Army Veteran Gives Passionate Speech About What The US Military Is Really About And Why People Need To Resist

In 2010 a young veteran named Mike Prysner gave a passionate speech at an anti-war rally on a cold snowy day, exposing the United States military industrial complex for what it was then, and how not much has changed now.

Prysner, a veteran who served in Iraq, who works with the group Veterans for Peace. The rally led to 135 people being arrested after many of them chained themselves to the White House fence.

They’re not going to end the wars. And they’re not going to do it, because it’s not our government. It’s their government. It’s the government of the rich. It’s the government of Wall Street, of the oil giants, of the defense contractors. It’s their government. And the only language that they understand is shutting down business as usual…