Reply #122: 'Degrading and humiliating' treatment violates the

[sabrina 1]

Common Art. 111 of the Geneva Conventions on how detainees are to be treated. If this country's military cannot abide by those laws, and if there are actually U.S. citizens defending this kind of treatment, this country is lost.

Stop with your excuses. I watched what happened that day. Those trying to visit Manning were prevented from seeing him for NO REASON.

From Manning's attorney:

The Truth Behind Quantico Brig's Decision to Strip PFC Manning

The Brig's treatment of PFC Manning is shameful. It is made even more so by the Brig hiding behind concerns for " Manning's privacy." There is no justification, and there can be no justification, for treating a detainee in this degrading and humiliating manner.

He chose the language used in Common Art. 111 of the Geneva Conventions.

And, if the world had not been watching, they would have as they stated, continued that shameful abusive treatment. The very fact that they stopped, once they were exposed, and even someone like P.J. Crowley finally found his voice and spoke out about it, demonstrates how wrong it was and how wrong they knew it was, otherwise they would still be doing it, wouldn't they, and who knows what else would have happened to him if there were not decent Americans and people around the world, watching them.

Read the comments attached to that article. People are outraged at what this country has become. Anyone who cares about this country will not in any way defend this kind of criminal behavior. We look like the Old Soviet Union to the rest of the world. And you are attempting to defend it?? I asked you why, but you have not answered.