Save human rights whistleblower Bradley Manning!

By the Bradley Manning Support Network. October 5, 2012.

Bradley Manning’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination has worldwide support because the information he allegedly released to the public uncovered human rights abuses and corruption, and contributed to peace and democracy. Nobel Laureates like President Obama shouldn’t send Nobel nominees to prison for life! After more than 2 years of pre-trial imprisonment by the US military, and multiple instances of outrageous government conduct, it is time to drop the charges and free Bradley Manning!

Petition to allow journalists to record Bradley Manning's trial

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To the Hon. Sec. of Defense Chuck Hagel:

According to the PEW research institute, Americans get most of their news on television.  United States vs. Bradley Manning is one of the most important trials in America today, and covers such fundamental issues as the American public’s right to know what government officials do in our name with our resources, and whether our military is following international human rights law.

The judge has determined that most of the proceedings are safe for the public to attend, and so it’s outrageous that journalists are not being allowed to record this historic trial in order that Americans everywhere can stay informed of what happens in the courtroom.

As the Presidentially appointed office responsible for civilian oversight of the U.S. military, the Secretary of Defense should take responsibility for ensuring that these proceedings are accorded as high level of public accessibility as befits the historic and unprecedented nature of the proceedings themselves.

We therefore call upon Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to act immediately to ensure journalists may use electronic recording in the press room.

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7 thoughts on “Save human rights whistleblower Bradley Manning!”

Kerry on October 5, 2012 at 11:08 pm said:

Right now our country is waging a war at home against bullies. In the media, in the schools, on Facebook and at home the talk is about bullies. What happens when your 16 year old son looks you in the eye and says. “Who cares cares, our country is the biggest bully.” We need to be able to say with conviction, No, son. Our country stands for freedom and protects those who see injustice and expose it. It protects our right of free speech so that we cannot become bullies.”

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Kathy Russell on October 6, 2012 at 7:38 am said:

Free Bradley Manning

Outrageous that he’s in prison. Whatever happened to free speech? Free Julian Assange while I’m about it. Long live whistle blowers. Such injustice!

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Jeremy Kitcat on October 6, 2012 at 7:55 am said:

The United States appears now to be a terrorist state.

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betsy barker on October 6, 2012 at 1:58 pm said:

An unbelievable travesty of justice has been committed regarding the treatment of Bradley Manning. Our governments should be open and honest with us, those who put them in “power”, Whistleblowers who expose evil within government should be rewarded, not punished. Democracy is undercut by such episodes as this one.

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Catherine Adams on October 7, 2012 at 2:23 am said:

This should not be allowed to happen. Isn’t America meant to be land of the brave, home of the free? Well, why is Bradley Manning in prison for telling the truth? I never knew embarrassing a government of a supposedly civilised, western civilisation could lead to imprisonment. I’ve worked in the U.S., and thought I knew how it ran quite well. Guess I didn’t know America quite as well as I thought I did! Let him go!

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VICTOR CAVIN on October 7, 2012 at 7:08 am said:

I believe that the corruption and greed that controls much of what Western Nations has as a society needs to be taken down and people with a conscience and courage like Bradley Manning should be given the power to do something about this. They see the truth and broadcast the truth when the media do nothing but support the status quo and keep the masses in blissful ignorance while they are used as slaves for BIG business. Capitalism has failed the people and the people need to take action.

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Robert Hauser on October 15, 2012 at 5:39 pm said:

America has long since become the Graveyard of the Once Free and the Disneyland of and for Sociopaths. The words “military justice” have come to be an oxymoron as the government is flaunting its long held but unwritten thesis that the Constitution is “irrelevant” in the army—I find what is happening to Bradley Manning, the vanguard for peace, far worse than infuriating but proportionally far from surprising: immediately after Korea, the army, alone of all the branches of the armed forces, saw fit to court martial, punish and ruin those who for any number of superb reasons had failed to escape from North Korean POW camps—-ludicrously accusing all of them across the board of “colluding with the enemy” —-Bradley Manning, aside from being indisputable Nobel Prize material, is the poster boy against economic drafteeism among many other American societal ills.

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