International Days of Action for Bradley Manning – September 16 – 19
By Katharine Dawn
Rallies, demonstrations, “Collateral Murder” film screenings, whistle-blowing parties and forums will be held around the world between the 16th and 19th of September 2010 as vital expressions of international solidarity with Bradley Manning.
San Diego Days of Action poster
Accused of leaking a classified US military combat video showing the gunning down of Iraqi civilians (released to the world by WikiLeaks as “Collateral Murder”), Pfc Bradley Manning has been held in isolation since May 2010 and faces 52 years imprisonment.
With concerns high for this young man’s fate, events held as part of the International Days of Action will call for the withdrawal of charges laid against Bradley Manning and his immediate release. Rallying to the slogan “Exposing war crimes is not a crime,” supporters maintain that a young man’s life should not be destroyed for a courageous act of conscience.
As Israel and the US ready themselves to attack Iran — endangering the world with an insane escalation of hostilities in the Persian Gulf — the relevance of the issues for which Bradley Manning has become an icon are acutely intensified.
When US soldier Ethan McCord said “we do this every day” of the civilian slaughter he walked into after the “Collateral Murder” attack, he was stating an established fact. The reality of his statement has been corroborated by many, including UN President of the General Assembly D’Escoto Brockmann, and is irrefutably substantiated by the recently leaked Afghan War Diaries with their endless entries of civilian deaths resulting from authorized US military operations.
Soldiers who try to raise issues of war crimes in the field with their superiors are systematically and sometimes brutally silenced, while those who cannot remain silent by the nature of their conscience are persecuted severely if discovered. Pfc. Bradley Manning, acclaimed as a hero by Daniel Ellsberg (the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War), is a perfect example.
This is, at its heart, an issue of truth in public media.
Bradley Manning is not a criminal and should not be treated like one. He acted in thye best interest of every American when he made the disclosures. I sincerely hope that the government will refrain from prosecuting him. In the event it goes ahead with prosecution, I hope and pray that he gets the best legal defense. He is in my thoughts and prayers at all times.
Thomas, a legal team may or may not save Bradley, but, if the public fund a good legal team for the guy, it sends a message to the government that the public will do its upmost to protect one of its own, especially someone who acted in the public’s interest.
If the public continue to do very little, it’s a loud and clear message to the politicians that they can do what they hell they like.
Obama consults with Warren Buffett, the richest man in the world. Buffett talks to Bill Gates, Congress is full of millionaires, and the CEOs effectively control the White House. The so-called elite are all looking after each other, carving up the cake between them, while the public sits on its hands allowing these rich criminals to treat someone from their own class like a hardened mass murderer.
Prosecuting Bradley Manning would the the ultimate act of cowardice for Obama and the military. None of them have any backbone; they can only destroy the lives of vulnerable individuals.
They had all better hope death is truly the end, that we are all nothing but atoms moving about, that our entire existence is a pure illusion.
Of course, trying to reason with psychopaths is like trying to plead with an incoming drone bomb to not explode.
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We SUPPORT Bradley Manning and every North American who believe in Democracy & Government Transparecy.
The CIA US GOV external affairs failed in Brazil teaming up with the corrupted Brazilian ARMY spreding terror, torture, dirty tricks & lies since 1964.
Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is learning a great DEMOCRACY lesson, from outside in.
I would like to thank PFC Bradley Manning for risking his entire future so that we could know the truth about what our country does in our name.
Hello to everyone on it. Great thanks to all supporting this bravo man Bradley Manning giving great supports to the world society with his self-motivated moves of risking his own life & future & his family & relatives & friends of fighting back the USA terrorism government & US Army forces that has been harmful & damages at huge costs of properties & human life lost to US people itself & countries & people around the world. CIA dark force take covert & subversive actions against himself & his acquaitances particularly with satellites uses & laser weapon uses.
Another public campaign started from early Oct. 2006 at https://www.PetitionOnline.com/10clv024/
to reveal the truths of the secret global terrorism wars of aggression running by CIA & Washington with outer space military hostile attack & invasion uses & transcontinental relayed-thr-outer space ground-laser surgical strike weapon system uses
Regards.
Also nun auf deutsch: Bradley Manning ist kein Verbrecher und sollte auch nicht als solcher behandelt werden. Er hat Mut gezeigt, als er die falschen Informationen ueber Afghanistan ans Licht brachte und somit die Sinnlosigkeit dieses Krieges der oeffentlichkeit vortrug. Ich stehe voellig hinter ihm.