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President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com)
The New York Times is reporting that President Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence. What this translates to is a reduced sentence for Manning, from 35 years to just over seven years. Since Manning has already served a majority of those years, she is due to be released from federal custody on May 17th. The Verge reports: While serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, Manning leaked more than 700,000 documents to Wikileaks, including video of a 2007 airstrike in Baghdad that killed two Reuters employees. In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for her role in the leak and has been held at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth for the past three years. Julian Assange, who has long been sought by U.S. and EU authorities for extradition on Swedish rape charges, had previously pledged to surrender himself to U.S. authorities if Manning was pardoned. Born Bradley Manning, Chelsea announced her gender transition the day after the verdict was handed down. "I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female," she said in a statement. "Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible." Obtaining the resulting medical treatments was extremely difficult for Manning, and was the subject of significant and sustained activism. After a lawsuit, Manning was approved for hormone therapy in 2015. In September 2016, she launched a hunger strike, demanding access to gender reassignment surgery; the military complied five days later.
this she word...
Her. Let's just drop this faux confusion and outright deadnaming. Not singling you out specifically, just sayin' it's a pretty basic and important thing for trans people and costs you nothing.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Bullshit. Can't be done. You can't reassign gender (whatever that is), or sex. All you can do to a male is mutilate it. Every cell in the organism still has X and Y chromosomes.
You fell for Obama's "truthiness", meaning that Obama is completely lying, and he knows it, when he says he cannot pardon Snowden.
Snowden cannot be pardoned because Snowden spoke truth to power and power (the President), hates when people do that.
Additionally, Snowden raised his middle finger and fled the country making it very clear that he is an individual before he is a pawn of an authoritarian government. Authoritarians also hate that, hence, no pardon.
Snowden is reminding the government that the authority to govern is granted by the people. The government is offended by that idea.
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Regardless of which major party has a President in the White House, no one who does what Snowden did will *ever* be pardoned because Snowden exposed the government's crimes but his most egregious crime was asserting his authority over himself and rejected the government's authority over him.
Why do people on slashdot post such bullshit? Oh right, it's slashdot.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/821522334007836672
"The US DoJ affirmed that its "pending proceedings" against Assange remain "active" as of 2017 (see page 7): https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3280289/1-11-17-Opinion-Manning-Foia.pdf