http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJZ1ZDxbBjs

The Ballad of Bradley Manning - Crosby, Stills n Nash

That's awesome.

Bradley Manning faces life imprisonment for doing a service to the whole of humanity by allegedly leaking documents to Wikileaks that exposed for all to see the lies and the war crimes that our political leaders and the military forces they command carry out in our name. Rather than face prison in a US kangaroo court aimed at deterring any future whistleblowers, Bradley Manning should be lauded as a truthteller who helped lift the veil on the secrecy which has hidden from view the depths of inhumanity and depravity that lie behind this era of endless war.

yep,pinned on him with a Bullet!
Wonder what G.W. would have done with a Traitor like Manning!

Mr Conrad why do have so much hatred for someone who exposed massive human rights abuses?

The fact that it was the US government and its agents makes it no less a human rights abuse.

Imagine the outrage if Iran commited such horrendouse abuses?
Or Saddams Irag?

Did we not use Saddams human rights abuses as justification for his execution?

Why such a double standerd here?

Right.

If you help to cover up a murder, you are an accomplice. If you are in business with the murderers, and you help protect them and cover up their crimes, you are an accomplice.

To call Bradley Manning a traitor is a huge stretch.

He didnt reveal secrets that would endanger our country as in the dual citizenship Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard.

All Manning did was tell the truth.

I'm really making an honest attempt to understand how others feel about this...I just can't wrap my mind around it.

traitor, wasn't his truth to tell, broke his vow

huh???

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Bradley Manning chose to uphold the orders of the Constitution of the United states

I sure hope MORE military does the same when they are told to turn their rifles towards their fellow citizens...
would THEY be considered traitors if they refused to follow orders, I think not.

December 22, 2010

Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks
PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
By SHERWOOD ROSS

Under ordinary circumstances, the release of information labeled "secret" violates U.S. law, as intelligence specialist Manning undoubtedly knew. But if the U.S. is an aggressor state, as Germany was when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, doesn't that change everything? America under President George W. Bush attacked two small nations that posed no threat to it. Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was "illegal." He said it contravened the UN Charter as the attack lacked Security Council approval. MIT Professor Noam Chomsky in his book "Imperial Ambitions," (Metropolitan), called the U.S. invasion of Iraq as "open an act of aggression as there has been in modern history, a major war crime."

By ratifying the UN Charter the U.S. agreed to refrain "from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state..." And international law authority Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, Champaign, called the invasion of Afghanistan "an illegal armed aggression that has created a humanitarian catastrophe" for its 22 millions. (Destroying World Order, Clarity Press.)

And as these invasions are criminal, why shouldn't pertinent information about them not be brought to light? Whenever has it been wrong to expose a criminal enterprise? Public-spirited citizens go to the police and FBI every day to report crimes. "Under international law," says Boyle, professor of that subject, "citizens have a basic human right to resist the commission of international crimes by their own government, especially aggression..."

And this is what PFC Manning did. He resisted aggression by informing Americans of how their government breaks laws. The Associated Press reports Manning told an associate, "I want people to see the truth...because without information you cannot make informed decisions as a public." America's Founders believed that, too, and made a free press a cornerstone of the new nation. Ann Medlock, Founder of the Giraffe Heroes Project, says, "In a perfect world, institutions would listen to their staffers when they point out errors, lapses of ethics, and outright chicanery within the organization. Then those holding power would correct those flaws. But...that hasn't been the reality. Again and again authorities just blast away at the truthsayers rather than addressing the problems."

Read the full article at:

http://www.counterpunch.org/ross12222010.html

No one in the military is bound to follow what they deem as an unlawful order..

Why are so many pissed of about this then?

This is where these pundits and their defense theories go awry.

There were tens of thousands of diplomatic cables that were released and there is nothing in most of them that exposes any wrong doing whatsoever.

Therefore, this nonsensical defense is not going to get him anywhere.

Who is pissed off? The people that want him in jail or the people that want to give him a medal?

I have no idea He did not do near the damage done by Jonathan Pollard the israeli spy, all his diplomatic cables exposed were abunch of lies.

Many credit him with jump starting the arab spring with all the emberresing things that were leaked.

It seems when people find out the truth they are outraged.

well..alot of people are just pissed in general.

If he isn't bound to cover up unlawfulness, why do people want to see him in jail?

I'm serious, I'm trying to understand it.

The people who are reacting with visceral hatred for Manning is, are my experience, rooted in irrational emotional appeals.

The tower represents the revealing of the truth and the destruction of the status quo.

People want the truth.

that is all well and good, but it is not covered by whistleblower protections..

Those cables were classified and secret..

If they didn't expose wrong doing then they should not have been released..

That is the bottom line..