12,000 signatures and counting on the petition to free Bradley Manning
By the Bradley Manning Support Network. August 8, 2012.
Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg supports PFC Bradley Manning
In just one week, more than 12,000 of you (and counting) have signed Daniel Ellsberg’s petition calling on Judge Lind and President Obama to free whistle-blower Bradley Manning. This sent the petition to the top of Avaaz’s community petition page, bringing more spotlight to the heroic Army intelligence analyst who sought to expose crime, abuse, and corruption to the American people.
This is great progress – yet we can and must do much more. Last year, more than 500,000 supporters signed the petition demanding an end to Bradley’s torture in Quantico. That signaled to the military that an international coalition would not tolerate the abuse any longer, and Bradley was moved to better conditions at Ft. Leavenworth shortly thereafter.
We need to demonstrate this scale of support for Bradley now. We must make it politically unpopular for President Obama to keep the preeminent whistleblower of our generation behind bars. Bradley should be receiving the Nobel Peace Prize – not a show trial and a lifelong prison sentence. This petition is an excellent way to spread the word of the various ways in which the military has deprived PFC Manning of his due process rights, and the reasons he should be freed today. Please sign today, and share the link with your friends and family. Bradley needs your help!
After such a terrible long detainment, and no evidence of causing harm to America, rather than imperial interests, Bradley Manning deserves our solidarty.
Please free this young man who did the right thing.
he’s an honest young man
EL NO HA MATADO A NADIE SOLO QUISO DENUNCIAR UNA ATROCIDAD
Bradley Manning is a young soldier working for peace, working to right wrongs, an example for us all.
If and When the Military get through with Bradley Manning Those that have suported him will have forgotten who he is and what he did and standed for in trying to disclose the coruption of the Amerikan Military . The Amerikan Military is the most corupt ofensively blatently Criminaly out of controll organization in the History of the Planet . Politicaly fueld in there beleif they can and do anything they like and no one can stop them ..And the majority of the people they are suposed to be defending know this in there hearts and do nothing ..To see a crime and do nothing is a crime in itself , But to constantly falsely suport one is far worse , as in suport the troops and suport the military and constution and bumper stikers suporting the verry coruption going on daily in this Military and political nightmare ..it is the people of a country that are responsable for judging the ilegal acts comited by there Govt and they have the power in there numbers to stop it , BUT they are blinded by the political Military Propogandizing goes on all around them in Media and there tv sets …turning a Blind eye to anything they do not want to beleive …Sad Amerikan Way……Frank Blackstone
Surely the US government will wake up, we have been here before, as a 78 yo Viet Vet I am disgusted in our Australian government for supporting the US government, our government is ready to crucify Julian Assange for publishing the war crimes, which are as bad or worse than what happened in Vietnam.
Anyhow he has been tortured enough, give him a dicharge and let him go.
I have contacted a public “overseer” of our local newspaper, the Cedar Rapids (IA) GAZETTE about why nothing has appeared in the GAZETTE about Manning’s case, which is the biggest Whistleblower case since The Pentagon Papers & Daniel Ellsberg. She wrote back that probably the reason is because it’s not local or regional news. she assumes they will mention it as part of their national news after Manning’s court martial.
Now what do I do?
Hi Beverly, Maybe a letter-to-the-editor or op/ed piece? Or, paint “Free Bradley Manning” on all Cedar Rapids’ stray cats so it suddenly IS local news? (note: Please don’t really paint any cats, … unless they’re totally into it)