<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bradley Manning is a soldier for a regime has killed, wounded and made homeless over 20 million human beings in the last 50 years.<div><br></div><div>What would we say of someone who did what he did while a soldier of the most murderous regime of the previous 50 years (probably the German or Soviet state - if not the US)?<br><div><br></div><div>We regard those who revealed the crimes of Germany and the USSR as heroes, as we should. And we praise the most decorated US soldier of that era for his testimony about US crimes (Gen. Smedley Butler, "War is a Racket," 1935).</div><div><br></div><div>The moral survival of the US depends on our choosing Snowden, Manning, and Assange over Obama et al. </div><div><br></div><div>--CGE</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 27, 2013, at 9:18 AM, E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森 <<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Bradley Manning is a soldier. If you are a soldier,<br>
your ass belongs to the armed forces.<br>
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I dont believe that he aided the Enemy unless one<br>
considers the Amerikan people to be the enemy <br>
(and that is a option, it seems).<br>
<br>
However, when you sign up to be a soldier, you<br>
sign up to be a killing machine nothing less or more.<br>
The military cannot tolerate having soldiers that <br>
practice rebellion. <br>
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Rebellion among soldiers is common enough but if<br>
they fail to overturn their masters, the punishment<br>
is always severe.<br>
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I think Manning is a Hero. He will go to jail<br>
in all likelyhood. We can hope that some honorable<br>
people will be elected who will spring him from the slammer.<br>
<br>
Saying that jail time for Manning will curtail <br>
reporting is not exactly correct. <br>
The CIA-like barbecuing of that reporter guy in California might.<br>
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They can't exactly come after civilians in quite the same way<br>
as they can soldiers. Manning is government property. <br>
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You and I are not, even though they want to act we are.<br>
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On a positive note, I saw that Glenn Greenwald will testify<br>
before Congress. That should be interesting.<br>
<br>
The backlash from the Dreyfus-like treatment of <br>
Snowden, Manning, Assange may harm the Obamites yet.<br>
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Couldnt happen to a better bunch of SOB's.<br>
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On 07/27/13 21:33, Karen Aram wrote:
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