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Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
clustro writes "The Pentagon is desperately seeking the 'cooperation' of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in order to stop him from releasing over 250,000 pages of confidential foreign policy documents. The documents were allegedly provided to Assange by Bradley Manning, the same solider who leaked a video showing a US Army helicopter killing unarmed civilians and international press correspondents."
You seem almost gleeful he has less rights during a court martial, any reason for that?
I've noticed that a lot of ex-military will speak with "glee" about how the UCMJ specifies punishment by death for all kinds of things... truth is if we exercised it we'd have to kill a lot more soldiers, for instance one of those things is rape ("penetration, no matter how slight".) How about the military invoke the UCMJ against every soldier known to have committed rape, for example in Viet Nam? It's never too late, I say we do it RIGHT NOW.
Or, in simpler terms, those who support the death penalty are accessories to murder, and some people like to murder.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
>>>in reality the guys they shot at had a rocket launcher.
It was a CAMERA ya dumb fuck. Didn't you read the accompanying text? The U.S. soldiers shot-and-killed reporters. And in the second video they killed a van full of children. I'm glad this leaked - the People deserve to know how U.S. leaders are terrorizing citizens in these foreign countries. In my book they are no better than Osama Bin Laden.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Indeed. I hope you get modded all the way up.
The problem is not the behavior of the soldiers in the helicopter. Except the minor incident of shooting people who were clearly attempting to recover wounded, but that's a minor thing all in all.
It is the idea we should fly around in a fucking helicopter and shoot up people who 'look dangerous'. That is the damn problem.
Hell, that's not even sane military behavior.
Militaries have objectives, like 'hold this building' and 'raid the enemy base and blow up the fuel depot' stuff like that. They don't wander around looking for a fight that serves no purpose except for both sides to shoot at each other, and the fact of our overwhelming military superiority results in them winning most fights doesn't make it sane.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
Since, after all, they were only following orders, right? And apparently that's only an invalid defense if you're not an American.
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