in the north reagan's administration had bypassed congressional control and funded the contra insurgents through drug trafficking and secret arms sales to be wrong so secret but the house i'm going to shoot down. into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to tehran sir no and i'm not taking any profession change just a second i'm going to ask each journey general meese to brief you on what we presently know what he has found in the united states what. some of. the revelations of the iran contra affair gave new momentum to the work of the peace activists. evidence showed that the weapons were coming from the largest pentagon arms depot on the west coast california's concord naval weapons station. all they were alan and i went out just to check out the situation. and discovered

that on one side of the road. were literally hundreds of buggers with all these weapons. there was a train track and these bunkers that came out and across they call a highway and then went out to the pier is where these balls were loaded on to the ships. we had a press conference in which that are in store planning to start a forty day fast. of our hearts a conscience is what we were doing and why my son was there he is fourteen years old. brian and duncan murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the track. brain. shame not

a pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we stand and then the train slows down and stops. a couple of people cross the road and went over to the front gate of the watson station inform them that we were done we can block in and there was already a train that we could see you know this combo box cars were going to show they had to. be sure. there was a dog or something because our friend. the police would probably come at some point to remove them before they could move the train. we deliver the letter to the person at the base. that person or someone else said we understand this could mean violence here today. and we said no no we're told people are not going to be doing any well. and then they start walking back and they say.

walking back the cranes are loading. it was obviously the main way faster than you'd ever observe the train of that state. they turned around. and i saw him play but if you fly out. ryan riding back and forth in there that are a lot i watch listening to my screaming they killed my cat they killed my dad. and i had medical training they even had i.v. equipment in my car. so i was on our side and that's why. i asked for someone to go

get the id card nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived because they refused to take him to the hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance. on. us as a few of the. good in this room do you. live with. brian's action it really opened a lot of people to. what was going on there and why you should there and how much he had sacrificed in order to save.

the concert naval weapons station remained in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallied on behalf of the anti conference mcnichol occupy. protesters tore up the section of blood stained cracks we're working with from over by a train. i visited this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to get out the people there with. goods. we will watch it. with you with. this and for me it's a little bit this. is just the beginning i just wanted to get out of this. ryan immediately wanted to get out into the right now to the tracks instance when you see in the surge of nets and it's heart immediately his compassion for the spotters on the train and. doctors of the train he got it right away or other

people even expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order just like they were given orders and vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized employees sacrifice them to his service to the people of nicaragua. to receive the nation's highest feel good still says our son deno. just to see the miracles. this was. just.

the train attacks drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in the legal wars highlighting its role in training secret armies from other countries most of the covert training took place in fort benning georgia at the notorious school of the americas. for good i think. as we gather the main gate of fort benning. this is there a sacred moment is this the moment. cannot go about the business of killing without . change we cannot come back from vietnam afghanistan and iraq wars and go on with our lives as. you know all these suicides the

p.t.s.d. that we reading so much about now the message is clear we are not made for. this is our s.o.i. wide stare right. i realized something that was that a right and often. a play on a stand you're a war now as it were or why we're all. right there is a bit silly other people i know just because i was ordered to do it so i don't. be disobedient. five hundred twenty five salvadoran soldiers arrived at fort benning georgia to start training there in combat a small group of us went in to say not in our name. and what we found through the freedom of information act was a school of assassins as we are and it's well known it came to light in america

a school for dictators a school march. washington course front page long to. hit a very big article of the torch and. there were a few news at the school of the americas a techniques of harsh insists it says serious. crimes against here. and it was time to put out the word. who went to latin america simply to request that the stops and in the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries major cities just pull out. those countries. be in argentina uruguay venezuela. bolivia he went to

ecuador where you met with president rafael correa and at that meeting he had not just wait for that ecuador it was swelling out of the school of the americas simply he said something very important president say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less is the east. to solve. this if. you cannot make your sick. peaceful efforts to disarm the iraqi regime have failed because we are not dealing with peaceful man. intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt. that the iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. i went downstairs i was leaving the pentagon and

officer of the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the sector defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and then we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo he sits yes sir i said well don't show it to him. with no let me just manufacture can be sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent.

we can all middle of the room sick. room. you know world of big partisan movies lot of things 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. seemed wrong all right old old just don't call. me baby yet to

shape out this day comes to educate and gain from it equals a trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. brian lost his legs trying to stop a train from going to central america to finance the same kind of war that we were engaged in an iraq the same kind of war that was being wasted games on the ground when people when i was growing up in a. as a young immigrant community and joined the us military in part to pay for

a college education through the g.i. bill. some very political i read the new i didn't really question things i had been in the military almost a year i was about to graduate from college i didn't want to put anything in jeopardy. so i said to myself i'll just go to this war. because maybe we will test scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school. or if you find. my units first mission was to run the prisoner of war camp in alice on air base and there we used fear tactics that amounted to torture in order to keep prisoners to the right. be interrogated. in city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not

interested in helping they run. they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either. we started engaging their persistence in combat. which was basically hit and run operation for them. in order to retaliate since we were dealing with a ghost and we were going after the people who are killing. the situation was very intense we were being hit with mortar rounds improvised explosive devices rocket propelled grenades were moving targets which made it very difficult for anybody to question the morality of the war. so i lost my my moral compass you could say i was too afraid to question i was too afraid to take a stand. until i went home and i to with for

a lot and eventually became clear to me that i could not in good conscience continue to be a part of the war at that point i became the first combat veteran to publicly refuse to go back to war based on morality and based on my own assertion that the war was oil driven. after five months the area of being on the ground and being a wall and putting together a conscientious objector claim. i decided to surrender to the military. that made my case very political to the military commanders. on the military installation. i was very scared of what the military would. i would do it i mean if i spoke out against a war and surrender. you may not know or maybe you do know that they still

have the death penalty for the service and the time war so i was really afraid about that i had no idea what would happen. if i. thought it is. as you it was all the. other end. of the treaties which we have thought. of the french that which we are so we have to take more if you want to be a shipwreck society and find obedience to authority. you she didn't order is illegal intervene in order to commit a crime don't do it. quickly found guilty. assertion. and given up by bad conduct discharge the motion to staff sergeant a private. teacher of my pay and twelve months of incarceration in a military jail. there i became a prisoner of conscience after nine months i was released early because of good.

and then i became an anti-war activist thank you do we stand for the immediate withdrawal of all u.s. troops from iraq when i got out of jail in the first place is that i visited what's called a foreign land where brian was noting that the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes in ways that i had never imagined possible i began to meet so many people that helped me understand so many different pieces of the web of. what has been and still is u.s. intervention throughout latin america and the world. there are over one million american military personnel stationed in one hundred seventy five countries the u.s. government. has increased its military budget plan yearly ninety percent since two . budgets now stands at seven hundred billion dollars per year.

health costs plus interest from more than one point five million veterans and the u.s. is paying one trillion dollars per year. and preparation. government spends ten times more persistent on average for military costs over industrialized. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure home. you know let's face it the weapons corporations in america always love the enemy and they always log. because they're able to sell more weapons that way the pentagon says our role in america under corporate globalization will be security exports which means endless war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. minerals from africa or whatever our

job in america is going to be making weapons fighting wars and increasingly. communities addicted to military spending cutting the military budget just a tiny little bit corporations are saying don't do that because we're going to lay off thousands of people right before the next election will punish us if you try to cut the military budget so we're held hostage. and say. we're not trying to. they're. trying to point out the way we conduct ourselves in the world makes us a lot of enemies and one thing that i think is important. in april two thousand and ten. army private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq airstrike video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter gunning down eleven on armed journalists can simply ask.

my model. for leaking classified video in related documents manning was charged with espionage and abetting the enemy the sentence was thirty five years in the military person. whoever leaked all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor if you want to have a democracy with even some democratic front some foreign policy have to have was labeled as an interest and that will always be at risk because the government will always try to deter anyone from following their example. during sentencing manning apologize to the court. i'm sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions and i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people not hurt. to make democracy functional really to get the information we

need they need whistleblowers who expose the truth at personal risk. people who will risk their reelection using their powers of office their powers in a corporation to effect bullshit. at dawn every sunday since february two thousand and four contemporary military cemetery appears on santa monica beach in california it is an improvised protest to remind people of the cost and consequences of the rule is an instrument of american foreign looms. there's three. right there see those three. way over there you can see to hear those reduced to certain images of all days when do yeah american and iraqi children the sort of people that's the first thing they

see and i think we touch something it starts. to get out show because nobody gets paid for or they think the right. thing for the record. and they're not paying for it to threaten. me devastated child taken it. this is an effort to be to him and to the world i'm able people feel something. about the cost of war to kill me i've just had to. leave the room. and the sound of the crowd. would it take to remember when you know you've seen it be full. of people.

then it turns to use drifting to war. and on the police didn't. use them than. to vote on modern. weather. and shoes because. everybody has a greater role to play the role they're playing right now people who are afraid to write right start out with a two paragraph letter to the editor and you'll see the words will start flowing people who are afraid to speak out start by convincing a friend and then go speaking in a church and then you'll find your voice you can do it with a measure of fear because you can be very frightened but it's equally liberal twenty two and you confront your worst fears and you call the suicide. and you said i love you enough to risk your wrath by opposing your point. and i didn't harm anyone if we don't willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being

killed are then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy nice for pete's our life and. our suffering beings who are worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live and shift other people don't count. on the things. you can. present to say this of us are close enough.

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me and i mean i didn't measure your success. on t.v. it's one of. those whom you know most of it goes to but in your years and years it was notable depended not by the way you. please them please their ways but i did my best it's nice of the white. people. nice to me yes this is you know. this was not. going to. be the school kid. you know it's a new union you know it's the front. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us of the. one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the rich eight point six percent market saw

thirty percent your thumb 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 one one doesn't show you can't afford to miss the one and only. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in this spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

at least sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep sleep sleep. sleep if they don't work the soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on our side. i pad never traits. i as a venezuelan president troops to stay loyal to the self declared leader of the country one way doe admits to talks with the military to overthrow president.