BRADLEY MANNING: THE TRUTH WILL GET YOU JAILED
Twenty days until Deecember 21st...maye by then we will get some response from President Obama about the treatment of Bradley Manning...but the world is more likely to end and prove the Myans right.
One story I did not get to this week is this one:
Senate votes down indefinite detention of Americans - or does it? The latest draft of the NDAA remains problematic and may not even protect citizens from military detention.
And I cannot help thinking that some of Bradley's mistreatment was because he is self described as "effeminate" and openly gay...
Again it is just a gut feeling and I suspect he was coerced into doing some "naughty" things on the sly while in custody and stark naked. Maybe that will come ouut in the wash one day in the distant future.
And are Democrats and President Obama standing up for his rights to apeedy trial and fair treayment as a US Citizen?
The Huffington Post reported ther following on March 11, 2011:
President Barack Obama says he's been assured by the Pentagon that the Army private suspected of giving classified information to the WikiLeaks website is being held in conditions that are "appropriate and meeting our basic standards."
This is a letter I found in The Guardian UK from 4_13_2011:
By insisting that the treatment of Bradley Manning in the marine corps brig was "appropriate and meets our basic standards", Obama is saying that it is normal to hold hundreds of navy and marine prisoners in conditions that the majority of the world community would consider torturous (US legal scholars voice outrage at treatment of Manning, 11 April).
The world should not only be looking at Manning's treatment but that of every prisoner being held in US navy confinement facilities. Obama's justification of Manning's treatment makes him worse than Bush and Cheney, as they justified their torture by claiming it was for the purpose of obtaining intelligence on terrorist activities. Obama as commander-in-chief is permitting cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners in brigs for no other purpose than to make an example of those violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The treatment of prisoners in the marine brigs is worse than the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Obama should, if he doesn't want to be the first Nobel peace prize winner to be accused of condoning torture, act to force the marines to stop the harsh and inhumane treatment of prisoners in the brigs, or close them and put the prisoners in the confinement facilities of other services.
I would not hold me breath. Since that was written it has been nearly a year and a half.
Bradley Manning did break laws...but what he put out there was TRUTH...truth about what the Bush Crime Family was doing worldwide. Truth about the human rights violations by US Troops...Truth about the lie that was the invasion and "liberation" of Iraq.
Amnesty International in Britain had expressed similar strong concern prior to this week's pre-trial. International UK campaigns director Tim Hancock said: “We’ve heard that Bradley Manning is made to strip each night and then stand to attention, naked, each morning and wait for his clothes. This is completely degrading and serves no purpose other than to humiliate and punish him, given that he’s already under close supervision.
“Manning is being subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. This is particularly disturbing when one considers that he hasn’t even been brought to trial, let alone convicted of a crime.”
He was clearly mistreated and it was clear that he was pyschologically tortured in the brig...it is clear when you read about his testimony this week. In his second day of testimony it was clear that he "exhausted all legal avenues to end harsh treatment". Treatment that almost bordered on torture at times...yet Obama said back in 2011 that he treatments met the standards!
WTF?
Hell, even the Obama campaign did not want to deal with the Manning issue...just look at this story from September 6, 2012!
Obama Campaign Calls Police to Remove Bradley Manning Supporters Attempting to Deliver a Letter
So Bradley Manning is a criminal and was treated like a prisoner in Abu Gharib for speaking truth to power.
And the Bush Crime Family...George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Colin Powell and the rest of these bastards are free and protected by the alleged DEMOCRAT...and labeled "far keft liberal" by propaganda master Rush Limbaugh...Obama administration and Democrats in Congress like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Thes are the real war criminals. These are the real scum that "aided and abedded the enemy"...namely al Qeada, by attacking and invading a country of people that never attacked us. Al Qeada mobilized and begane operating in Iraq thanks to our invasion and removal of secular leader Sadaam Hussein.
This is one of the videos leaked out....where any in that helicopter arrested and jailed and made to stay in a windowless, 8' by 6' cell, NAKED for 23 hours a day with only 20 minutes of sunlight most days?
Watch this:
Click to viewAnd then tell me who the real criminals are and who should be behind bars?
Remember ther Fallujah film and what we did there...and yet impeachment was off the table according to then Speaker of the House Pelosi and no investigation into the tax money stolen (I talkefd about that on the sdhow yesterday) and the others crimes associated with the invasion of Iraq and the continued prescence in Afhghanistan.
The film documents the use of weapons that the documentary asserts are chemical weapons, particularly the use of incendiary bombs, and alleges indiscriminate use of violence against civilians and children by military forces of the United States of America in the city of Fallujah in Iraq during the Fallujah Offensive of November 2004.
Yes Bradley broke the law but in a so called "free" nation that is allegedly a "democracy" did his crimes fit the punishment and why are the REAL criminals that are guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and treason against the USA by violating their constitutional oaths walking free and enjoying the good life of the mega-wealthy?
More on this on Monday's show.