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Justice for Bradley Manning petition
In a few weeks, depending on what the response trend is, this will be sent to the DoD and major media outlets covering the story, plus a paper copy to Brad Manning himself.
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Petition text:
To: US Department of Defense; US Department of Justice
We, the Undersigned, call for justice for US Army PFC Bradley Manning, incarcerated without charge (as of 18 June 2010) at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
Media accounts state that Mr. Manning was arrested in late May for leaking the video of US Apache helicopter pilots killing innocent people and seriously wounding two children in Baghdad, including those who arrived to help the wounded, as well as potentially other material. The video was released by WikiLeaks under the name “Collateral Murder”.
If these allegations are untrue, we call upon the US Department of Defense to release Mr. Manning immediately.
If these allegations ARE true, we ALSO call upon the US Department of Defense to release Mr. Manning immediately.
Simultaneously, we express our support for Mr. Manning in any case, and our admiration for his courage if he is, in fact, the person who disclosed the video. Like in the cases of Daniel Ellsberg, W. Mark Felt, Frank Serpico and countless other whistleblowers before, government demands for secrecy must yield to public knowledge and justice when government crime and corruption are being kept hidden.
Justice for Bradley Manning!
Bradley Manning is an American Hero, and should be treated as such. RELEASE HIM NOW!
Free Bradley Manning. Stop the war crimes,
Throw the real criminals in jail, politicians, bankers, and the oil industry.
Un pais decente no debería encerrar a gente decente sino premiar su valor… hay que ser muy decente y tener mucho valor para hacer lo que ha hecho Bradley Manning. Mis más sinceras felicitaciones a todos los que contribuyeron a su educación, debeis sentiros orgullosos.
Dear Bradley,
You are a hero to many of us and we more than appreciate your sacrifice. The Political climate is pretty bad right now with the Tea Party gaining supporters and so many folks voting for the wrong party and people to strengthen the US and not weaken it but I still have hope that the truth will win and you will be free some day soon. You have a lot of people supporting you – more than you know – for example, it took me two (or is it three months?) to write this email but I’ve been with you from the beginning. Hang in there and they’d better be treating you well. Much love from all of us who want to create an honest and fair US and not let these crooks and war mongers get off scott free any more.
Dear Bradley Manning
My thoughts and prayers are always with you………
Ed, where Manning went to high school was in the Washington Post article about him when the story first broke. While I never served in military intelligence, I can at least read a newspaper.
CertainQuirk, Harriet Tubman knew what she did was illegal, and did it anyway. She knew she’d be hanged (if she was lucky) if caught, or worse, sold back into slavery. There would be no mass media pressure to save her, no whining apologists to keep her from the noose or from slave chains. She knew the risk she took, and accepted that risk unafraid.
That’s heroism. Bradley’s actions somehow fall short.
why was the Justice for Bradley Manning petition at petitiononline dot com discontinued
I think killing civilians costs lives. That puts far more US troops at new danger than anythign Bradle Manning did. Never mind the letter of the law, where is the spirit? There are reasons laws are written, and they should be questioned. Failure to do so amounts to doing what those wearing the jackboots say we must do. Judging by the way Bradley Manning is being treated, people on either ‘side’ have good reason to wonder who the enemy is. The more truth we know, the easier it will be to sort out the mess. It’s too expensive to indulge in it now, never mind the cruelty of it, and that alone is a damn good reason to stop. People often say it takes guts to die so others may live. So what are we supposed to think of warmongers who make careers of it? They live so that others may die. That surely makes them the worst kind of coward!
@Drew: We closed that down in favor of the Stand With Brad petition begun recently, which should be of greater impact. However, the petition signatures have been processed and printed, and will be delivered to US officials. We’ll have a release about that shortly.
Bradley Manning is a political prisoner of the US Government, incarcerated for daring to leak information about atrocities committed against innocent Iraqi civilians by US military personnel. These crimes had the tacit approval of their superiors who had no concern for the fate of the population of that country, illegal killings which they brushed off as being ‘collateral damage’. Bradley Manning is a hero not a criminal.
The US military are the greatest perpetrator of human rights abuses in the world, far outweighing anything done by regimes in other parts of the world that they so often criticise.