Bradley Manning, the turncoat U.S. Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, is unhappy with his jailers. Poor baby doesn’t like his pillow and wants his MTV, so his attorney has officially complained that Manning is being mistreated.
CNN.com has the details:
His lawyer, David Coombs, formally objected to Manning’s treatment, filing an Article 138 complaint Wednesday, according to a posting on the lawyer’s blog. Manning has been in solitary confinement and for part of this week was again placed on suicide watch by the Quantico brig commander, according to his lawyers.
“He was stripped of all clothing with the exception of his underwear. His prescription eyeglasses were taken away from him,” Coombs wrote in the blog entry. “He was forced to sit in essential blindness with the exception of the times that he was reading or given limited television privileges. During those times, his glasses were returned to him.”
… Manning is confined to his cell 23 hours a day with no pillow, sheets or personal items, according to Coombs.
His only exercise, according to his lawyer, is when he is taken to an empty room and allowed to walk. When he sleeps he must strip to his underwear and surrender his clothing to the guards.
Hard as this may be for you to believe, the military dismisses Coombs’ complaints and says they’re much ado about nothing:
Quantico public affairs officer Lt. Brian Villiard said under military rules he could not confirm whether the complaint had been received. He said all the conditions of Manning’s confinement are in line with his maximum custody status and to prevent Manning from harming himself.
“He is not being treated any differently than anyone else in maximum custody,” Villiard said. “We’re not treating him any differently than anyone who could pose a risk to life, property or national security.”
In December, a Pentagon spokesman said that even under the restrictive conditions, Manning is allowed to converse with other prisoners, receive visitors and exercise for an hour a day. In addition, Manning has pillows and sheets made from a material that cannot be torn into strips, according to Villiard.
We realize that the purpose of waterboarding is to coerce secrets out of a prisoner, but in the case of Manning we’d say the waterboarding should be applied retroactively for all the secrets he’s already spilled.
Be glad we’re not your jailers, Bradley.
Source: CNN.com
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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WaterPik the little prick.
Man up, punk. Quit being such a big whiny baby.
In reply to all previous posts: Maybe you should give some thoughtful consideration to the meaning behind your comments. I would like to ask this question. To whom/what are you loyal? Is it our bloated government, keeping us in perpetual war? Our are you loyal to freedom? Any person should put the truth above all else.
I think everyone missed the point of my post. I'm no liberal. Far from it. You are correct. The guy broke the law and he is going to pay for it. That's the way it goes. No argument there. But instead of getting caught up in who's side who is on, why not consider the fact that some of this information reveals the gross incompetence and corruption of our military leaders/representatives, etc. Just because I disagree with a state of perpetual war, doesn't mean I don't support a strong defense, or our troops for that matter. I served in the Air Force. I'm proud of that fact. How about some well thought out responses for a change, instead of emotional hypochondria.
I don't know what thinking you are sick when nothing is wrong with you has to do with the subject but here we go anyway.
The majority of Americans already know that there is a lot of fraud and waste in our gooberment and military. But, we do not air our dirty laundry in public nor do we risk our safety by putting our problems out front for the entire world to see. This young man is a traitor, plain and simple. He put our dirty laundry up in the public view, thereby risking the safety of our troops and our nation, and for that he deserves the punishment he is recieving. Almost 40 years ago I put up with a lot of crap about being a "baby killer", a war monger, a "tool" of the government, but I did my duty and never, ever, thought about betraying my country by talking about all the waste and stupidity I saw. This is America, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT! The choice is yours.
We are aware of the problems in our system. Finding this information out is a vital part of democracy. The tools & methods used to do this matter, though, and the Big Picture remains as vital as ever.
Some of the information was salacious. I know that. Some of the information revealed double dealing in the diplomatic corps. I know that. In fact, no surprise at all there. The problem is that this turd wasn't "speaking truth to power", and most of the information revealed did more damage to *us* than it did to any enemy of freedom.
The entire wikileaks cadre is unable to distinguish between varying levels of good and evil, and insists they are defending the truth and goodness, when in fact, they are proportionately doing more damage to good than evil. To give them credence, in any way, shape, or form, is to encourage this.
The wikileaks supporters are either a tool of people trying to reduce freedom in the world, or are actively seeking to reduce freedom in the world. That's their net effect, and I cannot believe that it escapes their notice that they are sentencing all governmental crimes with the same sentence. That does not work in real life. You do not hand down a life sentence for jaywalking -- or speeding -- or smoking pot. You hand down life sentences for serious crimes, and lighter sentences for less serious crimes.
To me, it is much like the muckraking magazines about hollywood. If you don't want this garbage to perpetuate itself, then refuse to support it. If you support it by viewing it on the lame justification that they may have a point here and there, then you wind up supporting their entire agenda. Eventually, it will go away., if there is no support -- just watching the slow motion implosion at MSNBC gives me a lot of hope that eventually the people in charge over there will find a less propagandistic business model.
The problem with a website, however, is that you need even more people to avoid it and to refuse to use it. The costs of publishing are much lower -- who knew that such a low rent outfit could have such an effect?
Personally, I don't give a sh*t if they are right 99% of the time -- wikileaks' intentions run so counter to our freedom and our best interests, that I refuse to acknowledge *any* information they provide. It, to me, is identical to jailhouse testimony -- worthless on the face of it, worthless underneath.
That is all well and good, but you could have presented what you agreed first and then presented your case just like you did here. The way it was stated seemed liberal crazy and we get a lot of those around here. So no, it wasn't emotional hypochondria since the response was based on a seemingly incomplete comment. Although I agree that the documents presented the case pros and cons on breach of security, at the same time he had a job to do and he did not do his job. He deserves what he got and his complaining is not going to garner sympathy from many people which is the case here. The discussion about the pros and cons of what he did is inconsequential to the story at hand. Regardless of showing "positives" as in the discovery of the incompetence of governmental forces (which is really not new), the man committed a crime, he is a traitor and complaining like a punk ass female dog is not a good look.
Bill, thanks for elaborating.
Now, my two cents:
Headline reads, "WikiLeaks weasel unhappy with the way he’s being treated in jail"
John Q. Public suggests, "Hey, Kid... ask the Warden for some Vaseline!"
I don't exactly know how being a traitor somehow translates to freedom pursuit... but whatever liberals always have a way to transform good to bad and bad to good.
Ah, the truth. Wouldn't it be nice to hear some of it from the Left for a change?
We, as a group, *are* loyal to freedom. We do, however, happen to reside in a nation that has laws, and a reasonable expectation that following them will maintain our freedom. We also have a reasonable expectation that out-of-control government can be brought under control by the people acting in a rational manner. Acting lawlessly, putting lives in jeopardy, pretending that governments have to tell you everything is immature and dangerous.
Life isn't some cheesy-assed movie, where people sneak in,
overthrow the government and all live happily ever after. In most revolutions, the body count only begins during the revolution itself. Sh*t, Cuba isn't done killing their people yet. Socialist regimes seem to be very good at democide, but then, they were the reason the term was invented. We'd rather fix this 'bloated government' peaceably, without giving some tin pot would-be dictator stupid ideas.
Manning is no hero of the people for what he did. He is a garden-variety f*ckwit, a twisted little freak out for attention -- even his issues had issues, as they say. Anybody that thinks he is any sort of a hero ought to put a little more thought into who they idolize. He's certainly not a sympathetic character to anyone other than people unable to distinguish reality from propaganda and straw-man arguments.
As I said earlier about wikileaks -- their biggest problem is that they treat open governments most unfairly by their design -- it's much easier to get negative information out of a free society and tear the free society down than it is to get the same kind of information out of a totalitarian society in order to fix it. Until they fix that, they're just a useful idiot, a tool of every totalitarian regime in the world. They are worthy of the utmost level of disgust, and fools like Manning that feed them this information are even lower (as if that's possible).
To be entirely honest, the people central to the Abu Ghraib scandal at least showed remorse and contrition, and they were a national disgrace. This little creep just whines about the treatment he gets for doing what he knew was wrong. A real human being would man up and accept the consequences of their actions, whether they are just or unjust. That tells me all I need to know about his character. They cannot possibly shoot him fast enough. He can file an appeal after. He saved no lives. He did not defend freedom, truth, or honor. He snuck in like a creep, stole information he had no right to, and whines about the consequences. He's every bit as disgusting as a burglar that gets a slip & fall lawyer and sues the people he burgled.
OoraH! perlcat!!!! That was a fine piece of prose--DITTO! Oh, how the left-wing extremists love their "anti-heroes." The type of effete snobbery and malicious intent exhibited by Assange is part and parcel to left-wing extremist politics. Yet our poor little pervert Assange cries that his secrets have been compromised! LMFAO!
The duplicity of the liberal mind is a disturbing thing indeed!
I KNOW! That's why I can't stand liberals ... all that "bloated government" and "perpetual war" ... YOU BETCHA! OoraH! USA!!!!
Guy in the next cell: "Hey kid - did I mention that you're a moron?"
Let me interject a bit of "street reality," mojo ...
Guy in the cell: “ASSANGE! What you want to be? The Mama or the Daddy?!?”
Assange: "Uhhh ... I ... uhh .. I ... I ... guess ... eh-hm ... I'll assume the patriarchal role!"
Guy in the cell: "WHAT?!?!?!?”
Assange: "The ... the ... daddy?"
Guy in the cell: "Awwwww-ight din... get over here and %@$ mama's %#!!"
Goes downhill from there .... YOU BETCHA! OoraH! USA!!!!
I don't know what that says about me, that I know exactly the phrase/joke you are implying -- I sprayed beer all over the keyboard on that one.
***Salute*** ... Yep ... it's a keeper! What does it say about you? Probably that you're as sick and twisted as I am ... YOU BETCHA!
p.s. My first "thumbs down!" I LOVE IT! I'm working on "controversial" now! If you can't take a joke, become a Democrat ... then you'll be the joke!
I just gave you your second thumbs down! So pop a top and join us in a celebration of being......what? Beer drinkers who love our country?
LMAO ... Or country folk who love our beer! OoraH! USA!!!!
p.s. I gave a thumbs down for drinking out of a can! YOU BETCHA!
Hank Jr. "A Country Boy Can Survive", great song and so true. If you are going to be a real redneck you gotta drink beer out of a can then toss your empties into the bar ditch beside the road. That way you support the winos and welfare patients in the area, who pick up the cans for recycling. Helping bums and the environment at the same time? It's a win situation for everyone!
Yeah, Wiley Hubbard's song about putting my mother up against the wall foments too much violence these days.
I take it that I'm not the only person who watches 'Joe Dirt" and thinks: "Hey, that's me!".
May all your fireworks stands sell the good stuff.
You should be arrested for alcohol abuse! Never waste a perfectly good swallow of beer nor toss the can until it has been vacumed dry!
Oh, don't worry -- in my household, even beer used for demonstration purposes is rapidly recovered and recycled through my well-trained liver before any alcohol can be lost to the atmosphere.
In fact, after the event, the thought going through my head was "Hmmm. Good. A beer-flavored keyboard. This should be just as successful as my Guinness-flavored lollipop experiments."
Uhm... so... am I supposed to feel bad for him or something?
Because I don't... he should have thought of the consequences of his actions BEFORE he decided to be a traitor to his country.
How is that liberalism working out for you Mr. Idiot? Not so good I see... well tough. Deal with it.
Terrible, just terrible I say.
He deserves a speedy and fair trial, followed immediately by being used for target practice by a firing party.
The penalty for treason during war is death.
That is why it is always a good idea to check on the laws of the land before committing a criminal act.
I think you might be confused, Manning was probably hoping for the USUAL prison experience. Not the solitary one.
Perhaps Assange needs a water board--DOH! I mean "water bed."
You know what I'm "unhappy" about? Liberal misfit maggots ... YOU BETCHA! OoraH! USA!!!!
Bradley Manning. An individual for whom a 'suicide watch' should involve popcorn.
Sorry, I just can't bring myself to feel anything resembling pity for him -- while the people he betrayed are dying.