You know why the U.S. government is throwing the book at Manning? It isn't that he outed secrets ... it's all because the secrets he outed revealed slimy, crooked, and traitorous moves by those we're supposed to trust. In simple terms, what "our" government wants is to keep its nasty moves -- like harassing NGOs, legitimate protestors, supporting tyrannical dictators, defending corporations that knowingly poison and kill innocent people for profits, and the ability to continue their secret operations for rendition, torture and assassination of anyone they choose. Manning's actions, sure to be copied by other truth heroes, threaten tyrants -- that's why they want to make sure he suffers copiously.
Manning isn't a whistleblower, he's a modern truth hero -- no different than Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Ralph Nader, Bernie Sanders, and dozens of other Americans who vociferously demand governmental transparency.
Our government, owned and operated now by a collection of greedy mega-corps whose only concern is profit, wants the right to commit crimes kept private. Screw America Inc.!
Manning isn't a whistleblower, he's a modern truth hero -- no different than Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange, Ralph Nader, Bernie Sanders, and dozens of other Americans who vociferously demand governmental transparency.
Our government, owned and operated now by a collection of greedy mega-corps whose only concern is profit, wants the right to commit crimes kept private. Screw America Inc.!