America: Imagine the World Without Her Page #3

States, than on this 4th of July.

We like to think of ourselves

as a peace-loving people.

If they said, "We're going in for the

oil," we'd say, "No, don't do it."

But instead they say,

"We're going in for democracy."

Has the United States been a force

for good or ill in the world?

For the people we conquer,

the Vietnamese, we killed

a couple million of them,

not a force for good.

MIT professor Noam Chomsky is a

leading critic of American imperialism.

There's a reason why most of the

world regards the United States

as a predatory colonial power.

We overthrew the democratic

government of Guatemala in 1954,

Iran in 1953, Cuba in 1961.

Then Brazil, Chile,

Uruguay, Argentina,

on through the world.

It's not a pretty record.

We are the 99%!

Whose street? Our street!

Occupy Wall Street!

We've never had anything

like this in this country

where we take on

economic issues like this.

If you want money, after you get

that million, you want a billion.

After you get a billion, you want a trillion.

After you get a trillion, you want a zillion.

There is no end. There is no line.

The charge against capitalism is

that greedy, selfish business owners

steal from people.

They create gross inequality by

depriving people of their fair share.

And it's only right that we ask

everyone to pay their fair share.

Asking everyone to

pay their fair share.

Pay their fair share.

There is nobody in this country

who got rich on his own.

Nobody.

You built a factory out there.

Good for you.

But I want to be clear,

you moved your goods

to market on the roads

the rest of us paid for.

You hired workers the rest

of us paid to educate.

You were safe in your factory

because of police forces and fire

forces that the rest of us paid for.

It doesn't matter whether

you're making profits

from a hot dog stand in Times Square

or if you're the biggest

company on NASDAQ,

capitalists are under fire.

Until we change the system,

and let's use the C word here.

We're talking about capitalism.

If it's a more comfortable

word for you, greed.

That's just another word for it.

This ultimately has to change.

How much more are you

going to make them suffer?

Because some day they're

not gonna take it anymore.

These are the indictments

against America.

We stole the country from

the Native Americans.

We took half of Mexico

in the Mexican War.

We stole the labor of

the African Americans.

And today our foreign policy and our

free market system are forms of theft.

These indictments developed separately

and each has been around for a long time.

But now they've come together in a

single narrative of American shame.

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