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of the, the 1972 when i 1st met fairly 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 change my life, the in 1976 feeling better to hear that. and once i got on banded together with others, fighting for independence and formed, lost much of those are the king cutters. the context was that vietnam had won the cuban revolution at that time was like a beacon to a lot of latin american the,
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the type 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 no fake id. so i visited a number of graveyards and picked you know, someone who had 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 as
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a full time member of the organization. my routing was after i did my household obligation of taking the kids to school, i would then start working on whatever we had on a schedule where we're going to do a check off the back. take dynamite from construction. people 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, log on as a protest against the government and for cutting off power to the residence of the us, which was a squatter, so the residents of the settlement called the senior village without fear,
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had tapped into the local power lines. and now the government threatened forcible eviction. the so when they had their power cut off. so all right, well, 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 bit bit bit, you know, hit the, the radiator rains on this thing and then oil would come off. pretty simple little operation. the, the operation took out the power in one of the most affluent areas of the island,
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the 10s of thousands of hotel. this were plunged into darkness last much instead of leave a communique nail 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 reality, that we felt slight 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 faith. in the 1940s, the navy took over most of the island over us from military exercises.
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the ad room just called in and said, look, we're going to be bombing on the x days industry. sherman said, you know, was old fishing traps, the struggle across where the navy ships are going to come through and our powers all get tangled and they'll be done one or the people who live here sites. they've had enough of the navy and it's shelly and there was some, like mrs. hilda logo did very, she brought our children because she said, by setting up camp there, they would learn not to be afraid to defend their country. the protests lead to hundreds of arrests but some members of last, much of those feel that the protests aren't working and all for something more than
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civil disobedience. the in puerto rico, today, a 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 the 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 communicating in a nearby phone booth claiming responsibility. one of them is low so much of those they state that the attack was in retaliation for a protester at 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 at the moment,
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held the navy accountable. if you kill a prisoner claim is suicide. when cleared forensic evidence showing that he had caches and bruises all over his mind. you have to pay a price the if they think they're going to drive us out of the i guess with acts like this. they better think again people have already but don't support this type of activity in the country. they reject it very, very, very, very vociferously and very strongly repudiate this type question. and we think that think of these people, as our enemies are enemies of the people that are in the after the attack. there is internal descent within the symmetric data of the many members choose to leave the,
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the the, the schedule here on the, on the, the lady at the magazine here. busy the next bill for the on the on it so as on by is instead of annual meeting that i'm in tulsa, and i leave that allows you and i can meet the formulas for only silos for your job or sleep. but i feel the kind of my, sorry that, that i took on the monster that i, you know, from my stand, my, sorry, that i decided to fight fight for my country. no, i'm not. i mean, i could 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 and 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 us military power throughout latin america. in 1981 doesn't much of data disguise to fishermen infiltrate the base and begin reconnaissance operations. 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 definitely doable. the makes the state of not including
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really back to work. where is my position? and i said here that participating 0 and is a for years i think it was more aware than in the rest of us of how significant 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 and look upstairs where the right of the blades, the printer's, all in for him. that helped us discounts. exactly where the, the explosives was going to be located. before dawn, today in puerto rico terrace, blew up a number of air national guard jet fighters and an american face near san juan. at least a jet fighters were destroyed. the coursera just flew up one after the other. damage
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was estimated at $45000000.00. no one was hurt while left his group, which has at once the united states, out of puerto rico as plain 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 i had been killed once the plane started to blow up the they were loaded with the machine guns. so the machine to fire the morning after the attack b s. b, i find so much it is stuck in the ground within yards of one of the air base security guards. a message that knows much of those were close enough to take the guard's life. but unlike the boss attacked this time,
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they ensured that no one was hurt an internal and most much of those documents celebrates the attack. 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 for speech was 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 secretly problem of course you can't do it on me. it seems closer to this thing. people are commenting about done nicely. ok. the word of point does he can resist and spreads beyond the island. leaders including
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pope john paul, the 2nd robert kennedy junior, and jesse jackson all pushed for the united states navy to leave the the in 2003. after nearly 60 years of bombing, the military seas as active operations on the island. the, [000:00:00;00] the i'm a senior research seems to be moving to sweet truthfulness. i'm losing the suite to
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it's because of the some of those devices can you please tell me is that is the sticker for the music and that's a gamble unless you're willing to order these voided. what's the key of know wouldn't be the one that you ladies automated room. there are still go near to pardon you have to assume the co insurance is most importantly your budget for the for the, for the last place. the 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
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conflict with the 1st law? show your identification. we should be very careful about the personal intelligence . the point obviously, is to create a trust rather than to the various job with artificial intelligence. we have somebody with the in the robot most protects this phone. existence was on the now can you use visa, stupid loyce? law here, see it to nancy. click jim's and then that's just me very the the only showcase is genes,
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nathaniel. so who's going to the boys at the boys? the what would be the most name that'll be for them. i'm not sure if this slaughter doesn't want that extra them put the notes up under that the, the much a good us movement is nearly broke. the feeling better to have that rights. we are in need of huge economical resources. and those on hand have
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a balance of 0. so we must expropriate resources. for the 1st robbery that i participated in, i was sure we were going to get caught, and i'd seen so many tv programs in the face of others. you know that we weren't gonna get away with it. and this elderly lady came in and she started to hyper until 8 and was bar ready to scream. and i'm going may i'm calm down. nothing's gonna happen or what do i do? i really didn't know how to handle the situation and then stealing my thoughts as he saw that he walked over and said shut off. what's that? what was the end of the 0. okay, so that's how it's done. and do you know, so that was my, my trial by fire. there's
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a erroneous view of last much if it 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, try to get the navy vegas in on all of that. so most of the robberies were credential fund for that type of work. you know that rather than wait for proposals for grants to be approved and so can go get our own pharmacy guy approached me and he says he's working on armor truck and transports between 7 to 10000000 dollars every monday. and he wants to donate it to the struggle is like,
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well it's almost too good to be true. the reach where he met so did the final vetting of him as a come back. some work, not a wells fargo garden and acts, wells fargo guard is on the run with $7000000.00 in cash. he got away with the last night when he robbed his partner and a wells fargo manager in west hartford connecticut. so when, when victor grabbed a supervisor from behind and put them in a headlock and took a supervisor, others on guns 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, so that i mean, as he testified and tries that, victor spoke to me in a tone of voice,
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had rather heard before i was waiting for him outside. it was the longest hour or whatever of my entire life. it was a $7100000.00 according to the to the press. i know it weighed about a 1000 and some odd pounds. the car was riding low. we've had so much money to steal from here that they couldn't even haul it all away . police estimate that he left about a $1000000.00 behind the i felt we had pulled off a great job. nobody in the car. nobody was hurt. yeah, i was area and my friend loaned me his pickup truck and camper. we were on the turnpike in, in pennsylvania and going down this pretty steep hill and all this semi
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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 trailer. and the panels burst. one of us jumped in the trailer and started throwing the money in bags and, and stashing it back before the state police arrived. and god pass that one. the a special agent must realize that no case ever ends on a federal bureau of investigation selected, solve and closed with that it's not going to be a put a little because the f b i arrived and point to for equal half
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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 one 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, truly better to have that. and once they got to continue to evade the f, b i for over a decade, the
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year there. and i wonder if they fixed the in 1983 just much if they don't 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 one. the, instead of hitting the f b, i offices the mess, damaging the department of agriculture being directly fired on invigorates the f, b, i's hon for those much of those. and within weeks they have 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. so through an all of their resources into the, the, the, the, i gather is enough evidence to get
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a quarter and start stopping phone conversations and planting microphones in homes and vehicles buried in the miles of audio troops f, b. i. agents, our son, 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 those much of data. by 1985, the b i has gathered reams of evidence leaking, say got to the wells fargo robbery barnett. b, i raid rounds up 11, much of the data, charging them with conspiracy in the wells fargo robbery. se gardner and heather fios are jailed without bond initially, the government plans to charge the group with suspicious conspiracy. planning to
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over throw the us government the really right. so, and i were in this facility for about a year during the free trial here. and they have like. busy list of pictures of like 10 inmates that you need to be on the look out for, for correctional officers. so that takes their curiosity. and so with dog and it's, it's not too hard, you know, for an american understand independence or no. it's understand that, you know, if somebody invaded your country, what would you do? you know, how would you feel if you'd lost the war against the japanese, the every law that was passed here in the united states had to be approved by the japanese congress. oh, that'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,
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to drone to violent. so the fact that we had resorted to violence for that, you know, and in favor of independence or the freedom of our partner, 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 themselves for up to 23 hours a day. so much i don't haven't been lisa. no way i can hold on. the i'm only doing that's when i'm instead of the dental in the field. and about what that means. i'm not going to buy good label stuff and we'll just wind up and then because of a number of the needs. and so my mom a take, i don't know, child for the independent pennsylvania in lexington. i a model rental i
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lo, sorted out over the dining room. carol minos men duffy said yeah, i'm on the scene on the there my such was the thing i didn't phone say. and book i don't know for low is only good on my that on from the last i as i don't i or the, i'm in the same thing in, in the, a lat pull out the only one of the only i feel because aly with us. but all the focus you have a fast all said they, they want to see other than really well, it's all, it's the name of a few a go up there we go. all the all the way just the by the answers and see them. i don't see, i don't know the after 2 years of imprisonment,
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a judge rules that the pre trial detention was unconstitutional and the defendants are released on bail. 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 freely by the door. his act cuts his bracelet. and once again goes underground.
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the known in vietnam american war, the vietnam war lost its almost 2 decades and dragged in numerous countries. not any time right now, and then you don't really know what it all on the empty hundreds of thousands of american troops was sent to the country to bank the south vietnamese on me, and that's on top of that not, but american soldiers limited resistors, most of us like the down entire villages and spread dangerous chemicals and lee by all right, did the americans ever fully acknowledge what they did and on the vietnamese veterans ready to forgive? yeah,
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yeah. yeah. that's that way. it's too late. but yeah, the as a violence escalates in dogs are the you and condemns, as well as the order for more than a 1000000 northern gods, a residence to flee from their homes to the south within 24 hours. meanwhile, israel slams the one response as a disgrace. that says is rarely troops a mass on the border with guys in preparation for a possible round us all the and in paris places water cannon and to your gas to this 1st pro palestinian
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