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Give Bradley Manning His Pillow and Blankie Back

By: lexington_concord (Diary)  |  December 16th, 2010 at 07:30 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Glenn Greenwald is really, really upset that we have taken Bradley Manning’s pillow and blankie away. He’s so upset, he’s written one of his typical 8 billion word posts (complete with several pointless updates) explaining, in his prissy and hyperventilating style, that we’re effacing the poor boy’s personality (which by all accounts, would be a desirable result in this case, but that is beside the point, I suppose) with TORTURE.

OK. Well, I suppose I really wouldn’t want to be put in solitary confinement and have my pillow and blankie taken away. In order to avoid this result, I have made a conscious decision to not access and steal highly classified information from the United States and sell it to a sex offender from Sweden. Thus far, my strategy seems to be working, but if that ever changes, I’m sure you’ll all hear about it on Glenn Greenwald’s blog.

Glenn Greenwald is constantly telling us that the reason the terrorists want to kill us is not because they are regressive degenerates who hate Western values like freedom and tolerance, but rather because they just don’t like our military policies and how we’re all meddling in their business.

Well, I am not a man without a heart, so I am willing to propose a solution to Greenwald’s problem which I am confident the Army would be amenable to. As an added bonus, it will serve as an opportunity to validate Glenn Greenwald’s views on the causes of Islamic terrorism. We will give Bradley Manning his pillow and blankie back, and remove him from solitary confinement. In fact, we’ll let him be around lots of people. We’ll call an emissary with the Taliban or Al Qaeda, and tell them that we have a political prisoner to release to them, no strings attached. We will tell them that we are going to release to them an American who thoroughly rejects our interventionist policies and our military meddling – he rejects them so strongly, in fact, that he did everything in his power to see that American soldiers were killed and that Islamic terrorists were given access to our operational details. Therefore, we have decided to let him go to be with the Taliban so that he can self-actualize and join the fight against America with them.

I’m sure that like John Walker Lindh, the Taliban will be happy to have an American like this on board. So we’ll drive Manning out there to meet them at some safe remote location in Afghanistan somewhere, and we’ll release Manning and let him rush to join his new Taliban brethren.

Then we’ll tell them he’s gay.

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  • http://teapartisan.wordpress.com Socrates

    When he’s not stealing stuff.

    So is it torture if the Muslims were to cut off his hand before they kill him, as opposed to after?

    • http://teapartisan.wordpress.com Socrates

      I mean the mainstream of Islam, as practiced in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other Muslim-majority countries.

      • aesthete

        I see nothing wrong with executing all Lady Gaga fans, heh.

  • Adjoran

    and “accent pieces” as a human right.

    Of course, Greenwald is well known to be an idiot.

    I’m outraged at Manning’s treatment. Why does this worthless traitor still have a cot?

    • Kristine

      Traitor for what? reporting a murder? do you even know ANY specifics on the case at all?? are you a total dimwit????Because ‘someone’ told you he is? cant you think for yourself? are you retarded?

  • http://JamesonLewis3rd.com JamesonLewis3rd

    Here in Texas, for example, whether in the local jail (Arlington), the county jail (Tarrant) or the penitentiary, NOBODY gets a freaking pillow.

    • Kristine

      Give it back to the mexicans.

      • Jack_Savage

        Then New England and Michigan to Canada.

        Losing power doesn’t suit you well, does it? Or maybe this is because you can’t talk to Olbermann while he’s on TV any more?

        At any rate, I’ll say goodbye to you now. You’ll be a ghost soon enough.

      • aesthete

        it would be really fun to watch Texas’ awesome national guard take over the country of Mexico from within and establish conservative governance in Mexico under that scenario.

  • http://www.ArchitecturalShots.com mdyou

    The only choice Manning should have is whether to die by hanging or firing squad.

    • Kristine

      What for? what are the crimes? do you even know? are you stupid? can you read?

      • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

        Let’s see. He scanned the post, his/her brain received the input. She/he formulated a response. That would imply the poster can read. Can you come up with a more intelligent set of questions?

        • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

          might be Mannings lover. Maybe we should cut the poor dear some slack.

          • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

            because Kristine is too busy biting it?

  • Wubbies World

    completely different if this was Sara Palin or Rush Limbaugh, and we know it.

    He is only upset that one of his fellow soldiers in the American Peoples Truth to Power army is being treated as “shock” as a criminal!

  • Marcus_Traianus

    After spending some time in the special housing unit chained up 23 hours a day the traitor will probably be wishing they shot him.

    • Kristine

      Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
      – Thomas Jefferson

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        Jefferson really stood for, all you can do is cherry pick quotes that suit your purpose.

        Manning is going to get his day in court, We here are not a court so we can have any opinion of him we want to.

  • mikerazar

    a cigarette before he faces a firing squad.

    • Kristine

      It needs to be saved from the likes of brainless lawless fools like you

      • Jack_Savage

        Any moderator will do.

      • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

        You sure don’t spend long sweating the details, do you?

  • http://www.cariandrob.info robdouglas

    This childishly written post is a great example of the type of garbage that spews from some on the right that drives independents away from the conservative movement. And while the left has an equal number of moronic scribes, as a conservative libertarian I keep hoping that conservatives will walk the talk instead of acting like right-wing Michael Moores.
    Perhaps if the scribes at RedState from Erickson on down are going to preach the Constitution, they ought to read it and adhere to it themselves instead of convicting before trial. How Soviet-like of RedState.

    • streiff

      any questions?

    • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack
    • Bill S

      I don’t think we sent you a written invitation.

    • rockwellian

      dont’ you know we are not to question our beloved dear leaders foreign policy? don’t you know that we are to believe whatever they tell us. Shame on you. Our foreign policy makes us safer. Don’t you know that anyone who would dare expose so called truth should be hanged or shot.

    • ceili_dancer

      You want to wrap yourself up in some sanctimonious blanket and try to condemn everyone here with the “innocent until proven guilty” stick. The problem with that is only the courts or government have to come to the table with that point of view. If you’re not on the jury or judging the court martial, then you can have any opinion on the matter that you want. This “soldier” has given over to the enemies the lives of those that fight for this country. He’s a piece of Human excrement and deserves to sit in a dark cell and decay until he’s brought out into the sun and scraped off the bottom of our collective boots. Thye case should go forweard in its due course, but don’t try and condemn us for exercising our First Amendment right, how’s that for sticking with the constitution?

      • Kristine

        Because he reported a murder?
        Your lost

        • Jack_Savage

          Because he is an *accessory* to murder. Big difference.

          • Kristine

            how so? Why are you so willing to condemn a man to death for something he may not be guilty of?
            NBC: Feds Can’t Link Manning to Assange
            http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41241414/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security/

          • Jack_Savage

            That has BUNCH of credibility – a TON. Who’s byline – Olbermann’s?

            Too bad your treasonous little buddy will either be executed or spend the rest of his pitiful life in jail. And I would expect that the asexual Assange will have a pretty bad accident in the not so distant future.

            Pity.

          • Kristine

            Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News’s chief Pentagon correspondent, reported sources inside the US military as saying they could detect no contact between Manning and Assange.

            The officials say that while investigators have determined that Manning had allegedly unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer and passed them to an unauthorized person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure.

            http://abendjournal.com/2011/01/25/no-link-between-bradley-manning-and-julian-assange-say-military-sources-the-guardian-blog/

          • powertothepeople

            Clinton used concerning the famed cigar incident. No one saw me, no one can prove it, I did not have sexual relations with that lady. Ooops, DNA on the dress, well maybe……….

            The very fact he downloaded it is punishable by many many years in jail. Passing it off to an unauthorized person can be punished by death. So lets just let the Assange connection go so we can get you to shut up, and once convicted, just shoot him for treason since we know he passed classified info off to an unauthorized person.

            That OK with you? Rule of law and all………..

        • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

          is this your hero, a scumbag traitor? A man who may have caused the death of many foreign nationals. A man who at the very least violated his military oath.

          Yeah that is your idea of a hero.

          • Kristine

            how has he caused the deaths of foreign nationals? do you even know anything about the specifics here? Hero or not, the rule law must be applied, for your sake as well as his. The military oath of which you speak demands that he defend and protect the constitution of the united states,
            “I, _____, 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.” (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).
            That constitution he has sworn to protect demanded he report a error in judgment concerning orders

          • Jack_Savage

            Oh – wait – that’s what YOU would do. And what he will be convicted of. My bad.

          • Kristine

            You would hand over a bunch of civilians to Iraqi butchers? Come on.

          • powertothepeople

            we have another case of head in ass and for the sake of the victim, need a trained professional to remove the intrusion is the anus.

            Hang on Kristine, help is coming. I am worried it may be too late and the damage is already done.

          • ocleverone

            nt

          • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

            in Zimbabwe, look it up. And in he second place all we have is this guy’s word about what he found, and why he did what he did. And finally, there are whistle-blower laws in the military, he could have gone up the chain of command.

            No, afraid not dummy, your hero is a traitor and a scumbag. (allegedly)

    • aesthete

      Streiff wrote it, I believe, and several regulars on RS also wrote seriously on the issue. Now we’re just having fun with it.

      Also, members of the military voluntarily divest themselves of several Constitutional rights, most of which are allowed only in truncated form per the UCMJ. But you already knew that, didn’t you?

  • pdawk

    and quite humorous. Best of all it is the sick reality of it all. Nice job lexington_concord!

  • bobmontgomery

    ….is that apparently at least 255 of the 435 elected peoples’ representative are not adult enough to be able to separate whatever their concept of social justice is from the preservation of the Republic. Equally sad, and infuriating since many of them were educated and promoted and kept at the public expense, is that something approaching a quorum among the nations military and Defense Department establishments do not understand who or what or where they are either, and less how or why. Becoming more and more outrageous all the time, as pointed out by the rise of the Tea Party and the increasingly disgruntled commentary on websites like RedState, is the smugness and cluelessness of much of the Conservative establishment who have been unable or unwilling to find their voice, abetting the anarchists who have brought us to the point we are today.

  • The_Gadfly

    you are advocating for Manning, but please don’t throw around the phrase “sex offender” the way Kossacks throw around the word Nazi. Glenn Beck did an interesting segment about this the other night. The whole thing smells of a honey pot setup, and the bit the DSers on the left get wrong is that it isn’t a CIA honey pot. The women who are making the charges seem to the sort of NOW supporters who are of the opinion that marriage is rape, The sorts of offenses that most of us mean when we use the phrase “sex offenders” are of a far worse sort of behavior than comport with the known facts of the case.

  • bobmontgomery

    …for my post at 11:49. One of those things where it makes sense to you but upon review others might think I was talking about lunar exploration. The point was that this repeal of DADT issue is becoming more real and more ominous all the time. Just read today where Scott Brown and Pat Toomey are inclined to vote for repeal. It is maddening when people cannot see beyond the end of their nose.

  • Kristine

    Your a complete unmitigated imbecile.
    “U.S. military investigators have been unable to find a direct link between jailed Army PFC Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks, reports NBC News. ,,,”
    If it were up to mindless cowardly automatons like yourself, our rule of law as well as the very constitution you profess to support would be tossed aside for an old fashion lynching. Trials and courts are where we determine the truth in this nation, not on Nancy Grace or your sad little witch hunt hole from which you spew. Without rule of law, due process, and the very rights provided to even the most spineless cowardly individuals such as yourself and the uninformed dimwits who post here, (probably none of which has ever served a day in the US military)
    To stand up and defend what you believe is right and to call attention to what is wrong as in the case of PFC Manning, is called integrity and courage. Neither of which you or your flag waving lynch mob possess.
    Disgusted – SSG

    • powertothepeople

      No one here, or at least anyone that counts is asking for our government or military to shoot him without a trial, beat his ass for what we presume he did, or anything else that would violate his constitutional rights. So take your lecture and shove it where the sun does not shine. Got it? Good!

      And to tear apart another of your fantasies, there are quite a few on her who have served, been in war, had relatives die in combat, etc.

      Myself, I served multiple terms in Vietnam, saw many die, killed many, and was wounded myself twice, once that was so bad it ended my active career. My brother served in Korea, my oldest son served in both Iraqi actions and was only released to civilian life a few months ago. I set with my friend as he cried on my chest hours after his son died in Iraq and he posts here. So shove the crap.

      And sorry there liberal nut, writing posts about the “horrors” of being confined to solitary and not having a pillow is not, as you put it, having integrity and courage. It is simply exploitation for a leftist scumbag who has never served trying to push his anti American agenda.

      And not sure what paper or person wrote there is no link to manning leaking the classified documents, because he himself bragged about it. He had multiple discussion with multiple people where he bragged about leaking it and even stated something to the effect of, If you had unprecedented access to so much classified info, what would you have done. The main person he contacted was Lamo, and ex hacker who was the one who turned the guy in and turned in his admissions to leaking the info.

      Quite frankly, I assume the SSG is for Staff Sergent, and going on that assumption I would love for you to have the “courage and integrity” to announce who you are and where you serve so that your own allegiance can be investigated. Because no real soldier would be OK with some POS releasing the info that put so many real soldiers in danger.

      “

      • Kristine

        Your service record does not entitle you or anyone else from disregarding the rule of law.
        Manning is charged so far with three counts of unlawfully transferring confidential material to a non-secure computer, i.e. leaking state secrets. Manning faces up to 52 years if convicted of these crimes and it is likely that he will be charged with additional offenses. The charges against Manning end stating that Manning

        • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

          go away child

        • powertothepeople

          as even most liberals are not as stupid as you are acting.

          I could give a rats ass, notice that word rats ass, about what happened allegedly with some commander telling him to do things he felt were wrong. Even if we concede that this is 100% truth, it still does not justify what he did.

          If he had so much issue with what was going on, he could have handled it the correct way. He could refuse an order on moral reasons and then had his day in court. What he did was violate his oath, break military law, and released tons of classified material that had nothing to do with what you claim he had issue with and it risked both American lives and the lives of our allies. You can keep up with the BS claims, but it still does not justify what he did in any world except your crazy ass world.

          And funny, in all the bragging emails he sent out, not once did he lay claim to doing what he did for any other reason than because he could or he just wanted to. Well he did give one reason once, but it had nothing to do with the BS you keep raising as he claimed he wanted to punish the military for its exclusion of gays.

          Wonder if you will make that you next excuse for what he did.

          And you are correct that my service record, or anyone record for that matter, does not give me the right to disregard law. That is the thing you have said on here that makes sense. I would suggest you follow the same doctrine you now preached to me since him being arrested, confined, losing his pillow, being in solitary does not violate his rights or the law. But you justifying the release of confidential material because he had some problem with an order or orders is.

          • aesthete

            There is such a thing as chain of command, at least there was in the USAF: Manning could have documented that this commander was acting improperly and brought it up to the next person up in the CoC, or as you say, he could have had his day in court. Many members of the military did the former in the case of Gitmo, there was an ongoing military investigation long before it came to light, and the persons who did this did not get in trouble or get sent to Quantico, because they handled it the right way.

            My guess: guy was someone who got in for the benefits, didn’t like his job in the first place, got ****y that his boyfriend broke up with him, and broke the rules impetuously. As a member of the military at a time of war who joined of his own volition, I have no sympathy for this guy: he deserves however much time he gets, and then some.

    • ocleverone

      He allegedly (<-used that word just for you) gave away classified information during a time of war.

      The courts will decide what to do with him.

      In the meantime, you need to switch to decaf and work on your civility.

    • Jack_Savage

      The kiddies over at Kos probably have a thing about that. Just trying to help.

      • ocleverone

        I am totally confused if we are all individual idiots or one big idiot borg. :-D

        • Kristine

          One big idiot Borg. For certain.

          • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

            If anyone are mind numbed Borgs, guilty of group think it is the left.

          • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

            whp start lingerie companies anyway? I think you’re rhetoric is too bigoted and could inspire violence!

          • ocleverone

            Borg-nine.

            I am through with this whack job. I don’t suffer fools well and Kristine has proven her/himself to be quite the fool.

          • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

            I am the gorb (hic!) and my @$$ is laminated.

          • ocleverone

            :)

    • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack
  • aesthete

    but besides being hyperbolic and preening, Greenwald (as is usually the case with him) is flat out wrong or duplicitous concerning this case, and military justice in general. First of all, I’m 99% sure that solitary confinement was the idea of whatever JAGs were assigned his case: inmates would not have taken kindly to what Manning did, or with why he did it. Additionally, military justice does allow the defense to fight on due process grounds if the case is taking too long to get to court, or if there is abuse, etc. If any of those things happen, defense has the choice of either immediately kvetching about it (and getting back Manning’s blankee), or waiting to see if they can lower the sentence by noting improper treatment. If there is any mistreatment going on, Manning and his legal defense can stop it right now: if they are not, it is probably to get Manning a lower sentence. Of course, that would ruin Greenwald’s OMG TURRRISM narrative, so I doubt that he so much as called up an experienced JAG.

    • Kristine

      “‘It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey an order that is either illegal or immoral’ and to make such orders known.” Roberts contends that, if he is the source of the leak, Manning is “wrongfully imprisoned for meeting his military responsibility.”
      Peter Pace

      • Scope

        the definition of “immoral” or even “moral” has no set meaning any longer in this country. The definition of “morals” has become whatever some, like you, want it to be. I suspect that if a moral hit you on the head, you would call it right wing hate speech. Do you have any clue what the rule of holes is? I didn’t think so.

      • aesthete

        The way to ascertain whether the orders given to Manning were immoral is through the military courts: he is awaiting his trial, and will recieve justice in due course. As I noted, if his lawyers raised enough of a stink about it, they could probably accelerate the trial’s commencement, but I think that they want to hold out for a plea bargain. There is nothing immoral or unusual about the way that the military is treating Manning: they’ve met every single demand placed on them by Manning’s legal team, and whatever discomfort he is experiencing is no worse than that of any PFC or Airman who has to spend time in the brig for driving drunk.

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