hundred 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 a as an inductee. and then i got my orders to become an air force granger officer commanding a unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing missions. in one week. we went visited five targets. problems. all the targets were inhabited fishing. shack and they were all i defended.

fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bombs in china shop to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burned finished off i watched as far as i could walk before the bodies were show thick i couldn't walk any further i looked down at my feet. and i saw a young woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are open her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. and i looked into his eyes and it was all moderated or it 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 and state new york. are they doing there or we doing there. i want to for more religious that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not pct. these are mother. these are small children. and if you held them that. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in receipt. i said i was on the wrong side. i said how could this be good for you i'm on the

wrong side i. value story and honor society student council. all conference athlete. who did everything right. and it was all wrong. why must this nation. has heard of and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. we fight because we must fight if we're in a world. where every country gets all the best players. in the training regime to leave all these years and there are enemies out there.

a charge to protect yourself from things and. we were the enemy. during brian's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. in the lord as his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. to go to a country that about commit genocide and to still be with our. people . much more to what.

the officer treated. the 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 have been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war out of an understanding 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 vietnam i am totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i've stuck to what they've got going until i stop. telling your brothers they're the traders stop all.

night and states will wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon papers in the start of. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to bloody still. felt the way should get out of concealment of 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 million over twenty years of this involvement. and i think fifty 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 knew was to sit in much the same way was 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 santander's spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the constitutional undeclared war. the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty. ever since the end of world war two. u.s.

presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare. the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government has overthrown sixteen democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the driver's. millions died in these undeclared wars. i was just a kid years old and i was looking at. pictures in a book about the earth. i said to myself what

a crazy way to try to solve it. and as the years have gone by i. became even more can vent that that seven year old. was right the fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . common around president reagan turned his focus to the resource rich countries of central and south america central america do directly affect the security and it will be number one. and central america is much closer to the united states than many of the trouble spots the concerns we knew. three months to change the system because for one hundred years two hundred years lived safer than three dollars. for every dollar we invest so as for the tremendous source. oh then comb for their nose. for forty years the united

states received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the us government supported the dictatorship of the some most of 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 sandinista 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 in one thousand nine hundred for daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare and land reform. reagan dens 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 aid 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. ortega's new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and. we've learned that if it requires them. to bring people down she says look i don't care who you republicans democrats but we want people to know who. their country is the devastating our country.

the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think and hit the road and get out the traveling across america in the find what makes america take the charlatans the geniuses this is the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point around which alan would have done so we always are on the margins something like this small town culture spending forty million american jobs. where starting last with is moving into headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bees i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gondo than it may be completely different but the end of this journey. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each

day. eighty five percent of global will you longed to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent minus minus two years some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only. as a spy you'll have to really split your own posts not authentic to you that is the committed job this. was still a life that within me and then that is the person who wanted to counter everything they want to do and then try and dismantle everything they were doing so you have to really become a doctor and they know that a tool. you have to form your own power. and know that the hold them.

when they came back from iraq out of marijuana her was cocaine methamphetamine so anything that's altering trying to get us out of. that bad mindset using the chemical that would be self medicating. i want to be drinking and drinking ino new nope just killing myself drinking alcohol links don't drink to get drunk alcoholics drink to feel normal. that's why alcoholics that's why a drug addicts do what they do a shot of us over the next right here star cool under which these guys are breakthrough to it it just means to. need to be helped and not good pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go and stuff they need to be built. they've really shouldn't be looked at like numbers they should be looked at like people if they go

to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention and. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i would i don't i'm serving in a war zone we literally sent thousands of people to see the war. where they would come home and 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 nag i were nineteen eighty six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs east of west early and killed eleven eleven compazine knows. i saw five of those compazine i was coming 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 buses or trucks which has helped destroy any public support they may have had. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by culture 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. who would earlier work as the cia informed the type of war we

fight. street prisoners. i discovered really for the first time my fish really understood the pattern. which was to destroy people power movements 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 law. in fundamental standards of decency is understood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate a minute shala there anywhere that the people. being men opposition to the power come out of my own country. oh.

you walk in against fear against your. own thinking. because its main dangers prior country. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in more veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back country. and show who do not need to stay to. bed noting abstract he still who made his station. in the sound of the war 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 you know it's united states. they're funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my shoe. the truth. to.

the. american people. the truth.

is right. me because. i was depressed because your leadership. stood up to do it. and then up to me. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war they talk to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast. and offers addition to the.

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 of giving up your life well then following up on that came the fast brian. fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward. the

people. i went to in washington as many did to support the. steps of the capitol. remember the inspiration that i and others think here. charlie bryant. charged. they were doing something that we. were talking about. and what we were doing here but it was bigger than the karate purcell south central america it was white america and of course himself. and what it meant to those on the receiving. end how this is all being carried out with. this. president last week. not.

just. as a fast thirty five and forty days and that's approaching the time when people began dying from fast like this and although they were being monitored they were getting weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed by there were. things. like. 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 do what i know it's my life for

a. fast. approaching. wish led to the. domestic terrorist suspects. identified. five hundred solitary actions around states that were acting in concert with our. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. actions were. we were additional fasting from. 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 get

a lead that says investigate. for fast terrorist there fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for a life case files and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statutes. concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and then refused to investigate further is superior putting them under review the bureau just came. to. flee with a shotgun that 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. yet to receive an explanation that speaks from

a place other than beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the macgyver the idea that we were terrorists and. that it. was it is ridiculous. the term has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how that can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. always telling us oh we can't have everything at the same time we can have peace and democracy blah blah blah in a. war situation that's not true is that instead of telling people what you can't have everything and then failing to deliver on everything all the fabric here and say ok you can have peace like some kind of peace you can have some kind of democracy you can have some kind of justice in the short term but unfortunately we

cannot feel everything at the same time so someone has to make a choice. oh . you're so you'll. have any. joining us as you know. he. does it up as well i must say you're. getting worse but those were the.

three and he. wolf like there's someone else living inside of me or controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug is the cause like severe depression. because it will need an end to zombie it's crazy. you know and we don't have to do anything it's not our fault you know she's crazy and all that. appears traumatic it's long time to get rid of.

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