Bradley Manning Support Network Praises New Advocacy Organization
New Advocacy Organization Adds to the Growing Number of Individuals and Organizations Standing Up for Bradley Manning
February 22, 2011, Washington, DC – The Bradley Manning Support Network is proud to support the newest addition to the movement to support accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning. The Bradley Manning Advocacy Fund launched earlier today in support of the United States Army soldier accused of disclosing classified materials. The Fund focuses on connecting the media and the public with friends, experts, journalists, retired military members, whistle-blowers and academics who can provide insight and expertise on PFC Manning and his case, as well as correcting widespread misinformation.
“The Advocacy Fund serves a vital function in our movement, providing the public with truthful information about the case and combating the widespread misinformation about Manning. We’re happy to be working alongside the Advocacy Fund and promoting each others’ efforts,” said Mike Gogulski, founder and steering committee member of the Bradley Manning Support Network.
The Advocacy Fund is a 501(c)(4) organization hosted by the Institute for Media Analysis. To learn more about the advocacy fund, contact:
For more information please contact:
Naomi Seligman, 310.627.4577 [email protected]
Trevor FitzGibbon, 202.406.0636 [email protected]
To contribute to the fund, visit: http://bradleymanningadvocacyfund.org
Note: Currently, funds donated through the bradleymanning.org website are directed to the defense fund hosted by Courage to Resist. The Bradley Manning Support Network will be providing links to the Advocacy Fund in the future, so that donors can decide whether to fund the legal defense and grassroots campaign, the media effort or both.
Bradley Manning is a hero for me.
If all people were like him, our world would be a better place.
The State is using him as a scape goat, to scare everybody else off.
We should all come together in order to help him.
Birgit
Dear Mr. Manning,
You have not been forgotten. I am only one of the millions of Americans who believe your treatment has been barbaric, unconscionable and illegal. It is a shameful chapter in the history of our beloved country.
I look forward to the day when your courageous act of informing
the taxpaying public of its goverment’s wrongdoing is universally recognized for what it was. I look forward to your freedom.
Sincerely,
David P, Kozinski
I am perplexed.
I have been told by Manning supporters that his attorney, Coombs, is restricted by military legal process from forcing changes as to the conditions in which he is kept.
Indeed, I can’t help wondering whose side Mr. Coombs is on given an apparent lack of legal action to change those conditions. From what I can tell Coombs is still connected to the military himself and generally respectful of it.
Military legal process is not above constitutional law. Constitutional law governs all aspects having to do with prosecution of alleged violators. The military cannot violate the legal edicts on what is proper treatment of those accused.
If Manning were being accused and held in civilian facilities under those he is experiencing as a prisoner of the military there would be any number of motions put before judges demanding changes and perhaps even recompense. It matters not, one excuse offered by the ignorant, that a military judge has not yet been assigned to Manning.
Coombs, in the absence of such an authority ought to be bringing a habeus motion before a Virginia Federal District Court demanding the necessary changes to ensure Manning’s well being.
The fact that he has not should lead to a confrontation with him.
Yes! I know about Manning having chosen him as his attorney. That raises questions about Manning’s own legal competence to function in his own regard. It is rare that an accused has the competence legally to deal with such matters themselves.
My point is the legal technicalities and rules, designed after all by the ruling class itself in its own interests, be damned. Somebody has to step forward and present these issues to a Federal judge, the legal basis for standing to do so being the responsibilities cast on individual citizens by both the Nuremburg edicts and as well the Geneva Conventions.
I live in Atlanta and am an old man. Nonetheless, if I had the resources I would myself, if I could not find a sympathetic attorney to do so, walk into the Federal District Court in that Virginia venue and present a set of demands in proper form on paper and insist that a judge order that the conditions under which Manning is held be changed to be no more restrictive than those accorded any civilian prisoner accused of high felonies.
Somebody with a modicum of the legal knowledge I am here addressing ought to do just that after first warning, out of fairness, attorney Coombs.
Jack Jersawitz
404-892-1238
[email protected]
Amen to Jack Jersawitz.
It’s scary to see what is happening to whisleblowers lately. Bradley Birkensfeld, who exposed tax cheats hiding money in Swiss banks rots in jail; Tim DeChristopher, who tried to stop the sale of our national forests to mining interests and even came up with the money to pay for his bid was found guilty; and Bradley Manning, the brave young man who dared to expose the atrocities of the military we pay for rots in the most draconian, Victor Hugonian circumstances. This is America? This is the country that I was taught was the best country in the world, the envy of the world, the land of the free, while our competition, the Soviets, had gulags, torture, forced confessions, a one party system, spying on its citizens, confiscating and ransacking of “suspects” without warrents. Sound familiar.
Pretty disgusting. Sieg Hiel here we come!
Bradley Manning Vigil and Rally – Dec. 16 & 17
Maryland:
http://www.facebook.com/events/197157767036046/