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In reply to the discussion: What Manning Revealed - Read This & Tell Me Just WHO Is Our Government Keeping Safe? [View all]NealK
(1,852 posts)20. Good question.
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What Manning Revealed - Read This & Tell Me Just WHO Is Our Government Keeping Safe? [View all]
kpete
Jul 2013
OP
He was found guilty today. He will serve the remainder of his life in prison for it.
Major Hogwash
Jul 2013
#2
If I recall correctly he could have just reported it to a member of congress
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#80
True getting congress to act would be difficult but there is the other option of
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#123
Zorra, stop that. He didn't say he was pleased. He simply stated the fact. Enough.
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#28
I will continue to speak out against fascists and fascism whenever, and wherever.
Zorra
Jul 2013
#86
Highly disturbing. This IS Democratic Underground. So you know, in case you've forgotten.
Divine Discontent
Jul 2013
#97
Ok, you can go crawl back into the "Cave", or the other "underground" you crawled out of...
Ghost in the Machine
Jul 2013
#116
"Major Hogwash" is a character you're playing, right? Like "Miss Information"?
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#50
Are you happy about this injustice and the fact the war criminals will live out their lives in
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#58
You seem to have missed the big picture. This isn't about Manning. It's about our government.
Gregorian
Jul 2013
#68
Well, sure sounds like it's those "scoripons" for the 1 percent... nt
AnotherDreamWeaver
Jul 2013
#3
We have an up hill battle. Even some so-called Democrats here side with the authoritarian state. nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#4
I think they are just afraid. They were raised in comfortable security and they are
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#59
I think a good many are Republican runaways, re-registering as Dems to escape the insane GOP
DJ13
Jul 2013
#62
LAPD clearly planted blood in OJ's house. PD's plant guns, drugs all the time. Big Govt taking cues?
chimpymustgo
Jul 2013
#46
Excuse me? We have no "authority" to "demand" the DNA of foreigners in leadership roles.
MADem
Jul 2013
#104
US defense contractor involved in child traficking? Beyond vile, disgusting, horrifying!
Divernan
Jul 2013
#10
Sure thats wrong but I assume you must have meant to reply to someone else as
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#88
"you say manning broke the law" No, Manning did that when he pleaded guilty.
cstanleytech
Aug 2013
#169
I thought it was Wackenhut/Armorgroup that trafficked young boys, not Dyncorp.
OnyxCollie
Jul 2013
#26
Widespread practice, and yet people are not angered by this, but by the fact that it was revealed
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#60
In Bizarro world, child traffickers go free while those who call bullshit on it are imprisoned. n/t
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#52
The Obama Administration: Protecting Criminals and Screwing Over Whistleblowers, 24/7
MotherPetrie
Jul 2013
#25
I believe I gave it more attention than Manning did the hundreds of thousands of documents he stole.
randome
Jul 2013
#130
So you want to throw the hundred thousand or so soldiers who served in Iraq in prison?
randome
Jul 2013
#137
Your quote does not support your opinion about Manning not being a whistleblower.
blackspade
Jul 2013
#139
Total sentence for all of those crimes: 0. But all of this, for revealing them.
DirkGently
Jul 2013
#51
It's always a sick feeling seeing people so glibly enable that evil. "Traitors" indeed.
DirkGently
Jul 2013
#63
The empire IS evil, the corporate-military the 1% banksters have built is an evil empire..,
Civilization2
Jul 2013
#70
If Obama only knew, surely he would do something. Why don't his aides tell him?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#155
Like Obama's 30,000 armed Drones flying the US skies by 2020, they're protecting the 1% from the 99%
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2013
#156
"The State Department authorized the theft of the UN Secretary General's DNA. "
GiaGiovanni
Aug 2013
#173