oops. i didn't really get it right but. 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 and my dad known for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and

a good boy scout my townhome 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. and in one week. we went visited five.

targ were inhabited fishing again. saturday. i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet to five hundred pound bombs and then shot at night off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all black 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 woman all these three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. and 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 upstate new york. oh 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 kids are not p.c. . these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling. receipt please please

please i said i was on the wrong side. of this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong sorry i. validate dorrian honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. and its interests and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. we fight because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all clear.

even training regimes 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 think recently polarize the american public. on the lord is his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military and vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. since he. can't. go to a country that he knew nothing about commit genocide and. still be they would.

be obese people. much more two of. the officers treated. people one on the fourth of july like brian ron kovac received the bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam. even though i was paralyzed in viet nam in many ways i see that it was a blessing in disguise i've been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war. 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 branstad to work on art i locked my leg and yet now i am totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm stuck to what they've got going until i stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop all. night states wage its own official war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. then he started. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the top of world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success. felt that we 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 maybe you know. 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 know is to say that 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 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 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 but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the u.s. government has overthrown sixty democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions die in these undeclared wars. our just a kid rubbish i mean years old an hour's looking at. pictures

in a book. i said to myself what a crazy way to try to solve it. and as the years have gone by. even more bent. that seven year 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 do directly 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. in the country situated in the system because for one hundred years two hundred

euros safer than three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been tremendous source oh then go for their nose. 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 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 congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras one hundred eighty four. daniel ortega was elected

democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education health care and land reform and reagan bens 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 to 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 begun with the request of them. to bring people down she says 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. you know world 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 on the back 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've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over twenty

trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year 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 to remember is one in one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom but. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be. that have to go right to the press this is like the full story in the morning can't

be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. or city hall. strong interest. 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 and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in iraq about where they would come home wouldn't speak in their churches right up the 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 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 and i were nineteen a six i was a johnny come lately. within the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper tears east of west early 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 and these 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 drug when ambushed by counter machine guns the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians

have been wounded kidnapped or killed by the country. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adult folk who would earlier worked as the cia informed of the type of war we fight those skills. procedures. 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 it was a power it is a fact that. the united states of america are you legal to domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency centers to. people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate a minute shall there any with the people and my being men opposition to the power

coming out of my own country. against fear against your. own things what does this mean dangerous pair countries. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in. veteran peace action teams. teams walked through nicaragua's war torn billikins gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back home to some. soul who do not need to stay to a school. but not enough strict. do maybe station. in

central america. anything is going to happen for you it was going to be responsible . well there's only one country that's a war you know it's united states we are there fighting. and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth. to.

the american people.

the truth. is right. me because. i was depressed because your leadership. stood up to do it. and talk to me. and. we both were. totally opposed to the

war to talk to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast. and offers addition to us back contra. 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 someway give me your life well then following a. fast. fast

need to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. i went to 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 was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing here but it was bigger than the clock way purcel south central america it was latin america and of course himself. and what it meant to those on the receiving. end how this was all being carried out with no. this.

present 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 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 life. are can to my own life if i want to want to know this my life for a better is dead fast. approach i. wish led to the. terrorist suspects. identified. five hundred solitary actions around states that were acting in concert with our. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. organizing. and then enter it into actions were. we were additional festing 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 get a lead that says investigate. for fast terrorist there fasting on the steps of the capital 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. and concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and 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. 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 fear bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the macgyver the idea that we were terrorists and. that it. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. i happened to be interviewed in the effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c. that came here for small contractors to win the award the p.m.c. that came here was a contract to train a unit and to create

a from scratch and then to go into combat and the g.p. limited will stick. me in a minute it depends where you know you're. going to listen to. those whom you know most of the both will be into you as a unit was notable to the month but really you know. please don't leave the ways by the way i did my best religion as though i'd. feel. the same you see there. was no. need for. these you. know some of the union recruits. from. joining me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of

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