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Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set
bs0d3 writes "Bradley Manning has finally been scheduled for a day in court. On December 16, he will have an Article 32 hearing (military pre-trial). Private Manning has been in jail for one and half years. The Article 32 hearing will begin at Fort Meade, Maryland. The primary purpose of the hearing is to evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of the government's case, as well as to provide the defense with an opportunity to obtain pretrial discovery. Further trial dates and locations are still unknown."
So that video of a bunch of soldiers killing people for no reason was put in the hands of some random 23 year old. He released it, and now they want to charge the 23 year old with "aiding the enemy" which is a capital crime, along with 22 other charges. And they put him in solitary confinement while awaiting trial.
Well at least they are giving him a trial instead of just executing him.
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if you have the balls. some anonymous coward accusing someone who put the government SHIT into open with treason, smells like horse shit.
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This isn't heavy handed, these are the known consequences of the actions someone took. And as I keep saying Manning and everybody else knows what will happen if they violate their clearance.
When you get a security clearance you know that you will be fucked really hard should you violate that trust. Learning that is part of getting the clearance.
Its like getting a put through a known process process for robbing a bank, (Different than a security violation, but still a known process); especially if you go around bragging about it. No amount of whining about how the CEOs are crooks and deserved it will get you out of the trouble that you've made for yourself.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
You do realize that when we put the Nazis on trial, they would say "we were ordered to do it" and that didn't cut it with the court? The old "I was ordered to do something horrible, doesn't stand up unless those doing the ordering stay in power."
From what I gather about Manning is he's a moron. He wasn't doing it because he was some do good crusader, he was just being an idiot tool. The real crime is those who let him in the service and those who didn't keep him on a choker chain the entire time he was there until they could find a way to a. get rid of him, send him home, or b. send him to the front where his stupidity will be a self correcting problem.
This whole subject reads like a prequel script to Idiocrisy.
Take the Red Pill.