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In reply to the discussion: What is the reason the GLBT Community doesn't support Bradley Manning? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)torture. Others are now no longer laws because they were bad laws.
Manning witnessed a war crime and reported it. Since we are talking about laws, why was his report, considered he was attempting to have our laws applied, ignored by his superiors?
If violating laws was taken seriously, then those who lied us into war would not be walking free, would they? THEY got thousands of our troops killed, tens of thousands of other innocent people.
If you want to talk about laws, then let's do that. I am willing to talk to anyone who believes that there is a rule of law in this country that applies to EVERYONE. And that the violation of some laws causes far more harm than the violation of others when the intent (intent used to be a consideration in our legal system) is to prevent harm.
Tell me, why are the laws of this country applied only to people like Manning, but not to his superior officers or to a CIC who led this country, and him, into a disastrous war based on lies?