voluntaryistmormon:

tsjr1704:

Spc. Jeremy Morlock admitted to the murder of unarmed Afghan boy Gul Mudin (depicted here). He was only 15 years old. They lined him against a wall and ordered him to stand still before they shot him. Pfc. Andrew Holmes cut off his pinky as a memento. Morlock admitted that this wasn’t the first time he murdered civilians. According to him, soldiers in his Platoon “[threw] candy out of a Stryker vehicle as they drove through a village [and shot] children who came running to pick up the sweets.” The Pentagon worked for months to get these pictures deleted and suppressed. He was recently sentenced to 24 years in prison.

Private Bradley Manning, horrified at the war crimes unfolding around him, reported them to higher authorities in his chain of command. When they told him to keep quiet about it he published the details of the crimes to the public. He is facing the death sentence. Is there something wrong here?

I think there just might be!

Who is Bradley Manning and what did he do to face the death penalty? 

I’d say Bradley Manning is ten times the war hero Chris Kyle was but then I’d be multiplying by zero. 

Edit: Guys, I know who Manning is. Thanks. Also, it looks like prosecutors have said that they won’t seek the death penalty, but Manning is eligible to receive such a judgement. 

(via thefreelioness)

antigovernmentextremist:

talkstraight:

enemyofthestatist:

Free speech is as illusory as the “just enforcement” of the “laws” of this country. Murder is murder. Period.

When was Bradley Manning ever tortured?  If anyone actually believes that I have a bridge to sell you.

Solitary confinement for 7 months and I heard reports that he was forced to be naked for much of that. I also read that they forced him to be strip searched regularly by female officers to humiliate him (because he’s gay).

From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement.  For 23 out of 24 hours every day — for seven straight months and counting — he sits completely alone in his cell.  Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he’s barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions.  For reasons that appear completely punitive, he’s being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on suicide watch).  For the one hour per day when he is freed from this isolation, he is barred from accessing any news or current events programs.  Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions are not “like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole,” but confirmed that he is in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he is taken out.

Just by itself, the type of prolonged solitary confinement to which Manning has been subjected for many months is widely viewed around the world as highly injurious, inhumane, punitive, and arguably even a form of torture.  In his widely praised March, 2009 New Yorker article — entitled “Is Long-Term Solitary Confinement Torture?” — the surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande assembled expert opinion and personal anecdotes to demonstrate that, as he put it, “all human beings experience isolation as torture.”  By itself, prolonged solitary confinement routinely destroys a person’s mind and drives them into insanity.  A March, 2010 article in The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law explains that“solitary confinement is recognized as difficult to withstand; indeed, psychological stressors such as isolation can be as clinically distressing as physical torture.”

And remember he hasn’t been convicted of anything yet.

People are both blind and bias. America is us and Afghans are them, the terrorists. I can understand that, to a degree. I just don’t get the blind defense of someone who clearly lost it and killed multiple people as opposed to condemning another for realesing info in the hopes of ending an illegal war.