Not in good communication with the authority = concern of suicide? Then watch out! Many people around you are suicidal, and you should report them to hospital and put them into POI watch.

Ironically, for people who do not want to commit suicide, if they are put into such an strict and isolated watching condition, they may start thinking of killing themselves or their mental condition starts to degrade. I think those brig officials should be put into such a condition for a while then we can see what they will say about the treatment to Manning.

Also, in US, psychiatrists can make almost diagnose everyone to have sort of mental disorder. If they think someone is not at risk of suicide from mental problem, that guy should be in pretty good shape. And if Manning wanted to kill himself, he had lots of chances.

Watching those brig officials bullshxtting their excuses during recent hearings, I feel nothing but sick and disgusting. Want to reduce the government expending? How about starting from closing Quantico Brig and laying the staffs and officers?

Blenis testified under oath that he “considered himself Bradley’s “advocate” at the brig.” By advocate, Blenis apparently meant “someone who uses every tool at his disposal to betray the person for whom he is said to advocate.”

Blenis set himself up as Lord of the Brig, deciding that he knew more about Manning’s psychological state that the brig psychiatrists, whose training and job it was to make these evaluations.

Though Manning was by all accounts a model prisoner at Quantico despite the horrific conditions of his detainment, Blevins sought to provoke in Manning the behavior he was already being punished for by repeatedly lying to Bradley about the assessment of the psychiatrists (thus undermining his trust in them), by lying to Bradley about his family’s interest his welfare (rejecting a birthday gift and not telling Manning about it), and by his continued insistence that Manning “play nice” by conversing with his jailer not too much, not too little, but just the right amount.

It is this clown Blenis who should be on trial, not Manning. It is the way the army runs its brigs that should be on trial.

One is sickened these days by the almost unbelievable hypocrisy of a series of U.S. administrations, including our current president and secretary of state, that tour the world to lecture other countries about their record on human rights while ignoring our own. The trial of Bradley Manning is one more sad, sick episode of our inability or unwillingness to hold the mirror up to ourselves.

Contrast the treatment of Bradley Manning for his act of conscience with that of Robert Bales, who is accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians (including 9 children) in what has been dubbed the Kandahar Massacre. Five days after confessing to the murders (since retracted), Bales was flown to Fort Leavenworth, “described by the Army officials as a state-of-the-art, medium/minimum custody facility…. Bales is being held in special housing in his own cell and is able to go outside the cell ‘for hygiene and recreational purposes.’” Bales is also charged with 6 counts of assault, … abuse of steroids, alcohol consumption, burning corpses, attempting to destroy evidence, and assaulting an Afghan man the month before the massacre. [Wikipedia]

But apparently the army does not deem Bales a risk to harm himself or others. It took Bradley Manning, who exposed murder and corruption, more than nine months to attain the same status as Bales. There is more–so much more–but let’s leave this disgrace here for now.