Reply #108: I don't believe ANYONE deserves such treatment

[TorchTheWitch]

Again, this is not about the treatment of one single individual, it's about this same treatment and worse that is already and has been for decades epidemic in this country (or by this country hidden away in another country).

If you're going to make an argument about him being tortured because solitary confinement is torture, then you MUST also include in the complaint every other person this country subjects to such treatment. Making it all about HIS treatment and no one else that gets such treatment makes the complaint to easy to disregard.

Solitary confinement is torturous and it is wrong for everyone. If you only make the complaint that it is wrong for ONE person, than you can't be believed that you really think that solitary confinement is torture or that it's wrong.

That said, some of Manning's treatment seems reasonable considering the need to protect him and to keep him safe from himself. There needs to be a happy medium between general population and solitary confinement for all prisons.

As far as the current administration being a progressive one... are you serious???? This administration is very nearly as right wing as the last one. Being a Dem in DC for the last 30 years has usually meant Repub Lite. There hasn't been any progressive power in this country for decades, and anyone that even remotely follows politics would know that. Being progressive has to do with policy, not what letter you wear on your sweater.