The camera cuts to a man in a living room with yellow pine–paneled walls and flat tan carpeting. He sits on a brown plaid couch. His face is covered by a black balaclava. His eyes are blue. He is dressed in work boots, jeans, and an ivory-colored T-shirt. His arms are muscled and tan.

The front of the T-shirt portrays a black, bare-branched tree with red roots. It reads THE TREE OF LIBERTY MUST BE REFRESHED FROM TIME TO TIME WITH THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS.—THOMAS JEFFERSON.

The man speaks.

America, it’s time to wake up. And we’re your alarm clock.

Until today, you’ve been like babies distracted by shiny toys. You believe what the TV tells you, that you won’t be happy until you have new cars and hot french fries and better drugs and bigger TVs. That you won’t have a good Christmas unless you buy more stuff that will just fall apart the minute it’s unwrapped. And if you don’t have the money, you buy it on credit.

As a result, millions of Americans are living a twisted enslavement, while others waste away in prisons, are forced to fight in foreign countries, or exist on the street like animals. So many of us wake in the night worrying we’ll lose our homes.

You think you pay for your possessions with money, but you don’t. You pay for them with blood. And today we’ve made that clear.

The world is falling down around you while our public officials—bought and paid for by corporations—act with impunity. Aided by the government you supposedly elect, these corporations have been selling you lies. And you’ve been buying them. You have let politicians and corporations take your dignity. You’ve let them grow rich and fat at your expense. But know this: To those who really run this country, you’re no more than blades of grass under their feet. They depend on the services of an army of people who are nearly invisible to them. People who pump their gas, take away their garbage, ring up their purchases, install their cable. But if they lost their electricity, their Internet, their access to stores, you’d see how dependent they really are!

We need to return to simpler times, where a man could support his family, where we could trust politicians not to betray us, where we could speak the truth without being ostracized, where companies didn’t poison our air and water, where jobs didn’t disappear overnight, where people who fought for this country returned home heroes.

Instead, we pamper illegal aliens who take our jobs while our veterans sleep on cardboard in doorways. We let the puppet government dictate every aspect of our lives.