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Uploaded on Oct 20, 2010

BUSTED! Catching Tea Partiers being trained in Guerilla Internet Tactics.
From the film (Astro) Turf Wars: How Corporate America Is Faking A Grassroots Revolution
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This clip shows Austin James of American Majority training tea party activists on guerrilla internet tactics to "control the online dialogue". The footage was shot at the 2009 American Liberty Tour, run by a group of libertarian groups tied to real-estate mogul and Koch associate Howie Rich. The clip is taken from a section of the film showing how libertarian/free-market groups are recruiting tea party protestors into their cause.

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  • Iron Tiger

    If you're a conservative and your first thought is "well, I bet they do it too..."

    Make no mistake about it... you are part of the problem.

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  • smorbidity

    "Literally, 80% of the books I put a star on, I don't read."

    Of course not. If you did you'd see how ridiculous the Tea Party is.

    Education is your friend.

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  • EmpireofC

    So why not call out Liberals for doing the same thing.

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  • EmpireofC

    Are you fucking kidding me this is nothing compared to an occupy wall street rally. Murders, rapes, destruction of public and private property. What about the 4 OWS morons arrested for planning to blow up the Cleveland Bridge ?

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  • Sandra Chung

    If the Tea Party's ideals were so wonderful, they wouldn't' have to resort to such tactics.

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  • mmarsh1972

    I make a accurate historical analogy, and the only thing you can reply are insults. Whose really the idiot?

    Just another teabagging loser who flunked home school.

    

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  • sheshell801

    Maybe they wised up and now are copying some of Obama's internet tricks that got him voted back in. There was some internet treachery. Like Obama has done anything honest...really?

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  • sheshell801

    Idiot!!

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  • MartianKing45

    Books are bought in bulk to be at the top of sales lists too. Bill oreileys often there.

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  • Rusty Bridges

    Scum of the earth .

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  • FanfromPR

    Wow.... 737 dislikes for this video. I guess you're being the victim of the same tactics that you brilliantly exposed here. That just gives more credit to the argument. Keep with the good research, thanks!

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  • Andy Lee Robinson

    Ideological indoctrination.

    This just creates an artificial divide between groups of people, further polarizing them - this is how wars begin.

    The same thing can be done using left vs right handed people, blue eyes vs brown, toilet roll preference over vs under, sunni vs shia etc.

    The same tactics are used to deny global warming. All because a few rich white guys want to hang onto their money and can't adapt, they hire astrosmurfs to try to corrupt science and public opinion.

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