tv Documentary RT April 9, 2019 12:30pm-1:01pm EDT
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that on one side of the road. were literally hundreds of bloggers with all these weapons. there was a train track from these bunkers that came out and crossed the highway and then went out to the piers where these balls were loaded onto the ships. we had a press conference in which that are in store plotting to start a forty day fast. of our hearts conscience and that's what we were doing and why my son was there he's fourteen years old. brian and duncan murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the tracks. automat brain.
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shame not a pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we stand and then the train slows down and stops. a couple of people lost the road went over to the front gate of the new watson station inform them that we were blocking and there was already a train that we could see you know this combo box cars with munitions they had to. run to be sure that engineer knew there was a dog or something on the rocks or his brain. that the police would go out with comments i'm going to remove them before they can make a train. we deliver the letter to the person at the base. and that person or someone else we understand there's going to be violence here today. and we said no no we're told people are going to be doing anyway. and then they start. walking back to this day. walking back to the fray and start
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over. is obviously the main way faster than it ever gets the train to that stage. if i turned around. and i hope brian and i saw him play put a few fly out. ryan's body back and forth very bad for a while i watched listening to my father and screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad. and i had medical training they even had i.v. equipment on my car because i was on ours and that's why. i asked for someone to go
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get the idea that called nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived he says baby used to take him to the hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance. this is a school. in this room before you. go to work. this is the would be able to unload the. bryans action to really open up a lot of people to. know what was going on there and why you should there and how much he had shuttle flights in order to save other. people. station remained in the national spotlight as protesters of past and
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present rallied on behalf of the anti con from the mechanical occupy. protesters tore up the section of closing cracks we're working with from over by train. this morning. one to two of. the few minutes we're going to be there with. which. we will watch it. with you if. this is for me and so little that i. began and just wanted to get out of this. brian immediately wanted to get out into the right back to the tracks. in the surgeon that's in his heart immediately his compassion for the spotters on the train and doctors of the train he got it right away or other people even expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order
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just like they were given vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized boy and sacrifice them to his service to the people of nicaragua to receive the nation's highest honor the old still says our son no. one could also. be. just a few. this was. just a few. the
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train attack drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in illegal wars highlighting its role in training secret armies from other countries most of the covert training took place in fort benning georgia at the notorious school of the americas. there for good. as we gather today the main gate of fort benning. for phone lines they put their money this is there a sacred moment is this the moment. cannot go about the business of killing without . change we cannot come back from vietnam afghanistan and iraq and all those wars and go on with our lives as before. you know all these suicides the p.t.s.d.
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that we reading so much about now. the message is clear we are not. on it this is our s.o.i. wide start right. now i realize something that was that made by the writer and often. played out to stand on our own war in our eyes that we're all on we're all. right there is a bit silly other people i know just because i was ordered to do it so i did learn to be disobedient. five hundred twenty five salvadoran soldiers arrived at fort benning georgia to start training there in combat a small group of us went in to see not in our name. and what we found through the freedom of information act was a school in the process. as well. latin america
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a school for dictators a school march. washington calls front page long to figure. it a very big article that the torch and. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of torture is society says serious. crimes against humanity here. and it was time. to put out the word. this. who went to latin america simply to request that this stops and in the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries made decisions to pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay venezuela ah bolivia he went to
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ecuador where you met with president rafael correa and at that meeting he announced that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas simply said something very important president say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less this the east. to solve. this if. you cannot make your sick. peaceful efforts to disarm the iraqi regime have failed because we are not dealing with peaceful man. intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt. that the iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. i went downstairs i was leaving the pentagon and an officer from the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know
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he said sure we're going to attack iraq he pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the secretary to fence off that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and then we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo he sits yes sir i said well don't.
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think you should look into. this if you. use the first one to look up and you must we go forward from the budget. cuts you'll see this sort of. thing if it was national. at the. top of the year. it's a look it was supposed to force me. to. exclude one of these critics one of the from getting you to leave because. she knew the wife would be smeared. all over this if you go to. the
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polls someone to the president also wants to tell if you believe that eighty. i think is an outstanding person the. because he took on the most powerful agency in his county for you'll beat a state if you look at it from the before now and. mark was the day that when he was five and. do going to be in the sheriff's most contentious critic for a year is the first time i noticed something wasn't right in fleece work pretty much when i first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell it seems like 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 collectively drug and
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went to his website began featuring comments about god as family the sheriff by then so in your squash you like a bug you know i wish you'd stop then you should say and i'm left with stuff i believe what i'm doing ok you know if you're if you're a living. p.b.'s a critic in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political. men they know bad wolf. when we all make this manufactured sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime and merry go round be the one percent of. the time
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we can all middle of the room sick. i mean real news. brian lost his legs trying to stop a train from going to central america to finance the same kind of war that we were engaged in an iraq the same kind of war that was being wasted against a nigger i want to be home when i was growing up and. as a young immigrant community i had joined the u.s. military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill i was a very political i read the new but i didn't really question things i had been in the military almost
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a year i was about to graduate from college i didn't want to put anything in jeopardy. so i said to myself i'll just go in this war. because maybe we will test scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything is fine. units first mission was to run a prisoner of war camp in al assad air base and there we used fear tactics that amounted to torture in order to keep prisoners to get the right. to be interrogated. in city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping the iraqi people. they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either. we started
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engaging their persistence in combat. which was basically hit and run operation for them. in order to retaliate since we were dealing with a ghost enemy we're going after the people are feeling. the situation with their. intense we were being hit with mortar rounds improvised explosive devices rocket propelled grenades were moving targets which made it very difficult for anybody to question the morality of the war and. so i lost my my moral compass you could say i was still afraid to question i was too afraid to take a stand. until i went home on a tour with furlough and eventually became clear to me that i could not in good conscience continue to be a part of the war at that point i became the first combat veteran to publicly refuse to go back to war based on morality and based on my own
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assertions that the war was oil driven. after five months of being on the ground and being a wall and putting together a conscientious objector claim. i decided to surrender to the military. that made my case very political to the military commander. on the military installation. and i was very scared of what the military would would do to me if i spoke out against a war and surrender. you may not know or maybe you do know and that they still have the death penalty for the serbs in a time of war so i was really afraid of buck and i had no idea what would happen.
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so i made it is that so far as you know it was authorized other national under the treaties which we have. precedents which we are so. takes more if you want to be a direction i didn't find obedience to authority. she didn't order is illegal intervene in order to commit a crime don't do it. quickly found guilty. assertion. and given up by bad conduct discharge the motion to stop sergeant the private. marketer of my pay and twelve months of incarceration in a military jail. there i became a prisoner of conscience. after nine months i was released early because of good conduct and then i became an anti-war activist thank you a duty which stands for the immediate withdrawal of all us troops from iraq when i
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got out of jail in the first place is that i base it on a foreigner where brian was living not the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes in ways that i had never imagined possible and i began to meet so many people that helped me understand so many different pieces of the web of. what has been us intervention throughout latin america and the world. there are over one million american military personnel stationed in one hundred seventy five countries the us government has increased its military budget play nearly ninety percent since two thousand and one budget now stands at seven hundred billion dollars per year. add in health costs plus interest for more than one point five million veterans and the u.s. is paying one trillion dollars per year for war and preparation for. our
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government spends ten times more for citizens on average for military costs than most other industrialized nations. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure at home or abroad. well you know let's face it the weapons corp. that america always loves the enemy and they always log new instability because they're able to sell more weapons that way the pentagon says our role in america under corporate globalization will be security exports which means and war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. minerals from africa or whatever that our jobs and americans are going to be making weapons fighting wars and increasingly communities addicted to military spending cutting the military budget just a tiny little bit corporations are saying don't do that because we're going to lay
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off hundreds of thousands of people before the next election will punish us if you try to cut the military budget so we're now held hostage. while we have to have a military in the world and say. we're not trying to. also trying to point out that the way we conduct ourselves in the world makes us a lot of enemies and one thing that i think is important about militarism is that in values military power. in april two thousand and ten army private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq airstrike video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter gun down eleven on our journalists and the. leaking classified video in related documents manning was charged with espionage
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and abetting. the symptoms it was thirty five years in the military prison. where all those documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor who want to have a democracy with even some democratic. foreign policy. was labeled as an interest and that will always be at risk because the government will always try to deter anyone from following their example. during sentencing manning apologized to the court. i'm sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions and i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people not hurt. to make democracy functional early to get the information we need they need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personally british. people who will risk their reelection are using their powers of office their powers in
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a corporation to effect bullshit. at dawn every sunday since february two thousand and fourteen contemporary military cemetery appears on santa monica beach in california it is an improvised protest to remind people of the cost and consequences. as an instrument of american foreign looms. there's three was right there three. over there you can see two here just those are images of all the ways it won't do american and iraqi children it's people that's the first thing they see and i think you touch something is touched that you know so because nobody is paying for it they think that they. are wrecked. and they're not paying with the
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threat. of being devastated a child taken in there is this is an effort to image it's good enable people to feel something. about the cost of war. i've been in. the room. and the sound of the crowd. let's put it to remember. when you know that you've seen it before. you will be. then turn to used to. know one of the pleas. of them and use them than. to vote it out in modern please. read that
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bit and she has tons. everybody has a greater role to play the role they're playing right now people who are afraid to write right start out with a two paragraph letter to the editor and you'll see the words will start flowing people who are prayed to speak out start by convincing a friend and then those speaking in a church and then you'll find your voice you can do it with a measure of fear because you can be very frightened but it's equally liberal when it's cold and you've confronted your worst fears and called the society out and you said i love you enough to risk your route by opposing your point. and i didn't harm anyone if we don't willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for all for our sins surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy nice for pete's our lives are dependent on our
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