oops. 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 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 was to go and assess the success or failure bombing missions. in one week. we went visited five targets in.

all the targets were inhabited fishing again. saturday. i defended. fishing. 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 dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burned from the me off i watched 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 at 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 here. 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 for more religious act we saw the same scene. then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not p.c. . these are mothers. these are small children. you

elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. calling in receipt please please please please please said i was on the wrong side of. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side of. tory an 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 play if. you've been training regime believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect yourself from the ends and realize we were 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 profound sense of alienation. from. since.

to go to a country that about commit genocide. and still be they would. be obese people. much more two of. the officers treated. b. of the people born 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 viet nam 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 in war out 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 a profoundly change. like turnin my branstad to work on art i lock my leg in vietnam am i totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm struck by what they've got going until i stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop all. night states wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. the start of. a new we were in the course of dropping the top of world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind 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 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 know is to see that 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 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 the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign 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 problems 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 euros. three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been tremendous source oh then go for the 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 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 those 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. the congress passed the boland amendment which

prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras nineteen eighty-four daniel ortega was elected democratically the 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 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 and. we've begun that if that requires them to know or tell us

what 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. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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. they will submit. malts this is huge. for the first one to do the finished goods

conformal from the hundreds. it's also useful to do to craft. see if it was national guard coming off. the top. of the it. was from the performance. school board of these critics one of the biggest musical new beliefs because the. machine into my previous mirror . of the sea and knew it was an. apollo someone to be renewed because it does have a spell if you will if that easy. i

knew that other u.s. americans were going to make out i would out an observer in the 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 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 i want one thousand a 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 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 counter machine gun 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 folks who would earlier worked as the cia informed the type of war we fight those not be members and still treat prisoners. i discovered really for the first time my fish really understood the pattern. to destroy people power movement and i was one of the people i know where the power is a fact that. the united states of america are here legally both international and 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 an opposition to the power coming out of my own country.

and dance fear against your. own thing. because its main dangers player countries. can't get their country's policies in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian and the other veterans participated in more veteran peace action teams of the past teams war through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back home to some. soul who do 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 because it's going to be responsible for the. well there's only one country that's

a war against united states. they're funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth. to.

the. american people.

hurt me because. i was depressed the closure leadership which was all the gallery stood up which i'm not supposed to do it. it's. a story that. i put down to a rally in washington d.c. and this bella comes up to me. and there's are too dumb to. make going. anywhere and brian. we 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. as the most powerful statement but i felt that i could make outside of actually some way 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 found 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. 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. and how this is all being carried out with. 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. things. like. question can come up relative to fasting well is. when life could take your own. way are can to my own life or if i want to want to know this my

life for a better is dead fast. approaches. wish led to the. identifying the best terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around in states that were seen in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change. you organizing. factions 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 and. twenty two year bureau veteran jack. 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 life. and. other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out. veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statute. clude the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further is superior under review bureau just came. to. flee with the shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down on 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 beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the. terrorist. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. breaks it count. as we continue to grow online with our online identities and personas you will continue to see this mixture of physical crime and internet crime and the two will melt to a point where they're almost indistinguishable if you can't really distinguish what

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you like a bug you know i wish you'd stop the nuisance then i'm left with stuff i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral the f.b.i. raided p.b.s. and a critic in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political science. men they know bad wolf. ok good.

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