Re: 250 Legal Scholars Condemn Obama’s Treatment of Bradley Manning

Ever hear of suffering the consequences of your actions or
non actions ? Even hardened criminals understand that if you can't do
the time don't do the crime. Manning apparently is drowning in his own
folly, and yes ; he is a desperate case.

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On Apr 12, 7:17 pm, Jonathan Ashley <jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
wrote:
> So, can we then assume when the government comes for you, you are
> willing to surrender to their whims without having your day in court?
> Oh, ye who hides behind a moniker.
>
> "'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of
> saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk
> or sober.'"
> � Gilbert Keith Chesterton
>
> On 04/12/2011 02:58 PM, Sage2 wrote:
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> >               The scholars should be questioning Manning's culpability
> > and mockery of himself and his country when he turned " quisling "!
> > Not so long ago he would have faced a firing squad for treason. There
> > is no " mockery " here !
> > He decided to expose various Government documents and know he is the
> > one being exposed naked. Just getting a little of his own medicine.
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> > On Apr 12, 2:58 pm, Jonathan Ashley<jonathanashle...@lavabit.com>
> > wrote:
> >> *250 Legal Scholars Condemn Obama�s Treatment of Bradley Manning*http://www.independent.org/blog/index.php?p=10140
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> >> "The Obama administration has detained the alleged Wikileaks
> >> whistleblower (sic) under torturous conditions�for almost a year, he has
> >> been subjected to solitary confinement in a windowless 6�12 cell for 23
> >> hours a day, under constant surveillance, prevented from exercising,
> >> lacking a pillow or sheets. For the remaining hour every day, he is
> >> allowed to walk in circles in a somewhat larger cell, still without any
> >> human company. Every five minutes he is asked, �Are you OK?� and must
> >> answer yes. Now he is being forced to sleep naked. Put together, his
> >> treatment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment without trial,
> >> protest 250 legal scholars, including preemenent (sic) liberal law
> >> professor Laurence Tribe, a man who taught Obama constitutional law,
> >> supported his 2008 campaign, and until recently worked as a Justice
> >> Department legal adviser. The letter draws scathing conclusions about
> >> his treatment, as well as about Obama�s personal culpability in this
> >> mockery of justice:"
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