what's right and wrong but don't you think people are going to have different points of view on what's offensive and what's not yes but that's why i just bring it down to if you do respect yourself and respect other people it all comes out in the end you think people will naturally be an offensive to each other. will they necessarily know should they yes sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm so no name has ever been offensive to you because you know what you have to be emotionally disturbed to have any mean pension and there's somewhat more deeper then to me. so it's ok for anyone to call anyone anything. it depends on how you say it is the poems on in the context that you use the word whether or not you believe the n word should be taken out of huckleberry finn the bottom line is we should consider have homogenous and boring the world would be if we take political correctness to five.

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deaths are birds and fish around the world is fuelling apocalyptic prophecies that some experts say a sensation hundred media is refusing to let science explain the phenomena of. a string of terror linked arrest across europe raises concerns that some background checks are letting extremists in. but next the moral dilemma for soldiers forced to choose between their conscience and their commanders. has now for former veterans who say they paid a high price for having the courage to say no.

there's no choice can you hear it. it's coming from the earth it's the sound of despair despair and. nor sense south millions of men women and children living in appalling conditions in extreme poverty extreme violence extreme exploitation. they're the orphans of the technological age pariahs. table of the rich and powerful. these are their stories some are shocking others almost trivial. but in their own right they are. extreme. as extreme as the compulsion for soldiers to disobey orders that go against their convictions and values. this is the story of three soldiers in three

countries and three areas each was compelled to break his pledge of allegiance. was. who was. like yeah i'm not good you had was. good i'd i'd i'd had i got. i got i got. that was who. in the army we were supposed to submit willingly to our superiors order. i observe the rule of my entire life until that infamous september eleventh is see i knew

that blood was being spilled in the streets on it. but corpses were floating in the river. to sit down to vent crimes for being committed. which. i could no longer be a member of an army that was responsible for these injustices of course you can let it but then if you know it the kids it will get. eight this is pretty shit. show whenever i see comes a nightmare. show and your good lord turns into satan to full fitness athon

and day turns into night shift selfishly like that. i. you have the obligation to refuse to use the word but when it's when you no longer believe in what you were doing and you can no longer stand up for your actions you must refuse. if you don't have a good reason to go to war. if you don't have a purpose if you don't feel that you're doing something noble.

if you don't believe deep within yourself that you fighting for freedom if you don't believe deep within yourself that you're fighting for democracy. if you don't believe that you're fighting. to make the world a safer place and you're left without a purpose you're nothing but my mercenary. and that's why i'm sad not to go back to my unit in iraq because i completely disagree with in this work the more i'm criminal and i don't want to be a part of it. but

. when you're a soldier. basically what makes you a soldier in legal terms is that find that you sign a contract one month once you steve sign a contract. you are supposed to do everything they tell you to do you're supposed to follow orders.

when there is a war. and they give you your give me your orders. it's very hard to say human being to accept that because you're not really taking part of in the process of. deciding whether or not war is legal or it's illegal or if it's moral or immoral. but such believe such moral view. has absolutely nothing to do with what you have to do as a soldier you have to follow your orders. and that is one of the most frustrating things among being a soldier and that you have no say.

at the new academy when though and after fifteen days in the states i was supposed to go back to iraq. better nor would better the decision not to report to you know military commander. was not easy to make it was very hard on them i'm risking a logger starting with my freedom i'm exposing myself to humiliation. i mean risking my immigrant status in this country that's huge because i have a daughter who lives here and i.

stop with all of this has turned my life upside down for example i had to leave my home i stopped using my credit cards and my cell phone on me i couldn't see my daughter for fear of being arrested. had to live with friends or relatives. i contacted lawyers my whole life changed when i wasn't free anymore i couldn't go back to college or get a job all this caused a lot of emotional turmoil in my life. and i live in. as a practitioner of military law over the last twenty six years i've returned many people to military control and it is never easy for someone to go back it's never easy it takes great courage for camilla to do what he is doing today because he does not know what he faces upon his return to military authorities.

who. was. i did not prepare a statement because what i have to say i have to say from the heart and it's a very simple message and a message and it simply is that i'm saying no to war. we're dying there iraqis are being killed every day and then here people are you know reading us about janet jackson's brass or the super bowl or whatever when there is a war. going on right now and our people die and people lose perspective very slim hurts me deep inside because i'm a soldier and i saw the software firsthand and i'm making this stand right here not . to prove that i'm right or anything like that but because of the soldiers in iraq

who disagree with this war but don't have the strength to come forward so i'm doing it for them i'm not trying to my back my comrades i have this i'm not going to be a part of that war but i'm going back to the military today i have really no idea what's going to happen but whatever happens if they try to say that i'm a criminal and they give me many years in jail. i know that that i made the right decision and that god has forgiven me already thank you. the military now once he returns to military control has the discretion to decide what to do with him they can choose the administrative route that is processing his claim for conscientious objection or they could choose a judicial route to resolve this matter if they were to choose the judicial route then there is that strong possibility that he would face trial by court martial. after this press conference what we intend to do is to take

a bus and we intend to travel about thirty minutes from here to hanscom air force base while we arrive at the front gate we don't know where he'll take him there are many unknowns. i was born in nicaragua into a political family my mother worked for the government. my father. who sang in revolution. i came to the united states when i was eighteen years old. i had no ties anywhere and that i knew one of them i felt like a stranger everywhere i went. so when i came here

country. i figured i should try to fit into north american society. the heart of this country. for me joining the army was a way of becoming a member of a fraternity. other country i already had clearly defined political views. anyone who comes to another country. especially in this country which is the jewish homeland supposed to be a place for everyone. to

be a part of the israeli society. everyone else. had to. say goodbye to everything. and. that's how i became a volunteer paratrooper among the best. i had been accepted at the military school i felt like the proudest man on earth with my cadets uniform. at the end of the first.

two years later graduated from the. well the rank of artillery officer. i was successful as a soldier i did my job and i was promoted i received several medals. and marks of recognition things were going very well. in the military i was proud to be an infantry soldier because the infantry is supposed to be the toughest job in the army the most dangerous job. but. i find those deeply moving but while we're still a child. as i listen to the military and watch the troops march by. i relive some of the happiest moments in my life. when i was an officer of the army

the army prior to september eleventh. the deaths of thousands of people civilians the terrorist attacks that's not something you can forget. very sad when it all happened. time that my national guard unit would be mobilized and we would be sent into the field to fight or to carry out a real mission. there had been so many. it seems to me that if the situation was handled properly if there was a thorough investigation identify the people responsible for the attacks and then

a mission to find. bring them to justice. a good cause to. at the time i still thought that being in the army and serving you know. could be done for valid reasons and could produce good results i want.

to be like the voted. off of the military is still a good. move it back. a good. book in fact backwards. to back. it. up and.

get. at first we didn't have a well defined mission. we stayed at what baghdad international airport for four or five days. then we went to an iraqi air force base occupied by the u.s. army. and. we started talking to people and they told us they approved of the invasion. and they

were happy to be free from the oppression of saddam hussein but at the same time they wanted to regain back control of their country. they didn't want an extended occupation. the. first real confrontation happened at the town hall and. that's where we had our first combat experience and there was a demonstration in support of that and against george bush one. on. one of the. first there was no violence the demonstrators were shouting their slogans nothing more than seeing. after forty five minutes of protest. they started throwing grenades and it all

became very violent. and the my unit was ordered to take defensive positions on the roof of the town hall. we were told. through. the. one point silence of complete silence all of the demonstrators about two hundred people started moving from one place to the other. one corner we saw a young man coming towards us he was holding something in his hand. through the telescope. specifically ordered to shoot to kill if anyone threw something that young man was holding something and he threw it at us. it was a grenade and we all fired.

he. was the first time in my life the target wasn't made of plastic. it wasn't a picture it was a human being. a living breathing human being. by the way they couldn't possibly reach us because he was much too far. and. the. i shot him too and he was killed by bullets he started bleeding demonstrators through his own blood. for the first time i saw what bullets from a rifle from. to a human body. when those bullets pierced through human flesh and you see blood and

death. and you realize what really goes on in. mine and you understand what all this training was for. i've never seen first hand a human being killed by bullets and it was really hard for me that it's something i haven't been able to forget and that i will never forget. yes yes yes i remember the first time. tell me about it you know. why.

it was. shows three. or four in the morning three. there were five of us of lying in ambush. flat on the ground. one of us was always keeping watch. because we would always switch every fifteen minutes. all of a sudden i heard the sound of gravel rolling down. the vin the van i saw three fighters climbing towards us. very quietly very slowly only.

i thought if i wake up the others there will be me. to shoot or not to shoot to be or not to be. i had no other choice but to open fire. i only had two seconds to shoot three men. suddenly it's not an exercise anymore it's for real. and i track to the bullet inside and hit the guy right here. i saw as face explode. with. the thick illicitly sure i just had the time you see the second guy he had turned to look at his buddy who's had it been blown away i shot and killed him too. the third one looked toward me to see

where the shots were coming from. with the less that he saw me and he raised his collision a cough but it only took me half a second to shoot him down. of cum i got up and went over to see. i just stood there. looking down at the bodies. for fifteen minutes. maybe longer she's maybe fifty years. could most move all of the ideals i had when i was eighteen or nineteen all of the good things the beautiful things my dreams. they all started falling apart. i was just an empty shell.