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To: US Department of Defense; US Department of Justice
We, the Undersigned, call for justice for US Army PFC Bradley Manning, incarcerated without charge (as of 18 June 2010) at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
Media accounts state that Mr. Manning was arrested in late May for leaking the video of US Apache helicopter pilots killing innocent people and seriously wounding two children in Baghdad, including those who arrived to help the wounded, as well as potentially other material. The video was released by WikiLeaks under the name “Collateral Murder”.
If these allegations are untrue, we call upon the US Department of Defense to release Mr. Manning immediately.
If these allegations ARE true, we ALSO call upon the US Department of Defense to release Mr. Manning immediately.
Simultaneously, we express our support for Mr. Manning in any case, and our admiration for his courage if he is, in fact, the person who disclosed the video. Like in the cases of Daniel Ellsberg, W. Mark Felt, Frank Serpico and countless other whistleblowers before, government demands for secrecy must yield to public knowledge and justice when government crime and corruption are being kept hidden.
Justice for Bradley Manning!
Right on…and keep it going…
Charles Stalnaker…
Very Thanks!!
Bradley Manning is a hero.
Free Manning!!
Desde esta parte del mundo:
Seguimos queriendo saber siempre la verdad.
Tal vez no estemos preparados para actuar en consecuencia, pero sí para no dejar que nos mientan.
La población requiere información con MaYúSCuLaS.
Sois la elite, sois imprescindibles.
Go Bradley!
Hi, I have some questions:
What is Bradley’s birthday?
Do Bradley’s relatives support this site?
The officials should not care about the leaks but about those who burke their failures.
Regards, Simpl
Убийц – под суд! Тот кто помог их раскрыть – герой!
From Argentina, we send our support to Bradley and the hope that justice will prevail.. Vamos bradley todavia!!!!! el mundo necesita soldados como vos, que le digan no a las miserables guerras de los millonarios asesinos.
@Бурьян Ю: спасибо!
@Sergi & Matias: Gracias!
@the rest: Thanks!
I went to high school opposite Bradley in Montgomery County, MD. He went to Whitman, I went to Paint Branch, though years before him, I was Class of ’91.
I was in the Army long before Bradley, and I will still be working around the Army long after he’s gone. I had my first security clearance when he was in elementary school.
Bradley was smart enough to understand the terms of his enlistment, complete his training, get a security clearance, and all of the NUMEROUS non-disclosure agreements to get that clearance.
We have something in America called the Constitution, and that places the military under civilian authority. Bradley agreed to abide by the regulations set forth for the Army by Congress and the civilian authorities such as the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army and their representatives.
Privates do not get the ability to decide what information gets released. If the State Department wants to keep its message traffic secret, the power is not given to some rulebreaking kid to decide otherwise.
He’s probably not going to go to prison. He’ll get off light. In earlier times he would have been executed for espionage and/or treason.
Play big boy games, win big boy prizes. He knew the rules, he broke the rules. He’ll go down in history as another spoiled whining kid who thought he was special and wasn’t.
The preceding comment was brought to you by:
Author: Daniel Kemp (IP: 146.53.3.5 , POLKDOIMPX350205.polk.army.mil)
E-mail : daniel.g.kemp@gmail.com
God bless you, Bradley.
From what I have read online in various articles, I dont think the army has a good case.
EMAILED to Daniel Kemp:
“Privates do not get the ability to decide what information gets released. If the State Department wants to keep its message traffic secret, the power is not given to some rulebreaking kid to decide otherwise.”
Oh really? You actually have the NERVE to bring up Rule-Breaking? Pay attention to your surroundings, and you’ll see who the real rule-breakers are.. unless the following lies dont count in your book:
Staging the Gulf-Of-Tonkin incident, FDR allowing Pearl Harbor to happen, Bush Sr. Orchestrating JFK assassination, non existence of WMD’s, Execution of pending Anti-War vet Pat Tillman, the Future knowledge of the Oil Spill, CIA controlled Opium trade in Afghanistan and countless others.
Accidental History vs. Conspiratorial History
http://threeworldwars.com/intro.htm
Who is the Controlling Elite?
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/
After one is to realize that he is only helping to perpetuate lies, all NDA and confidential paperwork becomes Null-and-Void. Maybe not in a legal sense (your claim), but certainly on a MORAL and HUMANITARIAN level, which is what the constitution is REALLY here to protect.
You obviously have NO IDEA who you are actually serving (the New World Order) which is hell-bent on controlling every aspect of your life and your family’s.
Hopefully your arrogant and clueless post earns you a lifetime of email spam.
Good day sir,
Veritas
Veritas, your e-mail has been answered directly. Go back to your tinfoil-hat conspiracy sites. This is not about the Illuminati ruling the world behind the scenes. This is about one young man who knew the rules, willingly broke them, and now has to face the cost of that.
Mike, I suppose the concept of Bradley accepting the responsibility and consequences for his actions is just old-fashioned and out of the question?
I will debate this subject all day, every day as my schedule permits.
Daniel G. Kemp
Fort Polk, Louisiana
daniel.g.kemp@gmail.com
reply to Daniel Kemp
We only know Bradley Manning is arrested, but stil without charge.
We realy know Daniel Elleberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, the world wil never forget Ellesberg.
What has happened to Manning? Why there is no more information of this? Is he still in Kuwait?
On peut être militaire et avoir une conscience, une morale. En France, par exemple, le général Jacques de Bollardière a ouvertement condamné la pratique de la torture en Algérie, raison pour laquelle il fut condamné à deux mois de forteresse. En Israël, des membres de Tsahal ont témoigné de crimes de guerre commis par leur armée. Pour ma part, je ne vois pas ces personnes comme des traitres à leur pays mais comme des hommes et femmes d’un exceptionnel courage et d’une très grande humanité. Les tenants d’une obéissance aveugle à la hiérarchie militaire jouent avec le feu car cet argument peut tout excuser: tortures, viols, meurtres. Point d’accusés pour tous les massacres commis par les armées allemandes et japonaises lors de la seconde guerre mondiale: les soldats ne faisaient qu’obéir aux ordres. Aucun coupable pour les sanglantes années de dictature militaire en Amérique du Sud. Non coupables, ces fous sanguinaires qui se sont amusés et enthousiasmés à canarder tout ce qui courait sous leur hélicoptère… La barbarie n’est pas toujours où l’Occident affirme qu’elle se trouve.
Doesn’t the public have a right to know if American forces are firing upon unarmed civilians and then laughing about it? From what I have read Bradley did a brave thing to let people know about wrong-doings of some of the US Apache personnel. Why haven’t these other guys who pulled the trigger been charged with a crime. All Bradley did was to publish the truth.
Our government does shady shit all the time. They would like it if nobody was watching them, but that will never happen. I support Bradley Manning because what he saw a cover up of unethical behavour. The military should be embaraced. It took courage to do what he did, but pride was his downfall… next time someone leaks information, keep yer mouth shut.
Free Bradley Manning! He is a hero for getting this information out there. The public had a right to know what our military does.
Bradley Manning is among our country’s great heros. He took a risk by blowing a whistle and speaking truth to power. Although I am a strong supporter of our country’s mission, Bradley should not be punished for leaking this video which shows a clear violation of America’s high morals and ethics. Bradley should be released immediately and honored.
In Specification 2 charges, PFC Manning was charged with unauthorized disclosure of information, for reasons of national defense, to wit: a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007. Manning’s charge #2 states that he did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the video, or cause the video to be communicated, delivered and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive it, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(1), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
Ironic, here we have a brave-as-hell whistle blowing hero making our troops, nation and world safer from war, and patriotically obeying his enlistment oath to the United States Constitution. Yet, the Executive Order of which he is in supposed violation is criminal; the war is criminal; Obama’s continuing war is illegal; and all these administration and top brass military cowards that stand behind illegal Executive Orders and cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, torture, loss of nations, values, limbs, families — they, these traitors, they stand behind their corruption smugly as they take huge salaries and convict this young patriot.
And Obama has taken seven times more cash from Goldman Sachs than amBush took from Enron. Go figure. Go Obama (as in RESIGN!). I don’t care about all the liberal catching up on small fry Bushcrap, Barrack Hussein — stop your war crimes and find where your heart is located, if you have one, Mr. Teflon II.
Manning, you honor us all. Thank you, young man! Obama, you dishonor this nation, and you are a corporate puppet.
Justice for Manning.
Daniel…you nailed it. I am retired USAF and I agree totally. He is not a hero in my opinion at all.
Bradley Manning was exposing a coverup. Jn:3:19 And this is the condemnation,that light is come into the world,and men loved darkness rather than light,because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light,lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in God” The army hates the light being shone on their evil deeds. So they will condemn the truth teller,and intimidate any others that may be so inclined to come forward. The army is the coward and Bradley courageous.
I am Chinese,I support Bradley Manning,hope he can live in other good country happily and will not be charged by USA.
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
- Abraham Lincoln
PFC Bradley Manning is a hero. My cousin who is still on the Vietnam Memorial wall as POW/MIA is also a hero. My ancestors who fought in the revolutionary war and the civil war and WWII are heroes. Those who are prosecuting him are the problem, not him. They are fine with murdering journalists and children. “They shouldn’t have brought their children to a war zone if they don’t want them getting hurt!” Guess what idiot: THEIR ENTIRE COUNTRY IS A WAR ZONE thanks to the corruption running rampant in the USA.
They must find it difficult…Those who have taken the authority as the truth, rather than the truth as the authority. -Gerald Massey
The “Justice Department” is also prosecuting a whistle-blower who revealed dozens (maybe more) of ultra-rich who were sheltering their millions and billions with the help of UBS. He got 40 months, they got “fines” that weren’t even close to the amount they owed the American public.
And these same ultra rich complain about how their taxes are used for welfare.
How dare the people’s money is used for the people in a land that claims to be “for the people by the people”.
Fools continue to watch Faux News, Rupert Murdoch’s third reich and continue to be lead into the desert.
Just like Daniel Ellsberg, Bradley Manning did what was the morally correct thing.
I praise and support Bradley Manning. I hope that in a similar situaton I could display the same courage.
It’s not Bradley who should be held in custody but those who abused their status as soldiers and killed INNOCENT people! The fact he’s being charged for this is beyond me, what is the world coming to!
Merci. Je suis totalement d’accord.
Slaughter of civilians is nothing new to warfare since WW II. And don’t forget the My Lai Massacre in March 1968, in Vietnam.
The Army guys who witnessed the killing by helicopter and tried to stop it were threatened after reporting to authorities. Threatened with death many times into civilian life for reporting the atrocities. Finally, many years later, were awarded top medal for valor. Justice eventally wins, but it takes time.
Don’t kill the messenger! Bradley merely shed light on a severe military misconduct. Now the military needs to fix this. But not by silencing the voices of conscious.
Bradley should get a medal and go free!
don’t kill the messenger. free bradley!
The US violated the Geneva convention. Manning did the right and honorable thing. He is an American hero.
I would love to meet this hero. God bless you, Bradley.
Bradley is a hero to Americans who DO support the Constitution. The facts are that these american soldiers were on a killing spree, how many had they done before they were caught. Remember the Geneva Conventions and Nuremberg! Free Bradley long live the true patriots, the whistleblowers blowing the whistle on US imperialism and genocide.
+1
Thanks Manning….the corporate, blood-sucking, evil, murdering, satanic cult who are playing chess with the world need to be exposed. They have no loyalty and will sell USA in a heartbeat.
There is no exception to the regulations that says “If you think it was moral to violate regulations, you don’t have to go to jail.” It is not an excuse.
Bradley broke the regulations regarding release of classified material, and will be prosecuted for it in exactly the same manner as if he took a suitcase full of cash and a friendly hooker from a Russian KGB (well, SVR these days) agent.
Again, I’ll debate this with anyone. The only person who will try to argue with me is that Illuminati-fearing kook “Veritas”.
Daniel Kemp
daniel.g.kemp@gmail.com
Daniel Kemp, your silly appeal to “regulations” only underscores your immoral mindset and your blindness to the issue. As if “regulations” somehow trump truth and humanity! Your appeal to “regulations” is not an argument for Manning’s persecution, but in fact an argument for repealing and/or defying said “regulations”.
Daniel Kemp said:
25 June 2010 at 10:40 pm
I went to high school opposite Bradley in Montgomery County, MD. He went to Whitman, I went to Paint Branch, though years before him, I was Class of ‘91.
How did you know where Manning went to HS? It’s not published anywhere. You must be one of the perverted spooks setting him up.
Our Federal Government has a way of shutting down whistle blowers:
Sibel Edmonds – perpetually gagged by the Bush administration for exposing State Dept. mischief… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds
Kurt Haskel – posed questions regarding the Xmas underwear bomber to the Fed, gets treated like a nutcase. http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/01/kurt_and_lori_haskell_we_talke.html
Where’s the Main Stream Media on this stuff?
more on Kurt Haskel:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/31/infowars-lawyers-says-crotch-bomber-helped-onto-plane-by-american-agent/
WHERE is main street media, where they always are…hiding behind the skirts of the Pentagon and a corrupt imperialistic government. You will find no new information from the lamestreet, print only what we tell you media unless the Pentagon delivers them a message to write about. There are no real investigative reporters in the main street media. If you want to know the truth about anything these days we have so few sources of alternative reporting. DemocracyNow.org is one of the best, otherwise there are some online sites. When Rolling Stone magazine has to report the truth, you know the media in the US is in bad shape. Free Bradley, Americas young hero.
Daniel Kemp says:
9 July 2010 at 4:46 am
“Again, I’ll debate this with anyone.”
Well, Danny Boy, what happened to your BIG MOUTH?
How do you know where he went to high school?
Is it true that you and your spooky ilk unlawfully accessed the records of PFC Manning?
What happened to rules and regulations?
Bradley Manning you are a hero and a credit to your parents for raising you with a strong sense of morality and the courage to try and put things right where possible. It is abhorrent that I have not read anywhere condemnation of the barbaric attack by the murderous thugs in the helicopter. Many of us have suspected that behind this veneer of supposed civilisation which our Western governments parade under lies a sickening hypocrisy which has been capable of barbarism and terrorism worse than that committed by our “enemies”. (Allende, Contras to name but a few)
Obama you are a disgrace, why have you not spoken up and condemned this barbaric act, why have you not initiated an investigation into whether there are other crimes against humanity hidden away behind “classified information”.
Bradley Manning should be given a medal not prosecuted.
My my… polk.army.mil
Mike, you big leaker, you! Make me proud!
Well Daniel, let’s just hope you aren’t called away to search for WMDs somewhere. I would sure miss your objective point of view, not to mention my money that would be wasted on your adventures… um, I mean mission.
@Chris Thomas: “Although I am a strong supporter of our country’s mission…” If this whole affair doesn’t make you question the moral authority of the military, what on earth would?
Would you support the boy scouts if it were leaked that they were shooting windows with bb-guns and their scout masters were covering it up? It wouldn’t make you question the organization itself? Sounds like irresponsible patriotism to me.
Daniel: Should Harriet Tubman have been convicted of running the underground railroad? It was against the law. Just that one question Daniel. Go ahead.
Only the empires of the evil hide the public’s relevant facts, they practice the censorship and they pursue in a vile way who it published them.
We can’t afford these occupations any more.
It will end US.
$600 B/Year.
AND IT DOES NOTHING FOR US.
Debate in the senate about health care?
this took up all of 2009/ and part of 2010.
Debate on “emergency supplemental July 2010 for Iraq and Afg?”?
one hour.
$32 Billion.
Other than the 110? that voted against this insanity,
(+10 cons)
The rest cannot ever be considered fiscal conservatives.
+- 325 Congress are not and can’t claim ever to be fiscal conservatives.
They are tax and spend war mongers.
They love military pork.
And, when the 99er’s are out of luck,
because all of their jobs are overseas
because of Nafta, Cafta, Gatt, Wto, world bank, et al
the greed of the money and the lobbyists for the monopolies,…
we have to worry now about the debt?
Now about the deficit?
Tax and waste war mongers can shut the fuck up about the deficit.
David Marden
One hour? Uuuuffff.
Exactly…Harriet Tubman broke the law.
mean people are psychopaths. Truth is simple.
I cannot even imagine the guts and courage it takes for someone to buck the entire established order like this! He sacrificed himself for the good of the nation. You are a credit to the nation.
Thank you Bradley!
There were German soldiers during WWII that helped/allowed Jews to escape death, and that was highly illegal under their laws. In time, those “law breakers” would be viewed as heroes for saving lives. Manning did the right thing, and will be honored int he future. Hopefully he will still be alove when that day comes.
what got us into the veitnam war…the gulf of tonkin incident. Daniel Ellsberg released the pentagon papers via the newspapers and eventually ended the war. today what is the reason we are at war… 9/11 was not what it first seemed…. as the kids in this video suffer, and you all think….what a shame…. to ignore is to condone. dont ignore….dont condone. listen to David Ms comment above – July 30 at 1:06am. Kick the about 325 congress members out. out out out. those 325 people cant control 300,000,000 people. Lt. Ehren Watada is truth. wake up fellow Americans
love your neighbor as you love yourself. after this life, I and You, we will be judged. prepare for that moment… more than any. dont be fooled by the media, which is mostly controlled by just a few individuals influenced by the bad, into participating in any evil action. where should our tax dollars go. let’s see, a trillion on guns for war ….or to schools…hmmm
Bradley Manning is an American Hero, and should be treated as such. RELEASE HIM NOW!
Free Bradley Manning. Stop the war crimes,
Throw the real criminals in jail, politicians, bankers, and the oil industry.
Un pais decente no debería encerrar a gente decente sino premiar su valor… hay que ser muy decente y tener mucho valor para hacer lo que ha hecho Bradley Manning. Mis más sinceras felicitaciones a todos los que contribuyeron a su educación, debeis sentiros orgullosos.
Dear Bradley,
You are a hero to many of us and we more than appreciate your sacrifice. The Political climate is pretty bad right now with the Tea Party gaining supporters and so many folks voting for the wrong party and people to strengthen the US and not weaken it but I still have hope that the truth will win and you will be free some day soon. You have a lot of people supporting you – more than you know – for example, it took me two (or is it three months?) to write this email but I’ve been with you from the beginning. Hang in there and they’d better be treating you well. Much love from all of us who want to create an honest and fair US and not let these crooks and war mongers get off scott free any more.
Dear Bradley Manning
My thoughts and prayers are always with you………
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