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 through 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 ranger 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. and in one week. we went visited five.

all the targets were inhabited fishing game. saturday. i defended. fishing and. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet to five hundred pound bombs in china shop at night. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all black 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 look down at my feet. and i saw a young beanies 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 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 even if. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. are they doing there. or we doing there. i want to form our villages that we saw the same scene. then i realized i don't need to do this if kids are not p.c. . these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages.

in calling him a receipt 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 saeed. jalili story an honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and it was all wrong. for i must this nation. 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 if lipping.

even training regimes believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect ourselves from the ends and realize we were the enemy. during bryan's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. and the lord as his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military and vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. since he. can't. go to a country that we do nothing about. commit genocide. can still be they would.

be obese 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 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've been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war 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 to profoundly change i turn in

my branstad to work on art i lock my leg in vietnam i am totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm stuck to what they've got going until i stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop. night states wage its own official war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. then he started. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the top of world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success. felt that we should get out of concealment of this information for twenty five years has now led to the deaths of fifty thousand americans and several hundred thousand vietnamese and alas. few years

a couple of late in over twenty years of his 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 say that much the same way 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 work. 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 however since the end of world war two u.s. 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 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. our just a kid probably seven years old an hour. looking at. pictures

in a book about the park. 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. the effect of 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 safer than 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 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 as 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 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 health care and land reform. reagan vend 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 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 . we've begun with a request. to bring people down she says look. republicans

democrats but we want people to know. their country the devastating our country. that you don't need interest rates above zero you don't need capital you don't need savings you don't need. you don't need inflation. people like united states are saying like well why can't we just be like you. seem wrong. to me that you get to stamp out these days to come to educate and in games from an equal trail. when some find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground.

where cocaine is where four bucks for the under fifty. everybody use cocaine crack cocaine you can smoke it this is worth fifty thirty. twenty. two this is about a fifteen people smoke this one figures. you can find these drugs in any city in the united states that you walk along as you want to get it without the. i make money. and that's what i did the day. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to their going to i when i'm serving in a war zone we literally sent thousands of people to see the war. when they would

come home and 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. and i want an egg and i were nineteen a six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming walk terrors 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 this to the rest of the cemetery and open caskets in 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 drug when ambushed by counter machine gun the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded kidnap. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adults. who would earlier worked as the cia informed by before we. received. what i discovered really for the first time my fish oleander stood the pattern. which was to destroy people our movements and i was one of the

people i now was. it is a fact that the scenes of the united states of america legal both international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency centers to. people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate mine a solitary with the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. against fear against. those things. because its main dangers prior country. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian the other better. 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 a story. that noting abstract he still would do him a distasteful. one 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 or you know it's united states. they're finding. there is. also i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my sleeping with true for what we were doing in one central america who. i met brian wilson. we were talking about the situation about what we could do to

protest u.s. foreign policy and they're clearly in central america. with their own to door and. so door it was. it was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from their disgust of the my country with doing this to poor people. saying they were. so treated by so we had to argue my what are we going to do. barbara we started to say you know we know there's a school injury coming up and you. know i met brian because there were a number of vietnam veterans who were alarmed about what was happening in central america and charlie lecky brian wilson duncan murphy and georgia. decided

to bring attention to the issues. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to the nicaraguan rebels the contras he asked for one hundred million dollars seventy million of which is military aid he called the 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 are fighting and. they are the people of 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 because your leadership. stood.

up to me. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war they talk to me about. an opposition to. back contra. before i did this for. a significant.

in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make outside of actually some way do you know your life well then following up on that. brian and george was. fast needs 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 some 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 there. charlie bryan. murray george myself. they were doing something that

was. they were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing but it was bigger than the crockery purcel salvador of central america it was what america and of course yourself our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving . and how this was all being carried out with our tax. etc. so obviously over these years president last. what congress did not. say there. is a final song. in the face of all of justice and liberty as the fast got on 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 there were. things. the question can come up relative to fasting is it it gets to human life to take your own. i can take my own life or if i want to want to know if my life for a. fast. approaches. wish led to the. domestic terrorist suspects. and identify five hundred solitary actions around in states that were in concert with. it was called conspiracy

conspiracy to change. you organizing. the actions were. we were just. 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 in the investigation want 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 liken it to a killing of a flea with the shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down big. to those of you who voted for hunting aid i want to say that i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the mccarthy era the idea that we were terrorists and. that it was is ridiculous. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever in the past like i don't see

how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. i do think the number. they've matter us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten or more and. eighty five percent of global will you long for the old bridge with six percent world market thirty percent some with one hundred five hundred three first second per second and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one.

you know the one and only. i mean more to gain is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county or you'll be to stay if you look at it from the analogy. marc was the day that when he was five. going to be in the sheriff's most contentious critically he is the first time i noticed something wasn't right in fleeced work pretty much when he first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell if. it's a nod and a wink it wasn't what i wanted to do. we've had more shootings in this county then some states have had collective thing to do and went to his website began featuring comments about his family the sheriff might

. squash you like a bug you know i wish you'd stop then you should stay on the left and stuff i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral. p.b.s. and critics in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political. men they know bad wolf.

i. don't. officially around the leaders like revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization is the first time the u.s. has labeled another nation's military in this way. and that move was welcomed by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he faces a close run election right now polls are already open to. the toughest internet laws in the world that's the claim of the u.k. government as it launches plans for a new watchdog to regulate the web. is regulated ansel's is over it's time to do things differently it's time to keep our children safe.