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loops. again reagan. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my farming community in 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 for those attitudes to prevail. for them. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good boy scout my thumb 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 indoor. and then i got my orders to become an air force granger officer commanding. a unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure of bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets. all the targets were inhabited fishing. sector. i defended. fishing.

these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bomb suspension a shock to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all black it does burn finish off i watched 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 bean mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up at i was looking at my sister. when 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 said i was on the wrong side of. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side i.

story an honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. has 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 sleep. in the crème fraîche believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect ourselves from you and pains and realize we are 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. he emerged from the military. with a profound sense of. to go to a country that about committing genocide. can still be with our. people . 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 and yet now i'm not 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. 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 course of. the world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing going to bloody stale. vietnam and felt the wish should get out of concealment 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 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 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 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 us government was overthrown sixty democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and a to. did assassinations of over sixty four in the 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. 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 we've taken 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 us government

supported the dictatorship of the samosa 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. pillar 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 in one thousand nine hundred four 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've begun that if that requires them to know 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. their country is devastating our country joined me everything on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that.

he was a bit like it's a small it's this edition. of the first one to the from the west we're just going to stumble through the pages of. i just knew this would want to. see if it was national guard coming off. the top if. it's on wolf was from triple seems. to me. before school board of these products one of google's mythical you're getting new belief because the. machine into my for the smear. of the student movements. to follow someone to be renewed because of the style if you will if that easy.

i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i would i don't i'm serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in iraq about whether 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 to go only to those committed to democratic groups is. what i want an egg i want 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 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 and 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 culture machine guns the senate needs to govern and says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded kidnapped or killed by the country. the contras also

known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adult full color row who would earlier worked as the cia informed the type of war we fight those. three prisoners. i discovered really for the first time my fish really understood the pattern. which was to destroy people power movement and i was one of the people i know it was a power it is a fact that. the united states of america are you a legal will to domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency centers to. people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate a minute shall there anywhere that the people in my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. oh.

why are you walking against fear against. these things. because this main dangers prior country. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in more veteran peace action teams of the past teams war through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back home to some. soul who do need to stay tuned. but noting abstract. who made the station. 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 already in it's united states we are there funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth. to.

the. american people. the truth.

is right. for me because. i was depressed because your leadership. stood up. and talk to me. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war he talked to me about. charlie. was planning to do

a fast. and offers addition to us back consul. before i did this last i decided that a significant. could be. you know this 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 some way give you know your life well then following a. fast. fast need to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective

of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. and people. in washington as many did to support the. steps of the capitol. i remember the inspirational. charles brian. charge. they were doing something that was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing here but it was bigger than. south central america. and of course himself. and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this was all being carried out with our expert.

present 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. when life could take your own life. i can to my own life if i want to why not this my

life for a better is dead fast. approaches. which led to the. terrorist suspects. identified. five hundred solitary actions around states that were acting in concert with our. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. actions were. we were additional festing on. 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 fast terrorist there fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for life case files and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups in the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statutes. and concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and then refused to investigate further his superiors put him under review the bureau just came down on me with a. flea with a shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down big on 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 the terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever and. i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. proves 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. would just be like you.

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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 oh so it's ok you know it's your funeral. critic. i snuck out of the united states. into russia. political. men they know. that it.

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