Comments on: Bradley Manning sentencing concludes, closing arguments on Monday: trial report, day 35

By: Andres Pope

Andres Pope — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:50:59 +0000

Totally agree one of the worse things to do is humiliate an Empire, The people can have anything they want. The trouble is, they don’t want anything. At least they vote that way on election day. Andres Pope

By: Erik Bird

Erik Bird — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:59:09 +0000

Wasn’t there a point in the pretrial when judge Lind indicated she does not want the trial of Bradley Manning to turn into a debate about foreign policy? I can’t find a reference to it other then on an aljazeera blog. It seems like ignoring some of the possibly illegal U.S. gov. actions indicates Lind’s approval of selective prosecution, it’s ok for the government to look the other way when favoured people violate the law but aggressively prosecute others. Selective prosecution makes it easy for the gov to prosecute a whistle-blower while ignoring the crimes brought to light by the whistle-blower. A pretty clear example of selective prosecution is the Thomas Drake case, as far as I know very little was done to investigate the likely fraudulent billion dollar SAIC contract Drake exposed to the public. It would have been nice to see the Lawrence Franklin espionage case brought up at trial, leaking classified documents on Iran to the Israel lobby as Franklin did seems like pretty blatant espionage yet he got 10 months house arrest. Oh well, maybe it’s best to view it all as a farce designed for our entertainment.

By: JoAnn Witt

JoAnn Witt — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:22:19 +0000

I can’t read all of those charges. How many times does she have to say the same thing????? The government doesn’t like to be embarrassed. We get it!

If people in the government and military would “just do the right thing”, they wouldn’t have to be embarrassed! But, the government got caught, and the “powers that be” are embarrassed.

No one should go to prison over this, except the people, who “did the wrong things.”