Update 8/19/13: Sentence to be announced in next few days. Community actions planned in response
Vigil at Fort Meade 12 Aug 13. After the sentence is announced, take action in your community!
The final sentencing arguments were heard today in Bradley Manning’s trial.
Judge Lind will begin deliberating the sentence tomorrow morning, and we expect the sentence to be announced in the next few days. Community actions are being planned in response to the announcement, and a mass online shout-out/Thunderclap for Bradley Manning is planned for tomorrow, August 20th at 7pm ET. The campaign will not rest until Bradley Manning is set free.
Host an event in your community in response to the sentence (to be announced in next few days).
Take to the streets hold signs, demand that President Obama pardon Bradley Manning, write the newspapers, write your representatives. We must take action now! Bradley Manning has spent more than 3 years in prison while awaiting his trial, and he faces up to 90 years in prison. A three time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and conscientious soldier who exposed war crimes, corruption, reckless secrecy should be rewarded not imprisoned! Learn more about hosting an action in your community!
Join the mass online shoutout/Thunderclap for Bradley Manning:
There is no minimum sentence! Judge Lind can do the right thing.
Bradley Manning faces up to 90 years in prison, however there is no minimum sentence and so Bradley Manning’s future sits in the hands of Judge Lind. Commenting on the possible sentence, Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project said that the US government is sending a message, ”You choose your conscience over not only your career, but your very freedom.” Let’s hope Judge Lind has strength to do the right thing. (Read more…)
A sentence of time served sounds very reasonable to me.
Time served!
Give this soldier a Medal !!!!!!!!!!!!! We can never correct war crimes if we never hear about them !!!!!!!!!! Whistle blower protection NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Fulfill your campaign promise NOW President Obama !
Time already served and OTH so that he can receive his full benefits. This government has already made his life hell.
An OTH (Other Than Honorable) discharge would not allow for any benefits, with the exception of VA medical care for a an jury diagnosed to be service related. However, yes, I’m sure Bradley would be willing to accept an OTH if it meant being able to live his life!
To tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth — isn’t this a standard that everyone is supposed to honor? Bradley Manning is a person that I would invite into my home. He isn’t a murderer, a thief, violent, dishonest…I would be proud if he were my son. My heart reaches out to this young man. He only wanted to let the world know the truth.
Bradley has suffered enough…in prison, tortured, and not protected for exposing war crimes…how can this be…how can those that want to take the rest of his life away, sleep at night, how can they look in the mirror, and why are we not looking at those crimes he exposed? Why?
I m sure sentence is not legitimated
Time Served and also award him the Nobel Peace Prize
It’s time to arrest and prosecute the war criminals behind this travesty of justice. Hundreds of activists protested Bradley’s unjust imprisonment and the massacre of innocents in Syria in front of the White House last night, against a spectacular backdrop of lightning. I’m writing this drinking coffee out of a Lockheed Martin mug that says “DMS. Global Solutions for Secure Messaging” in red, white and blue. It wasn’t made in China by coincidence. Fascist scumbags can’t buy love.