Comments on: National Call-in Week November 15th-18th!

By: Brad Becker

Brad Becker — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:07:00 +0000

As an American veteran expatriated since Nixon’s re-election, and as an admirer of our current president, I am surprised at Mr Obama’s apparent satisfaction with what the military tells him is appropriate treatment of Private Manning. Likewise, it would please me to see Mr Biden apologise to this courageous young man for such a hasty evaluation.

By: Paul V. Cassidy

Paul V. Cassidy — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:07:41 +0000

My email to the Obama/Biden Campaign
Bradley Manning instigated a long overdue debate on ethical soldiering. Had he not the lasting image of Iraq war – as far as America is concerned – would have been the perverse footage which emerged from Abu Gharib. Manning’s stance on ethical soldiering even eclipsed the macabre ‘Collateral Murder’, footage he is responsible for releasing. He shifted the debate from the debased and the despicable to a new debate about ethical intervention and ethical soldiering. Had he not would the Arab Spring or the consensus surrounding intervention in Libya have been possible? Bradley Manning created common ground about the subject of ethical intervention which ideologues of the Left and British and US policy advisers are now all party to. And for this you imprison him in conditions designed to destroy his mental and physical health. Has any soldier in US history ever been punished so severely for achieving so much?

Bradley Manning is not a Marxist, nor an anti-imperialist, he’s not even a pacifist. He is simply a young man who took a stance on ethical soldiering. It took one man to prove an empire wrong and set it on the right course. A course which is regarded as ethical in strategic military terms by many across the West restoring the moral high ground to America and its NATO allies. As a pacifist I will not be one of those people but I accredit this major paradigm shift in interventionist thinking to Bradley Manning. Instead of jailing him and pursuing Wikileaks chief executive, Julian Assange you really ought to have them on the payroll. Wikileaks achieved for the US in one decade what the CIA could not in over half a century, namely a global conversation and emerging consensus on the subject of ethical intervention. Detaining him only serves to muddy the public perception of this fragile developing global consensus.

Bradley Manning is the hero of this moment and the root cause behind it. If you want to cast a spotlight on it an acknowledge the emergence of this consensus you must accept that he is ‘The Man’. Deny him and you deny the birth of this moment: Kill him and you likely kill the moment. Have you any policy advisers worth their salt or are they all Cold-War has-beens who simply saw the War-on-Terror as geopolitics as usual? Well it’s plainly not. The Arab Spring proves that someone got something right and it sure as hell wasn’t the CIA.

Be brave release Bradley Manning and admit that he got it right and that the secrocrats got it wrong.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:28:57 +0000

Here’s another place to find contacts to call and email: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: http://www.state.gov

Main address:
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Main Switchboard:
202-647-4000
TTY:1-800-877-8339 (Federal Relay Service)

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Attorney General Eric Holder head of Department of Justice:
http://www.justice.gov

Department of Justice Main Switchboard – 202-514-2000
Office of the Attorney General Public Comment Line-202-353-1555
E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:46:29 +0000

I also submitted a letter to the Whitehouse at http://www.whitehouse.gov

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:32:46 +0000

I called the Obama campaign office and told the lady that answered how distressed I am about Bradley’s mistreatment and de-facto 560-day punishment with no trial. I pointed out that Amnesty International, UN Rapporteur on Torture, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich had been denied unmonitored visits and that US Human Rights are looking very bad. I stated Bradley should be freed, as already having served a “sentence” and because his trial has been compromised by public statements by President Obama as to his “guilt”.
She said she had written down my statements.

By: Heidi Lucken

Heidi Lucken — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:07:05 +0000

I called in to the campaign office today (312…) the lady was nice and indicated the amount of calls today regarding each particular subject would be tallied and considered/viewed.
I informed her the violations of Bradley Manning will be a major campaign issue and she should get used to people contacting the campaign group/locations regarding Manning…:)

By: paul

paul — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:42:09 +0000

My 2c
Bradley is a hero – full stop (for the yanks that’s like a high5). My heart to you. If he told this – then he is the most brave, the most courageous, the most extraordinary American in the land. He should be lauded as such. If it wasn’t him then his heroism soars beyond our kin.
Round up all those weasels at Wired etc and put them on the spit. See how they like their turn.
Hold on Brad, we’re with you.

By: nigel cairns

nigel cairns — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:07:47 +0000

let’s hope Occupy Wall Street changes EVERYTHING!

By: Jakob Engelstoft

Jakob Engelstoft — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:53:14 +0000

The treatment of Bradley Manning is a shame for a country which calls itself a democracy.
The Nobel peace price should be given to Bradley Manning!
He deserves it even more than Barack Obama.
I want to say to the U.S. Government:
If You want to keep your friends in Europe give Bradley Manning his freedom back!
Stop using torture!!!
Jakob Engelstoft
Waldorfteacher,
Masterpractitioner of Neuro-Lingvistic-Psychology,
Danish citizen living in Stockholm

By: timothy price

timothy price — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:00:37 +0000

I have tried to call for two days, and I get an abrupt comment and put on hold….. forever. I did e-mail them.. for whatever that is worth.