This “war” by the US affected the entire world. Outside pressure is also needed, however they’re doing a good job at shutting it off.

Example there’s a news report recently of a white guy killing a black guy in self defence in the states he got off so the courts are racist apparently – ok, that’s bad, but not a single mention of Manning case.

However, lets just assume that was a “non-intention mistake” for a while, and we look at what happened afterwards. It turns out to be that this kind of mistakes happened again and again. From drone killings, NATO air-strikes, and night raids, you can see all these kind of killing innocent people event happening repeatedly. There are never efforts of reducing these unjust killing and wars.

Also, war is not an excuse at all, and never can be the excuse. Otherwise, we justify doing extremely bad things under the name of war, and we will find there’s no reason to condemn Nazi at all. It’s world “war” II, isn’t it?

Thank you for saying that.

we the people hold Manning’s truth to be self evident.”

Now we just have to free him — and ourselves — from LAW in the hands of the lawless.

What sickens me most is that women — once fairly universal victims of laws and lawmaking that enabled tyranny on women’s lives; women who even yet remain embattled for our human rights — women, like the judge and the prosecutor’s witness, are wielding law for lawlessness and tyranny. This is clearly the case in the shocking treatment of Bradley Manning under a hammer RULE OF LAW that only tyrants and the lawless can mistake for justice. This galls my feminist soul and politics. Everywhere I see women seem to be taking the lead, speaking for and implementing tyranny, violating human rights wily nilly. As though the Western world’s early feminists and women’s rights advocates struggled merely to take their seat at the table of tyrants, not to dismantle tyranny! For this, the lives of Jane Adams, Emily Green Balch, the suffergettes? For shame! Judge Lind does women’s history a grave disservice and no woman worth her integrity should stand for it. I find this repeat feminine face of fascism (check out Nazi Germany, it is chilling) horribly troubling. I for one, encourage all peace women to petition and demand of the National Council of Women’s Organizations, a coalition of organizations which pool the activist strengths of 12 million American women, women’s rights advocates, to address these blatant violations of established humanitarian law in the Manning case, and to hold Judge Lind accountable to a feminist yardstick of justice.

Women’s rights advocates claim “women’s rights are human rights”, acknowledging implicitly and explicitly that human rights are universal. To remain silent when women in power/in office violate this inalienable principle of “rights”, is the height of irresponsibility. After all, women now hold public office on the strength of the women’s movement. Women must hold women in public office accountable. WOMEN are a political class; we are self-aware of this power when we wield our political voice for our HUMAN RIGHT to good health care, which includes safe abortion; surely then it is in our interest to wield this same power in every case, to drive human rights into the rule of law as inalienable and clearly differentiated and definable from the (lawless) rule of power (violation of human rights).

The silence of women as a political class in Bradley Manning’s case( as also Edward Snowden, and a myriad other whistle blowers) is a blind-spot in women’s struggle for human rights that needs to be gone, NOW. For all the individual women on the correct side of history, standing tall with Bradley Manning, leading the fray, if only we could manifest our collective political voice and demand Bradley Manning’s freedom under human rights law. It is only right.