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Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is set to walk out of prison Wednesday -- but she won't be entirely free. Manning's 35-year sentence for leaking an enormous trove of military intelligence records was commuted by President Barack Obama in January. But Manning is still appealing her conviction in a case that could take years, and the government has yet to respond to the appeal. And all the while, Private First Class Manning, 29, will remain an active duty soldier in the U.S. Army. She won't be paid a salary, and it's highly unlikely that she will be called to serve. But being placed on voluntary excess leave rather than discharged, says one of her attorneys, makes her vulnerable to new military punishment or charges if she steps out of line. Such an offense could be anything from getting into a fistfight to revealing previously unreleased classified information. Manning could even get into trouble with the military for speaking and writing. The Army private then known as Bradley Manning was just 22-year-old when she leaked nearly 750,000 military files and cables to WikiLeaks. Manning was court-martialed and sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison, with opportunity for parole after seven years served. n a statement given to the TODAY show the day after sentencing, Manning came out as a transgender woman. Last Tuesday, in Manning's first official statement about her plans after prison, she said, "I can see a future for myself as Chelsea."
Manning discovered widespread corruption, deeply unethical behavior and absolutely unacceptable conduct, and she decided to let fundamental human rights and dignity overrule artificial power structures, so she exposed the lies, and of course the liars punished her.
It must have taken immense bravery, and we should admire her, not attack her.
Eat the rich.
Helping to expose corruption, deeply unethical behavior and widespread human rights violations.
Eat the rich.
Don't be ridiculous. Trump isn't suicidal.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Have you seen his diet?
Eat the rich.
Someone clearly wasn't paying attention.
FSB hits! FSB hits! Your democracy dies. Do you want your possessions identified?
What exactly is the mumbo-jumbo you're trying to express here?
None. Your Mumbo jumbo masquerading as simple logic is still mumbo jumbo.
If you are XY you're male...if XX you're female.
These are the rules of biology:
1. If you think it's simple, you're wrong
2. If you think it's complicated, you're still wrong.
3. If you think it's ludicrously messy and complicated, you're wrong, but getting there.
Since you are making pseudo biological arguments, I shall respond with biological arguments.
Go Google "androgen insensitivity syndrome".
I'll wait.
OK now you've read it, do you believe that someone work XY chromosomes, but entirely female anatomy since birth is male or female? And why do you choose the choice you made?
Follow up questions: what is your definition of gender that actually matches biology I a way that's neither circular nor unique to humans?
SJW n. One who posts facts.