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RC

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7. What is the real difference between Bradly Manning and Edward Snowden?
Sun Jul 7, 2013, 09:24 PM
Jul 2013

Both exposed illegal actions, policies that our government should not be doing in the first place and want to keep secret.
Bradly Manning blew the whistle and went through channels as was supposed to be done. Look what happened and is still happening to him.
Edward Snowden, learned from the treatment of Bradly Manning and so did not go through the "proper channels". The real reason he is now a fugitive is not so much because he did not go through those proper channels, but because he exposed illegal actions and policies of our government, as Bradly Manning did. That is why Bradly Manning is being made an example of and why our government wants to make an example of Edward Manning. To stop others from exposing their corruption.
Our government cannot control us, if people keep exposing their wrong, unconstitutional, unlawful and illegal activities and policies and other excesses. If too many people thought they can get away with exposing the corruption of our government, "We the people..." would then be an informed populous and therefore be in a position to fix that corruption and get control of our government back to the people, where it belongs.

To denigrate either Bradly Manning or Edward Snowden or any other person that exposes the wrong doing of our government, is in itself helping the enemy gain and maintain control of all of us, for that enemy is people within our own government.

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