Public Rally Outside Quantico Base to Support Alleged Whistleblower Bradley Manning
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Manning held in Quantico Brig, facing 52 years in prison, for exposing war crimes
What: Rally in Support of Whistleblower Bradley Manning
When: Sunday, August 8, noon
Where: Quantico Marine Corps Base where Manning is being held in pre-trial
confinement; we will meet at the Amtrak station in Quantico
Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, stands accused of disclosing a classified video depicting American troops in Iraq shooting civilians from an Apache helicopter in 2007. Eleven people were killed, including two Reuters employees, and two children were critically injured. No charges have been filed against the soldiers who did the killing.
News sources have also speculated about Manning’s involvement in the leak of over 90,000 secret documents (collectively known as the Afghanistan “war logs”) made public by WikiLeaks on July 25.
“No top-level officials in the Bush and Obama administrations have been held accountable for their roles in dragging us into the Iraq war on the basis of lies or for potential war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. But whistleblower Bradley Manning sits in jail in Quantico, facing up to 52 years in prison,” says Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. “It’s totally unjust and that’s why we’re going to Quantico to call for Bradley’s release.”
The whistleblower behind the Vietnam era’s Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has called Mr. Manning a hero. ”I admire the courage of Bradley Manning for sacrificing himself to make the public aware of the futility of the war in Afghanistan,” says Ellsberg.
“Blowing the whistle on war crimes is not a crime,” says former Marine Corporal Jeff Paterson of Courage to Resist, a group teaming up with the Bradley Manning Support Network to raise funds for Manning’s defense.
You’ve demonstrated not the qualities of a solider but that of a true inspirational person ,-with a strong moral backbone and the courage to stand up to the web of American terrorism, oppression and lies. Unfortunately this is how the “free world” responds to those who are brave enough to stand up against war crimes a…nd indeed, mass murdering war criminals. Further helping to expose the true extent to which the American government will go to keep it’s strange hold on the world and ultimately participate in war in order to create a common enemy to suppress the global population and create huge amounts of money for the global elite,- as we all know, war generations billions in profit. You’ve smashed down the American military industrial complex and rightly shown the world the true colours of what is happening in the world. Unfortunately the masses of ignorant fat idiots and mainstream media won’t be forgiving, but know what you did was the right thing to do.
To Bradley Manning:
You may be considered to be a traitor to the U.S. Government, but you are not a traitor to our Constitution, in exposing the crimes and wrongdoings that are being done “in the name of Americans”. It took great courage at your own personal risk to expose to the world all the wrong that is being perpetrated and being kept in secrecy from us. It is one thing to defend our country from those who do, or plan to do us harm, but it is quite another to perpetrate crimes and killings in order to control the oil and riches of the world on behalf of the very rich. It is wrong to lie to start wars and to manipulate the American people via the media.
I hope and pray that no harm will come to you and that Americans who know the difference between right and wrong will continue to rally behind you and help you to regain your freedom. We deserve and want to know the truth, and you, sir, did just that. Something that our corporate media and apparently our own government will NOT do. I hope that out of all this, we will somehow be able to get our government to the right thing. You are a true hero and a great humanitarian.
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