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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 and. it 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. 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 bomb suspension

a shock to napalm. 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 the found my feet. and i saw a young bean means woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are open her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. 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. 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 please please please please i said i was on the wrong side. as to how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side. dorian honor society student council. all conference athlete.

who did everything right. and it was all wrong. why must this nation. that saves and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. i think because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all the best place. in the crème fraîche believe all these years that there are enemies out there. to. keep and charge to protect ourselves from and and realize we were the enemy. during brian's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict think

recently polarized the american public. brian the lord is his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were. he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense. to go to a country that. 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 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. 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 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 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. the. you know we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two and yet i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to bloody still. vietnam and felt the way 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 million 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 was

to see it 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. 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 eight. am a crowd of glee elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. 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. 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. through. the system because for one hundred years two hundred years. three dollars. for every dollar the us has soared for the 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 us government supported the dictatorship of the

some most of the state the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one. hundred 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 in one thousand nine hundred for daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare 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 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. ortega's new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and we begin with the request of no 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. your country is devastating our country. 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 it is you can't really distinguish what all. but. if you do. you're just the first one to look up and you must be just going forward for the hundreds if. not you'll see just what to do to. see if it was national guard. play team. to libya. was cheerful to fulfill. their job or will support school board if you put explain up with a good bit in your belief because between. she and the wife will be smeared. all over you you'll. impose some money and mean it

as a spell if you wait for eighty. five . i. i. i. i. i. i. i i i. i i. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i wound up serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in nicaragua

there we come home one of their churches right up to and so on reagan was forced to admit that the u.s. was actively. the 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 know god when 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 of west 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 busses 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. who would earlier worked as the cia informed the type of war we fight. and still treat each prisoners. but 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 in a manner. are you a legal international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency center stood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate mine a solitary with the people in my being an opposition to the power coming out of my own country. walking against fear against your. own thing. because its main dangers by our country. centuries is in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven. other veterans participated in more veterans

peace action teams than the pats teams walked through nicaragua's war torn billikins gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back country. so who do need to stay to. bed noting abstract he still who made his station. in the sound of the 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 funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth for what we were doing to. her through. brian wilson.

we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest us foreign policy and clearly and so. people. we started. because there were a number of who were alarmed about what was happening in central america 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. 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 try to one. hundred me because. i was depressed the leadership.

and then up to me. and there's. a good. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war talk to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast to the death. and opposition to us back contra. before i did this last i decided that a significant. could be. you know those very prestigious medal of honor 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. came the fast brian. 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. steps of the capitol and i remember the inspiration that i and others. charlie bryan. george myself. they were doing something that

was born. we were talking about nicaragua. what we were doing here but it was bigger than. south central america. of course from south. florida. 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 dying from fast like this and although they were being monitored they were getting

weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed by there were. things. like. question can come up relative to fasting well is is it a human life to take your own. are can to my own life if i want to want to know this my life for a better fast. approaching. wish led to the. terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around in states that were acting in concert with. it was called conspiracy conspiracy

to change us. through organizing by. the. actions were. we were just old fashioned 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 capital 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 called terrorists under the sabotage statutes. ryan concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further is superior 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 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. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how that can

possibly be construed as hurting someone else. the nato alliance is seventy years old is it time now to shut down the. liberal media. and on russia. is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in county or you'll be to stay if you look at. mark was the day that when he was. going to. take for the first time i noticed something. pretty much when i first started to call me.

a wink. then. you know where should. i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral. critic. of the united states. political. men they know. you don't need interest. you don't need you don't need. you

don't need. you don't need. it. people like united states are saying like well why can't we just be like of. us ramps up the pressure on iran designating its elite military force the revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. the move is welcomed by israel's prime minister who is facing a tough election race on tuesday some see it as donald trump's latest a gift to ben you mean that netanyahu after the u.s. leader recognized that jerusalem and the golan heights as.