not that unusual and lie down for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good 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 four year program to go into the army as a as an inductee. 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 bombing missions.

in one week. we went visited five targets in mom. all the targets were inhabited fishing. shack and they were all i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bombs entrenched off of napalm. 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 bean mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are open. our

eyes were just staring i was looking at my sister. when i looked into his eyes and it was all mine 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 and state new york if. are they doing there or we doing there. i want to for more religious that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not pct. these are mother. these are small children. and if you held me. they were

killing villagers in villages. and calling in receipt. i said i was on the wrong side. i said how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side. valedictorian honor society student council. all conference athlete. who did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. has heard of 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. training . believe all these years that there are enemies out there. and charge to protect ourself from human beings and realize we are the enemy conflict increasingly polarized the american public when brian the lord is 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 and to still be

a with our. people. much more to what. the officers treated. the of the people born on the fourth of july like brian run kovac received a 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. 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 to profoundly change. i'd like

to turn in my bronx baron to work on art 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 and 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 tonnage world war two yet i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to blood he still. felt that we should get out of concealment of 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 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 and north vietnam richard nixon i know was to see the 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 constant. undeclared war. 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 congress can declare. 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 sixteen democratic assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions died 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 by i. became

even more bent. that seven year old. fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . comics of central and south america central america problems do directly affect the security and it will be number one. and central america is much closer to the united states than many of the trouble spots the concerns we knew but ready. to change the system because for a 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 nicaragua. exports in return for the u.s.

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 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 government the 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 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 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 with the request. to bring people down she says look i don't care who you bring republicans democrats but we want people to know who. their country is devastating our country.

think you'll smell like it's a malt this is your beat you did this for the first one you looked up and you missed we just finished our meal from the hundreds. that's also useful to do and to do craft. beer thing it was national. talk a little. bit some locals are from the typical seems. to . support school board in these critics one of the least musical getting you to leave because the. shingle might think this may have. told. you those. opposed to someone into believing it because it's also most telling you at least eighty.

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 fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective and i'm used to surprising people by salt or not so you think. i'm going to talk about. by the way ways of that slide here. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart or we need to stop slamming the door on the. and shouting past

each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks and i were observing in the war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war unit go out where they would come home wouldn't 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 democratic groups is. what i

want to nag and i when one thousand and six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper tears 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 country machine guns the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded kidnapped in the country. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian. earlier worked as the cia informed by before we.

received. what i discovered really for the first time i officially interested the pattern. which was to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i know where the power is a fact that the policies of the united states of america are you know a legal both international and domestic law people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my there anywhere that the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. oh. yeah against fear against. these things.

because this main dangers player countries. centuries. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian and the other veterans participated in the path for the better in peace action teams of the past teams war through nicaragua's war torn villages. and so do need to stay tuned. but noting abstract he still who made his station. in central america. anything is going to happen for you it was going to be responsible for the. well there's only one country that's or you know it's united states. they're finding. there is. also i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in. the truth.

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the american people. is no right. to. one wanted to.

hire me because. i was depressed because your leadership gallery stood up which you're not supposed to do it. and then talk to me. and they're. very good. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war they talked to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast. and opposition 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 someway giving up your life well then following up on that came the fast bryan 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 iraq. the people. i went to in washington is many did to support the veterans. steps of the

capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others think here. charlie bryan. george myself. they were doing something that was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing here but it was bigger than the karate purcell south central america. and of course himself. and what it meant to those on the receiving. end how this is all being carried out with our expert. this. president last week. not. against communism. in the face of justice.

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 they were usually you might. think. the question can come up relative to fasting well is is it a human life to take your own life. say i can do my own life or if i want to do what i know this my life for a better and fast. approaches. wish led to the. best of terrorists. actually. i did five hundred solitary actions around in states

that were in concert with our. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change. you organizing. factions 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 for the f.b.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 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 refused to investigate further is superior putting them under review the bureau just came down on me when i likened it to 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 for aid i want to say i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than fear bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the. the idea that we were terrorists and.

that it was it is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever in the press like there are i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. if those are the gate have to be changed and we are still living with the historical legacy syfy decimalization most of the. legal frameworks invested but all of them are decided for industrial face of a stick watch and now we are moving ahead and i think the problem is that our concepts are lagging behind.

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there's nothing. in the stories that shaped the week wiki leaks founder julian assange that off to spending almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. as arrests global attention and grabs concerns over a song just possible extradition to the united states. a u.s. republican senator urges military helpful to prevent what he calls genocide by president would do iraq that's made claims an invasion is being discussed behind

closed doors.