Comments on: Global Bradley Manning Action Days underway

By: Anne Ryan

Anne Ryan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:40:57 +0000

I too am an older person. When I was growing up, I was proud of my country and believed that we did not do things like this. I am not sure if there was any truth in that at all as I review history. But one thing I can say for sure is that these have to be some of our very darkest days and I am so sad that we sold our values out so easily and so thoroughly. I am ashamed every time I pick up a paper. We are not heading for fascism-we are already there,.
God bless Bradley Manning. He is suffering for his decency.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:53:19 +0000

Here are some photos from the rally for Bradley Manning in Sydney – it was a really windy & rainy morning so the crowd wasn’t huge, but we were loud!

Photos here: http://on.fb.me/eNmwEX

And videos of a few of the speakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1K7u9YKpxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUiimyGMVsQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqswz9Me-lA

By: ghostofzigz

ghostofzigz — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:41:05 +0000

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By: lin cleveland

lin cleveland — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:15:51 +0000

@ Jeff Paterson

i came hoping to write a note to Bradly. is he ever allowed to read and respond to emails?

saw your dad, brad! he’s a great guy. i have a son suffering ptsd. we’re all to some degree suffering with you.

lin

By: Charlotte Burns

Charlotte Burns — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:18:57 +0000

I turn 60 next week. I cannot believe the way the direction this country has gone in since the Bush v. Gore election. Deep down I always believed in this country, in our democracy. But lately I have this sunken feeling that we are moving towards an “1984″ Nazi style regime. Everything that has been going on from the years and years of isolation that prisoners suffer in supermax prisons, to the acceptance of torture, to the unwillingness of our congress to deal with our “selection” system, to the dismantling of our manufacturing and the resulting joblessness, to the takeover of media by a few corporations, to the growing “brown shirt” movements by groups like the Teaparty, to the fraud that Obama turned out to be, to the Patriot Act and their disregard for the Bill of Rights. It is so depressing. Danial Ellsberg wasn’t treated this way. Bradley Manning is a courageous young man. The heliocoptor massacre should have been a scandal on the level of Abu Grab or the Mi Lai Massacre. It should have been the buzz for weeks. But no. If I didn’t watch “Democracy Now” (I know few people who do) I would never have heard of Bradley Manning. The news blackout is disturbing in this country. I am glad I’m 60 and don’t have to watch the downfall of our civilization or even the destruction of this planet much longer. The only thing that gives me a glimmer hope is the rise of democracy in South America.

By: Sheldon Tupperman

Sheldon Tupperman — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:43:14 +0000

It is very difficult to “be nice” and use polite words to describe the the anger and extreme disgust I feel every time I think of the infamous way in which this young man, Bradley Manning is being maltreated, threatened, humiliated and kept in appalling conditions under which not even animals in zoos are kept.
If Bradley was a female and subjected to the humiliation of having to stand naked in front of the male henchmen at Quantico, the outrage among feminists from all political persuasions, creeds, races and ages would be overwhelming. The extreme arrogant and cruel behavior of that female, Denise Barnes shows that she is a sexual pervert, either out of homophobia, the fascist mentality in which she has been trained and “educated” or that she simply is one more of the millions of people in the US who have allowed themselves to be brainwashed by the fascistic FOX NEWS, and by other extreme right wing radio and TV hosts that pour pure venom into the ether.
That President Obama “believes” the word of the Commander of what has become a hell on earth, namely Quantico, that the treatment given to Bradley “meets basic humane standards” is either extremely naive and gullible on his part, or much worse, that he, the president, has become a black version of George W. Bush and other Republican politicians. I am extremely disappointed in this man.
I am 91 years of age, so I won’t be able to attend the rally on March 19, but my thoughts, my love and my solidarity are with this beautiful boy Bradley.
It’s time that this disgrace stops!

By: Jeff Paterson

Jeff Paterson — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:48:17 +0000

Yes, BradleyManning.org has been slow, and occasionally down, over the last week. Over the next two weeks, we’ll have a team of folks taking steps to significantly improve the situation for the website going forward. This will include a complete redesign and migration to a new server host. We also expect to bring on board a paid intern to work on the site daily so that our diverse grassroots actions and efforts are better represented here (see job posting on the home page).

By: Datalove (:=~~~~ » Bradley Manning- Excuses for Torture

Datalove (:=~~~~ » Bradley Manning- Excuses for Torture — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:52:41 +0000

[...] this in a military jail in Kuwait. At the time of writing, Bradley has been held in isolation for over 300 days, charged with disclosing the ‘Collateral Murder’ video and releasing thousands of US Embassy [...]

By: Ricardo Camilo López

Ricardo Camilo López — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:50:35 +0000

bradleymanning.org is way to slow (taking more then 30 seconds to load the home page) and I am getting more often than not 500 server errors from bradleymanning.org
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$ traceroute bradleymanning.org
traceroute to bradleymanning.org (173.236.222.85), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.194 ms 0.292 ms 0.411 ms
2 CORE1-fhrp-n64-253.aceinnovative.com (66.114.64.253) 24.456 ms 28.268 ms 32.224 ms
3 206.ge-1-3-0.mpr1.lga5.us.above.net (64.125.180.74) 32.753 ms 34.147 ms 35.120 ms
4 xe-1-1-0.cr1.lga5.us.above.net (64.125.26.161) 39.276 ms 39.925 ms 40.565 ms
5 xe-3-2-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net (64.125.26.101) 44.745 ms 46.352 ms 47.232 ms
6 xe-2-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net (64.125.29.37) 74.915 ms 55.896 ms 83.682 ms
7 xe-0-0-0.cr2.iah1.us.above.net (64.125.30.66) 61.328 ms 65.709 ms 66.371 ms
8 xe-2-0-0.cr2.lax112.us.above.net (64.125.25.18) 98.375 ms 99.940 ms 100.929 ms
9 xe-0-1-0.mpr1.lax7.us.above.net (64.125.30.5) 101.069 ms 101.431 ms 102.116 ms
10 64.124.196.90.t00867-01.above.net (64.124.196.90) 169.788 ms 171.371 ms 171.975 ms
11 ip-66-33-201-221.dreamhost.com (66.33.201.221) 120.054 ms 155.582 ms 155.733 ms
12 ps40360.dreamhost.com (173.236.222.85) 96.521 ms 92.710 ms 92.314 ms
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$ ping bradleymanning.org -c 4
PING bradleymanning.org (173.236.222.85) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ps40360.dreamhost.com (173.236.222.85): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=91.6 ms
64 bytes from ps40360.dreamhost.com (173.236.222.85): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=91.2 ms
64 bytes from ps40360.dreamhost.com (173.236.222.85): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=89.7 ms

— bradleymanning.org ping statistics —
4 packets transmitted, 3 received, 25% packet loss, time 3000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 89.751/90.897/91.655/0.860 ms
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