BRADLEY MANNING: CHAMPION

staxwaxstaxwax 1,474 Posts
edited August 2013 in Strut Central
CHAMPION WHISTLE BLOWER

CHAMPION FREEDOM FIGHTER

CHAMPION OF PERFECTLY EXECUTED GAY FANTASIES

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  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts


  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,789 Posts
    staxwax said:
    CHAMPION WHISTLE BLOWER

    CHAMPION FREEDOM FIGHTER

    CHAMPION OF PERFECTLY EXECUTED GAY FANTASIES


    Keyser Soze couldn't have done it better!

  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    bassie said:
    Chelsea Manning

    Isn't this a Joni Mitchell song?

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    lol I think it's Bradley Morning

    b/w

    I am really disappointed in both her name and wig choice. Yup, even at a time like this I will critique your GF's style.

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    SHERO.

  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,789 Posts
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/21/bradley-manning-sentence-birgitta-jonsdottir


    As of today, Wednesday 21 August 2013, Bradley Manning has served 1,182 days in prison. He should be released with a sentence of time served. Instead, the judge in his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland has handed down a sentence of 35 years.

    Of course, a humane, reasonable sentence of time served was never going to happen. This trial has, since day one, been held in a kangaroo court. That is not angry rhetoric; the reason I am forced to frame it in that way is because President Obama made the following statements on record, before the trial even started:

    President Obama: We're a nation of laws. We don't individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate ??? He broke the law.

    Logan Price: Well, you can make the law harder to break, but what he did was tell us the truth.

    President Obama: Well, what he did was he dumped ???

    Logan Price: But Nixon tried to prosecute Daniel Ellsberg for the same thing and he is a ??? [hero]

    President Obama: No, it isn't the same thing ??? What Ellsberg released wasn't classified in the same way.

    When the president says that the Ellsberg's material was classified in a different way, he seems to be unaware that there was a higher classification on the documents Ellsberg leaked.

    A fair trial, then, has never been part of the picture. Despite being a professor in constitutional law, the president as commander-in-chief of the US military ??? and Manning has been tried in a court martial ??? declared Manning's guilt pre-emptively. Here is what the Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg had to say about this, in an interview with Amy Goodman at DemocracyNow! in 2011:

    "Well, nearly everything the president has said represents a confusion about the state of the law and his own responsibilities. Everyone is focused, I think, on the fact that his commander-in-chief has virtually given a directed verdict to his subsequent jurors, who will all be his subordinates in deciding the guilt in the trial of Bradley Manning. He's told them already that their commander, on whom their whole career depends, regards him [Manning] as guilty and that they can disagree with that only at their peril. In career terms, it's clearly enough grounds for a dismissal of the charges, just as my trial was dismissed eventually for governmental misconduct.

    But what people haven't really focused on, I think, is another problematic aspect of what he said. He not only was identifying Bradley Manning as the source of the crime, but he was assuming, without any question, that a crime has been committed."


    This alone should have been cause for the judge in the case to rethink prosecutors' demand for 60 years in prison. Manning himself has shown throughout the trial both that he is a humanitarian and that he is willing to serve time for his actions. We have to look at his acts in light of his moral compass, not any political agenda.

  • covecove 1,566 Posts
    'Murica!!!!

  • tabiratabira 856 Posts
    bassie said:

    I am really disappointed in both her name and wig choice. .

    She should at least have dropped the "Manning"

  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
    Should have gone to Russia...

  • Traitor no matter how you slice it. Put honorable men's lives in danger, betrayed his country that he vowed to honor. Suffered from mental illness over his gender identity issues. Sad life. But he crossed the line. He's not a journalist. He's not a bonafide whistle blower. He betrayed his fellow man and his country. Yeah, behind the curtain it's not pretty, did anyone think It was? No pity except for the horrible reported conditions he endured at his initial confinement. No excuse there. But really dude, you made a terribly unwise mistake that really didn't result in much government upheaval or revealed anything truly revolutionary. You failed. And you're jailed for a long time. I find it hard to gather any pity for you. I may revisit this with more condemnation if it emerges, and maybe some praise, doubtfully, should any military beauraucratic nonsense be broken and exposed to damage the populace.

  • dayday 9,611 Posts
    ok.

  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts

  • kalakala 3,361 Posts
    Soul Zilla said:
    Traitor no matter how you slice it. Put honorable men's lives in danger, betrayed his country that he vowed to honor. Suffered from mental illness over his gender identity issues. Sad life. But he crossed the line. He's not a journalist. He's not a bonafide whistle blower. He betrayed his fellow man and his country. Yeah, behind the curtain it's not pretty, did anyone think It was? No pity except for the horrible reported conditions he endured at his initial confinement. No excuse there. But really dude, you made a terribly unwise mistake that really didn't result in much government upheaval or revealed anything truly revolutionary. You failed. And you're jailed for a long time. I find it hard to gather any pity for you. I may revisit this with more condemnation if it emerges, and maybe some praise, doubtfully, should any military beauraucratic nonsense be broken and exposed to damage the populace.

    let me guess-you were stupid enough to enlist in one of the armed forces?
    what a load of lock step patriotic brainwashed pig-shit

    FORT MEADE, Md. -- Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst convicted of making public thousands of secret documents, was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison. But the files Manning sent to the website WikiLeaks remain on the Internet for anyone to read, and their impact on the world may be debated for as long as he remains in prison.

    "Manning was under the impression that his leaked information was going to really change how the world views the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and future wars actually," Navy Capt. David Moulton, a forensic psychiatrist testifying in Manning's defense, told the military court on July 14.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/bradley-manning-leaks_n_3788126.html

    Here are some of the documents and revelations Manning leaked to the world from the small, sensitive, compartmented information facility in Iraq where he worked as an intelligence analyst from 2009 to 2010.

    1. The 'Collateral Murder' Apache helicopter video

    Manning released this graphic video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack on a group of people gathered in Baghdad. Two were employees of the Reuters news agency. A member of the helicopter crew refers to the "dead bastards" he killed, and the crew lights up a passing van that stopped to help victims of the first round of gunfire.

    Reuters unsuccessfully requested a copy of the video under the Freedom of Information Act, but only Manning revealed it to the world. An Army investigation into the attack, released only after Manning's leak was published, concluded that the helicopter crew had followed the rules of engagement.

    2. The Reykjavik-13 cable
    Far less known than the Apache video was this classified 2010 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Reykjavik released on Feb. 18, 2010. The first of Manning's leaks to be published, it caused an immediate sensation in Iceland for its frank discussion of U.S. indifference toward problems in the small island nation's banking sector.

    The cable's release energized the activists in Iceland who edited "Collateral Murder."

    3. The Iraq War Logs
    As part of his work as an Army intelligence analyst, Manning had access to a wealth of sensitive Army documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Called SIGACTS (significant activities), in military parlance, they detailed nighttime raids and improvised explosives attacks with intimate on-the-ground reports from U.S. troops.

    Manning gave WikiLeaks nearly 400,000 SIGACTS from Iraq. They were published in October 2010. The Pentagon had always maintained that it did not keep track of civilian casualties in Iraq, but the independent Iraq Body Count website used the SIGACTS to confirm and update its count of deaths in the conflict.

    As of this month, the Iraq Body Count's Josh Dougherty related, the organization had added 4,000 deaths to its database as a result of Manning's leaks and was likely to add another 10,000.

    "These and thousands of others like them are known to the world today only because Bradley Manning could no longer in good conscience collude with an official policy of the Bush and Obama administrations to abuse secrecy and 'national security' to erase them from history," Dougherty wrote on the group's website. "If Manning deserves any punishment at all for this, certainly his three years already served, and the disgraceful abuse he was made to suffer during it, is more than enough."

    4. The Afghanistan War Logs
    On July 25, 2010, just a month after Manning was arrested, WikiLeaks published 75,000 SIGACTS from the Afghanistan battlefield. The New York Times, which participated in their publication, said they offered "an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal."

    5. Detention, abuse and torture
    Manning's leaks included more than 700 Guantanamo detainee files, many revealing that the U.S. had little reason to continue holding its prisoners. The 250,000 State Department cables he leaked detailed U.S. diplomatic pressure on foreign countries to ignore or excuse extraordinary renditions carried out by the CIA in apparent violation of international law. They also showed that the U.S. routinely failed to investigate reports of prisoner abuse and summary execution by the Iraqi military.

    "It brought this issue back into public consciousness again, which is a great thing," Shane Kadidal, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents Guantanamo detainees, told HuffPost in June.

    "And then with everything that Manning released, to some extent the volume of the material is part of the story," Kadidal said. "It's one thing to tell a few anecdotes based on a few items being leaked, but to be able to say across the board that most of the men who are there shouldn't be there, were people that could be safely released ??? that is pretty staggering."

    6. U.S. complicity with repressive Arab regimes
    It was no surprise to many living in the Arab world that the United States routinely collaborated with Arab dictators behind closed doors while proclaiming its commitment to democracy in public. Manning's leaks of sensitive State Department cables, however, laid bare the American hypocrisy in the Middle East. By some accounts, they served as a catalyst for the regime changes around the region that would come to be known as the Arab Spring.

    In particular, the cables highlighted corruption within the regime of former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The first batch of cables about Tunisia was released in November 2010, two months before Ben Ali fled the country.

    "Whether it's cash, services, land, property, or yes, even your yacht, President Ben Ali's family is rumored to covet it and reportedly gets what it wants," the U.S. embassy reported in a June 2008 cable classified secret. "With Tunisians facing rising inflation and high unemployment, the conspicuous displays of wealth and persistent rumors of corruption have added fuel to the fire."

  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    What a miscarriage of justice.
    Torture the suspect for months.
    Have the judge's and jurors' commander publicly declare the suspect guilty before the trial starts.

    Then sentence a whistle blower, who has done her country no harm, to 35 years and deny and strip her of her identity.

  • True Champion: Mathew Cordle. Owns up, takes responsibility. Glossed over though of course. Meanwhile Chelsea wants to sue to get hormone injections. But why? No posts about him here. Does Chelsea or Bradley still have a Y chromosome?
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