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President Obama tells us that he’s asked the Pentagon whether the conditions of confinement of Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with leaking state secrets, "are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are."

If Obama believes that, he’ll believe anything. I would hope he would know better than to ask the perpetrators whether they’ve been behaving appropriately. I can just hear President Nixon saying to a press conference the same thing: "I was assured by the the White House Plumbers that their burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s doctor in Los Angeles was appropriate and met basic standards."

http://original.antiwar.com/daniel-ellsberg/2011/03/11/this-shameful-abuse-of-bradley-manning/

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I've seen no evidence to back up claims of this Manning punk's torture. It's just propaganda from WikiLeaks lovers.

I agree. The burden of proof is on those that allege torture. The U.S. Government should not have to prove a negative.

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I've seen no evidence to back up claims of this Manning punk's torture. It's just propaganda from WikiLeaks lovers.

I am under the impression that wikileaks is a cia psy-op program. Too convenient to have that much information released at any given time.

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I've seen no evidence to back up claims of this Manning punk's torture. It's just propaganda from WikiLeaks lovers.

That is because this inconvenient truth runs counter to your right wing ideology.

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I find that Torture is usually not even a news worthy story.

Look at First Nations people in Canada they were Abducted, Tortured, Raped, and Ripped away from there childhoods and nobody cares about it. They endured a 51% death rate in these Canadian Government Funded Religous Church Institutions. All the First Nations got was a quick "Sorry" and 10 Grand for your troubles from the Canadian Government.

The Church was never charged under the Racketeering Laws, for moving around known Child Preditors called Priests from Europe to Canada, and then hiding these Priests in the Vatican City. The Pope was never charged for being a Co-Conspirator in the genocide of First Nations people in Canada. The New England Company was never sued for financialy supporting the Church and Genocide.

First Nations have revealed that there is 28 mass grave sites containing 100's of thousands of First Nation children who are murdered and slaughtered, while Canada Land Laundering and Stole First Nations Land.

Oh ya.. whats that about Torture again>??

Edited by Chippewa

Canada-- Just A Hotbed For Laundering First Nations Land and Resources

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I find that Torture is usually not even a news worthy story.

Look at First Nations people in Canada they were Abducted, Tortured, Raped, and Ripped away from there childhoods and nobody cares about it. They endured a 51% death rate in these Canadian Government Funded Religous Church Institutions. All the First Nations got was a quick "Sorry" and 10 Grand for your troubles from the Canadian Government.

The Church was never charged under the Racketeering Laws, for moving around known Child Preditors called Priests from Europe to Canada, and then hiding these Priests in the Vatican City. The Pope was never charged for being a Co-Conspirator in the genocide of First Nations people in Canada. The New England Company was never sued for financialy supporting the Church and Genocide.

First Nations have revealed that there is 28 mass grave sites containing 100's of thousands of First Nation children who are murdered and slaughtered, while Canada Land Laundering and Stole First Nations Land.

Oh ya.. whats that about Torture again>??

It's off topic, but nevertheless...

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I am under the impression that wikileaks is a cia psy-op program. Too convenient to have that much information released at any given time.

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Posted

I find that Torture is usually not even a news worthy story.

Look at First Nations people in Canada they were Abducted, Tortured, Raped, and Ripped away from there childhoods and nobody cares about it. They endured a 51% death rate in these Canadian Government Funded Religous Church Institutions. All the First Nations got was a quick "Sorry" and 10 Grand for your troubles from the Canadian Government.

The Church was never charged under the Racketeering Laws, for moving around known Child Preditors called Priests from Europe to Canada, and then hiding these Priests in the Vatican City. The Pope was never charged for being a Co-Conspirator in the genocide of First Nations people in Canada. The New England Company was never sued for financialy supporting the Church and Genocide.

First Nations have revealed that there is 28 mass grave sites containing 100's of thousands of First Nation children who are murdered and slaughtered, while Canada Land Laundering and Stole First Nations Land.

Oh ya.. whats that about Torture again>??

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Posted

I am under the impression that wikileaks is a cia psy-op program. Too convenient to have that much information released at any given time.

Something is funny, that's for sure. Nothing that was released is really all that damning, and some of it is just not true. One of the leaks claimed that Castro banned "Sicko" in Cuba, which is laughable because it's been in theatres, on TV and is streamed on the official govt website there.

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I've seen no evidence to back up claims of this Manning punk's torture. It's just propaganda from WikiLeaks lovers.

How would you "see" it? All we ever hear in such cases are claims and people backing up those claims; we rarely "see" evidence. I have no idea why you would refer to him as a "punk," either. If what he's saying is true, he tried to do the right thing. Time, I hope, will tell one way or the other, but as for now, we aren't in the position to "see" evidence of it nor to judge.

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Always good for a laugh.

  • Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone."
  • Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds.
  • Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location?
  • The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).

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Posted (edited)

Evidently Manning is in the running for Time's Man of the Year.

link

Edited to add: Or maybe not. Looks as if that might be a special voting. Julian Assange is apparently up for it, though. link

Edited by American Woman
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Recently, when protesters asked President Obama about Manning's treatment, Obama responded:

We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law.

:)

Really? "He broke the law"?

So, there's no need for a trial, I take it?

I thought Obama was a Constitutional scholar. He must have forgotten those complex and arcane aspects of law about presumption of innocence and other such irritants.

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...I thought Obama was a Constitutional scholar. He must have forgotten those complex and arcane aspects of law about presumption of innocence and other such irritants.

He is, and there is no such explicit presumption in the US Constitution. Such consideration is derived from Amendments in theory, if not in practice.

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Posted (edited)

He is, and there is no such explicit presumption in the US Constitution. Such consideration is derived from Amendments in theory, if not in practice.

Fair enough; I did not know this.

Still, Obama asserting the man's guilt is...premature, is it not? Particularly when Manning is to be tried by military officers, and the person declaring his guilt is their Commander-in-chief.

If he's guilty, and this is obvious, why bother with a trial at all?

Edited by bloodyminded

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...Still, Obama asserting the man's guilt is...premature, is it not? Particularly when Manning is to be tried by military officers, and the person declaring his guilt is their Commander-in-chief.

True, but the assertion of his guilt by Obama is still subordinate to the process you describe. Being more precise, perhaps Mr. Obama should have "alleged" that he broke the law.

If he's guilty, and this is obvious, why bother with a trial at all?

He would have to plead guilty.

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True, but the assertion of his guilt by Obama is still subordinate to the process you describe. Being more precise, perhaps Mr. Obama should have "alleged" that he broke the law.

No question. Some have argued that Obama spoke off the cuff, the way people often do when speaking of someone who's incarcerated. If that's the case, it's a somewhat unbecoming remark for a President to make--a gaffe--but that's about it.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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No question. Some have argued that Obama spoke off the cuff, the way people often do when speaking of someone who's incarcerated. If that's the case, it's a somewhat unbecoming remark for a President to make--a gaffe--but that's about it.

A safe gaffe to make save for the Wikileaks faithful. Perps are perps in the popular conscience and media once incarcerated even without being charged. Major Hasan killed 13 people in Texas, but he is still presumed innocent until proven guilty! ;)

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No question. Some have argued that Obama spoke off the cuff, the way people often do when speaking of someone who's incarcerated. If that's the case, it's a somewhat unbecoming remark for a President to make--a gaffe--but that's about it.

A gaffe is simply unbecoming of a constitutional expert? It's merely a gaffe? I might excuse Bush for that kind of gaffe but not a constitutional expert!!!

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Posted (edited)

A gaffe is simply unbecoming of a constitutional expert? It's merely a gaffe? I might excuse Bush for that kind of gaffe but not a constitutional expert!!!

I'm inclined to trust BC_2004's take on this particular matter. And I have no particular love or admiration for Obama, if that's what you're implying. Bush's gaffes were trivial and over-scrutinized as well, as you no doubt agree.

Edited by bloodyminded

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