Write Bradley
Thank you for supporting Bradley Manning! You can write to Bradley Manning at the following address:
Commander, HHC USAG
Attn: PFC Manning
239 Sheridan Ave, Bldg 417
JBM-HH, VA 22211
As previously noted, PFC Manning is eligible to receive mail from anyone who wishes to write to him. However, the confinement facility does place certain restrictions on what can be sent to PFC Manning. The facility will reject any mail that violates postal regulations or contains obscenity, blackmail, contraband or threats. In addition, the facility has the following restrictions:
a) PFC Bradley Manning cannot receive any cash, checks, or money orders. Due to this additional restriction, our office will ensure that PFC Manning has sufficient funds in his detainee account to purchase items.
b) Photographs are only accepted if printed on copy paper. A maximum of six (6) pages are allowed. Pictures on photograph weight paper are not allowed.
c) Incoming mail will be returned to the sender if, in the opinion of the facility, such mail falls into any of the following categories: 1) Contains inflammatory material or advocates escape, violence, disorder or assault; 2) Directly or indirectly threatens the security, safety or order of the facility; 3) Contains coded or otherwise undecipherable language that prevents adequate review of the material; 4) Is received with “Postage Due”; or 5) Contains items of contraband.
This information comes from the blog of Bradley’s defense lawyer, David Coombs. Original Source.
I will certainly write to Bradley Manning; I have written before and will send a letter/card from time to time. I have also written to a number of people in various parts of the US Administration.
I sent him one a while ago! no reply however, I hope it got through!
I will also write to Bradley Manning to offer my support from the UK. I think it’s very sad that he is locked away like this, for whatever reason.
I’ve also shared this link with my friends.
do not give up!
hang in there, dude……you have impacted history…
Freedom of speech for bradley manning and for the world
Remember, Bradly is innocent until proven guilty. In otherwords, Bradly Manning is INNOCENT. There’s a reason he hasn’t gone to trial, they can’t prove he’s guilty of anything.
Really, it takes a lot of courage to be in his shoes. Someone had to do it. One thing I know is that non of the ones in the other side has what it takes due to vested interests and fear for what might happen to them, their future. My simpathy is with you, Lord bless you!
It was a very courageous act.
I hope Freedom Fighter is right.
What a wonderful idea! I didn’t know it was possible to do this. I’ve written a letter and our 3 yo drew him a picture to “help make him feel happy inside”. I hope it helps. Thanks to whomever made up this site to let us know!
Dear Mr. Manning – I will write to you via post soon. In the meantime, know that your bravery and the pain you endured in speaking the truth…well, it will soon all be worth it. Of course, when you follow your heart and do what you know is right, there is never much matter of “what it is worth” – TRUE INTEGRITY. I am going to share your story with my children soon, when they are able to understand a bit more of what the world has been about…and I will tell them that you are a true hero. Considerations of your courage carry us all onward and, soon, the systems that hurt people will be thoroughly dismantled. Thank you for being one of the first to bravely stand up and show the truth. Please know that there are people who know how to help repair the wounds inflicted by brutal systems of violence and suppression. Onward, with Love, with Justice, and – above all – with TRUTH. Thank you.
Hi Bradley.. Nelson Mandela got the same treatment from the powers that be..locked up, breaking rocks, disgraced. Now his courage is celebrated world wide and he is seen as one of the Greats. Have courage. You did a very important task.. to reveal the truth about the terrible things being done in our name. Thankyou and good luck. Rosanne
I will be writing- It’s HORRIBLE that he’s sitting there for NO crime!! The U.S. engaged in MANY ‘illegal’ activities, and he did his country a SERVICE along with Julian Assange, in letting people know the truth! The OTHER side of war……Bradley, he is a HERO!!!!!!!!!!!
Any ideas or recommendations regarding Manning’s preferred pronoun use?
This story brought tears to my eyes that someone brave enough to reveal some of the evil things that our government has been doing is sitting in prison when it’s the soldiers who open fired on the innocent civilians that deserve to be in prison. Bradley, you truly are a hero! Instead of prison, you deserve a medal. I think I will make tee shirts with your picture and it will say “Bradley Manning, one of the worlds biggest heros.” Thank you for what you’ve done:-)
One more thing I forgot to add, I will be informing as many people as I can about this story. I will be urging people to check out the Bradley Manning website. However I can get the word out there to the public I will. I will start a local donation box in my state to support you as well.
May peace and love be with you my friend:-)
We should all be sending him letters. This man is a hero. He is as much a patriot as Washington, Jefferson or Franklin.
History will show him to be a hero.
“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
There are male & female leaders;
there are black & white leaders;
there are straight and gay leaders;
now let;s have the first truly brave & honest leader…
Bradley Manning for US President.
BM, thanks for fighting hypocrisy with integrity!
Hello Bradley, Best Wishes on your Birthday. You are one of my heroes. Our country needs many more people like you who are willing to stand up for world peace and for what is right. From John in Wisconsin.
I believe death is certain, and living life is not. I believe that we do not determine the circumstances of life or the environment that we are born into, but that we choose how to influence the world around us. Although tortured and isolated, at least Bradley Manning lives life, and does so in a manner that aides the welfare of all life.
Stay strong Bradley : The Whole World is watching – JUSTICE will prevail.
I think Bradley Manning is hero to humankind. To stand up for his principles by exposing the criminal behaviour of the US forces in the helicopter raid in Baghdad and the casual attitude of the killers is heroic. This incident alone is an indictment on a war that is driven by nothing but money and strategic insecurity.
While I understand vaguely the principles of patriotism; I feel he is a much “bigger picture” hero. All to often patriotism involves consensus thinking/mindsets, which can subsume diverse opinion and difference – let alone the “unsavoury” manifestations of patriotism. For this reason I feel it is more constructive to view Bradley Manning as an individual who acted through his own volition and moral compass to address a criminal act – regardless off “rules of engagement” etc.
He only did the right thing that no one else dared to do.
Can’t believe that anyone can call him a traitor
cheers from Sweden
As the writer of this song, I’d really love Bradley to see this video
Proud of your courage. I served in Vietnam and witnessed the useless death and destruction and did not have the foresight or ability to do anything about my experiences.
The US government is on a self destruct path and taking everyone with it…
Hoppas du får en fin födelsedag. Du verkar vara en modig ung man.
I am dedicating some music to collect donations for your defense. Your bravery shall be rewarded. Telling the truth must never become a crime. A jail cell cannot be what is meant by “the home of the brave”!
http://psyche.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-bradley-manning
You are a hero. I’m proud of what you did and proud you are an American. There are millions of people out here supporting you and sending you the best wishes. Hope, hold on, know that you are loved.
Happy Birthday on the 17th <3
Happy Birthday Bradley !!
A Great American Patriot and Hero.
Bradley Manning, you are an inspiration. Thank You! I felt a little fearful of attaching my name to anything the CIA might be monitoring, but decided to write this anyway. If Bradley can risk everthing, I can do this too. What else can we all do because of Bradley’s example?
Bradley Manning, sometimes the evil is so hynas that one has to at least try to do something, we must cry out to those who might truly have compassion and concern for fellow human beings and and believed that perhaps that governing system of the U.S. would be a system that could make the world better if they knew. I appreciate that you as just a very young person should never have even put put in such a place to see these horrors, much less be responsible for continuing their evil. I am sorry that just your suspicion of wanting to care for human beings has caused the U.S. President Obama to torture you to show his cruel and unusual power over you and anyone who uses those freedoms that allow the use of the freedoms known to be all peoples inalienable rights. Thank you if you did chose not to continue to strengthen them, and if you are just being used as an example for power we are remembering you. Occupys in the U.S, knowing that 10′s of 1,000′s in prisons under the U.S. authority have not been guilty of anything, but have served to remind the U.S. citizens of the cruelty of the U.S. authority
Wana Care Susan Hall
You are loved by the world..
You are among the bravest of men, Private Manning, and I salute you. You are my hero.
Hey people, I sent an e-mail to this Fort Leavenworth prison. This is their reply:
He is not being held at the United States Penitentiary Leavenworth. He was at Fort Leavenworth; however, I hear he has been moved from there.
His current address will be there: http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/pages/contact2.html (where he is kept as a detainee).
I called even, but I was supposed to not leave a message. I ignored it because he is there and they are responsible for him at the moment. Don’t allow yourselves to forward you just like Joseph K. was in Franz Kafka’s book.
Please sign:
http://standwithbrad.org/
http://avaaz.org/en/bradley_manning/
http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/manning_visits?source=bmsn
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Write-a-letter-to-free-Bradley-Manning/156265527814332?sk=wall
I am an Australian Vietnam Veteran and experienced first hand the murder and mayhem the US inflicts on 3rd world countries. You have made history and millions of people are incredibly impressed with what was done in the name of Justice and to expose the US Government and its military criminal network….My sincerest and best wishes to you Bradley Manning…. a man of integrity.
Bradley Manning for President…!!!
Happy birthday to u! Don’t worry the truth will always win. U are being supported by many people and most of all by The Creator of All The Universe. Don’t forget that.
Peace to your heart.
If there really is an Anti-Christ, I truly believe that our U.S. government, corporate elite and other evil world leaders are the ANTI-CHRIST. Their actions are anything but Christ like. I’m not into organized religion but I believe in Christ Consciousness and I believe Christ was a spiritual being that walked this earth. Thank you Bradley Manning for being a true patriot. Your sacrifice has inspired us all!
Pray our God intensively,thinking and acting according to His will always ; can l tell you that He inspire me by revelation to mention to few people the event and your name before even it happened . Our spiritual father is baking all the humanity inspiring and saving even the most evil , helping to realize faults for correcting them threw a u-turn .He loves you specially – you because you are just and truth communicator and throu your action you are helping the autorety to learn to behave with fidelity and humanity.I would like so much to visit you. Keep on depending from God,world does change period on Nativity. Celebrate Nativity and thank Him for coming saving us.With all my christian feelings off love. Kyriaki Raptis Tel 1-514-256-9407
Where is Bradley Manning now? Is he to be detained/kept in the Ft. Meade area or returned to Ft Leavenworth? How do we keep in contact a. for his spirit b. for his safety?
We Love You Brad,
If only we had the opportunity and courage to make public the scandals going on in our own countries the World might be a better place.
Hang in there Buddy,people all over the World are shocked that what we got shown on The Brady Bunch isn’t anything like the real America.
Sending wishes that you may enjoy Christmas despite your current situation – knowing that you are loved XXX
Bradley Manning you are an inspiration – thank you for standing up and taking action – Sending you thoughts and good wishes from the UK keep your spirits up and remember those who are grateful for your actions
Dear Bradely Manning,
Thank you so much for your great work.
As sappy as it sounds I sit hear with tears in my eyes with my heart welling up for your courage and sacrifice.
So many people, from here on out, have you to thank, for the more merciful world that you are creating with what you endure in the name of what is good and just. Thank you, Noble Sir.
If I may talk and ask about something political, please permit me to continue and ask:
Who would you vote for?
I am writing as I just had an encounter on a minorities FB page that got me a little concerned. I asked about the main persons’ opinion about her opinion about presidential stuff and got the reply “I don’t think this wall is a place for this debate. But I will say that Ron Paul has stated that he feels uncomfortable around gays. ‘Nuf said.”
Perhaps I took that comment wrong, yet I think of all places, at a sexual minorities archive, it is important to consider current state of affairs as precariously as they are today so as to be informed so as to make the world a better place.
I believe that key folks are depending on the prejudice that liberals and minorities have against Ron Paul to keep things on the current path.
Because of knee jerk revulsion that radicals, feminists and liberals may have towards Ron Pauls’ uptight conservative side, the power elite will keep the status quo with Obama continuing or Newt Gingrich. I mean, doesn’t everyone have serious flaws from one perspective or another? For instance, don’t we all ask to be considered in our entirety rather than be judged on one “deviant” or “too straight” aspect?
Ultimately don’t we have a responsibility to put on the breaks on this nightmare?
I do think this is the liberals, minorities and GLBT&Ts opportunity to have a paradigm shift for a better world.
I am doing my best to ask the best of the people around me to consider a more radical approach than they ever thought imaginable.
To me it feels like a hidden civil war, my friends liking Obama for his personality and multiculturalism rather than his actions/policies and my gay/bi friends despising Ron Paul for some of his clearly ignorant opinions….
“Paul scrambles the comfortable ideological and partisan categories and forces progressives to confront and account for the policies they are working to protect.”
“…the anger [Paul] inspires comes not from his positions, but from the tensions that modern American liberals bear within their own worldview.””
“…the central fallacy that drives progressive discussion the minute “Ron Paul” is mentioned. As soon as his candidacy is discussed, progressives will reflexively point to a slew of positions he holds that are anathema to liberalism and odious in their own right and then say: how can you support someone who holds this awful, destructive position? The premise here — the game that’s being played — is that if you can identify some heinous views that a certain candidate holds, then it means they are beyond the pale, that no Decent Person should even consider praising any part of their candidacy.”
“The candidate supported by progressives — President Obama — himself holds heinous views on a slew of critical issues and himself has done heinous things with the power he has been vested.”
To review the past 4 years “[Obama] has:
• Slaughtered civilians… continuously in numerous nations with drones, cluster bombs and other forms of attack
• Institutionalized the power of Presidents — in secret and with no checks — to target American citizens for assassination-by-CIA, far from any battlefield
• Waged an unprecedented war against whistleblowers
• Established the power of Presidents to wage war even in the face of a Congressional vote against it
• Has entrenched indefinite detention, military commissions, and the state secret privilege as a weapon to immunize political leaders from the rule of law.
• Shielded Bush era criminals from every last form of accountability.
• Vigorously prosecuted the cruel and supremely racist War on Drugs, including those parts he vowed during the campaign to relinquish — a war which devastates minority communities and encages and converts into felons huge numbers of minority youth for no good reason.
• Empowered thieving bankers through the Wall Street bailout, Fed secrecy, efforts to shield mortgage defrauders from prosecution, and the appointment of an endless roster of former Goldman, Sachs executives and lobbyists.
• Brought the nation to a full-on Cold War and a covert hot war with Iran, on the brink of far greater hostilities.
• Made the U.S. as subservient as ever to the destructive agenda of the right-wing Israeli government.
• His support for some of the Arab world’s most repressive regimes is as strong as ever.”
• America’s National Security State, its Surveillance State, and its posture of endless war is more robust than ever before.
• Created what The Washington Post just dubbed “a vast drone/killing operation,” all behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy and without a shred of oversight.
• Built up vast debt and deficits in the name of militarism that create the pretext for the “austerity” measures which the Washington class (including Obama) is plotting to impose on America’s middle and lower classes.”
The parallel reality — the undeniable fact — is that all of these listed heinous views and actions from Barack Obama [the past 4 years] have been vehemently opposed and condemned by Ron Paul: and among the major GOP candidates, only by Ron Paul. For that reason, Paul’s candidacy forces progressives to face the hideous positions and actions of their candidate, of the person they want to empower for another four years. The simple fact is that progressives are supporting a candidate for President who has done all of that…”
…if your only posture in the 2012 election is to demand lockstep marching behind Barack Obama and unqualified scorn for every other single candidate, then you are contributing to the continuation of these policies that liberalism has long claimed to detest, and bolstering the exclusion of these questions from mainstream debate.”
If you’re someone who is content with the Obama presidency and the numerous actions listed above;…then lock-step marching behind Barack Obama for the next full year makes sense.”
But if you don’t believe those things…As imperfect a vehicle as it is, Ron Paul’s candidacy — his success within a Republican primary even as he unapologetically challenges these orthodoxies — is one of the few games in town …”
from the article Progressives and the Ron Paul Fallicies
http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/
Bradley Manning what do you think? Who would you vote for?
I just really think the left as well as the rest of the world is on the edge of disaster at the rate things are going today.
Sending all the best to all,
Hey Pfc Bradley Manning. Even though I’m from Canada, I have been following what’s been going with you in the U.S. for quite some time now. I just want to say that you’re an inspiration, not only to your fellow Americans, but to people all over the world. You’re not a criminal, but a hero. And I, along with many others, have been following your struggle against the injustice that is being brought against you by you’re own country. That you are one of the last few true Americans I have seen. And I stand behind you 100%. I will leave you with some words I hope give you comfort. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – by Burke, Edmund (1729-1797).
Vitam inpendere vero
what you did was dumb and irresponsible. I hope that they do finally charge and convict you off all the charges. You are an idiot for giving secrete documents to anyone. In the end you had no business releasing so many documents to anyone. there is no way you can know what harm you have caused the true brave men and women that have been in harms way. you are a coward! I know this will not be posted on the web site, but I still wanted to make my comments heard by your screener
Joshua, One positive thing I can say about your comment is at least you are communicating. What we all need is a dialogue rather than a tyranical one way power system like Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany is how we seem to be devolving into with the indefinite detention bill signed by Obama last month. Please permit me to ask you, what you think patriotism is? Is it a patriots duty to allow our military to murder innocent civilians going about daily life in their own country? Have you actaully took the time and watched the Collateral Murder video? These innocent people were in the street and shot down. Rescuers who risked their lives drove up to help them were also brutally killed. Without any reason.
Joshua, do you think it is the patriots duty to allow us to be murderers simply because we are America? Should we really be allowed shoot anyone, just because? Do you find poor, sick and old people annoying, so would be violent to them? Mexicans cross the boarder so would you be violent to them, too? If you believe in murder for any reason because you are a patriot, what then gives us the right to do anything in the name of justice, like have law? Why do you think we have a right to murder innocent people without a conscience? In the long run do you think murdering anyone we like is sustainable? Will the rest of the world let us kill people anytime we like for very long? Or are we supposed to bomb everyone else in the world just to keep control?
Have you learned the details about Bradley Mannings troubled time in the military? Do you realize that his superiors had the responsibility to give him access to this low level information? His superiors, if they had any guts, should be held accountable for placing Bradley in this situation, if it were so dangerous.
Bradley is being threatened among other things with a maximum of death or life without parole.
“If a citizen is to be charged with a crime as serious as aiding the enemy, is to too much to ask that the state answer the simple question, Was the enemy aided? the Classified” information released by WikiLeaks is publicly available on the Internet. ”
“In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a high-level Pentagon official. He was a former Marine commander who believed the American government was the good guy. …while working for the administration of Lyndon Johnson, Ellsberg got access to a top-secret document that revealed senior American leaders, including several presidents, knew that the Vietnam War was an unwinnable, tragic quagmire.”
“…he material disclosed in the Pentagon Papers was designated Top Secret, the highest secrecy designation under law, whereas the material allegedly leaked by Manning to WikiLeaks was marked “secret” or “classified,” among the lowest-level secrecy designations.
Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote. “National security is public security, [rather than] government security from informed criticism.”
Bradley Manning, in my opinion, made the noble and most courageous and lonely choice in this apathetic indifferent society. And being subjected to 23 hours of torture for the past year, he clearly has already paid the price. This abuse of whistleblowers is meant to keep other decent people from speaking out because torture and death may await them. Is that what you want?
I intend we keep our liberty as the Founding Fathers decribe them. I hope you check out the video of the murders before you condemn anyone.
@Joshua et al:
Pvt Manning swore an oath to UPHOLD AND DEFEND the Constitution. Clearly the actions by military that he exposed were in direct violation of the Constitution, the Geneva Convention and international law. Pvt. Manning was doing his job. Every single soldier that aided in the cover up of these crimes should face court martial. And in point of fact uncovering crimes by the military actually helps America. When the military or any part of the government commits a crime and it is dealt with in an open and fair manner, it proves to the world that America does not put itself about the laws it claims to be defending all over the world. Without whistle blowers this cannot happen when criminals inside the government are actively trying to cover up crimes. It is amazing that nothing is ever said by the main stream media about the crimes he uncovered. Nothing is being said about how the military white washed the actual soldiers who committed these crimes……What the media is trying to do is scare good, honest Americans to not come forward when they find evidence if crimes being committed by the government and the military. I cannot think of anything more evil and more detrimental our great nation than that.
One of the greatest heros this country and the world has ever seen! He tried to do what the corporate owned media in this country won’t; inform the people so they can make rational choices about those elected to office. He should be not only set free now, but honored as a great patriot! But the people in this country are too dumbed down to care. What a sad world we live in when the criminals are in charge and the heros sit in jail.