u.s. contractors there is kind of wasting their time trying to get killed three. zero am. i thought all was willing to do please see about five hundred miles. it would take me about twenty seven days and knew going to publicize it and people inviting the more i think the leads to people started to bait have a dialogue in sleep just. chanting the slogan or radio silence from space. and. just fifty. and fifty ft five.

feet. great to have you with is the headline. nato and moscow failed to reach any agreement about a missile defense shield for your of during these centuries summit with the airlines giving no legal guarantees its proposed system won't target russian territory. general roskam logic is a joke that from the yugoslav tribunal courtroom in the hague for protests demanding his own choice of a lawyer rather than a court appointed one the judge entered a formal not guilty plea on behalf of the genocide charges and alleged crimes against humanity during the bosnian war the one thousand nine hundred. and under time obama's plan to point out over thirty thousand troops from

afghanistan next kid faces strong criticism opponents fear it's taking a big militarists and vote for a coalition successes the taliban attacks continue. next to me to former war correspondent has taken a walk almost a thousand guineas is just to talk people out of.

when i came home it was amazing it was honestly one of the best ones of my life i thought i was going to pass out i was so happy. there was my wife and my daughter that i hadn't seen for a year and it was just almost too good to be true it was going to. at the same time there was only so wonderful because it's been the last year away from them in iraq which was terrible and so when a t.v. camera man came up to me and asked me some questions i told him out of the bat it's a i'm really glad to be home i'm proud of my service but i am against or in iraq

and i know that some family members and some friends weren't pleased that i said that i thought it was maybe inappropriate at the time but if every soldier comes home and they just say that they're glad to be home the nuns going to know the truth about what's going on in iraq. just. puts a. slight unlisted nothing to me because the put it happened that day to. get him in so many people on the field one sees the team seeing the images you know maybe it was. the salt lake. city.

police. the middle east son. police. the middle east. and. the love of. my whole life and whatever i've tried to do i've tried to unite the will of the spirit to the work of the flesh or that's a spiritual journey my spirituality which all of us have to. have to deal with what you call that or not call it conscience i was never an athan this to. letters because i didn't think i learned how and then i died after casein had been. killed for about three weeks my daughter read a poem and in the last couple of hindsight if we the people let them continue

another mother will meet i have a duty to lease the least you know till people buy store. it's the guys are stuck where you. go back there it's their fun for us so a house fire. in their house. people like us if i didn't object to some obvious injustice i couldn't live with myself i thought well i can't make a difference unless i'm going to try at least some of the damage on my deathbed and say at least i tried to make a difference when i thought we were getting deployed we were living in ohio so we just threw everything in a van and moved back home so now everything's kind of settled and i'm getting out of the army. and i have to go through all this crap and figure out what's the stuff i keep what's the stuff i turn back to the unit. so i can get out without paying too much money. i'm going to do this. they are back from iraq

on july twenty fourth that's the day utah celebrates its statehood and so you know there's like tons of fireworks parades and things like that it was a bad day to come home as a soldier it's loud sounds when it's really jittery in the middle of i would wake up and i would think it was still right. he called me one night and said when i come home i have to do something to help end this war spending the year in iraq as a military journalist i saw so much waste going on with u.s. contractors i saw so many soldiers not having a clear mission they're just kind of wasting their time trying not to get killed for a year and then i talked to so many iraqis and they said they wanted the u.s. presence gone just watch the movie i guess or not part of the lie and he told me to go watch it so i kind of understand some of the feelings he was coming from

connection to run cooking you know he was this special he'd been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was finding his footsteps pretty pretty bad i just the horses were just crazy ideas and then and there. well family member said it was really a dream i just said i'm going to spank him it's hard because protesting is kind of a paradox you need to do something crazy enough to get the media and people to pay attention to you at the same time it can be so crazy that people think you're insane and you lose all credibility he kept thinking of these ridiculous ideas and illegal things like. south sudan places going on a hunger strike and then finally it came to me i thought all walk the link that you thought it would be about five hundred miles it would take me about twenty seven days and we were going to publicize it and have people invited to come with us i

could to hopefully speak with people started to beit have a dialogue instead of just. chanting a slogan or waving a sign in someone's face and i figured walking it's pretty normal i think people walk every day right it's not too bizarre it's not going to do this you're right if you are right on to something very simple we're such non-controversial this everything. look. for us this is really a been raised and during the vietnam era when the peaceniks were a bunch of weird people they were hippies and and into drugs and that kind of stuff and i just didn't want my son to be associated with that kind of a thing but. he really felt that. yeah. to stop. the read

a statement he should have the highest approval ratings for bush and for the war and it's my home state so i think this is the best place to do it and marshall is of utah eason of the predominant faith she says she's he she looks like a normal utah he's not on the fringe he's not banging drums so. state of utah as a whole i think is extremely conservative by that term i mean resistant to change on still really like george bush and like him as a guy they would mind having a glass of milk with them or if they're that kind of time i support president bush totally with sending all the people out to fight for our country because that's what it's all about our support both. mothers because there's a republican to. visit because if your mom up her him one of the one of the. command had one of the nude i don't know whether it. entertainer shad ain't your. bod don't know which one it is but one of them shady things liberally to many

disease. and i want to fight it out with a lot of the right kind of i disagree with him it's not disease isn't good net effect kind of diseases can be cured. i mean you starting out you want to spread the word and let people know you have no budget no influence no connections how do you do that. citizenry. is a. shit load and. that's the time to sleep a little. shit load it up. for. it let's talk a. little bit tense recent press releases we got

a website a network news with six hundred invited politicians from both parties i talked to an orthopedic doctor i talked to the physical trainer we publicize that we got permits to watch over protest from the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone can seem to use their towns and their abilities to keep treating this momentum i also went to the studio so. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by your mother that it's pretty bad you can imagine them all out of jail or where we have libeled that make up that one other person all. because i think it is very important i think that the president needs to be there every week every month people look for it and i said some. pretty good.

look at it looking. at it all. looks like to. look. good. i think still even if you're not illegal why don't you just you know you're right there and told us that they haven't been there they have no idea what it's like there they don't think i've no idea what i've been on the ground i thought i've heard that. but they are here that's why we're here. i don't think it's a communication i think take it with you don't offer me we don't support the strict discipline but i wish that you were doing peacemaking. amy goodman is the host of democracy now its really popular news program and she was coming to town to do a book signing she's come to salt lake three people independently one of them told

her hey while you're here in salt lake you should interview this army sergeant she calls up that night and we were expecting you know the next day we were down there in salt lake doing interviews the goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now explosive army reservist marshall thompson he spent a year in iraq working as a military journalist the son of a former you time they are he now plans to walk across his home state the red and the nation to protest for this point it doesn't matter why we got into the war or what the partisan politics were about well matters is that two soldiers die every day on average and any any way that we can in this war one day soon is to die it saved and i would walk five hundred miles for that i would walk a thousand miles for that. some people said some terrible things not never to my face you know but in even though they got this

electronic bravery and they would really say some crazy things one guy road and he said that he hoped that i got run over by a truck i'm going to walk. a lot of people said i just hope you keep walking to mexico or you leave this country we don't want you here. what gavan said that he wished that i died in iraq because then i would have been honorable. so i was about to go speak to utah state to help promote the walk in right before we go in a phone call from the utah department of transportation and they told me that if i was going to walk they would arrest me for trespassing on the state highway suddenly it was political suddenly he was against it suddenly he needed a permit. for no other reason than that it was a peaceful but you told you that would be arrested for trying to walk i can't believe one of the symbols walking i mean you don't know why they're walking you just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because

i have a reason for the sidewalk but would like you to do is did you tell your superiors to do we can just arbitrarily decide to meet me didn't choose policy from other people. and. so will not be. but i'm. i'm sorry and i was just you just the right of you just wants to play while. you're trying to harass me yet to see you arrest me. mostly because you believe in the american press to walk the street wearing way over our heads we don't know what we're doing luckily my father in law is a lawyer and so so he got in touch with the a.c.l.u. together they were able to convince the attorney general of the time. that it was in fact my right as a u.s. citizen and iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. this

use of toilet paper imodium ibuprofen camelback butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring co-parents and then calories like trail mix or get in gator eat ok that is a good start. it's the morning of the walking. and everything is pretty much ready . for good weather if nothing else this walk with me feel better make me feel like i'm doing my best right so nobody shows up i just washed in the rain all day it was thought i. was. saying. some say with an adult son let the bang out of the. sound just like bunny does in the coming of the night in this funny.

getting together. shyness the way that ending is saying get out that wind in love again and again on the streets without the sound the same spiel that it's again looking to sing us the good. but by the time we got to the point where people are going to walk with me the review kind of stuff the scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work you know in around that corner and there is a big you're going to a good nights and there's probably one hundred fifty people which for a small home like will get that's a lot. that was amazing that just me feel so good i feel at that moment i thought i could finally come home everybody. it's just wonderful to see so many people here who want peace thanks so much. wonderful. i'm all right let's start walking. my second son in the six then one day said no get

up stand up. stand. he said get up stand up to something sound good love those give up the fight. to give it. my name is john shawn morning and i came down from oregon. heard me goodman on her program now say marshall was going to do this law and so i come from a long history. in the during the civil rights movement. vietnam. and saw the income. we're going to turn the whole world around. what can the world can't survive with with the spores going on and on no this has to happen now the to be. there is

a changing tide in america and you're part of it today we're sending a mandate from the people to the government of the united states and to the representatives of utah specially the utah does not support a war we support peace and we support a plan for. this morning to become real to the american people the military is a war america is not and then needs to change. way . to get them here because my dad is a meat mom dad and the way they were affected him. made her in some cases.

that violent childhood in my house and so i hope that this will be a place for some sense of unity about finding another way i see as being like gandhi's. gandhi's walk his walk to the sea this is a big deal i think it will call attention to the fact that a lot of people feel similar you know similarly to the way he feels deep down inside but maybe they're afraid to voice their opinion even just a small demonstrations to make community aware that they really exist and i think it will help people think. when somebody from the u.s. military a soldier. sees what's going on over there and and can tell you exactly that there's no good that's coming out of iraq. it's a people listen to that they listen to a soldier i think his opinion is that really indicative of what most soldiers think i think most soldiers think this right here you know that. that really we ought to

stay the course we've got state we've got to put together we got to fight smarter we got to fight harder but we don't just give up and run away we can't leave these people we commit ourselves now whether or not we are for the you know being committed or not we're there now and we need to get committed to the cause but i would much rather die for a cause then for to just die in vain i mean we've cut and run now all those people died in vain all it's time for us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and. i mean come on wake up america we got it we got to win this thing. for about a mile or so up the canyon starting then and this is dog for oregon. a better. america in honoring his willingness to speak out community about this that's why i came down oh you're on the air. yeah you know the worst nightmare for

us. over there i'm sorry don't laugh at me don't laugh at me you know why because you are and you know when you better start paying attention to president bush and what we want you to do we are over there for a good cause we have found. now destruction weapons whatever and you know what my loved one came home and you know what you have to get back to work your five children here at the port what on earth are you doing around you one that and why did we i want one as a mother one of the what are you when you know what we're. for the country over there i don't think i had a mother i think or president bush and what he signed he's been through aren't. you and you know what my opinion of this guy walking i think is crazy i think there's an easier way to get a point across the more across the state of utah in the one nine hundred sixty s. to be an activist an anti-war activist was considered generally. sort of

disreputable and not really ethical thing to do and i think that's still true today people are. protesting this is this is this is what i hear from people when i talk to them if you know the people who protest or if it is near you know they're dead enders and they're in their pot smokers. or demonstrators protest us and not. just might want to. take up a. simple. straight . face. she said it's a tough.

this is. just the procedure list you just. listed. just. as she. still. says. that must be. done in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war and the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that this one should be sort of heavy and some. for you are against the troops and what is that it's exactly the opposite i mean think about the leaders in the piece it's iraq that trans against the war it's veterans

for peace it's military families speak out it's gold star families for peace these are for organizations that are the leaders of the peace movement that are all surrounded by the military part of military families speak out that's true the group are worried and it. will start. i open my door at eight o'clock. am there was a military court i was. born. that like this you don't want to go. from that day i realize that unless. someone acted like. it too many more families are going to come for the our. people good boy.

please keep. telling me how to survive. and i'm looking to go thank you thank you so much yeah i must see both of you i'm. the democratic candidate for congress in the first district i was honored. except the invitation to be part of this my name's pete ashdown i'm running for u.s. senate for utah and i'm here to support marshall because i think what he's going to great and i want to emphasize larry can agree with me so much so that i just got out of the army myself i was active duty army for five years one of the rank of a sergeant i'm here to support arsenal this group is for the cause and i believe that people you know people need to be aware of what's going on the world right now great majority of the active duty army supports this and they want more of this they don't want to put it you know send packages or posting under car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change. loses

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