it is logical to sit in a home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and us old why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you think i was going to do. by the way what is it that sliding here. thanks.

didn't really get it right when. 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 try and. he 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 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 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 and problems.

all the targets were inhabited fishing and. second. 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 is burned from them if. i watch 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 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 odd 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. 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. he quickly. i said i was on the wrong side of. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side. tory 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 play. with

creme fraiche believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect ourselves from you and needs 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 commit genocide. and still be with our. people . much more two of. the officers treated. people born 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've been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important than war. 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 am not totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i've stuck to what they've got going in l.a. stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop. states from unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. the start of. we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two yet i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing but a bloody stale. vietnam and felt the wish should get out of concealment this information 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 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 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 ask 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 us government was overthrown sixty. chronically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the leaders. millions die in these undeclared wars. i was just a kid 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 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 we've invested so it's been tremendous source oh then go for the. for forty years the united states received the first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the u.s. 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. in 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. to three 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 for daniel ortega was

elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education health care and land reforms 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 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 knew sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help . with the request. to bring people down she

says look. republicans democrats but we want people to know who. their country is the devastating our country. what hope to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some who want to. have to go on to

be pros this is what before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. there are millions of people in america and around the world who are better educated than ray dahlia but in order to succeed on wall street you need to complete lack of empathy this is driven in study after study after study re dahlia has no consideration about the effect he's having of society and the rock the ruination of the law is that he's contributing to my being a leak on the system with is hedge fund that's a lack of empathy and take there that takes a certain kind of myopia and stupidity to work yourself into that state. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i were observing in the war zone we literally sent thousands of people to see the war go will or we come home wouldn't

speak of their churches right all of the 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 any financial corruption to be rooted out that america needs. only to those committed to democratic roots is. what i want to know you're going to 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 a lead 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 in open caskets and 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 truck when ambushed by country machine gun 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 adolfo calero who would earlier work as the cia informed by before we. reach. 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 center stood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my charlotte area with the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. he. walk in against fear begins. to move things around him because his main dangers prior centuries. start centuries 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 seoul who do not need to stay to. bed noting abstract he's still who made the station. in the sound of war in central america. anything is going to happen for you because it's going to be responsible. if there's only one country that's already in its united states we are there farming. areas. and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth for what we were doing to. ensure. i met brian wilson.

we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and clearly in central america. we're going to door and. so the door of this. was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from that disgusted with my country with doing this to poor people. who were. so. we started. because there were 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 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're 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 turn one. hundred for a culture. i was depressed because your leadership. stood.

up to me. and. we both were. totally. opposed to the war they talk to me. was planning to do a fast to the death. and opposition to the u.s. backed consul. before i did this raeside 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 but i felt that i could make outside of actually some way giving up your life well then following up on that came the fast with brian and uncle george was. fast nice 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 it was all the country our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this is all being carried out with our tax. cuts are. so obviously over these years. last week. not. just. as a fast 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. question can come up relative to fasting well is it a human life to take your own. i can to my own life if i want to why not this my life for a. fast. approaches. which 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 just old fashioned. 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 the f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i get a lead that says investigate. for. 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 group

veterans fast for a wife and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statute. concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further is superior put it under review the bureau just came down on me with. the shotgun that i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down big. those of you who voted for the i want to say. yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than. bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the. the idea that we were terrorists and. was it is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how they can

possibly be construed as hurting someone else. i think is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in the county for the state. mark was the day that when he was. the first time i noticed something. 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 on shootings in this county then some states have had collectively

children went too far this website began featuring comments about guns his family the sheriff my dad going to squash you like a bug you know i wish you'd stop clinician's the end of life and stop i believe what i'm doing oh so it's ok you know it's your funeral letting the f.b.i. raided p.b.s. and critic dude in the house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia why would people find. men they know bad wolf. was there was. was the was.

was. was. was used in a song to charge them the us with conspiracy to hack government computers the issue of his alleged links to russia is once again being raised in washington. french police used tear gas against best protesters in the twenty second consecutive weekend of demonstrations against the government. german justice minister criticised after giving an interview to german. close ties between moscow. and maintain close ties with russia was and always will be part. of the farmers in the studio.