Bradley Manning

[Stargazer]

I wonder what others think of this? It really means that injustices must be hushed up or the whistle blower will suffer and really suffer in Bradley Manning's case. He was kept in an 8 x 8 foot cage without clothes for months before the trial without representation. It would not be allowed to happen in other circumstances.

This trial and sentencing is to deter anyone from speaking out against a more powerful adversary namely the government.

Is he a martyr, hero, or foolish to think that there would be justice?

[emmie]

he must have known what would happen if caught, there is no mighty thunderer than USA when it feels it's security is being compromised, including banging up more of it's citizens than any other nation on the planet.

[jake-the-peg]

There is an amazing hypocracy at work here.

Some of the things Bradley Manning exposed were war crimes plain and simple.

The US was a driving force at Neurenberg - it was clear that 'only obeying orders' was not an excuse.

Resisting obeying orders and exposing these massacres is what Bradley Manning did

His major mistake was to release too much irrelevant material - items about who said what about who in diplomatic correspondance.

That has allowed the US military to set the focus on tittle-tattle rather than on the machine gunning of civillians

[emmie]

they don't like to be seen to be weak, it's the way it works.