oops. didn't get it right and when. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my parmeet 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 boy scout my townhome 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 angel officer commanding a unit of forty minutes. and so soon i found myself in vietnam.

my duty you i was to go and assess the success or failure bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets. all the targets were inhabited fishing again. second. i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bombs eventually shot made 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 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. i looked into his eyes he knew 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 here. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. oh i don't mean there. for we doing there. i want to for more religious act we saw the same. 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 please please please. i said i was on the wrong side. 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. has and its interest 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 the best player. in the training regime believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect ourself from you and and realize we were the enemy. during bryan's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict think recently polarize the american public when brian a learned his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military and vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. go

to one country to. commit genocide to still be with our. people. much more two of. the officers treated. people one 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. 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. 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 in viet nam i 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 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. the start of. the course of dropping. from.

understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing going to bloody stale. vietnam and felt the we should get out of concealment of this information for twenty five years is now led to the deaths of fifty thousand americans and several hundred thousand vietnamese in the last few years a couple of late in 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 with 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 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 us government has overthrown sixty democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations. of over sixty four in the drivers. 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. three months to change the system because for one hundred years two hundred years. three dollars. for every to her reason the us has so it's been true in the source code for the. 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 for. 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 healthcare and land reform. 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 since 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. for those new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help. we've begun that if that requires them. to bring people down she says look. republicans democrats but we want people to know. their country the spending our country. the us in order to guarantee. by the population well. that's clearly on the march and the population is ready for it. you know they were

all sad to say ok they're getting ready for their get ready to be controlled. by the stand. alone one. that i know there are a lot of trouble at the rather across the top the for fourth. only and that competitor cuts in their new cut kit and. i don't think is a channel for truffle that it. was.

good for its whole full plate choice. and hey i think time is serious said. he she ought to have a. model for the fuck around with mr hate that for jim and then oil for hope that our freedom and of course. i knew that other us americans were going to their going to our where our numbers are in the war zone we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in nicaragua we come home wounded speak in their churches right up the 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 on military forces that no human. rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be

rooted out that american aid go only to those committed to democratic roots 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 east arrest early and killed eleven eleven accomplice chinos. i saw five of those compazine i was coming in on a horse drawn wagons to us to the rest of the cemetery in 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 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. in the country. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adult full calero who had earlier worked as the cia informed the more we fight. three years. ago i discovered really for the first time my fish only understood the pattern of us policy. which was to destroy people our 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 and both international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency is 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. power come out of my own country.

legally. you walk in against fear again you. think it's bigger than one because its main dangers pair countries. yes their countries policies in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and 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. right and sold who do not need to stay tuned. but noting abstract he still who made his station. in the sound of the war in central america. anything is going to happen to you is going to be responsible for

the. well there's only one country that's at war in its united states we are there finding. there is still so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my. true for what we were doing to. her through. 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 the door of this. it was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from their disgust to my country doing those two.

so. we started. a number of. alarm. 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 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 resist we cannot turn away. is not right. it is right versus wrong. to twenty one. hundred me because. i was depressed the leadership. stood. up to me. both were. totally. opposed to the war they talk 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 those 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 uncle george was. 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 inspiration 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 it was. 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. when life could take your

own. way i can to my own life if i want to why not this my life for a. fast. approaching. wish led to the. terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around states that were in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. actions were. we were just. moved to classify the veterans fast as terrorism triggered a reaction from an unlikely source the f.b.i. agent assigned to investigate the. twenty two year bureau veteran jack roy. 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. and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a wife and they were calling them terrorists under the sabotage statute. concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further disappearing years 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 the 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. the idea that we were terrorists and. was is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how that can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. i think he has a big achiles. election. they have elections people are suffering from many things they're not. secure i think. begin to

think that they can help the country and to make it to bed to become secure and stable country so i think he has a big chance on the thing the people they got ninety percent of the people they gonna be happy if the perception is that when that action. this is this is a stick from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there are the litter bugs are trying this way industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. capsules excuse. me on my end

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