Comments on: Congressman Dennis Kucinich Renews Demand to Visit with Pfc. Manning

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:25:55 +0000

It’s fascinating how people who are ‘limited’ are able to move the focus away from the issues and on to themselves. I wonder if that is intentional? Sometimes it’s hard to know if someone is stupid or just mean.

By: Spy Hater

Spy Hater — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:05:40 +0000

What a joke. Kucinich needs to take his worthless self back to Ohio. He has demonstrated time and time again his goal is self advancement and not the advancement of the AMERICAN people or our cause. Manning (The Spy) will have his day in court. He has one of the best civilian lawyers in the business. If he goes to jail (or worse) after found guilty, it will be giving him what he deserves. If found not-guitly and if its found he is being set up…the courts should make him a rich young man.

By: Charles Decelles

Charles Decelles — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:57:48 +0000

Everyone has a constitutional right to a speedy trial in this country. Manning is guilty of nothing until he is fairly tried and convicted. Even then, this information was made secret not to protect the USA, but to hide the malfeasance of of the government. Putting a SECRET stamp on a document should be done only when the objective is to protect the country, not government officials that are committing and or allowing illegal acts. I don’t think that the government has a case. They need to back off and begin treating Mr. Manning in an humane way.

The US government is not occupying the moral high ground here. These people are more like Nazis than moral Americans. We’ve gone so far away from the ideals that this nation once embraced. But what can you expect from a nation that is teaching the world to torture?

By: William L. Christensen

William L. Christensen — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:41:18 +0000

T. Jefferson said “only an informed people can maintain a democracy.” A person or an institution who holds secrets from another may or may not be ones enemy but certainly cannot be ones friend. Holding secrets from an enemy requires keeping “secrets” from me. The people are the enemy of a de facto government. James Otis said in about 1765 “We owe allegiance to no de facto government” Official American citizen, W.L. Christensen AMERICANS WAKE UP. RISE UP.

By: Medea Benjamin: Under Obama, Better to Commit a War Crime Than Expose One | News Feeds Blog

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:30:31 +0000

[...] this Quantico or Abu Ghraib?” asked Rep. Dennis Kucinich in a press release. Good question, congressman. Like the men imprisoned in former President Bush’s Iraqi torture [...]

By: Randall Sparks

Randall Sparks — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:41:19 +0000

Dear President Obama you are head of the U.S. Military and I am asking you to give fair treatment to private Manning it your responsibility to give this to an American. Please do not torture him and if you have stop
don’t be like George Bush and Dick Chaney but you forgave them mabe the next president won’t forgive you.

By: Jeanne Desocio

Jeanne Desocio — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:28:24 +0000

Dennis Kucinich is right to demand to know who was responsible for sending Bradley to Iraq when it was suspected he had PTSD. The military is giving mentally ill soldiers Psychotropic drugs and before they are cured sending them back to battle. Many so called patriots who scream “support the troops” don’t give a damn about this travesty of justice. Maybe if the military was not doing such a dastardly thing to the troops then WikiLeaks never would have happened.Find out who sent Manning to Iraq before he was fully evaluated for PTSD and punish him/her for the treason of betrayal of the troops. Of course George W. Bush should of been charged with that war crime. The treatment of Bradley Manning is beyond cruel and unusual punishment a violation of Amendment VIII. To deny him a right to a speedy trial is against Amendment VI. Are all the rest of the members of congress asleep? Democracy is waiting for the other members of congress to wake up. Go Dennis Kucinich.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:40:51 +0000

In response to “What Can I Do?” I’m just an ordinary person. I wrote my congressmen, the U.S. State Department, the president and vice president, added my voice of support for Manning on appropriate blogs, and gave to his legal fund, twice. Others have assisted getting the word out by adding the websites that support Manning to their blog rolls, others have been more creative such as this You Tube Julian Assange video has a request to support Manning in it’s credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPwf1ywpxcA

By: L.M. Marshall

L.M. Marshall — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:13:30 +0000

I feel that we, the U.S. public who are aware about what is happening to Private Bradley Manning are powerless against those that hold Bradley Manning. I feel Congressman Dennis Kucinich is just as powerless against the strong forces being used to “punish” Manning for “embarrassing some in our own as well as other world governments.
It would be useful if another member of Congress could team up with Kucinich in attempting to secure a release of Private Manning.

By: Natureboy

Natureboy — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:47:18 +0000

Why can’t Kucinich (or any well-known person)assemble the media and show up at the gates of the prison? Force the issue and up the ante a bit. The military knows they are wrong to treat Manning this way. They also know that they can get away with it, as long as the masses stay mesmerized by their bread and circus. Sure would be nice to see 100,000 people show up for a 3 week protest at the prison — might be the best way to get noticed.
If this were a moral and just land, Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld etc would be behind bars, and Manning would receive accommodations.