questions i told him out of the bat i said i'm really glad to be home i'm proud of my service but i am against the war 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 in listening to me because it's a put it happened that day to. get him in so many people on the field one says let's look at the two senior mizuno maybe it was.

a. little sleep in the middle east. please. please. let. me. say. that 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 that's a spiritual journey my spirituality which all of this after. have to deal with what you call that or not call it conscience i was never an athlon 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 pun and in the last couple of hindsight if we the people let them continue another mother will mean i have a duty to go east the east you know tell people by story. it's the guys who are stuck or. you know a couple so they all go back we are there it's their fun for us so we asked for. 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 l.a. some of the damage done 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 rock. he called me one night and said when i come home i have to do something that in this war spending the year in iraq is 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 can you just watch the movie i guess or not part of the light and he told me to go watch it so i kind of understand some of the feeling seals coming from both connection the wrong coding you know he was this this veteran you've been protesting war for decades you know and i photo i was for those footsteps pretty pretty bad i just the horses were his crazy idea and then n.p.r. . 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 in 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. 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 bait 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 people walk every day right it's not too bizarre not to do this you know write a book write to do something very simple we're such non-controversial if you ever. look. for us this is really again 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

he needed 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 ease of the predominant faith she says she's he 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 and 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 you have my amateur and one of the one of the. command had one of the new now don't know whether it is. an eight or sat eight

here. bob don't know which one it is but one of them shady things liberal if you meant disease. and i wanted to find out like what about right kev i disagree with him it's not disease isn't good net effect cut diseases can be cured. i mean you're 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. since this is. a. shit load. that's such. a. shit load it. for shit let's talk

a. little bit tense mr 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 walk over protest from the students so my family and friends together they all chipped in everyone and seemed to use their towns and their abilities to keep treating this very moment i also went through local food you'll see. what's the meanest thing anybody's ever said driving by your mother look pretty bad you can imagine them all out of jail or where we have libeled them a couple and one other person all. of it look like it is very important i think that the president needs to be there every week to remind people that war is going

on i said some. pretty good. looking that would look like a football. look look look look look look look look look look look look look look look. for every serious you personally interview here i'd like to know why not appreciate you know your right to parent the photos have you been having been there you have no idea what like me or they don't think i'm the one you will look what i've been on the ground i thought i've heard. but they are here for why we're there. might just take care of the communication i think and take it with you don't offer we don't support the troops you support. but i wish the troops were doing peace making. 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 and she calls up that night and we were expecting to have the next day we were down there in salt lake doing the interview maybe goodman is going to announce. today ted democracy now explosive army reservist marshall thompson dispensing 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 in the nation to protest war at 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 say that 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 wrote in and he said that he hoped that i got run over by a truck on my walk. a lot of people said i just hope you keep walking to mexico or you leave this country going on here. and one guy even said that he wished that i had died in iraq because then i would have been on a ruble. so i was about to go speak to utah state to help promote the walk and 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 me that i would be arrested if i try to look good i can't

believe that but what if some was walking i really don't know why there was just arrest them unchecked he says that i can't walk on the sidewalk myself because i have a reason to look inside or would like you to do is could you tell your superiors to do we can't just arbitrarily decide to meet me didn't use policy from other people . and. so will be. but i'm. i'm sorry and i was just you just the right of you just wants to like while. you're trying to arrest me yeah seriously you're asking. for us to keep believing the americans and the rest of wall street clearing 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. there was in fact my right as a u.s.

citizen and an iraq war veteran to walk down the street without being arrested. this use of toilet paper imodium ibuprofen camel back butter and water walkie talkie cell phone ring co-parents and then calories like trail mix or get in get or it can this 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 over 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. not saying this so say with an adult son let the bang out of the. sound just start running as in the coming of the night in this funny

a way. that none now getting together. shyness i'm glad that i'm doing as well and get out there within loud again to get on those sheets without the sound the same spiel that it's a good look at this thing i think but. by the time we are to the point where people are going to walk with me to read the kind of stuff or the scum the first test of this crazy stuff is going to work you know when around that corner there is a bigger your primary nights and there is probably one hundred fifty people which respond how mike will get not so hot. and that was amazing that it didn't 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 thank you. i'm all right let's

start walking. when i sit in the six then they say no get up stand up. stand. he said get up stand. up sound good love those give up the thought i. give up. my name is john shawn morning and i came down oregon i heard any goodman on her program now say marshall was going to do this book and so i come from a long history. in this during the civil rights movement. and saw the look i'm. going to turn the whole world around. but what can the world can't survive with with the spores going on and on no this has to happen i would

say that. 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 especially the utah does not support a war we support peace and we support a plan for. this morning is to become real to the american people the military is a war america is not and then needs to change. the . way. we get them here because my my dad is in the combat and the way they were affected

him. made. in some. it is a 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 gone to use. danis walk news want to see 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 demonstration to make the community aware that hey we exist i think it will help people think. when somebody from the u.s. military a soldier. sees what's going on over there. 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 it 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 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 got right now all those people died in vain all it's time for us to pull it to 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 here and. this is dog crow 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 whacked 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 may not support what on earth are you doing around you one and why did we have loved one as a mother one of the people are you and you know what there are. for the country over there i don't know i as a mother i can pour president bush and what he signs he's in charge not 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 here 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 he's near you know they're dead enders and they're in their pot smokers. or demonstrators protest us and vietnam estimated one out of. a couple. simply. state. space and. she said it's

a joke. this is. the problem this is a list you just. listed. just. as she . says. that must be. done in the military they tell you that the people protesting the war or the smiths rachel tell you the same thing that this one should be sort of heavy and something . for you or 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 turns 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 but the group are worried and it. will start. i open my door at eight o'clock . am there were the military courts now where the. court. didn't like this you know what. i realize that unless. i need to walk back to. get to many more family for good or for a lot. of people good for a lot of mine. that's

. i'm sitting. on the survivor and i'm looking good 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. to dash down 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 him as larry and it was always 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 i've really support 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 put

a sticker on their car or they want you to do this supporting the troops supporting a change. the mission in three cretaceous three times torture just free. range means three discrete stews type three. mostly broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media john to our teeth on top.

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day's top stories under review of the week photographers in the frame georgia accuses three men behind the camera of being russian agents most critics call it a clear case of provocation. from revolt as thousands once again flood caro's main square demanding reforms egypt's all forty's or the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters green peppers uprisings am a surprise you turn germany is now willing to provide the only options from nato forces in libya in direct contrast to its original position on intervention speculation it's being pressured by other members from and saving grace countries paralyzed economy is at the top of christine the gods to do list she sets out her stall as the new chief of international monetary fund.

to r.t. and this is our weekly news review welcome to the program. and its latest cloak and dagger case georgia has accused three photojournalists of working for the russian secret services the group that includes president saakashvili is a personal photographer was netted on thursday and charged with spying for foreign state two days later tbilisi pointed the finger at moscow but as dumbarton reports many see it as a witch hunt. georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlight being shined on those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was there suppose it must but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but

a day later they did russia in turn moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the georgians are so quick to stick a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un one of the photographers was released without charge the other three were charged with espionage and will remain in pretrial custody for two months one of them has gone on hunger strike in protest however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is personal photographer has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying for russia opposition figures are skeptical he was though and i think not all akimbo actually life too and they have a very small child to enjoy your time to time where everything has and they'll fuck each bundle so no real where we go outcome and we never saw any kind of real.