brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force first for your program to go into the army as a nation inductee. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger 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. and in one week. we went visited five targets been problems. all the targets were inhabited to. check and they were all i defended. pushing.

these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bomb suspension shop to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either 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 a show thick i couldn't walk any further never found my feet. and i saw a young bean mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are open her eyes are just staring i was looking at my sister. when 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. i was in somebody

else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in no state new york. or are they doing there or we doing there. i want to form our villages that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not pct. these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. crawling 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. for i must this nation. has heard that saves and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. i think because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all the best stuff. in the training regime to leave all these years and there are enemies out there. and charge to protect our show. we were the enemy.

during brian's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. as his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of. go to a country that. commit genocide and to still be with our. people . much more two of. the officers treated. people born on the fourth of july like

brian run kovac received a bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam. even though i was paralyzed. 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 than war. 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 or carrying on over there i said no what they've got going until i stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop. united states will

wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon papers had been in the can they got the start of. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the tanishaa 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 stale. vietnam felt the wish 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 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 see them much the same way and 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 word. 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. the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty. 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. 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 foreign leaders. millions die in these undeclared wars. were just a kid years old and i was looking at. pictures in a book about the more. i said to myself what a crazy way to try to solve it. and as the years have gone by i. became

even more bent. that seven year old. 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. the effect of 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. in the system because for a hundred years two hundred years. three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been tremendous source oh then go for the. for forty years the united states or c. . first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return for 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 thousand nine hundred two in an attempt to thwart president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras nineteen eighty-four daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education health care 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 looking. for changes new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and. we begin with the request. to bring people down she says look. republicans democrats but we want people to know who. their country is devastating our country.

police stations are always telling us oh we can't have everything at the same time we can't have peace and democracy blah blah blah in a situation i know 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 we should be fabric here and say ok no you can't have g.'s 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 and so someone has to make a choice. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in this book relationship wrongful conviction if you had any interest ation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of the turkish was designed to put people in just that frame of

mind make the most comfortable makes them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said therefore we are all poor so i stayed there i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture of odd accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their cry. when they came back from a. marijuana. cocaine meth and said to me anything that's all true trying to get us out. that. using the chemical there would be so. i want to be drinking and drinking. just killing myself but. holy. drink. alcoholics drink to

feel normal. that's why it's that's why drug addicts do what they do a shot while still fun and their. star cool under which these guys are going through to do it it just means to. reduce need to be helped and good pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go and stuff they need to be helped. and they've really should 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. when the whole may just manufacture too sentenced to public wells. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent.

we can all middle of the room signals. to leave the room for any more real needs. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to go to i when i'm serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in iraq where they would come home wounded speak in their churches right up to and so on reagan was forced to admit that the u.s. 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 want to assist 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 and six i was a johnny come lately. within the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs each to rest a leader and killed eleven eleven accomplice chinos. i saw five of those compazine i was coming in on horse drawn wagons to this to the rest of the cemetery in open caskets and horse drawn wagons. the main contra targets of consistently even civilian homes busses or trucks which has helped destroy any public support they may have headed. 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. the contras also known as

the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adolfo calero who had earlier worked as the cia informed the more we fight. what i discovered really for the first time my fish only understood the pattern of us policy. which was to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i now with the power it is a fact that the scenes of the united states of america legal both international and domestic law. in fundamental stand is if decencies enters into it by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my solidarity with the people and my being men opposition to. the power come out of my own country.

it is easy. to walk and dance fear against. these things they speak out because its main dangers by a country. centuries is in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven the other veterans participated in more than veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the u.s. backed countries. and so do need to stay tuned. but noting abstract is still who made the stage. in the sound of the war in central america. anything is going to happen to you it was going to be responsible

for the. only one country that's at war in its united states we were there funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my. true for what we were doing to. ensure a bird. i met brian wilson. we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and clearly and swim to america. with her and to door and. so during all of this. it was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from their disgust to my country doing this.

so. we started. a number of. alarms. and charlie. murphy. decided to bring attention to the issues. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to the nicaraguan rebels the contras he asked for one hundred million dollars seventy million of which is military aid. to government a cancer and nicaragua a soviet beachhead in north america and a command post for international terror you know the truth about them they're

fighting and. they are. our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the french resistance we cannot turn away. is not right. it is right versus wrong. to try to one. hundred me because. i was depressed the leadership. stood. up to me. both were. totally. opposed to the war they talked to me about.

charlie. was planning to do a fast to the death. and opposition to the us backed consul. before i did the fast i decided that a significant. could be. you know this very prestigious medal over the water 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 someway giving up your life well then following up on the game the fast brian and. fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that objective

of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. you see people. i went to in washington as many did to support the veterans gathered steps of the capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others think. charles bryan. murray charged myself. they were doing something that was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing but it was bigger that we cannot wait to sell south central america it was right there and of course result our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving. end how this is all being carried out with a. gun in holland. 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 there were still. the question can come up relative to fasting well is is it

a human life to take your own. our country my own life or if i want to want to know this my life for a. fast. approaching. wish led to the. domestic terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around in states that were in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. actions were. we were just old fashioned. the move to classify the veterans fast as terrorism triggered a reaction from an unlikely source the f.b.i. agent assigned to an. best to get 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. fasting on the steps of the capital jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for a life. and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who was group veterans fast for a wife and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statute. concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further is superior putting them under review the bureau just came down on me with a. flea with the shotgun that i was fired ten months shy of getting

a pension but they came down big on those of you who voted for. 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 terrorist. was ridiculous. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how that can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. let it be an arms race. very dramatic developments only and. will be. ready to kill or die time to sit down and talk.

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president when she. wanted. to go on to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first city. desperate for a single purpose. of a super. plaistow training very young. eight months of intensive school.

rats. and they save lives. as a spa you'll have to really split your own posts not attentive to you that is the committed jihad this that was still alive within me and then there is the son who wanted to come to everything they want to do and then try and dismantle everything they were doing so you have to really become a good doctor and know that to fulfill them you have to follow your own family in order to fool them. because you know what was you know my back going to want to. get. there so i go hide oh i lost his boss because i just got the. resources you know. that anybody on a month although she doesn't but that's almost done with it is barely a. so i says you know what i was you know. you know just i mean my most

wanted i'm already but it was sped up out of me just going to go eat and eat i mean . if it up as i might you know i mean it really feels i just don't get it i'm getting worse but those were the old. one of the. just. my family fussy kind of oh my just but that's already yes it will be and he thought of getting up there. i. take to the streets across france for a ninth consecutive weekend to protest against the government.