Comments on: Update 6/2/13: Nearly two thousand rally for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade

By: majav

majav — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:07:37 +0000

Gus Van Sant didn’t even know who Bradley Manning was. And, he’s a man who “prides” himself in the treatment of heroes and anti-heroes.

I am so glad the issue is getting some “mainstream” press, if only today.

Ironically, RT (Russian) cable news does a pretty good job covering the Manning issue the last few days. They have even been quoting/using Democracy Now! tidbits.

Who would have ever thought the Russians would be so balanced in their news coverage while the mainstream American Media has basically censored the topic or have been very biased against him.

Strange times.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:10:15 +0000

So where is the video with the nearly 2000 people??? Inquiring minds want to know. I HATE deception. Makes me want to doubt anything said about Bradley on this site and today is my first time here… argh!

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:01:20 +0000

The House of Rothschild bought Reuters news service in the 1800′s. Within the last 20 years, Reuters bought the Associated Press. Now the Elite own the two largest wire services in the world, where most newspapers get their news. The Rothschilds have control of all three U.S. Networks, plus other aspects of the recording and mass media industry according to research by Eustice Mullins in his book ‘Who Owns the TV Networks’.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 23:37:50 +0000

People are trying to cope with unemployment, loss of retirement and traumatized by so called “terrorists”. People don’t even realize that they are uninformed and that the media is all owned by 4-5 corporations and that they only see what is intended for them to see. Bradley Manning, Monsanto, civil unrest and crimes against humanity are going unnoticed all across the world. There used to be a day when journalism was really journalism, not anymore. You won’t hear about Bradley Manning, Monsanto poisoning and killing us or the real truth about chemtrails and what is being sprayed and by whom on any major media channel unless it is disinformation.

By: Susan Thorpe

Susan Thorpe — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:03:18 +0000

60+ showed up at 9 AM in Tucson………should have been more but at least there were some of us. We often hold signs for freeing Bradley Manning at the weekly War Protest in front of the Federal Court House on Thursdays. I wish there were more of us who would come out for public demonstrations.

By: Laurie Brown

Laurie Brown — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:53:55 +0000

Advertising sadly controls editorial to a certain degree. I will make a call the to the Baltimore Sun tomorrow.

By: Laurie Brown

Laurie Brown — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:47:08 +0000

And NO argument about the police making it nearly impossible to find. And they were very nervous. I tailed them for a while. But you have to BEAT on the media to show up. It’s so easy to click “like” or “going” on a Facebook page and nobody does anything. If you don’t get the media to show, everyone just looks like a bunch of hippies. I have beating on the Baltimore Sun via Twitter since yesterday. Maybe I will have to call them in person. The could be RELEVANT again. The Washington Post no longer is. Sorry, I used to be in the newspaper business. This is such a HUGE story but newspapers are whores to advertisers.

By: Laurie Brown

Laurie Brown — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:36:25 +0000

When I can run through the crowd like a jackrabbit, there are not two thousand people there. Show me an aerial view.

By: Gerry Condon

Gerry Condon — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:41:49 +0000

Veterans For Peace members – scores of us – were very happy to take part in the Fort Meade march and rally yesterday. Also present were members of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Veterans support Bradley because we HATE war and the lies that send our young men and women off to kill and die for corporate profiteers. We LOVE our war resisters, our truth tellers, and our whistle-blowers.

As Bradley has said, we cannot have a democracy without an informed citizenry. So we are glad to see excellent coverage of the rally today in the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, Associated Press, Real News, and lots of international outlets. The Bradley Manning Support Network succeeded in its goal of framing the debate favorably for Bradley just before the Army’s kangaroo court martial gets under way.

Keep on fighting for Bradley, especially all you veterans. Look for action updates at http://www.veteransforpeace.org.

By: Jeff Paterson

Jeff Paterson — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:13:41 +0000

Hi Laurie. We have a number of videos we’re posting that show that indeed “nearly two thousand people” participated in the march. No, not two thousand–but well, well over one thousand. Because of the heat, many people did not stay at the second rally location–so if those were the only people you were counting, that might be the issue. Additionally, we had at least one hundred people who missed the event after being turned away entirely when most of US 175 and Reece Road were unnecessarily shut down by police at approx. 12:45pm for miles in most directions. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, who is shown saving the lives of the children in the “Collateral Murder” video was one of them. That Ethan had come from Kansas, but was not able to make it the last 5 miles to rally, is an indication of the difficultly people had. Our Steering Committee member Rainey Reitman was another person scheduled to speak but was not able to. If you were not already there before 1pm, the police made it very difficult to impossible for you to get there.