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- 2016
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they always get away.
- Are you following him?
- Yep.
We don't need you to.
Do you think he's yelling "help"?
- Yes.
- All right, what is your...
Police have the gun,
they've got the shooter,
but they have not arrested him.
Zimmerman,
armed with a gun,
followed this
quote, unquote suspicious kid
after the dispatcher told him not to.
They ended up on the ground in a fight,
and George Zimmerman
shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
The police could not arrest Zimmerman
because of this Florida law called
Stand Your Ground,
which says that you can kill someone
if you feel threatened.
Even though it was Zimmerman
who had pursued Martin
throughout the neighborhood with a gun.
Mr. Zimmerman felt that he,
in self-defense, needed to, uh...
to fire his weapon.
Not only was he not arrested,
but in court,
Zimmerman actually pleaded self-defense
and got off
under the Stand Your Ground law.
We, the jury,
find George Zimmerman not guilty.
that was passed in Florida
played a huge role
and this really ignited the movement
that we see today.
In the wake
of Trayvon Martin's death,
Florida's Stand Your Ground law
came into the spotlight.
How did this law not only get in place
in Florida, but around the country?
And all the fingers kept pointing
back to ALEC.
ALEC sounds like the name
of a high school lacrosse player
who just got baked
and wrecked his dad's Saab.
But incredibly, it's actually even worse.
- ALEC is a political lobbying group.
- ALEC is a political lobbying group.
- They write laws...
- They write laws...
- and give them to Republicans.
- and give them to Republicans.
- Stand Your Ground...
- Stand Your Ground...
- was written by ALEC.
- was written by ALEC.
ALEC is this private club,
and its members are
politicians and corporations.
But the real question is,
should politicians and corporations
be in the same private club?
Under the umbrella of ALEC
corporate members, uh, get to propose laws
to their political counterparts,
most of whom are Republicans.
So, through ALEC, corporations have
a huge say in our lawmaking.
And at ALEC task force meetings,
corporate lobbyists
secretly vote as equals with lawmakers
then introduce
to become laws in our states.
ALEC is everywhere.
Roughly one in four state legislators
are members.
And I'm proud to stand with ALEC today.
And it's not hard to see why.
ALEC makes their jobs troublingly easy.
Here's their model
Electricity Freedom bill,
which at one point says,
"Be it therefore enacted,
that the State of repeals
the renewable energy mandate."
So, as long as you can remember
and spell the name of your state,
you can introduce legislation.
We've also seen ALEC bills introduced
where a lawmaker forgot
to take the ALEC letterhead off the bill.
Without remembering to take off
the ALEC letterhead
to try to distance the real role of ALEC
and ALEC corporations from those bills.
I'm just curious. Does it have...
Does the legislation have
some connection to ALEC?
Representative Atkins, I'm not sure why
we're pursuing this course of questioning.
This bill is my bill.
It's not ALEC's bill.
The reason I ask is because
earlier you passed out a handout
that says "Gottwalt" at the top,
and it says "Health Care Compact,"
and there's a logo
right in the middle of that page.
And I went to the ALEC website,
and there's exactly the same font,
the same size and the same logo.
I mean, literally, it's verbatim.
It's shocking to know
that ALEC has been around
for more than four decades now.
And it's even more startling
to see how it began.
ALEC has forged
a unique partnership
between state legislators and leaders
from the corporate and business community.
Corporations have influenced
laws for decades, through ALEC.
They want everybody to vote.
I don't want everybody to vote.
As a matter of fact, our leverage
in the elections quite candidly goes up
as the voting populace goes down.
benefits one of its corporate funders.
And the corporation Wal-Mart
was a long-standing member of ALEC
at the time that it adopted
the so-called Stand Your Ground law.
It's a law that created
an atmosphere where gun sales boomed.
Wal-Mart is the biggest seller
of long guns in the US,
has been the largest retailer
of bullets in the world.
So it's reasonable to think
that Wal-Mart benefited
from these Stand Your Ground laws
that ALEC pushed
that initially prevented the arrest
of the killer of Trayvon Martin, uh,
and was designed to prevent the arrest,
prosecution and conviction
of the killer of Trayvon Martin, including
through changing the jury instructions
to require that a jury be told
that someone like George Zimmerman
has a right to stand his ground,
but not that someone like Trayvon Martin
has a right to stand his ground
against someone like George Zimmerman
with a gun assailing him.
After the outcry over Stand Your Ground
and the Trayvon Martin tragedy...
Wal-Mart stepped out of ALEC.
It left ALEC, abandoned ALEC.
But the Wal-Mart family
continues to fund ALEC.
Other corporations
followed suit and stepped away from ALEC,
but many corporations
are still members, including...
Koch Industries,
State Farm Insurance,
PhRMA, which is the lobbying group
for the pharmaceutical industry.
ALEC has been supported
by the tobacco industry
as well as AT&T and Verizon.
And for nearly two decades,
one corporation was
Corrections Corporation of America.
Every day,
we serve our communities.
From small towns to large cities,
at more than 60 locations
across our country.
As the nation's fifth largest
correctional system,
we build, own and manage
secure correctional facilities.
CCA was the first
private prison corporation in the US.
It started as a small company,
in Tennessee, in 1983.
These folks started
making contracts with states.
And they had to protect their investments,
so the states were required
even if nobody was committing a crime.
And in the late '80s and early '90s,
unlike very few growth industries
in America's history.
Uh, it was absolutely
a model guaranteed to succeed.
And one of the ways we see that
is through the role of CCA within ALEC
All the legislation you could think of
that we fight so hard against,
"three strikes, you're out..."
Three strikes and you are out.
...mandatory minimum sentencing laws...
...serve at least 85% of their sentence.
...were the ones
they were putting out there
like on a premiere
pre-fixed dinner menu,
to generate the profit
that would go to the shareholders.
Through ALEC,
CCA became the leader in private prisons.
It's a multibillion-dollar business today
that gets rich off punishment.
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