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loops. i didn't really get it right but. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my farming community and 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 for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good voice in 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 ranger officer command. a unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure of bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets. all the targets were inhabited fishing and. second. i defended. fishing.

these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bomb suspension a shock to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burnt and if. i watch as far as i could walk before the bodies were show thick i could walk any further and the found 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 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 in upstate new york. oh are they doing there. are we doing there. i want before more religious that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are now pct. these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in receipt if politically play said i was on the wrong side. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side of.

dorian honor society student council. all conference athlete. who did everything right. and it was all wrong. why must this nation that. is and its interest in 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 can shape its all play it. keep it charged to protect ourselves from you and pains and realize we are the enemy. during brian's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict

think recently polarize the american public. on the lord and his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military and vietnam with a profile. to go to a country that about commit genocide. and still be with our. people . much more two of. the officers treated. people one on the fourth of july like

brian run kovac received a bronze star for valor and a 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 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 a profoundly change. like turnin my branstad to work on art i locked my leg and yet now i'm not totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm struck by what they've got going on in l.a. stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop. states wage its own official war for nearly

a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. started. yet. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to bloody stale. vietnam and felt the wish should get out of the sale of this information for twenty five years has not 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 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 knew was to sit in 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 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 sixteen democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and at. attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the leaders. millions die in these undeclared wars. i was just a kid 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 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. in the system because for one 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 received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return

the u.s. 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 as were driven out after a long war waged by the. popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one nine hundred eighty two. to president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras in one thousand nine hundred four daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare and land reform. 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. ortega's new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help. to bring people down she says look. we want people to know. their country.

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i'm going to let them but i don't touch them let me cut and kick and. i didn't lose each other for a trifle that it. was then. its whole fool. i knew you didn't pay off the time in syria says. british. model for the africa will fuck around with mr hates it for jim and then i hope that our fairly mature course. if. from. from

from. 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 whether 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 nag i want one thousand a six i was a yani come lately. within the first week the contras these

u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charring whopper chairs east arrest early and killed eleven eleven accomplice senos. 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 buses or trucks which has helped destroy any public support they may have had. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by country machine guns 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 work as the cia informed the type of war we fight does not demand and still treat prisoners. i

discovered really for the first time my fish really understood the pattern. which 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 a legal entity in domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency is understood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate a minute shall there any with the people in my being men opposition to the power of my own country. oh. yeah against fear against your. own things.

because its main dangers prior country. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in. veteran peace action teams of the past 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 school. but not enough strict israel who made the 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 already in it's united states we are there farming. areas. and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth.

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the. american people. the truth. is right.

me because. i was depressed because your leadership. stood up which you're not supposed to do it. and this 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. the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make outside of actually some way giving up your life well then. came the 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. and people. i went to in washington as many did to support the veterans. steps of the capitol and i remember the inspirational.

charles 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. south central america and of course himself. and how this was 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

from fast like this and although they were being monitored they were getting weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed why they were killed you might. think. the question can come up relative to fasting well is is it a human life to take your own life. say i continue my own life or if i want to do what i know this my life for a. fast. approaching. wish led to the. terrorist suspects. i five hundred solitary actions around in states where

and how should we. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. the 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 their 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. ryan concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further this appearing years put him 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 on 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. in

a terrorist has no regard for human. life whatsoever and trash like that i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. i happen to be a nigerian effort to understand what happened here the p.m.c. that came here was not contracted to win the war 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 the stick. it in and it doesn't measure your. policy it's on us he. doesn't want to know most of the best years and years it was not i would. not like you. please don't believe that was the way i did my best college nights and i'd.

let. you see me if. this was a. few minutes from now you know you've. done.

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