillary decided to take Alinsky in a different direction. 1087 01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:43,759 D'SOUZA: While Alinsky wanted the radicals to pressure the government, 1088 01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:47,509 Hillary wanted the radicals to become the government. 1089 01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:50,959 Why try to shame people from the outside 1090 01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:53,901 when you can intimidate them from the inside? 1091 01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:06,029 KURTZ: So I would say on ideology. Hillary is closer to Obama than she is to Bill. 1092 01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:17,064 D'SOUZA: Hillary figured it out, Obama is now carrying it out. 1093 01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:27,159 The IRS, EPA, DOJ, NSA 1094 01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:32,707 are all collecting information and storing it on every American. 1095 01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:38,519 Welcome to the Panopticon, 1096 01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:43,759 a prison designed by philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 1800s. 1097 01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:48,385 His design gave the guards a God's eye view. 1098 01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,822 Here, there's no privacy, 1099 01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:58,386 What Bentham envisioned for a prison has now become the hi-tech Panopticon. 1100 01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,382 Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. 1101 01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:09,079 The United States is not spying on ordinary people 1102 01:21:09,080 --> 01:21:11,782 who don't threaten our national security. 1103 01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:23,879 There's no question that the collection of these huge amounts of data 1104 01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:28,199 gives the government the ability to go after anybody and everybody. 1105 01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:31,719 The government will always use as much power as you give it. 1106 01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:37,426 It will always go up to and sometimes cross over, eh, the line. 1107 01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:40,919 RAND PAUL: That's a real problem, 1108 01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:43,439 particularly if we're looking at everyone's Internet searches, 1109 01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:46,799 we're looking at what magazines you read, what books you read, 1110 01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:48,599 and really a lot of your life. 1111 01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:50,559 Imagine how much of your life is online. 1112 01:21:50,560 --> 01:21:53,919 If they can look at your Visa bill without a warrant. 1113 01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:59,945 This program, by the way, is fully overseen by the FISA Court, 1114 01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:05,239 a court specially put together to evaluate classified programs 1115 01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:07,799 to make sure that the executive branch 1116 01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:10,439 or government generally is not abusing them 1117 01:22:10,440 --> 01:22:14,679 and that it's being carried out consistent with the Constitution. 1118 01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:18,279 The FISA Court should not be allowed to use the term "court." 1119 01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:20,119 It is not a court. 1120 01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:25,119 A court by definition means an institution that hears both sides 1121 01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:26,959 of a case and controversy. 1122 01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:31,439 Due process is an open court. Adversarial process on both sides of it. 1123 01:22:31,440 --> 01:22:33,159 But it's not in a secret court. 1124 01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:38,799 FISA, with nobody to advocate for the individual that's being spied upon. 1125 01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:40,719 Judges should not be allowed to wear robes. 1126 01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:42,279 They shouldn't be allowed to use the word "judge." 1127 01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:44,679 They shouldn't be allowed to use the word "court." 1128 01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:46,839 And it's misleading the public. 1129 01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,639 Many people will say, "I haven't done anything wrong 1130 01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:51,639 "and so I don't really care if they read my mail." 1131 01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:54,719 The problem with that is it's a much different standard 1132 01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:57,239 than innocent until proven guilty. 1133 01:22:57,240 --> 01:22:58,839 It's that everything is open. 1134 01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:00,279 They come into your house and say, 1135 01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:02,799 "Oh, you've been sending e-mails to someone in Lebanon. 1136 01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:04,159 "We suspect you of terrorism." 1137 01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:07,159 If they get in your house and they find no terrorism, 1138 01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:09,119 you're not connected, but they find you have paint 1139 01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:12,239 that you brought home from the office that you bought with a business expense 1140 01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:13,479 and you were painting your office, 1141 01:23:13,480 --> 01:23:14,999 now you're painting the inside of your house, 1142 01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:16,999 you've now committed a tax violation. 1143 01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,279 Or maybe they find you have an unregistered gun. 1144 01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:21,679 Everything in America now is criminal. 1145 01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:24,799 You can't practice commercial law 1146 01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:27,999 or real estate law, be in the hedge fund business, 1147 01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:35,060 do a great many things without running afoul of potential criminal statute. 1148 01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:39,119 Harvey, you've written a book that has the remarkable title 1149 01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,639 Three Felonies a Day. 1150 01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:45,439 Now, how is it possible for an ordinary guy to commit three felonies a day? 1151 01:23:45,440 --> 01:23:47,319 On a normal day, 1152 01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:54,039 the average reasonably engaged American does at least three things that arguably 1153 01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:58,039 can be deemed federal felonies by some ambitious 1154 01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:00,199 Department of Justice prosecutor. 1155 01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:06,239 The problem with most federal felonies is that an average normal person, 1156 01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:09,359 even, I have to say, a lot of my fellow lawyers, 1157 01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,719 wouldn't have a clue that what they're engaging in 1158 01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:15,559 is arguably prosecutable. 1159 01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:18,239 PAUL: Well, and consider it on top of this IRS scandal 1160 01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:22,999 where it appears as if the government is using the IRS for partisan reasons. 1161 01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,119 Maybe I'm not so, uh, confident that I would want 1162 01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:28,839 all my phone records given to, uh, the government 1163 01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:32,039 if it appears maybe I could be targeted by the government. 1164 01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:35,159 I talk to people routinely now who I don't think are paranoid, 1165 01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:37,879 who are saying, "I'm a little worried about having my name 1166 01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:42,919 "publically associated with conservatives or Republicans because I fear retaliation. 1167 01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:46,839 "I fear that I will be targeted by the SEC or the IRS 1168 01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:48,279 "or different arms of government." 1169 01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,399 And I think it's a legitimate fear. 1170 01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:54,079 I think there's probably almost nothing more fundamentally un-American 1171 01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:56,879 than using government to target your political opponents. 1172 01:24:56,880 --> 01:25:00,279 Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. 1173 01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:04,399 During the Nixon Administration, I was audited four times. 1174 01:25:04,400 --> 01:25:09,919 I was audited because I was a very vocal critic of the Nixon Administration. 1175 01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:13,239 We all pay taxes. We all file tax returns. 1176 01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:18,279 And talk about a trap for the unwary. They can get absolutely anybody. 1177 01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:21,399 They can bankrupt you just from trying to defend against them. 1178 01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:24,439 And then the rest of the game is 1179 01:25:24,440 --> 01:25:28,079 are you going to avoid a long prison sentence 1180 01:25:28,080 --> 01:25:31,590 and pled guilty for a short sentence? 1181 01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:38,479 There are a lot of people in prison today based on guilty pleas 1182 01:25:38,480 --> 01:25:41,679 who could have won their case had they litigated it. 1183 01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:45,987 But the risks of litigation are so great that they can't afford to do it. 1184 01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:51,759 It was Lavrenty Beria who told Stalin, 1185 01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:55,987 "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime." 1186 01:25:56,120 --> 01:26:01,319 What the government did to our little group in Wetumpka, Alabama, is un-American. 1187 01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:05,079 It isn't a matter of firing or arresting individuals. 1188 01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:09,479 The individuals who sought to intimidate us were acting as they thought they should 1189 01:26:09,480 --> 01:26:13,319 in a government culture that has little respect for its citizens. 1190 01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:16,199 Many of the agents and agencies of the federal government 1191 01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:20,159 do not understand that they are servants of the people. 1192 01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:24,399 They think they are our masters, and they are mistaken. 1193 01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:27,839 I'm not interested in scoring political points. 1194 01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:32,590 I want to protect and preserve the America that I grew up in. 1195 01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:38,679 The America that people crossed oceans and risked their lives to become a part of. 1196 01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:41,959 And I am terrified it is slipping away. 1197 01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:43,741 Thank you. 1198 01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:53,745 D'SOUZA: Aaron Swartz was an internet whiz kid. 1199 01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:58,879 At 14, he developed a new way to publish information on the Web. 1200 01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:03,599 In his late teens, he cofounded a company that merged with Reddit 1201 01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:08,510 to become one of the Web's most frequently used social news sites. 1202 01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:14,199 He became a vocal critic of several of the Obama Administration's policies. 1203 01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:16,399 SWARTZ: The freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution, 1204 01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:20,919 the freedoms our country had been built on would be suddenly deleted. 1205 01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:23,999 Aaron Swartz was prosecuted by the US Attorney's office 1206 01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:30,264 in Massachusetts for allegedly breaking into the computer networks at MIT 1207 01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:35,399 and downloading without authorization thousands of academic articles. 1208 01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:38,199 He was charged with crimes that would have carried 1209 01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:43,559 a penalty of up to 35 years in prison and $1 million fine. 1210 01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:46,359 D'SOUZA: The articles were funded by taxpayer money 1211 01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:49,079 and Aaron thought they should be available to the public. 1212 01:27:49,080 --> 01:27:51,799 The government argued they were copyrighted material. 1213 01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:55,239 It strikes me as disproportionate, being used inappropriately 1214 01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:58,359 to try to bully, uh, someone into pleading guilty 1215 01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:03,110 to something that strikes me as rather, uh, minor. 1216 01:28:03,320 --> 01:28:06,199 D'SOUZA: The company that owns the copyrighted articles 1217 01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:09,559 asked federal prosecutors to drop the charges. 1218 01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:13,981 But the prosecutor wanted to send Aaron to prison. 1219 01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:23,303 On January 11, 2013, Aaron Swartz took his own life. 1220 01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:26,668 He was 26 years old. 1221 01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:32,639 MEGYN KELLY: New accusations that the feds are unfairly targeting conservatives 1222 01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:35,119 in an effort to silence those who do not agree 1223 01:28:35,120 --> 01:28:39,029 with the Obama Administration during a crucial election year. 1224 01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:42,399 SEAN HANNITY: Conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza 1225 01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:45,199 is the latest victim to be targeted by the Obama White House. 1226 01:28:45,200 --> 01:28:48,159 And he's also the man behind the anti-Obama documentary 1227 01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:50,999 2016, Obama's America. 1228 01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:52,940 (CAMERAS CLICKING) 1229 01:28:53,440 --> 01:28:56,039 KELLY: Dinesh D'Souza was indicted 1230 01:28:56,040 --> 01:29:00,062 on federal charges of violating campaign finance laws. 1231 01:29:02,480 --> 01:29:06,679 HANNITY: But do you believe this is because of the film that you did 1232 01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:09,508 leading up to last year's election? 1233 01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:19,344 D'SOUZA: I made a mistake and I'm not above the law. No one is. 1234 01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:21,679 But we don't want to live in a society 1235 01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:25,359 where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends 1236 01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:28,825 and casts an evil eye at her adversaries. 1237 01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:34,823 Where will they stop? 1238 01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:43,584 At the point where we stop them. 1239 01:29:47,400 --> 01:29:50,831 We won't let them shame us. 1240 01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:55,070 We won't let them intimidate us. 1241 01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:00,261 We're going to start telling the true story of America. 1242 01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:08,422 In stone, our leaders appear only as legends. 1243 01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:13,466 No faults, no fears, no self-doubts. 1244 01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:19,181 But also no laughter. No hope. No love. 1245 01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:22,039 And yet our human experience tells us 1246 01:30:22,040 --> 01:30:25,903 they had all of these in the troubles they faced. 1247 01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:33,462 MAN: They're ready for you, Mr. President. 1248 01:30:36,480 --> 01:30:38,466 Ready, Mother? 1249 01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:55,719 My friends, no one who is not in my situation 1250 01:30:55,720 --> 01:31:01,028 can appreciate the feelings of sadness I have at this parting. 1251 01:31:01,440 --> 01:31:07,101 To this place and to the kindness of these people, I owe everything. 1252 01:31:07,480 --> 01:31:10,945 Here I have lived for a quarter of a century. 1253 01:31:12,320 --> 01:31:17,662 To you, dear friends, I owe all that I have, all that I am. 1254 01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:25,383 I leave now, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, 1255 01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:32,319 with a task before me that is greater than that which rested upon Washington. 1256 01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:34,067 Fire! 1257 01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:36,671 (SHOUTING) 1258 01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:43,024 Without the assistance of the Almighty who attended him, I cannot succeed. 1259 01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:49,591 With that assistance, I cannot fail. 1260 01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:54,385 Fire it in, boys! 1261 01:31:59,240 --> 01:32:04,159 Trusting in him who can go with me and remain with you 1262 01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:07,279 and be everywhere for good, 1263 01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:11,985 let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. 1264 01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:22,519 Through his care commending you, 1265 01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:26,588 as I hope that in your prayers you will commend me. 1266 01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:50,344 I bid you an affectionate farewell. 1267 01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:01,350 D'SOUZA: And how badly we need right now 1268 01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:06,988 a Washington, a Lincoln, a Reagan. 1269 01:33:07,480 --> 01:33:10,387 Well, we don't have them. 1270 01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:13,860 But we do have us. 1271 01:33:16,120 --> 01:33:17,759 (SHOUTING) 1272 01:33:17,760 --> 01:33:22,021 D'SOUZA: The Revolution was a struggle for the creation of America. 1273 01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:29,470 The Civil War was a struggle for the preservation of America. 1274 01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:34,985 World War ll was a struggle for the protection of America. 1275 01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:39,999 Our struggle is for the restoration of America. 1276 01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:42,439 President Reagan once said, 1277 01:33:42,440 --> 01:33:47,039 "Ours is the only national anthem that ends with a question. 1278 01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:50,639 "Every generation must answer that question." 1279 01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:53,839 Let us resolve to fight for America 1280 01:33:53,840 --> 01:33:58,181 as if the outcome of the struggle depended on us alone. 1281 01:33:58,960 --> 01:34:01,708 We cannot do anything less. 1282 01:34:02,280 --> 01:34:04,959 This is our home. 1283 01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,867 (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) 1284 01:34:45,640 --> 01:34:48,069 (INAUDIBLE) 1285 01:35:28,400 --> 01:35:31,262 (INAUDIBLE) 1286 01:35:41,280 --> 01:35:43,220 (INAUDIBLE) 1287 01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:38,661 (INAUDIBLE) 1288 01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:52,919 (LAUGHING) 1289 01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:55,599 A lost sailor. 1290 01:36:55,600 --> 01:36:58,780 - He was looking for my country, not yours. - Yes. 1291 01:36:59,080 --> 01:37:02,511 - Yeah, but you wish he didn't come. - I wish he didn't come. 1292 01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:07,039 D'SOUZA: I spoke with Charmaine White Face, a Native American activist 1293 01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:09,199 and member of the Great Sioux Nation 1294 01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:13,919 whose ancestral land, the Black Hills, includes Mount Rushmore. 1295 01:37:13,920 --> 01:37:20,199 Having Mount Rushmore here is horrible. It's a symbol of oppression. 1296 01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:23,559 It's a symbol of genocide for our people. 1297 01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:25,591 - (PEOPLE SHOUTING) - (GUNS FIRING) 1298 01:37:31,480 --> 01:37:33,279 D'SOUZA: The charge of genocide 1299 01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:37,701 begins with Columbus enslaving 1,500 Arawak Indians 1300 01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:39,580 (SINGING) 1300 01:38:40,305 --> 01:38:46,331 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from OpenSubtitles.org