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.
Bonjour mon très cher BRADLEY
j aimairais tout d’abord te remercier pour ce donc tu as fait pour nous autres africains en rendant public ces documents, cela nous a permis de comprendre comment les puissances occidentales exercent leur domination sur l’Afrique, comment les élections sont truqués pour maintenir les dictateurs au pouvoir et leur permettrent une main mise sur les richesses du continent et j’en passe.
nous te soutiendrons dans ton terrible combat contre le système impérialiste mondial et surtout beaucoup de courage et sache que tu n’est pas seul dans ce combat, ton combat a offert la liberté a de million de personne tu est notre heros
Pour autres africains…
White House pétition: http://wh.gov/Xy6
My Brother B. MANNING,
You are our young leader in human rights in third world .
We will always have your souvenirs
All our prayers for you
Your sincerely
Crisostomo Macanda
From Cabinda, occupy for Angola
As David fights Goliath, HE will need a fortress of spiritual power to knock back these demons. I PRAY the world gets again the same result .
Im associated with the current military situation going on in the world. Ive reviewed the case and would like to say that you are a retard BRADLEY!
no he is a human has demonstrated the humanity. The military is the retart!
I’m sure if there was a Nazi soldier who brought to light the war crimes of the Holocaust we would have a statue of him at the Washington Memorial
I can’t understand how anyone can support a traitor. He put the lives of thousands of military people in danger, but you seem to think that is fine unless it’s your son, daughter, brother, or sister who is harmed in the process. He broke the rules to expose those who broke the rules, hmmm just don’t sound right to me, but wait it’s OK for him to break the rules. If there was something not right he knows the proper way to report things and that does not involve giving 700,000 classified documents to a public website. He didn’t expose anything but secret documents that HE knew were classified but did it anyway. Grow up people he’s just as bad as those he supposedly exposed. Time for him to man up and take responsibility for his actions and stop blaming everyone else. He knowingly and willfully did what he did, no one forced him. It does not matter the reason, it was WRONG.
No one in the U.S. military has been harmed by the documents Bradley allegedly released, Charlie. The war documents Bradley released were just low-level, slightly outdated field reports. The government has brought forth no evidence of anyone being harmed or killed as a result of the releases. That is why many Bradley Manning supporters are veterans themselves. What has harmed the men and women of the U.S. military more than anything the past several years has been illegal and aggressive wars waged in the middle east, ordered by politicians who would not fight themselves. I hope you will check out this article to learn more about the perspective of the Bradley Manning Support Network.
Hello Charlie
I am sending you a response I wrote to a military person who said if we did not fight in the war or had children in the war then we should shut the fuck up. Maybe many of us cannot quite match your family’s service but most of us have had some family members and friends who have served in past wars. So we have the right to speak our mind also and not have to as you said “ shut the fuck up.” You have to admit that war crimes promote more war crimes. Even after watching the live beheading of his son on the Internet Judea Pearl, the father of Daniel Pearl, the American Journalist who was captured by the Muslims, had this to say in an interview:
After Ahmed spoke, Pearl talked about “channeling all the energy and good will … to fight the hatred that took [Daniel’s] life” by establishing a foundation in his name.
“Danny was a walking sunshine of truth, beauty and humanity,” Pearl said.
According to Pearl, engaging in dialogues is one way that people can help fight against this violence and hatred.
You can find this at http://www.danielpearl.org/news_and_press/articles/Pearls_Father_052405.html
I’ m sure the hate and retaliation caused by what happened from the apache helicopter reverberated throughout the muesli world way before the video hit the Internet and many of our captured soldiers were probably tortured because of the incident also before the video reached the internet.. Can’t you see how the cycle of war crimes keeps on being perpetrated?
When I was going to college many years ago I knew this Vietnam veteran who roomed in my dorm. He boasted to us that they captured a nurse from the other side and they first gang raped her and then put an explosive in her vigina and exploded it. When he was telling us of this he was laughing about it. Most of my fellow schoolmates just made a half smiling cringed face, I guess to show they were tough and could take it. I could not hold back and said it was utterly disgusting and inhumane. He tried justifying it by saying she was an aide to the enemy. Even though being killed in the line of fire can be brutally horrible thing to witness I believe war crimes, torture and the killing of innocent civilians only spurns more torture. The Fact that more vets die from suicide then in combat, I feel, has much to do with their witness and failure to stop the torture and war crimes committed by their troops. I’m sure they were also told to “shut the fuck up” and they did even taking that command to their grave. I guess soldiers, without a conscience, similar to the vet from my college do not suffer. There has to be some rules of engagement please look at the video http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-truce-unthinkable-celebrated-Christmas-together/dp/B003696Y0C. When the fighting soldiers on both sides during WW1 put down their weapons for Christmas Eve and Christmas day and celebrated it together. I thank you and your family for having sacrificed so much for our country but it is shame that it was in vain since our involvement in these last wars have been based on lies. If you can show me that they were not I would glad to see your opinion.
Charlie, the UCMJ, just like our Constitution guarantees a speedy trial. If one cannot be given, it demands that he be released. PFC Manning has been detained for over 600 days without conviction. Regardless of how one sees his “crimes” you must demand that the rule of law be followed. To do otherwise merely proves the point that America may be way past saving.
War Sucks and is 4 sissies only !!!
God bless the dead.
Hang in there! You dit it for the best! Attaboy!
Bravo for you Bradley, you become the american version of von Stauffenberg..I hope that this time you will be honored…!!!!
I wanted to thankyou Bradley for your enormous courage, in not only standing for what is right and just within your own country,
but also for trying to ensure a greater protection to these values being protected worldwide.
for all of us as a world community.
you stood up when everyone else turned aside and selflessly acted to make a change, a change that has been needed for a long time.
I think if anything you probably are one of the greatest inspirations to the true ideals of democracy, fairness and living to the true ideals of goodness and decency.
I can only applaud you and wiki leaks and hope that a new transparency will emerge, it will be a difficult battle – but i think with the doorway that you have made that hopefully a beginning has been found.
no government, organisation, or company should be able to act in a way that overrides the foundation that it rests upon,
in this case the foundation of humanity. All that is precious our dignity, truth, honour and courage.
when the very limits of official censorship and concealment obscure the truth and propergate lies. then it is time for transparency to flush out the true villains.
and time for the truth to shine.
And for that I know we all thank you.
Kind Regards my thoughts as well as many other supporters are with you and your family
To Americans:
I live on the Balkan Peninsula, in a country so obsessed with war and war crimes. We have to deal with partisan crimes (world war II), our homeland war (90′-95′), always popular organized crime… I’t never ends!
Let me give you a piece of advice: clean your “front lawn” or your children will be forced to do it instead of you!
I tried to contact you via http://www.bradleymanning.org/ourwork/contact-us, but repeatedly got this message in reply:
“Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact administrator by other way.”
Has Bradley Manning been transferred back to Leavenworth now that his Ft. Meade appearances are over for now? Was mail sent there over the last two months held or forwarded?
We have a publication (the Nuclear Resister) deadline March 5 and would appreciate knowing that mail sent to the address we publish for our readers still has a chance of reaching PFC Manning. Thanks!
Bradley is current at Ft. Leavenworth. He will have at least one more Ft. Meade appearance prior to the trial, but mail should still be sent to Ft. Leavenworth and he should be able to receive it. Thanks for your support!
This all makes me sad. When you are young and nationalistic everything seems to be god, mom, and apple pie. Then you get older, and if you aren’t lucky enough to be dumb, all the shades of gray come into focus. This nation, our origin story, the sacrament of old idols and founders of our nation, our birthright and manifest destiny… corrupted by truth. lol. And then an act which seems very brave indeed, in some ways unprecedented in significance. Only to watch the nation that once made you smile gobble him up.
We have uploaded a poem onto our Topicus page by The Poet Geo that has an embedded hyper-link to your site. We trust that you have no objections to this link: but if you do, please contact the editor direct. It is interesting, though not unexpected, to see that Bradley’s heroism has entered the world of poetry, and in doing so has now taken a literature seat at the table of history.
“Dear Poetry Portal Org please accept the following poems for submission on your site. The first one Pot Slams kettle for Vet has already been published on poetry24 at BlogSpot.com and some have called it an anti American work. I assure you it is most definitely not. It is an anti war poem. America at its best is a shining beacon of civilised progress and at its worst a superpower hijacked by an out of democratic control industrial military complex. The message in the poem if it has one is
My dear Americans when you do fascism you’re a joke but when you do liberty you are awesome!”
@thePoetGeo
The views of poets on PoetryPortal.org belong to the individual poets and are not necessarily endorsed by the editor or the In Love With Poetry Society UK
WHITE HOUSE PETITION
We finally got a petition up at the White House web site. They didn’t erase it! Hope this works for you.
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https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/first-pardon-all-crimes-then-support-bradley-manning-2012-nobel-peace-prize/vfRXn7mC
Short URL: http://wh.gov/Xy6
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We petition the Obama administration to:
First pardon all crimes, then support Bradley Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
Horrendous acts related to the Iraq War have damaged America. In comparison, this young man Manning supported our very American views of civilization.
We are a democracy. We cannot skip responsibility.
Our most barbaric crimes remain broadly unpunished. We killed 24 children and unarmed civilians at Haditha. We ran Abu Ghraib’s torture chambers. We rushed into that war and had no idea what was happening.
Bradley Manning’s theft of the Crazy Horse One-Eight video led to ending this American ignorance. Formal “Rules of Engagement” cannot replace moral commitment.
Bradley Manning changed America. We are stronger.
Prosecution now has Manning at risk of his life, charged with Aiding The Enemy. Please, a full pardon. Then, as well, please support Manning for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
Created: Mar 06, 2012
Issues: Defense, Human Rights, Veterans and Military Families
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This will take 150 votes before they list it publicly. If we can get 25,000 votes by April 6th then this will be forwarded for management consideration.
Setting up a WH account takes about a minute. Voting takes 5 seconds. At least the account is permanent and the WH has any number of useful petitions.
Bradley Manning
I’m from Cabinda
Cabinda ‘s occupied by Angolan people and Chevron who steal our oil.
You are our Moise or our defensor against American government abus in Cabinda (Africa
Corage and force
All of us pray for you
Crisostomo MACANDA
Human Rights Activist fron CABINDA
Mr.Barack OBAM
United State President
Bradley Manning is not criminal but he’s very defensor of human rights in the third world. Please free him President Obama.
Bradley GOD BLESS YOU
Crisostomo MACANDA
Human Rights Activist from Cabinda
Cabinda ‘s occupied for Angola and Chevron
Yes, Bless you Mr. Manning. You should be freed. Shame on our government.
Manning did a good thing. We want transparency!
I hope more people send the truth to the websites for us to see!
I’m writing to inquire whether the soldier who is now being held for killing 16 Afghan civilians, is being held under conditions similar to what Bradley Manning suffered, i.e., solitary confinement; constant surveillance; limited time outside cell; having to stand naked for hours; etc.
While no prisoner should be subjected to such torturous treatment, I am interested in knowing whether a military prisoner who clearly committed war crimes, is being subject to similar maltreatment.
If not, this is another instance of, and underlines, the unfairness which Bradley was subjected to. I am writing this not to push for similar treatment of the other imprisoned soldier, but to suggest an additional way to present Bradley’s case to the media and to the public.
Bradley, I truly believe you are a hero. I sign petitions that don’t involve facebook or plugins as our as privacy is hard to come by in the U.S.A. I hope this site provides other ways to vote for you in the future.
Per the request of today (3/22/2012) ~ I called General Dempsey’s office. I feel VERY strongly about supporting the FREE BRADLEY MANNING cause! I am a fan and supporter of this brave human being!
Here’s the rub.
* First they transferred me. And after a long wait ~ I was “tied in” to another caller on this same concern. (Neither of us could understand how they did that!)
* Second, I called back and was told I could not reach General Dempsey by phone. Nor could I reach him by email.
* After a bit of pressure from my side ~ I was transferred to Major Sarah Wolf who answers phones for the lead military attorney. She said she would note my concern, but said she could not guarantee it would get to General Dempsey and has no idea what will happen with the notation.
I tried to leave a voice mail for this attorney; however, she said he does not have voice mail nor email.
FYI ~ I conveyed an additional message that I feel BRADLEY MANNING was acting in accordance with his heart and the bigger spiritual law that has nothing to do with the “so called” military law.
I further reiterated that I fully support his concerns, and I’m deeply upset with the military’s handling of this brave soul.
Even the handling of my phone call and the walls that exist to express my heart are DEEPLY disturbing.
ANYway ~ I wanted to give you feedback.
The gentleman whom I connected with accidentally ~ said he would be calling back later.
I HAVE to have hope that whoever picks up the phone hears something and will join the cause!
I pray for the FREEING of Bradley Manning daily!
Bradley ~ keep the FAITH!
Thanks for your efforts!
~ Sherry ~
“Everywhere around the world, they’re coming to America…” (Neil Diamond)
I just saw the video “Collateral Murder”, another My Lai… I can bet my shirt that Benjamin Franklin and others who wrote the Constitution are currently spinning in their graves, thinking of what America has become.
Those who came to America were for the most part refugees, such as the Catholics and Puritans fleeing the repressiveness of the Anglican church, the Huguenots fleeing the nonsensical policies of French kings, and other peoples fleeing wars or famine in their homeland. They sure never thought that some of their offspring would be talked into repeating the same history over and over again.
Some of their offspring shoot unarmed civilians and call that courage… Bradley, you have the true courage of standing for your beliefs, for the America you believe in. Bradley, you have become part of the conscience of Uncle Sam, much like Solzhenitsyn became the conscience of the Russians –you need not be a Nobel prize winner to play such a role. I know that you are currently living in another gulag.
Note that I am writing from Canada. I do not think that we are doing any better in Afghanistan. An independant Quebec would not do any better under its current politicians.
What kind of a revolution do we need to wake up and smell the coffee? Meanwhile, I want to shake the hand of all the Bradleys on earth.
An afterthought…
Do you ever read the gospels? I am a French Canadian who has been raised as a Catholic; however, i gave up on organized religion.
The gospels carry the message of a Person who was a Whistle Blower in his own era. I especially like the episode of the vendors in the Temple courtyard and the ensuing curses upon the Pharisees… no wonder they wanted Him crucified, and by others at that!
This message of hope has been my companion theough the many hardships and the few happy moments i have been through. I wish to share it with you at this moment of need.
Is he allowed to respond via snail mail?
Bradley generally does not respond directly to mail he receives but has repeatedly shared that he greatly appreciates and does indeed read the letters of support.
Oh, I wrote him a letter…I assume it’s not only read by him. I didn’t really know what to say- just tried to keep it short, simple, and general. Just wanted to send him my support!