oops. didn't really get to where i had been. 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 known 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 town was really proud of. in one thousand nine hundred 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 inductee. and then i got my orders to become an air force granger 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 targets. targets were inhabited fishing. sachar they were i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet deep. five

hundred pound bombs you mentioned shocked and made off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all black and it didn't burn from them if 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 beanies woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are open her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. i looked into his eyes and it was all a lie 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 if.

i were they doing there. or we doing there. i want to for more religious that we saw the same. then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not p.c. . these are mother. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in b.c. . i said i was on the wrong side. i said how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side i. validate dorrian honor society.

student council. all cancers athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. has already received 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 tests. and training regime to leave all these years that there are enemies out there. and charge to protect ourself for human beings and to realize we were the enemy. during brian's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly

polarized the american public. on the lord and his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. to go to a country that we knew nothing about committing genocide trying to kill people they were telling. people. much more two of. the officers will. be of the people one on the fourth of july like brian runs. 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 viet nam 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. 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 hard i lock my leg in vietnam am i totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm stuck to what they've got going and tell a stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop all. night states wage its unofficial 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 is not 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 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 big. in the one nine hundred sixty s.

included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i knew was to sit in 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 the presidents have

consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government has 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. i was just a kid probably seventy years old and i was looking at. pictures and a look at the earth war. i said to myself what a crazy way to try to solve it. and as the years are gone by and became even more can vent that that seven year old. the fear of

communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . 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 that already. in the country. system because for one hundred years to those who have safe and three dollars. for every dollar we invest is so good for the tremendous source code for those. for forty years the united states received 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 thousand nine hundred seventy nine the samosa those were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one nine hundred eighty two. to ford 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 government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare and land reform. ortega's socialist policies and economic aid received from the soviet union to start a covert war using the national secure. the council the administration sent secret

a 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. as new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help. to bring people down she says look. we want people to know. their country and overstating our country.

is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in his twenty four you'll be to stay if you look at some of the analogies. marc was the day that when he was fighting the. most contentious critics say he 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. it's not something that you can smell or think

it's a nod and a wink it wasn't what i wanted to do you know. we've had more than this tell me then some states have had collective thing too good went to his website began featuring. his family the sheriff's wife then. wash you like a bug you know i wish you'd stop then he said santa let me stop i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral. critic in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia. political. men they know bad wolf. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to are when i'm serving in the war zone we

literally sent thousands of people to see the war in nicaragua they would come home would speak of their churches right up to. reagan was forced to admit that the u.s. 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 be rooted out that american aid go only to those committed to democratic groups. and i went to an ngo are one thousand and six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week contras these u.s. funded terrorist attack. east arrest early and killed a lot. eleven compazine oh. 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 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. 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 fight. what i discovered really for the first time my fish only understood the pattern of u.s.

policy. which was to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i now with the power it is a fact that the policies 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 an opposition to the power coming out of my own country. oh. yeah against against. those things. because its main dangers for centuries. in one thousand eighty

six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans 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 on tues. and so do need to stay to assume. that noting the abstract he saw who made his 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 are there funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my sleeping with true for what we were doing. in central america. 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. where their own to door and. so door it was. it was measured or in its own people i mean i came away from their disgust to my country with doing this to poor people saying they were. so treated myself we got talking about what are we going to do. barber we started to say you know we know there's a school trade coming up and you. know i met brian because there were a number of vietnam veterans who were alarmed about what was happening to central america. and charlie. murphy. decided

to bring it 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. their fighting and. 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 the leadership. stood.

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

prestigious middle of 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 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 as many did to support the parents gathered steps of the capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others there.

charlie and brian. murphy and george my so. they were doing something that was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing but it was bigger than the karate purcel south central america it was white america and of course yourself the country our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving. end how this was all being carried out with. so obviously over these you president last. week what 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 two. 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 the original. question can come up relative to fasting is it it gets to human life to take your own. i continue my own life or if i want to want to know this my life for better is did fast. approaches. wish led to the. identified as the best terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around the united states that were in

concert with. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. you organizing. factions were. we were just. moved 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 capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for a 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 wife and they were calling them terrorists under the sabotage statute. ryan concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further disappearing years put him under review the bureau just came down on me when i likened 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. those of you who voted for nine hundred eighteen 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 mcbride the the idea that we were terrorists and. that it was it is ridiculous. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever in the flesh like there are i

don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising and i saw one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to the.

by the way what isn't much like here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. but ok so what's. the latest with the first one to look at your worst we just finished from a couple of hundred yards. i chose me just for doing to. see if it was national level off. the top of. the play to. the little. bits and what was

sure to push me a. little full support to putting these critics one of the least musical getting it on because they've been. shamed into my previous smear. job if you. follow someone into believing it because of style if you please. i. i. i. i.

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