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 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 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. in one. week. we went visited five targets.

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 me 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 woman all these three children in her arms her eyes are open her eyes are just staring up at 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 even if. 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 form our religious act we saw the same scene. then i realized i don't need to do this if he's a map p.c. . these are mothers. these are small children. if you

only. there were killings villagers in villages. calling in receipt please please please please said i was on the wrong side. 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 was all wrong. why must this nation. that 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 and this place is. going to create rage believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect yourself from me and see and realize we were the enemy. during bryant'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. little. sister. to go to

a country that we knew nothing about commit genocide and to 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 the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam that. 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 and yet now i am totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm struck by what they've got going on in l.a. stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop all. night states wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. the start of. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the world war two. i came back from vietnam. that there was going to be no kind of. concealment of. 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 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 sixteen democratically 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 about the park. i said to myself what a crazy way try to solve it. and as the years have gone. 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. 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 system because for one hundred years two hundred euros. three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been true in the source code 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 was 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. congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited

u.s. military aid to the contras in 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 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 contents. 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 with the request.

to bring people down she says look i don't care who you are republicans democrats but we want people to know that. their country is the devastating our country. holds. for the first one two. hundred words. to that. national.

the put it. on the if. it's on wolf blitzer from the full service. school board if you put it on a little steam with a can get in the roof because if you. shine in the life that is smeared. all over this is. the post someone to be an english president author of style if you believe that eighty.

i knew that other u.s. americans were going to get i wound up serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in nicaragua they would come home wounded 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 democrat. 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 each to rest early and killed eleven eleven compas 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. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by

a civilian adolfo calero who would earlier worked as the cia informed by before we . reached. what i discovered really for the first time my fish only interested the pattern of u.s. bombers. which was to destroy people our movements and i was with the people i'm not with. 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 do it but people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my shall there any with the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country.

you walk in against fear against your. own things let's think about what does this mean dangerous path countries. are walking us their country is in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven the other veterans participated in the path for the better in the 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 kong. and so do need to stay tuned. but noting the abstract he saw who made the 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 know there are foreigners. there are. also 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. we're down to one door and. so door it was. it was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from that discussion to my country with doing this to poor people. who were. so treated by so we.

we started. a number of terms 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 rebels the 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. have 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 twenty one. hundred me because. i was depressed because your leadership. stood. up to me. and. we both were. totally. opposed to the war. planning. to do it

fast to the death. and opposition to the us back 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. 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. 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

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 maestro. 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 result our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this is all being carried out with x. . x. or. y. so obviously over these years we present.

not. as a fast thirty five in 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. right. the question can come up relative to fasting well is is human life to take your own. our country my own life if i want to want to know this my

life for a better is dead fast. approaches. wish led to the. domestic 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 to. 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. . 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 statute. and 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 liken 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 four hundred eighty 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 magog be the idea that we were terrorists and. that it was it 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. or. to everybody. you can smoke this is worth fifty thirty. twenty. two this is about a fifteen. you go to

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