Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking sensitive material to WikiLeaks, has been held for seven months in what Glenn Greenwald reports are “inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions.”
Greenwald argues that Manning is being punished without first being convicted, and he speculates that the treatment is meant to intimidate and discourage other would-be whistle-blowers.
Greenwald explains that Manning is held in solitary confinement, unable to leave his cell for 23 hours a day. He is not permitted to exercise in his cell. He is not allowed a pillow or blanket. Greenwald says Manning spends most of his day sleeping, and is now given antidepressants “to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation.”
Glenn Greenwald on Salon:
From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day—for seven straight months and counting—he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he’s barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions. For reasons that appear completely punitive, he’s being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch). For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs. Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not “like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole,” but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.
In sum, Manning has been subjected for many months without pause to inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at America’s Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado: all without so much as having been convicted of anything. And as is true of many prisoners subjected to warped treatment of this sort, the brig’s medical personnel now administer regular doses of anti-depressants to Manning to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation.
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Have psychologists and psychiatrists conspired with
the “chain of command” so as to cause a mental break?
At which point, the U.S. Army spokesperson can
announce to the world that Manning is a mental case.
Or, did CIA-types prescribe this, instead of water-
boarding?
I know one U.S. Army General who would step in and
require humane treatment for this American youngster.
However, he retired several years ago. Are there
others “out there” ?
At least, the U.S. Army/CIA puppetry have not fired a
burst of three into Manning´s skull, as was done with
Pat Tillman. Not yet, anyway.
However, Mr. Manning receives daily injections ? ? ?
What about the German soldier in Afghanistan a couple
days ago. Will the truth reveal that the soldier
committed suicide, rather than become a “Whistle
Blower”? Or was this an insider set-up? The German
chancellor, Mrs. Dr. Merkel, flew to the scene? To
tighten the lid, perhaps ?
A real case for genuine, German journalists who still
practice journalism.
Let us define some words prior to going further into debate, shall we?
Republic:
a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
Democracy:
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Building on history, we can ask: How Democratic Was the Roman Republic?
“The very early Roman Republic may have resembled what Thorkild Jacobsen called “primitive democracy” in a chapter that he contributed to a book called The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. In the early Republic, rich and poor, high and low, lived in close proximity and the social and economic gap between them was not so great as it was later.”
Even J.F.K in a momentous speech mentions the class divide written into law:
“Harry Truman once said there are 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests.
And that the interests of the great mass of the other people, the 150 million is the responsibility of the president of the united states, and I propose to fulfill it.”
The money interest is the Republic, the owners of the land en-mass and all contained therein, and the Democracy the labor force of people, the masses and their output of energy, creativity and livelihood.
Do we not see that a Republic was enacted when the U.S. Constitution was writ… and the chattel, the immigrant, the slave, the hordes which came later were considered NOT a citizen of the Republic but an alien resident, existing on a land purchased by blood and money, classified and subjected?
Worldly wealth is the class separator.
And guess what?
It is created by man… it is an idea!
The golden calf mesmerizing the masses.
How can anyone defend and uphold such a Babylonian concept which usurps humanity itself?
Democracies leave room for those who question the status quo and challenge
authority. Unlike totalitarian govts, democracies use the rule of law to settle
any disputes in a civilized fashion that includes due process. Democracies do
not punish before conviction; they don’t engage in torture either on native soil
or in foreign countries. They don’t cut off appendages and stick electrified rods
in someones private parts. Those acts are a feature of the many govts we
criticize and have gone to war to eradicate.
Manning took a stand…like many others have done in this country before him.
Democracies deal with these issues intelligently, not with calls to violence and
torture.
These cables had a distribution list of over a million people! The only ones out
of the loop were us. We’re the ones who don’t have the facts, don’t have the
true information. We’re the ones who are the idiots.
I have a problem with that. In reading these cables, I cannot understand why
most of them are concealed from American citizens who are routinely asked for
their vote in support of issues described in these cables. Why can’t I know the
facts about Afghanistan, or Africa, China, North Korea. Why is everything such
a secret in this “open society”?
This is the subject we should be discussing instead of how to castrate and
disfigure a 22-year-old boy.
arnold ziffel; what if the law is wrong? suppose the
apparatus behind this military misadventure is wrong?
we are not at war. we are faltering under the weight of
an insupportable burden. we cannot sustain the hegemony
we would visit upon the world.
charges of treason are in order. hang bush/cheney.
I look at that dear, sweet face in sorrow and I think of his folks and wonder how they are taking all this in. It must be a unspeakably terrible for them. I can’t imagine what it would do to me as a parent and grandparent if one of mine had to go through hell as he is. This boy could be any of ours.
This whole nightmare reminds me of the 20 something boy who spotted the live bombs on a plane about to fly over the states, or that HAD already flown over the states. He went home and “committed suicide” didn’t he? Remember that? I think he stopped a false flag attack from happening and paid the price.
Good God. I was born when the world was fighting the Fascists and if something doesn’t happen to reverse the direction we are headed I will die knowing they won. I wonder if at some point in the future some country will arrest our leaders, put them on trial, and make the people face what they let happen under their noses just like the good Germans were forced to see the piles of corpses left in their prison camps.
I mention JFK and his assassination and the revision found in history by those behind the empire.. to show that THOSE people who killed JFK are STILL at play today, they are the ones who are holding Manning captive and want to silence those who know of their evil deeds.
Here are JFK’s convicting words:
“I’m delighted to have a chance say a few words about this administration’s policy which has been the subject of a good deal of discussion, acrimony and controversy on wages, prices and profits.
Now I know there are some people who say that this isn’t any business of the president of the us and who believe that the president of the united states should be the honorary chairman of a great fraternal organization… and confine himself to ceremonial functions, but that isn’t what the Constitution says.
And I did not run for president of the united states to fulfill that office in that way.
Harry Truman once said there are 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests.
And that the interests of the great mass of the other people, the 150 million is the responsibility of the president of the united states, and I propose to fulfill it.
Then I believe it is the business of the president of the united states to concern himself with the general welfare and the public interest.
And if the people feel that it is not, then they should secure the services of a new president of the united states.”
Ziffell, you are an embarrassment to rational people and a danger to a free society. The US military and the government itself is paid for by the taxpayers. One cannot “steal” what one already owns. Both Assange and Manning are the real heroes, the kind who risk their own security to save the lives of those threatened by the empire’s warlords and seek to bring official crimes to light. While Manning and Assange face the heat, the wholesale murderers for empire receive the accolades, medals, high office, and corporate chairmanships. The real cowards are our leaders and the soldiers they command to do their bidding, who hide behind secrecy and the following of orders, and those who make excuses for them or try to justify what they do.
Running time 10:45 to 11:00 will leave you breathless… for JFK identifies the fraternal order which he denies and will not bow to… and presents a demographic of 10% of wealthy capital owners and the 90% masses / chattel in America… and predicts his own death indirectly.
The reason we are losing democracy is that too many people don’t like democracy and prefer to be directed what to do by some “higher power.” Whether it’s the preacher, a TV performer,or “government officials” or an editor, a celebrity, an employer or a family member—or a mob of fearful idiots.
People like Assange and Manning who do what their consciences tell them are rare and precious. They stand on the side of the angels. What we do to defend
them signifies our relative position on the road toward, or away from, international madness.
In this link, you have to wait for the video to upload… but you can watch it from the beginning while waiting for running time 10:00 to arrive, but by that time you’ll be hooked and you’ll need to reach the conclusion of the matter.. the truth is out there folks.
Arnold Ziffell brings up a supplemental point, thank you.
If McCain was in fact born in Panama, then you can see what that means.
The U.S. is truly an arm of some aristocracy ( its corporation with military and all ) and has just been sold at a bargain price, for the world’s aristocracy’s shorted our debauched currency.
When a government, run by a small elite fraternal order, as JFK says in the link below at running time 10 to 11:15, is able to assassinate such a speaker of peace and equality among ALL ‘class’ of men ( for classifying man indivisibly of himself from others is itself a grievous sin ), well then friends you have the manifestation of empire as in days of old.
Man’s appetite is unquenchable when it is rabidly running wild without restraint, without the notion of love guiding each man’s steps.
By Jim Yell, December 16, 2010 at 5:27 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Most of my life I may have had questions about the actions of our elected leaders and appointed ones too. I did feel very comfortable with what I thought were our core values of fairness and the power of public opinion and some attention to those who say, “this is not right”.
Of course the decay has been developing for decades and some of the supposed values have never been anything but window dressing—-still the spectacle of our government creating privately owned prisons to keep prisoners in, the spectacle of our prisons private and public being allowed to torture, and abuse the incarcerated, even the un-convicted, well that is a brutal collapse of our National Pride in fairness.
Our ideal has always been from the beginning to be government from an informed electorate and yet everything has been done to destroy this ideal by our government and inattention of many citizens. It is a damn shame, as is the arrogance of the public officials that they may dismiss the opinion of the citizens, and the rule of law to protect themselves and their comfortable existence, not to mention their swag.
In regards to writing our hired hands / political ushers, remember to have a decent letter-head and be sure your words are clear and concise.
Sending your powerful and effective suggestion via registered mail / certified mail will make it arrive with an impact above the drivel coming in from handwritten pleas for change.
Hate to put it in these terms, but I wonder if a letter looking ‘business like’ and with ‘money and brains’ behind it, perceived to be from the managerial class rather than from a dependent ‘citizen’ doled on the state’s benefits, jobs, welfare, etc.. from among the chattel.
No offense to anyone, just saying one needs to reach some of these ‘officials’ at their own perspective or at least what they are expecting / readily react to.
RE: By rico, suave, December 16 at 1:54 pm Link to this comment
“inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions.”
You mean he’s on welfare?
rico, you know not how much truth you speak - INDEED! that would
probably be a more severe torture
as one who has navigated the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food
stamps), I can attest: the task, of interpreting for the case workers their own
program guidelines and rules, is enough to drive any educated person to the brink
of insanity
By arnold ziffell, December 16, 2010 at 4:11 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
And…he’s not a hero. He’s a loser. He took an oath. It’s not up to any one soldier to determine if an order is not valid. Look at the idiot Colonel who refused to deploy because he said Obama wasn’t born in the US. It’s the same thing. They are both losers and cowards. It’s not up to the President to prove he was born here. Has that been asked of any other president. And by the way “BIRTHERS” John McCain was born in Panama, you idiots. The constitution says born in the US, not on a military base in another country. Where are the protests about that? And so here is a young stupid kid stealing documents, (yes stealing) and sending them to a foreigner and some of you call him a hero? Wow…
Reynolds, I know, and normally I would ignore it—bit it felt SO good. Anyway, I would have said it while sitting accross the table from him (I have relatives just like it) so why the hell not from internetland.
By arnold ziffell, December 16, 2010 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
All military take an oath to uphold the Constitution and obey the orders of the officers appointed over them. One daily order is to protect classified information. He had no right to disseminate classified documents to a foreign national. During a time of war, which we are in, he should be shot or hung. That is an act of Treason, no matter the reason why. If informatin is to be cleared it must be cleared through channels. It’s the military and if he didn’t agree he should have resigned. I have NO sympathy for this idiot. He broke the law.
Senator McCain
Your own Senators
Eric Holder
American Psychological Associatio
American Psythiatric Association
American Medical Association
American Civil Liberties Association
Amnesty International
Ask the Psychologists what they are doing about it.
Send contributions to Amnesty and Civil Liberties asking them what you can do to help them.
Write Holder and tell him in no uncertain terms that this is not China—not yet—and you are doing what you can to prevent the down-slide. Brief.
Brief and to the point. Don’t rant.
If enough people really care, it will make a difference.
tomack; next the ghoul will ask ‘did i say something
to offend you personally?’
it’s his little game, uncle rico. he says something
entirely offensive to get a reaction (negative
attention is still attention). and then the whining
schoolboy with his satchel; horatio suave with his
intolerable middle school civics class twaddle.
the fatuous suave is neither honest nor intelligent
enough to understand, let alone make, such sacrifice
as young manning has made. expect a torrent of
whatever it is he spews. ten, nine, eight….
By squeaky jones, December 16, 2010 at 12:46 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
It breaks my heart what the Obama thugs are doing to Bradley Manning! Bradley Manning is a real American hero, brave, courageous, a true patriot! Unfortunately, Obama, the military, and the corporate elite feel they need to torture. They do not like real American Patriots!
The Nazis torturedSophie Scholl bfore her trial and execution in 1943, too. After all the Fatherland…ah… I mean The Homeland must be protected , right ?
Truthdig should put this front and center on its site. People need to understand what our government’s doing to one of our own citizens. E.J. Dionne, of all people, doesn’t deserve the top spot. This does.
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By drbhelthi, December 19, 2010 at 2:31 pm Link to this comment
Have psychologists and psychiatrists conspired with
the “chain of command” so as to cause a mental break?
At which point, the U.S. Army spokesperson can
announce to the world that Manning is a mental case.
Or, did CIA-types prescribe this, instead of water-
boarding?
I know one U.S. Army General who would step in and
require humane treatment for this American youngster.
However, he retired several years ago. Are there
others “out there” ?
At least, the U.S. Army/CIA puppetry have not fired a
burst of three into Manning´s skull, as was done with
Pat Tillman. Not yet, anyway.
However, Mr. Manning receives daily injections ? ? ?
What about the German soldier in Afghanistan a couple
days ago. Will the truth reveal that the soldier
committed suicide, rather than become a “Whistle
Blower”? Or was this an insider set-up? The German
chancellor, Mrs. Dr. Merkel, flew to the scene? To
tighten the lid, perhaps ?
A real case for genuine, German journalists who still
Report thispractice journalism.
By Napolean DoneHisPart, December 17, 2010 at 5:55 pm Link to this comment
Let us define some words prior to going further into debate, shall we?
Republic:
a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
Democracy:
government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Building on history, we can ask: How Democratic Was the Roman Republic?
“The very early Roman Republic may have resembled what Thorkild Jacobsen called “primitive democracy” in a chapter that he contributed to a book called The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. In the early Republic, rich and poor, high and low, lived in close proximity and the social and economic gap between them was not so great as it was later.”
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/warddemocracy.html
Even J.F.K in a momentous speech mentions the class divide written into law:
“Harry Truman once said there are 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests.
And that the interests of the great mass of the other people, the 150 million is the responsibility of the president of the united states, and I propose to fulfill it.”
The money interest is the Republic, the owners of the land en-mass and all contained therein, and the Democracy the labor force of people, the masses and their output of energy, creativity and livelihood.
Do we not see that a Republic was enacted when the U.S. Constitution was writ… and the chattel, the immigrant, the slave, the hordes which came later were considered NOT a citizen of the Republic but an alien resident, existing on a land purchased by blood and money, classified and subjected?
Worldly wealth is the class separator.
And guess what?
It is created by man… it is an idea!
The golden calf mesmerizing the masses.
How can anyone defend and uphold such a Babylonian concept which usurps humanity itself?
Report thisBy mack894, December 17, 2010 at 5:31 pm Link to this comment
Democracies leave room for those who question the status quo and challenge
authority. Unlike totalitarian govts, democracies use the rule of law to settle
any disputes in a civilized fashion that includes due process. Democracies do
not punish before conviction; they don’t engage in torture either on native soil
or in foreign countries. They don’t cut off appendages and stick electrified rods
in someones private parts. Those acts are a feature of the many govts we
criticize and have gone to war to eradicate.
Manning took a stand…like many others have done in this country before him.
Democracies deal with these issues intelligently, not with calls to violence and
torture.
These cables had a distribution list of over a million people! The only ones out
of the loop were us. We’re the ones who don’t have the facts, don’t have the
true information. We’re the ones who are the idiots.
I have a problem with that. In reading these cables, I cannot understand why
most of them are concealed from American citizens who are routinely asked for
their vote in support of issues described in these cables. Why can’t I know the
facts about Afghanistan, or Africa, China, North Korea. Why is everything such
a secret in this “open society”?
This is the subject we should be discussing instead of how to castrate and
Report thisdisfigure a 22-year-old boy.
By Napolean DoneHisPart, December 17, 2010 at 1:42 pm Link to this comment
Anyone like to hear, with clarity, your Slavery Model?
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6002
Report thisBy reynolds, December 17, 2010 at 1:39 pm Link to this comment
tomack; i like busting him where his balls are supposed
Report thisto be. not in the mood for his behavioral repertoire.
By reynolds, December 17, 2010 at 1:32 pm Link to this comment
arnold ziffel; what if the law is wrong? suppose the
Report thisapparatus behind this military misadventure is wrong?
we are not at war. we are faltering under the weight of
an insupportable burden. we cannot sustain the hegemony
we would visit upon the world.
charges of treason are in order. hang bush/cheney.
By Queenie, December 16, 2010 at 7:08 pm Link to this comment
I look at that dear, sweet face in sorrow and I think of his folks and wonder how they are taking all this in. It must be a unspeakably terrible for them. I can’t imagine what it would do to me as a parent and grandparent if one of mine had to go through hell as he is. This boy could be any of ours.
This whole nightmare reminds me of the 20 something boy who spotted the live bombs on a plane about to fly over the states, or that HAD already flown over the states. He went home and “committed suicide” didn’t he? Remember that? I think he stopped a false flag attack from happening and paid the price.
Good God. I was born when the world was fighting the Fascists and if something doesn’t happen to reverse the direction we are headed I will die knowing they won. I wonder if at some point in the future some country will arrest our leaders, put them on trial, and make the people face what they let happen under their noses just like the good Germans were forced to see the piles of corpses left in their prison camps.
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, December 16, 2010 at 6:39 pm Link to this comment
I mention JFK and his assassination and the revision found in history by those behind the empire.. to show that THOSE people who killed JFK are STILL at play today, they are the ones who are holding Manning captive and want to silence those who know of their evil deeds.
Here are JFK’s convicting words:
“I’m delighted to have a chance say a few words about this administration’s policy which has been the subject of a good deal of discussion, acrimony and controversy on wages, prices and profits.
Now I know there are some people who say that this isn’t any business of the president of the us and who believe that the president of the united states should be the honorary chairman of a great fraternal organization… and confine himself to ceremonial functions, but that isn’t what the Constitution says.
And I did not run for president of the united states to fulfill that office in that way.
Harry Truman once said there are 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests.
And that the interests of the great mass of the other people, the 150 million is the responsibility of the president of the united states, and I propose to fulfill it.
Then I believe it is the business of the president of the united states to concern himself with the general welfare and the public interest.
And if the people feel that it is not, then they should secure the services of a new president of the united states.”
Report thisBy FRTothus, December 16, 2010 at 6:35 pm Link to this comment
Ziffell, you are an embarrassment to rational people and a danger to a free society. The US military and the government itself is paid for by the taxpayers. One cannot “steal” what one already owns. Both Assange and Manning are the real heroes, the kind who risk their own security to save the lives of those threatened by the empire’s warlords and seek to bring official crimes to light. While Manning and Assange face the heat, the wholesale murderers for empire receive the accolades, medals, high office, and corporate chairmanships. The real cowards are our leaders and the soldiers they command to do their bidding, who hide behind secrecy and the following of orders, and those who make excuses for them or try to justify what they do.
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, December 16, 2010 at 6:19 pm Link to this comment
Running time 10:45 to 11:00 will leave you breathless… for JFK identifies the fraternal order which he denies and will not bow to… and presents a demographic of 10% of wealthy capital owners and the 90% masses / chattel in America… and predicts his own death indirectly.
WOW.
Report thisBy gerard, December 16, 2010 at 6:14 pm Link to this comment
The reason we are losing democracy is that too many people don’t like democracy and prefer to be directed what to do by some “higher power.” Whether it’s the preacher, a TV performer,or “government officials” or an editor, a celebrity, an employer or a family member—or a mob of fearful idiots.
People like Assange and Manning who do what their consciences tell them are rare and precious. They stand on the side of the angels. What we do to defend
Report thisthem signifies our relative position on the road toward, or away from, international madness.
By Napolean DoneHisPart, December 16, 2010 at 6:04 pm Link to this comment
In this link, you have to wait for the video to upload… but you can watch it from the beginning while waiting for running time 10:00 to arrive, but by that time you’ll be hooked and you’ll need to reach the conclusion of the matter.. the truth is out there folks.
http://freedocumentaries.org/teatro.php?filmID=236&lan=en&size=big
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, December 16, 2010 at 6:02 pm Link to this comment
Arnold Ziffell brings up a supplemental point, thank you.
If McCain was in fact born in Panama, then you can see what that means.
The U.S. is truly an arm of some aristocracy ( its corporation with military and all ) and has just been sold at a bargain price, for the world’s aristocracy’s shorted our debauched currency.
When a government, run by a small elite fraternal order, as JFK says in the link below at running time 10 to 11:15, is able to assassinate such a speaker of peace and equality among ALL ‘class’ of men ( for classifying man indivisibly of himself from others is itself a grievous sin ), well then friends you have the manifestation of empire as in days of old.
Man’s appetite is unquenchable when it is rabidly running wild without restraint, without the notion of love guiding each man’s steps.
Report thisBy Jim Yell, December 16, 2010 at 5:27 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Most of my life I may have had questions about the actions of our elected leaders and appointed ones too. I did feel very comfortable with what I thought were our core values of fairness and the power of public opinion and some attention to those who say, “this is not right”.
Of course the decay has been developing for decades and some of the supposed values have never been anything but window dressing—-still the spectacle of our government creating privately owned prisons to keep prisoners in, the spectacle of our prisons private and public being allowed to torture, and abuse the incarcerated, even the un-convicted, well that is a brutal collapse of our National Pride in fairness.
Our ideal has always been from the beginning to be government from an informed electorate and yet everything has been done to destroy this ideal by our government and inattention of many citizens. It is a damn shame, as is the arrogance of the public officials that they may dismiss the opinion of the citizens, and the rule of law to protect themselves and their comfortable existence, not to mention their swag.
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, December 16, 2010 at 4:39 pm Link to this comment
In regards to writing our hired hands / political ushers, remember to have a decent letter-head and be sure your words are clear and concise.
Sending your powerful and effective suggestion via registered mail / certified mail will make it arrive with an impact above the drivel coming in from handwritten pleas for change.
Hate to put it in these terms, but I wonder if a letter looking ‘business like’ and with ‘money and brains’ behind it, perceived to be from the managerial class rather than from a dependent ‘citizen’ doled on the state’s benefits, jobs, welfare, etc.. from among the chattel.
No offense to anyone, just saying one needs to reach some of these ‘officials’ at their own perspective or at least what they are expecting / readily react to.
Report thisBy fearnotruth, December 16, 2010 at 4:24 pm Link to this comment
RE: By rico, suave, December 16 at 1:54 pm Link to this comment
“inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions.”
You mean he’s on welfare?
rico, you know not how much truth you speak - INDEED! that would
probably be a more severe torture
as one who has navigated the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food
Report thisstamps), I can attest: the task, of interpreting for the case workers their own
program guidelines and rules, is enough to drive any educated person to the brink
of insanity
By arnold ziffell, December 16, 2010 at 4:11 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
And…he’s not a hero. He’s a loser. He took an oath. It’s not up to any one soldier to determine if an order is not valid. Look at the idiot Colonel who refused to deploy because he said Obama wasn’t born in the US. It’s the same thing. They are both losers and cowards. It’s not up to the President to prove he was born here. Has that been asked of any other president. And by the way “BIRTHERS” John McCain was born in Panama, you idiots. The constitution says born in the US, not on a military base in another country. Where are the protests about that? And so here is a young stupid kid stealing documents, (yes stealing) and sending them to a foreigner and some of you call him a hero? Wow…
Report thisBy tomack, December 16, 2010 at 4:03 pm Link to this comment
Gerard is right, grass roots all the way. Also send same “concise” letter to local papers and a few of the biggies if you have the time.
Report thisBy tomack, December 16, 2010 at 3:59 pm Link to this comment
Reynolds, I know, and normally I would ignore it—bit it felt SO good. Anyway, I would have said it while sitting accross the table from him (I have relatives just like it) so why the hell not from internetland.
Report thisBy arnold ziffell, December 16, 2010 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment
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All military take an oath to uphold the Constitution and obey the orders of the officers appointed over them. One daily order is to protect classified information. He had no right to disseminate classified documents to a foreign national. During a time of war, which we are in, he should be shot or hung. That is an act of Treason, no matter the reason why. If informatin is to be cleared it must be cleared through channels. It’s the military and if he didn’t agree he should have resigned. I have NO sympathy for this idiot. He broke the law.
Report thisBy gerard, December 16, 2010 at 3:31 pm Link to this comment
I just wrote all those I suggested except Civil Liberties and Amnesty, yet do to.
Onward!
Report thisBy Rob Mc, December 16, 2010 at 2:57 pm Link to this comment
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Is there anything people can do, any group or organization (the ACLU?) we should be contacting to help end this barbarity?
Why doesn’t the military just put him in an iron mask and wall-up his cell?
And a Democrat is in the White House!
Report thisI’m not feeling very audacious, and I’m just about out of hope….
By gerard, December 16, 2010 at 1:46 pm Link to this comment
I think one thing to do is write letters to:
Senator McCain
Your own Senators
Eric Holder
American Psychological Associatio
American Psythiatric Association
American Medical Association
American Civil Liberties Association
Amnesty International
Ask the Psychologists what they are doing about it.
Send contributions to Amnesty and Civil Liberties asking them what you can do to help them.
Write Holder and tell him in no uncertain terms that this is not China—not yet—and you are doing what you can to prevent the down-slide. Brief.
Brief and to the point. Don’t rant.
If enough people really care, it will make a difference.
Report thisBy reynolds, December 16, 2010 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
tomack; next the ghoul will ask ‘did i say something
Report thisto offend you personally?’
it’s his little game, uncle rico. he says something
entirely offensive to get a reaction (negative
attention is still attention). and then the whining
schoolboy with his satchel; horatio suave with his
intolerable middle school civics class twaddle.
the fatuous suave is neither honest nor intelligent
enough to understand, let alone make, such sacrifice
as young manning has made. expect a torrent of
whatever it is he spews. ten, nine, eight….
By squeaky jones, December 16, 2010 at 12:46 pm Link to this comment
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It breaks my heart what the Obama thugs are doing to Bradley Manning! Bradley Manning is a real American hero, brave, courageous, a true patriot! Unfortunately, Obama, the military, and the corporate elite feel they need to torture. They do not like real American Patriots!
Report thisBy LostHills, December 16, 2010 at 10:31 am Link to this comment
This is how America treats it’s heroes in the 2000s, while war heroes like Betrayus
Report thisare touted as presidential material. Welcome to Hell…..
By surfnow, December 16, 2010 at 10:08 am Link to this comment
The Nazis torturedSophie Scholl bfore her trial and execution in 1943, too. After all the Fatherland…ah… I mean The Homeland must be protected , right ?
Report thisBy tomack, December 16, 2010 at 10:02 am Link to this comment
Dear TD, please keep this on front page—it needs more time. It’s important.
Rico-you’re a dick.
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, December 16, 2010 at 9:39 am Link to this comment
Right Elisa,
The ‘disconnect’ from the realities happening outside people’s front door is still NOT REAL enough for most.
Thanks for media’s affect on the mind.
Report thisBy elisalouisa, December 16, 2010 at 9:04 am Link to this comment
Will Americans protest Manning’s inhumane treatment? Of course not. A good
number might even agree with such “insanity induced conditions.”
That’s what is really mind boggling.
Report thisBy rico, suave, December 16, 2010 at 8:54 am Link to this comment
“inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions.”
You mean he’s on welfare?
Report thisBy madisolation, December 16, 2010 at 8:09 am Link to this comment
Truthdig should put this front and center on its site. People need to understand what our government’s doing to one of our own citizens. E.J. Dionne, of all people, doesn’t deserve the top spot. This does.
Report thisBy Michael Cavlan RN, December 16, 2010 at 2:51 am Link to this comment
What is the address of where he is being held, so that we can write letters of
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By RayLan, December 15, 2010 at 11:58 pm Link to this comment
A real soldier
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, December 15, 2010 at 11:25 pm Link to this comment
THIS is the person EVERYONE should be worried about, alongside what happens to those who expose the truth.
He did sign something stating he’d collude with the sins of the empire upon becoming a soldier, but his conscience got to him.
God Bless him.
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