and i appreciate your attendance today. >> thank you for joining us. join me to think sean. outside join us for a few llamas afterwards for refreshments as we celebrate the publication of sean's book. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> en 2004 i was out of the marine corps did my first report then they came back and noticed immediately getting off the plate and in california dealing very different going to a bar to look over my best friend to agree to a bar and i remember looking out i can tell everyone was drinking and talking and socializing just as before like nothing had changed and there is no particular reason to be upset but it struck me that i had changed and i remember oddly suddenly being very bored and not interested in the left i think there went to use the atm at a local liquor store there all run by iraqis so the owner was from baghdad i ended up talking with him was not really fitting in so we talk about baghdad and he was looking for work so i had the very strange feeling i had from a year earlier days and i was angry about the war i was on the tail end of the first battle of fallujah and it was explained to be that they thought was gross mismanagement and poor leadership and completely irrational policy making making, and that they have brosnan as a result then a few weeks later snowden me windy and i wasn't a iraq -- i was in iraq and bush was reelected so for me that was a difficult process to understand in light of everything that happened was very difficult to accept people would in the face of knowledge reelect the person that had put us there in the first place and as i began researching the began to develop symptoms of my own i was in a movie theater there was the idea -- to lead the explosion in the closely resembled that of a shot from the point of view i would be in the cinematic experience was very overwhelming for me and i blacked out when i regained consciousness i was in dollar hallway of the cineplex. nobody had this difficulty i asked her what was happening she said you ran out so i noticed not all was right upstairs i did not have full control come of my memories. someone told me having ptsd was memories gone wild that take on their own life. that was an apprentice not just on a personal level but with a historical entity because i thought of it as a cop out for a shortcut to not have a more honest engagement with your service i thought it was a way to dodge responsibility entellus started to look into a with symptoms there briefly i discovered the original people that fought for the diagnosis felt similarly aid to how i felt the group that advocated for the diagnosis in his view there is no distinction to be made between the politics of viet nam and their struggle and out of that conversation came that diagnosis that we have today. >> in germany you get two votes for someone who represents the redistricting committee someone who represents your idea is. that way you get a congress that is much more diverse that can create different kinds of connections depending on the issue people are not required to vote a particular because of the parties it is much more engaging and as a result if we could do something like that in the united states to have higher levels of participation that is something else we don't admit at the most we have 60 or 65% of the population totting other countries have 80 percent if you go to austria you are required to vote if you don't you are punished. here's some how we should make it difficult for some people it's not necessarily want to make it difficult but we're comfortable for people who don't have access to a car or truck or van who don't have a lot of money to take time off of work and to engage in political activity somehow we blame the people as opposed to the electoral system to save the fact now thinking of a case that i've litigated with a professor at stanford in which we were challenging on behalf of some of the people in arkansas with the decision you have to get at least 51% of the vote even if there were three people if you had more of the vote he had to have more than 50%. what that meant in this part of arkansas that many working class or poor people white or black there wasn't enough of the incentive to participate to have access to a car or truck or van because of the voting places location. to me that, we tend to put the burden on the individual because they didn't walk 30 miles is their problem rather than save we will get as many people as possible to participate because it will influence the outcome in a way that is more fair and it is the way to invite everyone to look at the initial commitment that i may not agree directly but there is a measure of the future of the potential ever by consider with the other person is saying is we're not locked into republican or democrat there is more diversity. . . >> you know with this show, it is a for office, it is not for other users. and it gives them a chance to answer it the greatest of all look store questions, what is your book about. >> my book is about something that i co-authored with a friend and lawyer. i've done research but i'm not a meticulous researcher. the book is about why we should not legalize marijuana and we wrote it in regards to a train coming down the track, legalization. the general wreck-the general realization of use. and it may be even more dramatic than the shift in public