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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 that. 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 of 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. unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty 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. second. i defended. fishing.

these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bombs entrenched off of napalm. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burnt finish off i watched as far as i could walk before the bodies were a show thick i couldn't walk any further never found my feet. and i saw a young bean mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are open 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 here. i was in somebody else's

spillage nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. oh no i don't mean 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 not pct. these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in every seat. politically. i said i was on the wrong side of. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side i.

validate dorrian honor society student council. all conference athlete. who did everything right. and it was all wrong. why must this nation. is 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 human pains 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 vietnam with a profound sense of. go to a country that. commit genocide. and still be a with our. people. much more two of. the officers will.

be of the 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've been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important than war out of an understanding and compassion and 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 branch barack took 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 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. the start of. no we were in the course of dropping many times the tanishaa of world war two. 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 way should get out of concealment 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 know is 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. 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. emma craddock lee elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the drivers. millions die in these undeclared wars. 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 i. became

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. king seventy nine the samosa was were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one thousand nine hundred 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 one thousand nine hundred four daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education health care and land reform. reagan dens 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 actions mounted by the cia since vietnam. ortega's new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and. we begin with the request of the no 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 to know your country is devastating our country.

in a world of big partisan new things a lot of things 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 path 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. but i think. this if you. use the first one to open your eyes for good can stumble through the pages of. this sort of. thing i was national.

i thought of that but if you look over here. it's a lot of those are from the difficult times. their school board of these critics one of little more the can get in the roof because between. a fishing into a life that is smeared. all over this is news and symbols. to follow someone to name it as with a style if you will wait for eighty. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to go to our war on observing in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war unico out where 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 the president presented the contras as a people's democratic movement as a condition of our aid i want to assist on civilian control over all military forces that no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid to go only to those committed to democratic principles. what i wanted to go to our 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 each to rest. and killed eleven eleven accomplice chinos. i saw five of those compazine i was coming in on a horse drawn wagons to this 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 gun sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adolfo calero who would earlier worked as the cia informed. before we. received. what i discovered really for the first time my fish surely understood the pattern of u.s. bombers. which was to destroy people our movements and i was one of the people are not aware that. it is a fact that the scenes of the united states of america legal both

international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency is and is doing . people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate a minute shall there any with the people and my being an opposition to the power coming out of my own country. against fear against so. i think it's amazing that one because his main dangers by a country. start centuries is in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in the past 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.

back home terms. and so do not need to stay to. bed noting abstract he still had to make this stage. in the sound of war 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 a war in its united states we are there farming. areas. and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my sleeping with true for what we were doing in. terms of a bird crew. i met brian wilson. we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and clearly in central america. where there.

were two or nuclear or so it or. it was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from their disgust to my country with doing this to poor people. saying they were. so treated by so we had heart you know what are we going to do. barbara we started to say you know we know there's a school injury. and charlie. murphy. decided to bring it 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. their fighting and. our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the french resistance we cannot turn away. is not right. it is right versus wrong. to. me because. i was depressed the leadership. stood.

up to me. and. we both were. totally. opposed to the war. and opposition to. before i did this last i decided that a significant. could be the real you know this very prestigious medal for the role of water and in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. 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 that came the fast brian and uncle george was. fast and nice to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. you see people. i went to in washington is many did to support the veterans gathered steps of the capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others think. charlie and brian. murphy and george myself. they were doing something that was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing but it was bigger

than the karate purcell south central america it was white america and of course it was all the country our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this is all being carried out with our tax money now and. after. so obviously over these years we want president last week. we want to. not. say there. is a. so. as the fast to 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.

question can come up relative to fasting is. when life could take your own. way i can to my own life if i want to want to know this my life for a. fast. approaching. wish led to the. domestic terrorist suspects. identified five hundred. states were in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change. you organizing. actions 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 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. fasters 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.

ryan 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 big. and those of you who voted for the country 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 them a guide to the idea that we were terrorists and. that it was is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever in a crash like this i don't see how that can possibly be construed as hurting someone else.

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 them at all. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the book different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where every. thing is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not so you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of the slide here. what politicians do.

they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to. have to go right to be close to survival before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of college. for sydney. when lawmakers manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. to leave room for the real need

for. us ramps up the pressure on iran designating its elite military force the revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. to move is welcome by israel's prime minister who's facing a tough election race on tuesday some see it as donald trump's latest gift to bend even netanyahu pay off the u.s. leader to recognize jerusalem and the golan heights as silver and is ready to.