Pfc. Bradley Manning, American Hero, Sentenced to the Gulag for 35 Years for Blowing the Whistle and Telling the Truth about US Military Misconduct! | Bill Ayers:
Pfc. Bradley Manning, American Hero, Sentenced to the Gulag for 35 Years for Blowing the Whistle and Telling the Truth about US Military Misconduct!
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
*George Orwell
The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement after Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison:
We are outraged that a whistleblower and a patriot has been sentenced on a conviction under the Espionage Act. The government has stretched this archaic and discredited law to send an unmistakable warning to potential whistleblowers and journalists willing to publish their information. We can only hope that Manning’s courage will continue to inspire others who witness state crimes to speak up.
This show trial was a frontal assault on the First Amendment, from the way the prosecution twisted Manning’s actions to blur the distinction between whistle blowing and spying to the government’s tireless efforts to obstruct media coverage of the proceedings. It is a travesty of justice that Manning, who helped bring to light the criminality of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, is being punished while the alleged perpetrators of the crimes he exposed are not even investigated. Every aspect of this case sets a dangerous precedent for future prosecutions of whistle blowers—who play an essential role in democratic government by telling us the truth about government wrongdoing—and we fear for the future of our country in the wake of
