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done by the 1972 when i 1st met freely back to and we sat down on a bench like this and i had the 1st conversation with man that i was to follow for for many years. and that past changed my life. the in 1976 for the battle. heather. and once i got on banded together with others fighting for independence and formed, lost much data or the cane cutters. the context was that vietnam had one human revolution at that time was like a beacon to
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a lot of latin america. the, the tide of history is on the side of anti colonialism. we should be able to, to prevail. the one of the 1st things you have to have is fake id. so i visited a number of graveyards and picked. i know someone who died. you know, as a child wasn't likely to have the social security number or any other type of id and then applied for, for that birth certificate. and then applied for drivers license and social security number and developed a number of ideas that i then used to buy weapons with the,
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the as a full time member of the organization. my routine was after i did my household obligation of taking the kids to school, i would then start working on whatever we had on the schedule. we're going to do a check off the back. take dynamite from construction tape. all go to that. there was a strike on against the power company checking out the transmission towers to see where we're going and not one of them on the we sabotage the, the power plant at the beginning of canada level as a protest against the government and for cutting off power to the residents of the waters residents of the settlement called via
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senior village without fear, had typed into the local power lines, and now the government threatened forcible eviction the sold. you know, when they had their power cut off, so all right, well, you know, tit for tat the turns out that the radiators and so all we had to do was bring in some of these spray long sharp to just pick you know, hit the, the radiator rains on this thing and then oil would come up pretty soon for the operation the, the operator can took out the power in one of the most affluent areas of the island
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. tens of thousands of hotel. this were plunged into darkness. lost much of the data to leave or communicate nailed to a tree in san one claiming responsibility. we felt that we could generate more of a spirit of resistance, rather than of submissive acceptance of our reality that we fell asleep. shockingly unfair, despite operating on the violent fringe of the independence movement, their actions gained visibility and lead others to resist the since 1898. the us had used as a military strong in the caribbean. eventually building dozens of place.
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in the 1940s, the navy took over most of the island for military exercises. the ad room just called in and said look, we're going to be bombing on x days of this fisherman. so do, you know, was old fishing traps straight across? were the navy ships are going to come through and our powers all get tangled one or the people who live here site. they've had enough of the navy and it's shelly. and there were some, like mrs. hilda lo go to very. she brought our children because she said, by setting up camp there, they would learn not to be afraid to defend the country. the, the protests lead to hundreds of arrests but some members of most,
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much of those field at the protests aren't working and call for something more than civil disobedience. the in puerto rico, today are united states. navy bus was ambushed by political terrorist firing, rifle, shot, guns, and pistols. 18 on our navy technicians were going to work and this school bus on the terrace ambush them just outside san juan to were killed and 10 were wounded, including 3 women. 3 groups leave a joint communicate in a nearby phone booth claiming responsibility. one of them is low, so much of data. they state that the attack was in retaliation for a protester of vegas who was killed while in police custody. and that the actions will continue until the guest is returned to the point, though he can people the, the moment held,
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the navy accountable. if you kill a prisoner claim is suicide. when cleared forensic evidence showing that he had caches and bruises all over, as by the price if they think they're going to guide us out of the i guess with acts like this. they've better think again people have already but don't support this type of activity in the country. they reject it very, very, very, very firstly and very strongly repudiate this type collection. and we think that think of these people, as our enemies are enemies of the people for the after the attack. there is internal descent within the symmetric date of the many members choose to leave
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the the schedule here on the, on the lady at the mercy in here. so with that being a good point in the text, the photo on the on it so as on buys instead of any of media, betterment phones, the 8th and the band meet the levels for only fellows your job portfolio. but i see on the, on my, sorry that, that i took on the monster that i, you know, up and my step, my sorry, that i decided to fight fight for my country. no, i'm not. i mean, i'm good. i have done things differently. yes, absolutely. do i now think that violence is not the means to achieve anything?
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absolutely. yeah. that's a lesson learned in life for me, the nice air national guard base was built in 1956 by the us military. the plains based there had been used to project u. s. military power throughout latin america. in 1981 doesn't much of data disguise to fishermen infiltrate the base and begin reconnaissance operation. the at 1st blush it looks like, well, can this be done? and then upon closer examination, you realize it's not a piece of cake, but it's, it's death natalie doable. the same rates,
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the state of not including truly back to work. where is my position? and i said here that part dissipated, you know, and is a for years i think it was more aware than in the rest of us, of the house. so you can, if they can, this was going to be in terms of historical importance. and then the final gift was one of the national guard had an open house on the way. so i, i brought my kids in to look upstairs where the right of the blades don't printers and that help does the scales exactly where the, the. ready is going to be located the before dawn. today in puerto rico terrace blew up a number of air national guard jet fighters of an american base near san juan. at
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least 8 jet fighters were destroyed. the coursera just flew up one after the other . damage was estimated at $45000000.00. no one was hurt. left his group, which at once the united states, out of puerto rico, was claim responsibility for the attack. air force spokesman, say this is one of the most serious attacks ever against an american military base here or in the united states. the so i didn't get back home until a couple hours later. and lucy thought that that had been killed once the plane started to blow up the they were loaded with the machine guns. so the machine the morning after the attack, the f b, i find so much it is stuck in the ground within yards of one of the air base security guards. a message that no such as dental square close enough to take the
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guard sliced. but unlike the boss attacked this time, they ensured that no one was hurt an internal most much of those documents celebrates the attacks. we were able to revive the spirit of our people. since this was the most overwhelming blow given to the yankee since pearl harbor. our organizations procedures greatly increased it's made us known all around the world. and i was surprised by how much tacit support there was and how many people were like, almost like sick really problem. of course you can't live on me. it seems closer to this thing. people are commenting about uh nice on the
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[000:00:00;00] the, the much of good us movement is nearly broke. feeling better to have the rights we are in need of huge economical resources. and those on hand have a balance of 0. so we must expropriate resources. for the 1st robbery that i participated in, i was sure we were very good car and i'm seeing so many tv programs in the face of others. we weren't going to get away with it. and this elderly lady came in and she started to hyper ventilating was bar ready to scream. and i'm going ma'am, come down. nothing's gonna happen or what do i do?
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i really didn't know how to handle the situation and then feeling where to adjust. he saw that he walked over and said shut up. what was the under that as well? okay, so that's how it's done. and do you know? so that was my, my trial by fire. there's a erroneous view of last night. there was that it was mostly about armed action, which is absolutely not the case. it was mostly about political action. and uh, you know, people were doing good work around women's issues, doing good work. you know, i'm try to get the navy vegas, you know, all of that. so most of the robberies were done some fund that type of work. you know that rather than wait for proposals for grants to be approved and so okay, well, go get our own function. the
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a guy approached me and he says, you know, he's working on a armored truck and transports between $7.00 to $10000000.00 every monday and he wants to donate it to the struggle is like, well, it's almost too good to be true. the page where he met so did the final vetting of him as a come back. some work, not a wells fargo guard and acts, wells fargo guard is on the run with $7000000.00 in cash. he got away with the last night when he arrived, his partner and a wells fargo manager in west hartford connecticut. so when,
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when victor grabbed a supervisor from behind and put him in a headlock and took a supervisor's own gun out of his holster and put it to his head and told them, you know, i'm not working for anybody else anymore. you know, i'm not playing the supervisor head, you know, heard the tone in victor's voice. i mean, as he testified and tries that, victor spoke to me in a tone of voice and rather heard before i was waiting for him outside. it was the longest hour or whatever of, of my entire life. it was a $7100000.00 according to to the press. i know and we bought a 1000 and some odd pounds. the car was riding low. we've had so much money to steal from here that he couldn't even haul it all away. police estimate that he left about
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a $1000000.00 behind the i felt we had pulled off a great job. nobody had the car. nobody was hurt. yeah, i would, i was our again, my friend loaned me his pickup truck and camper. we were on the turn by again in pennsylvania and going down this pretty steep hill. and on this semi blue past us and we ended up flipped over facing in the opposite direction on the right hand lane of the money that was hidden in the wall behind the walls of the of the trailer. and all the panels burst. one of us jumped in the trailer and started throwing in the morning and bags and, and stashing it back before the state police arrived. and we got pass that one.
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the special agent was relying on the federal bureau of investigation as solving closed with the context of the go, the of the a put a little bit of the f. b, i arrived in point of equal half a century earlier, but rather than merely pursuing criminals agents were tasked with squelching the voices of those who were working to gain independence. soon the mission grows with agents, compiling dossiers on over 100000 persons of interest generating nearly 2000000 pages of documents. agents gather details of political affiliation, employment religious practices and sexual partners the but despite massive surveillance, troubadour, heather, and once they got to continue to evade the f, b i for over
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a decade the, the year shots there, and i wonder if they fixed the in 1983, this much of dental to use funds from the wells fargo robbery to purchase a shoulder mounted rocket launcher. their plan is to attack the f b i offices in san juan the instead of hitting the f b, i offices. the mess, damaging the department of agriculture being directly fired on invigorate staff,
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buys hunt for lost much of their lives. and within weeks they have a new list of surveillance targets. and the fact that it was an attack to the f b i office, of course, made them feels very personally committed to that investigation. and so through an all of their resources into the, the, the fbi i gather is enough evidence to get a quarter and start stopping phone conversations and planting microphones and homes and vehicles buried in the miles of audio troops f b i. agents are starting to hear conversations about $7000000.00. they soon come to the conclusion that the grenade attack and the wells fargo robbery were both done by last much of data. by 1985 b s. b, i has gathered reams of evidence leaking, say got to the wells fargo robbery barnett. b,
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i raid rounds of 11 much ms. daniels, charging them with conspiracy in the wells fargo robbery. say god, i know heather fios are jailed without bond. initially, the government plans to charged the group with suspicious conspiracy planning to overthrow the us government. the actually right to and i were in this facility for about a year during the free trial here they have like. busy list of pictures of like 10 inmates that you need to be on the lookout for for correctional officers. so that picks their curiosity. and so with dog and it's, it's not too hard, you know, for an american understand independence sit there. so there's understand that, you know, if somebody invited your country, what would you do?
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you know, how would you feel if you'd lost the war against the japanese? every law that was passed here in the united states had to be approved by the japanese congress. it's not fair. yeah. tell me about it. you know guys would get it and the americans don't have a problem with violence at all. i mean, if anything were to do drone to violence. so the fact that we had resorted to violence for that, you know, and in favor of independence or the freedom of our country. or whatever's is like the say guy, and feeling better to hear that along with the other defendants are held in pre trial detention for 2 years. confined to their cells for up to 23 hours a day. so much i don't haven't been lisa know where he will the, the, the,
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i'm only doing but when i'm in the of the 0 and one that is of the truth and nothing else. i hope i can label stuff and we'll try pulling the been in pennsylvania with underneath. and we'll see the way mom. i think i don't know child lined up. and then to the point that they said go in lexington. i am on orlando allo sorted out over the dining go kilo manos man. does he say i'm on the scene on the month. i chose the thing i get in bouncing campbell, i don't, i don't follow. is that even on my that on the, on the line as i don't i or then diana, i'm in the same thing in, in the a lot of the full i feel like one of the only i feel because a week the but i also have the focus here on a fact though they, they,
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they want to see other than really is all of a few of the week a whole the whole thing when the just the, by the answers and see them. i don't see, i don't know the after 2 years of imprisonment, a judge rules that the pre trial detention was unconstitutional and the defendants are released on bales. the feeling better to have ice fitted with a gps tracking ankle bracelet to ensure that he doesn't escape on september 23rd 1990 facing a potential 130 year sentence. feeling better for his act, cuts his bracelet, and once again goes underground. the
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museums are important for preserving our history so that it is a loss to future generations. but our fiscal museums places themselves a relic of the past. this is one of the best museums in the world. the human touch in st. petersburg to help ruskie is the director here, and i bet he has met the l. look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings accept. we're so short or is it conflict with the 1st law? show your identification. we should be very careful about our professional intelligence. at the point obviously is to create a truck rather than to the area. i mean with artificial intelligence, we have somebody with him and the
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robot most protects his phone. existence was on the a just don't have to shape out the application and engagement equals the trails. when so many find themselves worlds of parts, we choose to look for common ground, the to say god is convicted and sentenced to 55 years. the ours was the 2nd largest robbery in the us at the time,
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and the people from the 1st largest robbery and the 3rd largest. while we got 15 years, i was sense to 65. it's common practice to use your spouse as leverage in order to try to get you to slip. so they apply that pressure low. so you got the message to me says if, if you cooperate, don't do it on the academy because you do, i'll never speak to you. now, i didn't need any more incursions in that one. lucy bush and she didn't know she was crying. so she accepted the plea agreement and went away for, for the rest of, of her sentence. and while she was in prison, savannah was bar lucy, i visiting hours from $8.00 to $330.00 so low. she could brush feet so late. so the 1st day that that happens,
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the guard says that frustrating is not allowed. they got to work on them. they filed lawsuit and a judge that side in their, in lexington said it'll be a sad day in america or woman after. so in order to for the right press for your child in 1999, president bill clinton offers clemency to say guy and 11 other point the weekends with the condition that they renounced terrorism. the after serving 19 years once they got rise release from prison in 2004
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