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i didn't pay attention to politics when obama originally prosecuted officer manning; but by the end of his regime i was spitting mad about this and many other examples of the criminalization of dissent. obama was a despot. i get to pay the government for being too poor to afford rent, food, AND health insurance thanks to him. in my mind he has become one of the slimiest politicians in american history to me. he talked pretty and maintained the status quo he talked against. he made sure his consultants kept getting paid even when they weren't working contributing to the republican takeover of this country. a quintessential self_interested career politician...hope and change my ass. anyways...
'i was in the small courtroom at fort meade in maryland to hear the sentencing by army colonel judge denise lind of then-private first class bradley manning to thirty-five years in prison. manning's sentence once again confirmed the inversion of our moral and legal order, the capitulation of the press, and the misuse of the law to prevent any oversight or investigation of official abuses of power, including war crimes.
the sentencing of manning marked the day when the state formally declared that ll who name and expose its crimes will become political prisoners or will be forced, like snowden, to flee into exile. state power, the sentence showed us, will be unaccountable. and those who do not accept unlimited state power - always the road to tyranny - will be persecuted.
...manning, if we had a functioning judiciary, would have been a witness for the prosecution against the war criminals she helped expose. she would not have been headed, bound and shackled, to the military prison at fort leavenworth, kanas.' - chris hedges
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