Bradley Manning heeft de vijand al-CIAda niet geholpen

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Bradley Manning heeft de vijand (al-CIAda) niet geholpen, toch wacht hem waarschijnlijk een behoorlijke gevangenisstraf wegens spionage ea.

Washington Post - Bradley Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy, convicted on other charges
30 juli 2013 - Bradley Manning verdict: An Army judge finds Pfc. Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy by disclosing secret U.S. government documents. Military prosecutors had argued that the largest leak in U.S. history had assisted al-Qaeda. But the judge, Col. Denise Lind, found Manning guilty of most of the other charges. Manning’s lawyer argued that his client had acted with honor in disclosing information about government misconduct that he felt belonged in the public domain. The government, meanwhile, portrayed the 25-year-old soldier as publicity-seeking, cunning and reckless.

Toch een belangrijke overwinning.

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Nou nou ben eens benieuwd naar de totaalstraf die hij gaat krijgen. Hopelijk nog enkele decennia lang in zijn mini cel vastzitten.

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Savatage

Nou nou ben eens benieuwd naar de totaalstraf die hij gaat krijgen. Hopelijk nog enkele decennia lang in zijn mini cel vastzitten.

Meer dan waarschijnlijk zal dat zo zijn, toch jammer.

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Savatage

Nou nou ben eens benieuwd naar de totaalstraf die hij gaat krijgen. Hopelijk nog enkele decennia lang in zijn mini cel vastzitten.

"De regering heeft Bradley Manning in een kooi gestopt, hem uitgekleed en geïsoleerd gezet met als enige doel om hem te breken. Deze handelwijze is officieel veroordeeld door een speciale rapporteur van de Verenigde Naties."

Bron : HLN

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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Savatage

Nou nou ben eens benieuwd naar de totaalstraf die hij gaat krijgen. Hopelijk nog enkele decennia lang in zijn mini cel vastzitten.

En hoe gaat hij dan (eventueel # ) de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede kunnen afhalen ?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/bradley...nation/5328647

Bradley Manning’s Nobel Peace Prize Nomination

Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize , and he should receive it.

No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism” than Bradley Manning. The United States is the leading exporter of weapons and itself spends as much preparing for more wars as the rest of the world combined. Manning is the leading actor in opposition to U.S. warmaking, and therefore militarism around the world. What he has done has hurt the cause of violence in a number of other nations as well.

And right now, remaining in prison and facing relentless prosecution by the U.S. government, Manning is in need of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Alfred Nobel’s will left funding for a prize to be awarded to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

The intent of the prize was to fund this work. As a result of enormous legal expenses, Bradley Manning is in need of that funding, unlike some other peace prize recipients. In addition, his secret trial — with a potential death sentence — could use all the attention that can be shined on it.

The people of the United States and the rest of the world have learned more about the intentions of the U.S. government from Bradley Manning than from anyone else. “Thanks to Manning’s alleged disclosures, we have a sense of what transpired in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have an image of how Washington operates in the world,” author Chase Madar wrote in his book about Manning’s whistleblowing.

“Thanks to those revelations we now know just how our government leaned on the Vatican to quell opposition to the Iraq War. We now know how Washington pressured the German government to block the prosecution of CIA agents who kidnapped an innocent man, Khaled El-Masri, while he was on vacation. We know how our State Department lobbied hard to prevent a minimum wage increase in Haiti, the hemisphere’s poorest nation.”

Manning revealed a secret U.S. war in Yemen, U.S. records of massive civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, video of a U.S. helicopter attack on civilians and their rescuers in Baghdad, and facts about the corruption of numerous governments including those of the United States, Tunisia, and Egypt. In those last two nations Manning’s revelations contributed to nonviolent pro-democracy movements.

Among the revelations made by Manning through WikiLeaks is the extent of time and energy the U.S. State Department puts into marketing U.S. weapons to the world’s governments. We all have a better understanding of the work that is needed for peace as a result of this exposure of “diplomacy” as consisting so greatly of weapons selling.

The Guardian newspaper and BBC Arabic detailed last week how the United States armed and trained Iraqi police commando units that ran torture centers and death squads. Maggie O’Kane, executive producer of the documentary, said: “I hope this film will be a legacy that actually says, ‘If you want to go to war, this is what war means. It means 14-year-old boys being hung up and tortured. It means men being turned on spits. And that’s called counter-insurgency. . . .’ This would not be coming to light if it hadn’t been for Bradley Manning.”

Not only has Manning done the most to resist militarism, but he has done it for its own sake, and not by chance or for any ulterior motive. This is made clear by his recent statement in court and by his earlier communications in the chat logs that have long been a part of his case. Manning was horrified by crimes and abuses. He believed the public should know what was happening. He believed democracy was more important than blind subservience in the name of a “democracy.”

Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, and the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youth. The nomination states, in part: “These revelations have fueled democratic uprisings around the world, including a democratic revolution in Tunisia. According to journalists, his alleged actions helped motivate the democratic Arab Spring movements, shed light on secret corporate influence on the foreign and domestic policies of European nations, and most recently contributed to the Obama Administration agreeing to withdraw all U.S. troops from the occupation in Iraq.”

The Norwegian Nobel Committee ( send them a note ) can either begin awarding the peace prize to opponents of war or continue on its current course — one which already has many questioning, not whether Manning is worthy of the prize, but whether the prize is worthy of Manning.

# de lijst is lang (231) maar er kunnen wel 3 verkozenen zijn:

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2012/02/27/...adley-manning/

Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, de Europese Unie, Al-Jazeera en 'Wikileaks-soldaat' Bradley Manning maken kans op de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede dit jaar. Het Vredesprijscomité heeft bekend gemaakt dat er 231 genomineerden zijn.
Of de nu bovengedreven kandidaten daadwerkelijk een kans maken is nog maar de vraag: op de lijst staan niet minder dan 188 personen en 43 organisaties. De lijst komt in omvang in de buurt van het record van vorig jaar, toen er 241 genomineerden waren. De prestigieuze award uit Oslo ging toen naar de Liberiaanse president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, de Liberiaanse activist Leymah Gbowee en de Jemenitische 'Arabische Lente-activist' Tawakkol Karman.

Genomineerde Bradley Manning werd vorige week nog formeel in staat van beschuldiging gesteld, voor onder meer het “heulen met de vijand”. Manning lekte documenten van de Amerikaanse regering naar WikiLeaks.

Genomineerden kunnen door enkele duizenden mensen worden aangedragen, waaronder parlementsleden en regeringen, professoren, eerdere laureaten en leden van verschillende instituten. Zij kregen tot één februari de tijd om kandidaten voor te stellen.

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Bradley Manning verdient Nobelprijs

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