oops. didn't get it right. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my farming community in upstate new york in the fifty's. my father was a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal labor unions catholics jews i thought. he was actually not that

unusual for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good boy scout of my time i was really proud of. in one thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an induction. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure angel officer commanding a unit of forty minutes. and so soon i found myself in vietnam. my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing mission.

then in one week. we went visited five targets. the targets were inhabited fishing game. checkers they were all i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet. five hundred pound bomb suspension shot to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burned from them if. i watch as far as i could walk before the bodies were show thick i could walk any further and look down at my feet. and i saw a young bean mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her

eyes are just staring up at i was looking at my sister. i looked into his eyes and it was all lies or was a lie and i suspect that everything i had ever been taught was a lie. my life completely radically changed. i do not know why i am here. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. oh are they doing there. or we doing there. i want to for more religious act we saw the same scene. then i realized i don't need to do this if he's a map pct. these are mothers. these are small children.

and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in receipt please please please please please said i was on the wrong side. as to how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side. valedictorian honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. has and its interest and its power. for the sake of

a people so far away. because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all if it. has been training regime believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect ourselves from you and see and realize we were the enemy. during bryant's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. and the lord and his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military and vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. go

to a country that we knew nothing about committing genocide. can still be with. people . much more two of. the officers treated. b. of the people born on the fourth of july like brian run kovac received the bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam that. even though i was paralyzed in viet nam in many ways i see that it was a blessing in disguise i had been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war. standing and compassion respecting the lives of each and

every human being how many more bombs are we going to have to drop how many more people are going to have to die we've got to profoundly change i turn in my branch barack took work on art i locked my leg in viet nam i totally opposed this war are carrying on over there i'm struck by what they've got going until i stop killing your brothers they're the traitors stop all. night and states wage its own official war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. the start of. the course of dropping the world war two. from.

vietnam felt the we should get out of concealment this information for twenty five years has now led to the deaths of fifty thousand americans and several hundred thousand vietnamese in the last few years a couple of late and over twenty years of this involvement. and i think fifth the odds have been weighted in favor of secrecy the classified department of defense files revealed that since one thousand nine hundred forty five presidents truman eisenhower kennedy and johnson had misled congress and the public about unconstitutional military actions those beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know is to sit in much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the work.

revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war asked the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions died in these on the. there's.

years old and i was looking at. pictures in a book. i said to myself what a crazy way try to solve it. and as the years have gone by. even more bent. that old. fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . common president reagan turned his focus to the resource rich countries of central and south america central america. be affect the security and it will be. and central america is much closer to the united states than many of the trouble

spots the concerns we knew. through. the system because for one hundred years two hundred euros. three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been true in the source code for the. for forty years the united states received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the u.s. government supported the dictatorship of the samosa dynasty the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the samosa was were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sand in the east a party led by daniel ortega. one nine hundred eighty two. in an

attempt to thwart president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government the congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras nineteen eighty-four daniel ortega was elected democratically the government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare and land reform. reagan vend used ortega's socialist policies and economic aid received from the soviet union to start a covert war using the national security council the administration sent secret a to the mercenary soldiers known as the contras. despite the passage of the boland amendment the arming and support of the contras became the most ambitious paramilitary and political action mounted by the cia since vietnam. or changes new sandinista government turned to the american peace

activists for help and we've begun that if there were a question of oh no or tell us what to bring people down she said look i don't care who you bring don't bring down republicans democrats but we want people to know that. your country is devastating our country. can set down again for people that can't. and they're like so tired. like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand our daughter katie was diagnosed with a very sensitive condition if i get sunburned i see she doesn't feel patients are going to have problems with the walk to talk to and here are some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside their skull gets later in the brain. scott small

. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscle all the way down to the bone and there's no relief. we're not to sure this is but discover. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer it be to limit the penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and there's just no really that hasn't been that we hear even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them

peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i wound up serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousand. so people can see the war in iraq where

they would come home wouldn't speak in their churches right up to and so on reagan was forced to admit that the us was actively working to overthrow ortega's democratically elected government. to gain political support to the president presented the contras as a people's democratic movement as a condition of our aid i would insist on civilian control over all military forces but no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid go only to those committed to democratic groups is. what i want to know god one thousand a six i was a johnny come lately. within the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs east arrest early and killed eleven eleven accomplice chinos. i saw five of those compazine i was coming in on

a horse drawn wagons to us to the rest of the cemetery and open caskets and horse drawn wagons. the main contra targets of consistently been civilian homes busses or trucks which has helped destroy any public support they may have had. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by counter machine gun the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded kidnapped by the country. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adult. would earlier worked as the cia informed of the type of war we fight. and still treat prisoners. but what i discovered really for the first time my fish only understood the pattern of u.s. policy. bush was to destroy people power movement and i was one of the people i

know where the power is a fact. of the united states of america are you legal both international and domestic. in fundamental standards of decency centers to. people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my there anywhere people. being an opposition to the power coming out of my own country. oh. why are you walking against fear against your. own things. because it's made dangerous player countries. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m.

and other veterans participated in the. peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn billikins gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back. so who do need to stay tuned. but not enough strict. who made a station. in central america. anything is going to happen to you it was going to be responsible for the. well there's only one country that's a war in its united states we are there funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. true for what we were doing to. her through. brian.

to protest.

to bring attention to the issue. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support. the contras he asked for one hundred million dollars. to government. the truth. is not right. for cultural. leadership. stood up

to do it. and talk to me. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war he talked to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast. and offers addition to us back consul. before i did this last i decided that a significant. could be. you know this very prestigious medal of honor and in protest of u.s.

foreign policy in central america. the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make. outside of actually some way give you know your life well then following up on that came the fast brian. fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. and people. i went to in washington as many did to support the. steps of the capitol and i remember the inspiration of. charlie. they were doing something.

important. they were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing here but it was bigger than. south central america. of course himself. and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this was all being carried out with. this. president last week. not. just. as a fast thirty five and forty as the fast thirty five and forty days and that's approaching the time when people began from fast like this and although they were

being monitored they were getting weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed by they were usually you might. think. the question can come up relative to fasting well is is it a human life to take your own. i can do my own life or if i want to want to know this my life for a. fast. approaches. which led to the. terrorist suspects. i five hundred solitary actions around states that were.

in concert with our. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. organizing. the actions were. we were additional fasting on. the move to classify the veterans fast as terrorism triggered a reaction from an unlikely source the f.b.i. agent assigned to investigate them twenty two year bureau veteran jack ryan. i was in charge of investigating for the f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i got a lead that says investigate. for fast terrorist there fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for life case files and also those of other u.s.

nationwide solidarity groups in the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statutes. and concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and then refused to investigate further is superior putting them under review the bureau just came down on me when i likened it to killing a flea with a shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down big. to those of you who voted for aid i want to say i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the. the idea that we were terrorists and. that it was it is ridiculous. and a terrorist has record no. lord for human life whatsoever in the past like there

are i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. i'm one of them but i think. they will one day as we are buddy. to. put them to. me as i knew she needed out of here.

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