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In reply to the discussion: Brig guard: Manning’s depression history made him a suicide risk at Quantico [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Those who ordered torture dungeons and mass murder of a hundred thousand innocent people in their bombing of the virtually defenseless city of Baghdad go free, while a young man committed to the truth is in shackles, abused and tortured!
The inequality is mind-boggling!
Those who looted us of trillions of dollars and corrupted our government and our democracy almost beyond recognition go free, to live lives of luxury and security at our expense --and a young man who may have revealed a bit of how this is done, how they loot and lie and murder their way into cushy retirements, is punished with isolation, abused, tortured and silenced!
And I'm sorry but I do NOT recognize any military law that permits this treatment of a whistleblower. Whistleblowers--especially military whistleblowers--should be given "asylum" by somebody--the the DoJ, the president, the state department, but they're all in this together, creating an unaccountable war machine to commit unaccountable crimes in the interest of transglobal corporations, banksters and war profiteers.
Loyalty? Obedience? Bullshit. THEY threw the Uniform Code of Military Justice out the window, along with the Constitution and a whole lot of other laws. NOBODY owes loyalty and obedience to this out-of-control military-industrial complex when it comes to whistleblowing! In any case, the military has become a country unto itself, which demands loyalty to the MILITARY--not to us, not to our democracy, not to our country--to the military--such that, if a soldier is ordered to shoot or bomb us--to slaughter our own people--and he or she won't do it, the punishment is DEATH. There are no "rules of war" any more, even here. It's over! That's how bad it is. As for other human beings in the world, they don't count any more, at all. They are subject to summary execution by anonymous, unaccountable deciders, who don't have to worry about courts, judges, human rights or "collateral damage."
Our government exists in a lawless state that has not been remedied! And I don't care who the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines tell me who was elected, that is our situation. And for this government to dare to assault a whistleblower in this way--let alone fail to appoint him as an advisor to the National Security Council, to clean that blood-soaked bunch of welfare queens out of our government--which is what should happen--is symptomatic of our sad and helpless state, as a people, as a once great democracy--or, in any case, a democracy created by many great people, high and low, who never stopped struggling for human, civil and labor rights, fairness, justice, the common welfare and good government. They didn't always succeed, and, obviously nothing they struggled, suffered and died for was permanent. But, by God, they tried to give us a better future and certainly passed forward their visions, their dreams, their ideals and their hopes.
Bradley Manning is a product of that history--a young man who believes in open government and the power of the truth. I hope and pray that he survives this terrible ordeal and can one day breathe free in a country that is worthy of him.