south it's all been really weighing on my mind that this is a part of my community that this is happening right down the road if this if this command center when active in april twenty thirty and so there is direction of drone attacks occur around the world coming from this very spot and from my personal belief i do not think that we ends terror in any way reduce it by bringing ter to other communities when we're here because we oppose drone warfare and the fact that they're using this base to be complicit in the work rhymes that the u s is involved in afghanistan iraq and not only places where w ere more officially it were but places where not officially a war like pakistan yemen and somalia we've been using these drones to kill innocent people to kill people we know nothing of value to kill people that we just claim are militants without trying to capture them without giving them a chance for surrendering without a trial without a jury without a judge without a sentence and this role of playing god is creating more enemies around the world it's perpetuating the military industrial complex in the endless state of war and we're here to say we've had enough of it that we want to live in peace that we want to use our resources not to go around the world killing people but to build up our own country take people out of poverty start the green revolution give everybody the health care and the education they deserve there sell many better things than we could do with their money then creating new enemies this drone war command center current ducting war you know our name and killing innocent people thousands of miles from here by pushing buttons this is a remote control push button war and we're here to say no to that the mission of peacemaking this is a challenging mission because it's so seductive to say whoa the buttons they're pushing vader how could that be hurting people but it does and they're so far away from here most of them almost all of the muslims being killed so there was then as lo to search your conscience listen for god's voice and join us out here on the side of life on the side of peace for your own sake because dro from p t s d at a higher rate than people on the actual battlefield and so we're here in the name of our various faiths in the name of our various ethnic old traditions we're here to say no to a drone warfare no to war we think of something children and the people who are at the other end of the mist and we should and should bear the primary big but the people who are looking looking at the monitors looking at the computer monitors see stalking people basically watching the missiles go in and then see the aftermath they too are being victimized into there's a high degree of what's being called moral damage and that is the damage that it's done to our moral si reads dear drone war operators stop the killing just walk away your neighbors love your neighbors the way to change people's hearts and minds is not by dropping bombs on them if that was the way to go about it the job that i was doing nine years it has not been it's the job for a reason and that is because the program does not work i often wonder what if we devoted a third or a half of resources using these very same drones and instead dropped food water c s closings pamphlets saying we love you and we want to co exist on this planet with you as opposed to a missile randomly here or there washing itself into a vehicle or bedroom at night the program does not work operationally the foreground does not work yet the programs are expanding they're expanding because they are self feeding programs it's a monster that is eating its own tail infinitely until we get in the way and stop it and we can stop it we are here today for a reason there is a growing movement of other intelligence officers other analysts who are stepping forward right now and speaking we are small still in the grand scheme of things but we are growing we can see that we can feel that and if i could speak to the enlisted soldiers ninety nine percent of whom i mean well the airmen the officers those who have a sense of duty who want to fight a good fight it is to know this you are actually making the world was safe you are causing more harm than good and the proof is right before your eyes jones is so bad because they're dangerously seductive they make us think that we are killing the bad guys in protecting ourselves when all they're doing is making it easier to get involved in new wars to use military intervention into the political solutions and we think that we have no right to be pressing a button from the comfort of bases in our own country not putting ourselves at risk at all and deciding who should live in who should die if any other country where doing this if any country in the muslim world god forbid would be doing this we would be at the united nations yelling bloody murder and actually using our military to take them down so i can reflect on everything we're doing here today i actually took some photos of it on my facebook and i actually have people from pakistan right now who are activists who are actually their guard center and i think as we kind of reflect on the future it may look like it's a long shot but what we've seen here to do is folks who came out in the heat talking about justice reflecting and w the injustices of these drone attacks and the way that the families have been impacted and the pain and suffering that it's causing the world and i just want to kind of relay the message that people in pakistan already tell me right now that they really appreciate the solidarity well i'm so happy to be here because i've heard for so long about the protests and the vigils that were happening at this air guard station and i always thought i want to be out there with these folks because  my people and we are the soul of this nation when i had a chance to engage president obama on this issue i brought up the name of this young man and here i see his picture we not any kind of explanation to his family now we killed this father as well but his grandfather lives in yemen and my partner tighe barry and i and a group met with their grandfather in yemen a lovely lovely man and he wanted to know why is grandchild was killed he wanted to know why the u s targeted a group of teenagers in yemen after they were finishing dinner and all of a sudden killed by a hellfire missile incinerated by a hellfire missile the grandfather was a gentle very loving man and he said i've taken this issue into the courts in the united states but the u s government refuses to even come into the courts and knowledged it but they've never explained why and in fact it was a assistant to president obama said he should have had a different bother as all ok to kill a teenager because we don't like his father but you know why we get away with this it's part of the issue of racism and islamophobia if this young man had white skin and was of the christian faith the u s would not only have acknowledged it would be bending over backwards to say it was a mistake we're so sorry and we're so sorry here's six ten million dollars for your loss well of course no money could ever cover the loss of a child but the point is that because of doing rock a muslim and not white the u s could get away with killing a sixteen year old american citizen so if you take that and say well how many sixteen seventeen year old eighteen year old muslims have we killed in afghanistan and then yemen in pakistan  thousands of them and the fact that we say oh it was a teenager and he was a mammal and he was living in pakistan in the tribal areas that means that he is a militant he's a teenager and he's living in yemen and he must be a militant that is literally the way the u s is justifying killing teenagers the vast majority of people we are killing are seventeen years old eighteen year old nineteen year olds they are children we are killing children we are killing people who barely know about the united states well that's a question we have to ask because our government lied to us they say these people we are killing are an imminent threat to us do you think these seventeen eighteen nineteen year old boys in man are an imminent threat to you do you think they're trying to come over here to get you they are trying to do something in their own country and going about it the wrong way but you know what it is not how were issued to get involved in they are from yemen we are not from yemen the people fighting in pakistan they are from pakistan we are not from pakistan and we cannot solve their problems for them we should not be so arrogant to think that we can in fact we are part of the problem we are creating extremism we are creating enemies we are responsible for isis were it not for the u s invasion of iraq isis would not exist today were not for the us drone strikes in yemen there wouldn't of people that have joined extremist groups so when you say to your friends that you are against us involvement in these wars and they say our but we have to be the ones to come in and try to solve the problem tell them that they are the irrational ones because for the last fifteen years we have been saying that it has extremism diminished have extremist groups folded up their tents and left no on the contrary they have multiplied they have expanded they have gone beyond a few countries to now be in dozens of countries and the more we use our complex just keeps feeding itself just keeps growing and just keeps eating out more and more people and leaving more and more death and agony in its wake and perpetuating over seeds or violence that the gun makers are profiting off here in our own country in our own city killing people i know our own community is it's all part of a profit making enterprise of killing of the murder of war crimes and we've got to stop it thank you for inviting me to be with you let's keep going until peace reigns power to the peaceful polarization of politics and a complete abandonment of the ability to make craft compromises to make in order to make decision has kept us all locked in a state of paralysis which i think fortunately for all of us that the veil is beginning to be stripped away from our democratic processes at this time and that that is an opportunity for the will of the people and the understanding of the people in this country to come together in a unified way to be thinking about how understanding that the environment and war and economic issues are all what we're going to be determined we're going to have faith and the faith based community is in it you know has an institution around it it has the ability to her severe over the long haul and so i think that's a special strength that sometimes people of faith can bring up the other people of conscience can also be committed over the long haul but for us who don't see the near term results i do think that i