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Does this picture look correct to you? Or has our government gone so far
out of bounds that the good are severely punished while the cyrpto-facsists are rewarded for spying on the innocent? Bradley Manning got thirty-five years for turning over among other information the video showing US Army helicopter pilots gunning down an innocent journalist and then attacking his rescuers, killing the van driver and grievously wounding his two children. ("Collateral Murder"). There is not one documented instance of any American suffering harm by the documents Manning released. Even Vice President Joe Biden was
constrained to admit there was "no substantive damage" from the leaks. Indeed, the effect has been to open the eyes of a population whose minds are numbed by corporate and government propaganda that now passes as news. The Apologist-in-Chief, who once told the UN he would work to expand the protections for whistleblowers, promises reform of the security establishment by appointing an all-insider commission to study the problem of overreach that finally angers the American public--more soporific pablum for public consumption. Snowden made the only logical choice to stay in Russia when faced with persecution by a government that devours its own. Thirty-five years is a lifetime in prison for trying to educate your fellow citizens about the wanton an reckless behavior of a government that has lost its moral compass.
US Person hopes Manning is pardoned, or paroled early for good behavior. Manning, 25, suffers from
gender dysphoria and has publicly requested hormone therapy while in prison.
[credit: John Cole, Times-Tribune]
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