"Some three million Americans have a security clearance. Most of what Manning released was “confidential,” six percent was “secret,” and none of it was “top secret.” In the world of whistleblowers, normal is abnormal. The common sense duty to “say something” is, you see, something that makes you a freak. And never more so than in the heroism and vilification of young Bradley Manning."
More here - http://consortiumnews.com/2012/04/24/the-value-of-bradley-manning/
This guy is a hero in every sense - he really exposed to the world the inner workings of the American Establishment and all its hypocrisies on display. And yet, he's in prison, treated like a criminal.
But what does it say about us as a society, as a culture? I believe what he did was right, as do many others, but why then is he in jail? What is being done about it? Is it just another cause along with the all the others that I put behind when I need to get up off my ass and go to work?
I guess at least I question myself and my motives. Unfortunately the vast majority of people in this country either don't really know, or worse don't really care. And it's that laissez-faire attitude that I think is why are society is a broken one today.
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Some bottom-line facts to digest, the next time someone justifies invading a foreign country in the name of freedom, security, defending our way of life, etc...
"In fact there is no just war. There is no legal war. Every single war has been illegal since the Kellogg Briand Pact of 1928.
The U.N. Charter seeks to legalize wars that are either labeled “defensive” or authorized by the United Nations. The U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan are neither defensive nor authorized by the United Nations. The U.S. Constitution forbids wars not declared by Congress. Congress has not declared a war since 1941."
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