Chelsea Manning Released from prison

[Internationalist Bastard]

>Implying the US Armed Forces manifest tyranny


lol'd

More the CIA, IMO

Yea, because we were still angry as fuck over 9/11. Hell, if some guy orchestrates an attack that kills 2000+ innocent people, I wouldn't care about the rules of war either.

That's certainly the reason why we did that, but it's a pisspoor justification. We're supposed to be better than that. That's why we put a lot of those rules into place in the first place

It does annoy me how we are supposed to live up to the ideals of the constitution, then skirt around it constantly and saying, "welp we're fighting terrorists"

[FelrikTheDeleted]

It does annoy me how we are supposed to live up to the ideals of the constitution, then skirt around it constantly and saying, "welp we're fighting terrorists"

In that case, I would advise that you pick one or the other and ignore those that urge you to pick both.

[The Horror Channel]

Treason is pretty popular these days. Hell, even the President is doing it.

[Oneracon]

The Gitmo files alone prove just how horribly the US acted in the early days of the War of Terror

Yea, because we were still angry as fuck over 9/11. Hell, if some guy orchestrates an attack that kills 2000+ innocent people, I wouldn't care about the rules of war either.

Being mad about 9/11 = the constitution and international law out the window.

This is exactly what was so important about Manning's leaks, she provided concrete evidence to what the rest of the world has known for years. That the US talks a lot about ideals of democracy, freedom, and friendship between nations... but in reality it throws all of those under the bus with no regard for the consequences.

[Salandriagado]

The Gitmo files alone prove just how horribly the US acted in the early days of the War of Terror

Yea, because we were still angry as fuck over 9/11. Hell, if some guy orchestrates an attack that kills 2000+ innocent people, I wouldn't care about the rules of war either.

You realise that by swapping "9/11" for "The Iraq War" and increasing the number significantly, you're quoting Al-Qaeda propaganda word for word?

[Antekset]

Yea, because we were still angry as fuck over 9/11. Hell, if some guy orchestrates an attack that kills 2000+ innocent people, I wouldn't care about the rules of war either.

You realise that by swapping "9/11" for "The Iraq War" and increasing the number significantly, you're quoting Al-Qaeda propaganda word for word?

Well, that and adjusting that number by an order of magnitude or two.

Most of the enemies the US has find cause in the actions of the US.

[Gig em Aggies]

You realise that by swapping "9/11" for "The Iraq War" and increasing the number significantly, you're quoting Al-Qaeda propaganda word for word?

Well, that and adjusting that number by an order of magnitude or two.

Most of the enemies the US has find cause in the actions of the US.

even if the US didn't do these types of things that were leaked most of the enemies of the US still wouldn't like us for instance Al-Qaeda and bin laden they hated us because we were friends with middle eastern nations and helping them be nicer to Israel and the west, North Korea hates us because we won the Korean war and squashed their dream to have full control over all of Korea, Iran hates us because we were allies of the shah. you don't have to intervene into another countries problems to have another country as an enemy.

[Jamzmania]

Perhaps, but "the horrible shit being carried out in the name of the US people" makes it sounds like there were atrocities being committed that no one knew about, but, again, the worst that was revealed seems to be battlefield fuck ups and ignoring crime and corruption in the Afghan and Iraqi governments. These things could have been revealed without also leaking a lot of the other stuff that Manning did, which served no purpose other than to harm US interests.

That kinda makes the assumption that US interests should be protected while battlefield fuckups are protected.

I'm not sure either way. But I do know that without Mannings actions the US armed forces would have had less drive to put their house in order.

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm saying that Manning could have blown the whistle on these fuck ups without also leaking many of the other things that he did. These hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables didn't reveal any awful crimes, they only hurt US interests. You can say you don't care about US interests, but don't act surprised if the US does and locks up one of their own soldiers who was responsible for knowingly harming their interests.

[Eastfield Lodge]

That kinda makes the assumption that US interests should be protected while battlefield fuckups are protected.

I'm not sure either way. But I do know that without Mannings actions the US armed forces would have had less drive to put their house in order.

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm saying that Manning could have blown the whistle on these fuck ups without also leaking many of the other things that he did. These hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables didn't reveal any awful crimes, they only hurt US interests. You can say you don't care about US interests, but don't act surprised if the US does and locks up one of their own soldiers who was responsible for knowingly harming their interests.

Thing is, 'knowingly harming their interests' can easily be extended to exposing war crimes.

[Gig em Aggies]

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm saying that Manning could have blown the whistle on these fuck ups without also leaking many of the other things that he did. These hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables didn't reveal any awful crimes, they only hurt US interests. You can say you don't care about US interests, but don't act surprised if the US does and locks up one of their own soldiers who was responsible for knowingly harming their interests.

Thing is, 'knowingly harming their interests' can easily be extended to exposing war crimes.

What your posts still confuse me?

[Infected Mushroom]

Chelsea Manning's prison term, which was cut down to 7 years from 35 in one of Obama's final acts in office, has ended this morning with her release today from the United States Disciplinary Barracks at 2:00 am.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/p ... prion.html

What do you think about this, NSG? Is Ms.Manning a hero or a villain for her leaking of classified documents? Considering her life and her story, is she bound to remain a public figure, or for her own good slip into the life of a private one?

In my opinion, it's good that she's been freed, especially considering her history of attempting suicide in prison and holding a hunger strike in order to receive gender transition surgery.

Her release is a sign of weakness from the government. The government is going to lose respect for this. Treason cannot be tolerated.

[Jamzmania]

I'm not sure what you mean. I'm saying that Manning could have blown the whistle on these fuck ups without also leaking many of the other things that he did. These hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables didn't reveal any awful crimes, they only hurt US interests. You can say you don't care about US interests, but don't act surprised if the US does and locks up one of their own soldiers who was responsible for knowingly harming their interests.

Thing is, 'knowingly harming their interests' can easily be extended to exposing war crimes.

In this case it extended to much less criminal revelations. Which is my point. Why did Manning have to leak everything if all he wanted to do was expose crimes?

[Athrax]

Thing is, 'knowingly harming their interests' can easily be extended to exposing war crimes.

In this case it extended to much less criminal revelations. Which is my point. Why did Manning have to leak everything if all he wanted to do was expose crimes?

I'd imagine she wanted to be thorough and didn't have the ability to parse these things out on the spot, similar to why Snowden stole as much as he did. Wikileak's decision to release irrelevent data says more about that organization than it does Manning. It's a large part of why I don't trust them (the possibly being run by Russian intelligence also doesn't help). But she also went to prison for 7 years because of all that she took. We act like she's gotten off scott free because the former president decided to show some mercy before he left office.

[Calladan]

Chelsea Manning's prison term, which was cut down to 7 years from 35 in one of Obama's final acts in office, has ended this morning with her release today from the United States Disciplinary Barracks at 2:00 am.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/p ... prion.html

What do you think about this, NSG? Is Ms.Manning a hero or a villain for her leaking of classified documents? Considering her life and her story, is she bound to remain a public figure, or for her own good slip into the life of a private one?

In my opinion, it's good that she's been freed, especially considering her history of attempting suicide in prison and holding a hunger strike in order to receive gender transition surgery.

Her release is a sign of weakness from the government. The government is going to lose respect for this. Treason cannot be tolerated.

From what I understand, it wasn't *this* government that released her.

[Gig em Aggies]

In this case it extended to much less criminal revelations. Which is my point. Why did Manning have to leak everything if all he wanted to do was expose crimes?

I'd imagine she wanted to be thorough and didn't have the ability to parse these things out on the spot, similar to why Snowden stole as much as he did. Wikileak's decision to release irrelevent data says more about that organization than it does Manning. It's a large part of why I don't trust them (the possibly being run by Russian intelligence also doesn't help). But she also went to prison for 7 years because of all that she took. We act like she's gotten off scott free because the former president decided to show some mercy before he left office.

in my view this "mercy" was only to make Obama look good. plus no one will really hire manning for any important jobs cause manning cant be trusted ever.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Thing is, 'knowingly harming their interests' can easily be extended to exposing war crimes.

In this case it extended to much less criminal revelations. Which is my point. Why did Manning have to leak everything if all he wanted to do was expose crimes?

To be fair, Manning seems like a deeply conflicted individual with a lot of issues hanging over her back.

I would not trust her with leaking anything. However, she handed the files to WikiLeaks, whose editor-in-chief is Julian Assange. He should have known better.

In this instance, because Manning handed the information to a third party for them to release it, she's not personally responsible for what was leaked. She is responsible for giving the files to an irresponsible shitbag if she wanted to leak them, but not for what was leaked.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

in my view this "mercy" was only to make Obama look good. plus no one will really hire manning for any important jobs cause manning cant be trusted ever.

I don't see how the choice of profession after release is relevant, since I wouldn't be so sure she wants to deal with secret information anymore. At least I would hope she doesn't.

[Gig em Aggies]

In this case it extended to much less criminal revelations. Which is my point. Why did Manning have to leak everything if all he wanted to do was expose crimes?

To be fair, Manning seems like a deeply conflicted individual with a lot of issues hanging over her back.

I would not trust her with leaking anything. However, she handed the files to WikiLeaks, whose editor-in-chief is Julian Assange. He should have known better.

In this instance, because Manning handed the information to a third party for them to release it, she's not personally responsible for what was leaked. She is responsible for giving the files to an irresponsible shitbag if she wanted to leak them, but not for what was leaked.

actually your wrong manning is responsible for leaking the documents if manning didn't steal them then they would not have been leaked.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

To be fair, Manning seems like a deeply conflicted individual with a lot of issues hanging over her back.

I would not trust her with leaking anything. However, she handed the files to WikiLeaks, whose editor-in-chief is Julian Assange. He should have known better.

In this instance, because Manning handed the information to a third party for them to release it, she's not personally responsible for what was leaked. She is responsible for giving the files to an irresponsible shitbag if she wanted to leak them, but not for what was leaked.

actually your wrong manning is responsible for leaking the documents if manning didn't steal them then they would not have been leaked.

There's a difference between what the actual actions of Manning were and what people think she did.

She handed the files to Assange. That's all she really did. In this, I find her fully responsible for handing them over to a shitbag like Assange. I find Assange more culpable on releasing the leaks as they were, because he was the one who owns and edits WikiLeaks, so he was responsible to do a responsible job in leaking these documents, if they were to be leaked at all.

[Gig em Aggies]

actually your wrong manning is responsible for leaking the documents if manning didn't steal them then they would not have been leaked.

There's a difference between what the actual actions of Manning were and what people think she did.

She handed the files to Assange. That's all she really did. In this, I find her fully responsible for handing them over to a shitbag like Assange. I find Assange more culpable on releasing the leaks as they were, because he was the one who owns and edits WikiLeaks, so he was responsible to do a responsible job in leaking these documents, if they were to be leaked at all.

here's what I mean

example: you and I go into a store and rob the cashier at gun point under my plan the cashier then pulls a gun and shoots you or me dead, who ever is left can be charge for murder or manslaughter without either one of us actually pulling the trigger.

its the same premise except with stealing classified data then handing it to a third party who then leaks it manning is still responsible for the leak not necessarily to the public but he leaked it to an unauthorized third party

[Esternial]

Won't stop folks having a hate boner against her.

[The East Marches II]

More the CIA, IMO



That's certainly the reason why we did that, but it's a pisspoor justification. We're supposed to be better than that. That's why we put a lot of those rules into place in the first place

It does annoy me how we are supposed to live up to the ideals of the constitution, then skirt around it constantly and saying, "welp we're fighting terrorists"

I wasn't aware foreigners were American citizens :^)

[Neo Balka]

It does annoy me how we are supposed to live up to the ideals of the constitution, then skirt around it constantly and saying, "welp we're fighting terrorists"

I wasn't aware foreigners were American citizens :^)

Apparently they are.

which is odd.

[Esternial]

It does annoy me how we are supposed to live up to the ideals of the constitution, then skirt around it constantly and saying, "welp we're fighting terrorists"

I wasn't aware foreigners were American citizens :^)

I guess such an idea sounds foreign to you.

[The East Marches II]

I wasn't aware foreigners were American citizens :^)

I guess such an idea sounds foreign to you.

It really does. I don't understand why people insist that people who aren't citizens are entitled to the same rights as a citizen. Oh well, can't win them all.