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Bradley Manning: 22 New Charges Including One that Carries Death Penalty - a Call for Solidarity!
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 Thursday March 03, 2011 08:15 by Ciaron O'Reilly
He's in There for Us, We're on the Loose for Him!
GUARDIAN - Bradley Manning may face death penalty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/03/bradley-man...nalty I’m shocked that the military opted to charge Pfc. Bradley Manning today with the capital offense of “aiding the enemy”.
While the military is down playing the fact, the option to execute Bradley has been placed on the table. It’s beyond ironic that leaked US State Department cables have contributed to revolution and revolt in dictatorships across the Middle East and North Africa, yet an American may be executed, or at best face life in prison, for being the primary whistleblower.
Millions of Americans, and even more internationally, clearly understand the contribution of Pfc. Manning towards not only freedom of information, but literally freedom itself. It’s hard for me to reconcile that with the US Army’s additional criminal charges against Pfc. Manning today. –
Jeff Paterson,
Courage to Resist / Bradley Manning Support Network
www.bradleymanning.org
**A Call for Solidarity - Right here, Right now!
Bradley Manning is presently being tortured and faces execution accused of releasing this footage
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
Julian Assange is being persecuted for admitting to publishing and circulating this footage
The last place Bradley Manning was before he was in a war zone, and then in chains, was Ireland. Like tens of thousands of young Americans who preceeded him, Manning past through Shannon Airport ( a defacto U.S. military base in neutral Ireland) County Clare, Ireland to his fate. 4,000 of these young Americans returned home in body bags (their corpses wisely shipped through Saudi not Shannon), 10,000 with injuries they will never recover from, they will never walk or talk again they will spend the ret of their lives shitting into their diapers (wisely shipped thorugh Germany not Shannon) another 20,000 with injuries they should partly recover from, hundrends have returned to commit homicide, suicide or actions for which they are now imprisoned, thers are walking time bombs let loose in civil society - and a million Iraqi dead mostly women and children (Lancett Report)
We Irish slapped Bradley Manning, and these hundreds of thousands of young Americans, on the sod him/them duty free and sent him/them to their predictable fate! Under the ancient rules of Irish and global hospitality Bradley Manning is party our responsibility. This young man was our guest in Ireland and we sent him on his way into a danger we were well aware of, without a word of warning.
Political parties in Ireland are content to faciilitate the American wars on the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. These parties are happy to serve the largest and most destuctive empire in human history, even in its declining death throes. Irish political parties are content to run this franchise on the west coast of Europe as others are willing to run the franchises of Burger King and McDonalds on the high streets.
The Irish church and the Irish arts community, with a handful of honorobale exceptions, maintain a housebroken complicity with our role in these ongoing U.S. wars and the persecution of those,in Ireland and selsewhere, who nonviolently resist them. The generation that is providing the cannon fodder for this war feels no tension with the generation sending their contempories to do the killing and the dying. The British war machine sends its recruitment propaganda to 26 county shools and the unemployed with no visible opposition.
The Irish "left" and @ scene, like their English cousins, are largley disengaged from this ongoing war.
We have to snap out of it. wake up, smell the coffee, cop on, realise the context and the historical moment. We need to do what we can wherever we are to stop the execution, or life imprisonment in an American gulag, of Bradley Manning. We need to be doing that right now!
Bradley was only 14 when the U.S. troops started to go through Shannon to invade Iraq. For those who are older we had/have a responsibility to him, a duty of care. He was homeless when he followed his father's (who had thrown him out of the house for being gay) footsteps into the U.S. military. For those of us who have never been in a homeless predicament much is expected of us in relation to brothers and sisters in this predicament.
Nonviolent resistance, proactive soidarity with those who step up to the plate inside and outside the militaries prosecuting this war AND truth telling of the kind Manning is accused of and Juian Assange is being persecuted for presently in British courts. The time for moral posturing and opportunism is over. The time is now!
- Ciaron O'Reilly
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Longer ealier analysis on torturing Manning to deliver Assange
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98504?search_text=break...sange
It was a liberal feminist argument that facilitated the invasion of Afghanistan. Right on schedule there Hillary with the "liberating the women of Afghanistan" thang. Radical feminists rejected this rationale for the invasion and the American led killing spree that follows and continues, as radical Swedish feminists reject the PRESENT manouveres of the British (who opposed Assange's bail in December and put him in solitary at H.M.P. Wandsworth) and Swedish states.
The Swedish extradition farce to a non-jury star chamber (that's how justice is executed in progressive Sweden) is side show. This wil be overridden by an extraditon request for Assange by the grand jury presently meeting in Virginia, USA.
Sounds like a strong plea bargaining position the liberals of the Obama administration have come up with to offer Manning (after torturing him for 7 months).....
"Give us Assange and we won't seek the death penalty!"
Meanwhile, the Engish lliberals of the Guardian (resentful aspitarional, didn't quite make it, public school boy jerk offs) are pushing their book and have a movie deal on the back of doing their bit to send Assange to an American gulag for "the term of his natural....."
Check out Page 3 of today's Guardian as they are flattered by Spielberg involvement in their character assasination...how low can ya go?...wait there's surely more from these people who have never spent night in custody for their beliefs.
The British left, anti-war and @ scenes are nowhere to be seen in relation to the persecution of EITHER of these two men who have risked their life long liberty and possibly their lives (formally executed or set up for a killinging the U.S. prison system) to speak the truth about the US/UK war on the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
What do you expect from liberals, not much! They escalated the war on Vietnam and now they are running the wars in Afghnaistan and Iraq. Whether they exploit first world sensibilities of liberal feminism to facilitate their crimes in Afghanistan and isolating Assange or whether they exploit the gay issue in the backing of the racist state of Israel in their slaughter of Palestinaians you'd have to be lazy or stupid or want to fall for it.
They named the main road from Baghdad airport to central Baghdad "Route Irish" is that enough to satisfy your Irish identitiy politics? Do you fel as flattered as the Guardian boyz who want to bein a movie?
Phil Ochs got it in one with "Love me I'm a Liberal"
...this one goes out to the liberal boys of the Guardian and Panorama...."...and that's why I'm turning ya in..."
"First they came for the cyberpunks, but I was not a cyberpunk and I did nothing.
and then they came for the military resisters but I was not a militar resister and I did nothing,
and they no longer seem to be coming for the Irish, but hey that could change like the weather....so maybe ya should do something?
Here's not a bad rewrite of Phil Och's 1960's effort....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmXBvDBD0k&feature=related
...and Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon's version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOXOkqVORxw&feature=related
And what was the terrible thing that Bradley Manning did?
He did not remain silent about a war crime that he knew about. He chose not to look the other way and say its not my problem.
He did the only decent and honorable thing he could. What would have happened if he had gone to his 'superiours" Bradley Manning had no choice. He acted with far more courage than those who thought it appropriate (an no doubt heroic - those 'real' men that they think they are) to shoot and murder unarmed civilians from the safety of their gunship. Such heroes they were/are. And for what? That their barbarous act would make the rest of of 'us' safe?
Collateral Murder.
Bravo Bradley!
Maggie
Let there be no death penalty for Bradley Manning or anyone. Any state with a death penalty is unacceptable to me. So called war today is run in slow motion and so called enemies are killed long after they are encountered. I am not discounting the "shoot first and identify after" actions of troops.
It is truly astonishing how the radical and revolutionary Left here and in Britain have not mobilised protests in solidarity with these two victimised whistle-blowers. The release of the video of the US helicopter murder of the journalists, rescuers and children in Iraq alone should have guaranteed them solidarity actions in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe.
I am prepared to help organise and to attend a protest at the US Embassy but it would not be effective for on person or just a handful to do it on their own.
Diarmuid. I cant help right now on vital support for these two whistleblowers, but like you said it certainly needs to happen and fast.A support group/committee should be set up with back up perhaps from some of the newly elected more inspiring public representatives,plus some of the old reliables, and decide a plan of many actions.Protesting alone will not be sufficient, but its a good start.
Not if you have spent any time trying to draw attention to the ongoing incarceration(mostly in solitary, and post an early rendition from thatcher's Britain)of the man who not only took on the Zionist project, but simultaneously the nuclear mafia, by exposing the weapons program being developed by Israel at Dimona.
I think I managed to get ONE mention in a letter to the irish times over the period since his honey-trapping by Mossad. Not yesterday.
Add him to your list. Along with Saro-Wiwa as the unmentionables when Shell gets a sliver.
For info on this go to attached link.....
Amnesty International often achieves better treatment of prisoners by wide-spread and persistent writing to prisoners and to the authorities who abuse prisoners. Everyone inside and outside the USA who opposes torture, who wants war criminals held accountable, who favors freedom, democracy and accountable government, everyone should routinely, frequently, relentlessly, send postcards of support to Bradley Manning (since sealed mail will be opened). And express yourself routinely, frequently, relentlessly to President Obama and VP Biden.
Post: White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500
Email form: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Phone message: 202-456-1111
FAX: 202-456-2461
Bradley Manning
c/o Courage to Resist
484 Lake Park Ave., #41
Oakland, CA 94610
OR (likely to be returned to sender, but Brig knows he has support)
Bradley Manning
c/o Marine Corps Brig
3250 Catlin Avenue
Quantico, VA 22134
http://www.ellsberg.net/
Daniel Ellsberg: “I’ve waited forty years for a release of documents on this scale.”