Seems a similar scam to

Informants’ actions key in Fort Dix terror plot case; entrapment defense seen as possible

The Associated Press
Thursday, May 10, 2007
CHERRY HILL, New Jersey: He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring down an alleged plot by six Muslim men to massacre U.S. soldiers at New Jersey’s Fort Dix.

Except designed to intimidate and terrorize PFS Manning’s supported. More tyranny.

John Francis Lee
age 64
born NYC, NY 26 Aug 1947

There’s no doubt in my mind who is the American Hero, the Lamplighter, the Whistle blower, the man standing up for what the United States of America always said it was about. That man is Bradley Manning.

Conversely, there is no doubt in my mind who are the bad guys here, starting with president and reaching all the way down. Just as the House Un-American Activities Committee was the self-referential epitome of what it sought to ‘end’, so too is the Obama administration profoundly inimical to all that most of us would say are core American values.

At least we used to say that they were core American values. Times like these start you reading history, to see how things got this way, and when you do that … you begin to wonder if what we all took as core American values weren’t merely core American eyewash.

Makes no difference. It’s time to establish or re-establish the values we hold within our own cores

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men and women, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

That’s definitely what is required in my view today. Fortunately, the constitution which followed the document quoted above affords us the means to amend it and to organize our government’s powers in a form that seems more likely to effect our safety and happiness than what we have now.

Have a look at 28amen.org for my suggestions in the restructuring arena, and please, put forward your own suggestions.

I also have tried my hand at a tactical response to our present sorry state … uspvp.org.

The key is not my particular suggestions, the key is the surfacing and discussion of all of our particular suggestions and of our subsequent actions to peaceably seize control of our country.

And when we do, to immediately free Bradley Manning, to apologize to him for his treatment at the hands of his and our government, to thank him for his valor and his heedlessness for his own safety in the face danger in performing what he recognized to be his duty, and to award him a Congressional Medal of Honor for having done so.

Click on the headline to link to a the Private Bradley Manning Petition website page.

Markin comment on our new day and time starting on this Fourth Of July:

Veterans for Peace is always proud to stand with those who stand against America’s imperial wars. I am proud to have spent part of the Fourth of July standing in solidarity with Winter Soldier Private Manning at our Bradley Manning Square location (a.k.a. Davis Square at other times) in Somerville. The crowd was fairly receptive, we have speeches and songs as always, and we collected some signatures. All of this accrues to Private Manning’s benefit as we move forward with the new day and time. Other Veterans for Peace marched this day in the Rockport, Ma Fourth of July Parade and I will join them on Sunday July 8th in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for a “Welcome Home” parade for New Hampshire’s Iraq and Afghan war veteran. Today though, I was very glad to stand with Winter Soldier Bradley Manning. Join Us In This Struggle! Free Private Manning! President Obama Pardon Private Manning Now!

Markin comment:

The Private Bradley Manning case is headed toward a late fall/early winter trial. Those of us who support his cause should redouble our efforts to secure his freedom. For the past several months there has been a weekly stand-out in Greater Boston across from the Davis Square Redline MBTA stop (renamed Bradley Manning Square for the vigil’s duration) in Somerville on Friday afternoons but we have now changed the time from 4:00-5:00 PM on Wednesdays. This stand-out has, to say the least, been very sparsely attended. We need to build it up with more supporters present. Please join us when you can. Or better yet if you can’t join us start a Support Bradley Manning weekly vigil in some location in your town whether it is in the Boston area, Berkeley or Berlin. And please sign the petition for his release. I have placed links to the Manning Network and Manning Square website below.

Bradley Manning Support Network

http://bradleymanning.org/

Manning Square website

http://freemanz.com/2012/01/20/somerville_paper_photo-bradmanningsquare/bradleymanningsquare-2011_01_13/

The following are remarks that I have been focusing on of late to build support for Bradley Manning’s cause.

Veterans for Peace proudly stands in solidarity with, and defense of, Private Bradley Manning.

We of the anti-war movement were not able to do much to affect the Bush- Obama Iraq War timetable but we can save the one hero of that war, Bradley Manning.

I stand in solidarity with the alleged actions of Private Bradley Manning in bringing to light, just a little light, some of the nefarious war-related doings of this government, under Bush and Obama. If he did such acts they are no crime. No crime at all in my eyes or in the eyes of the vast majority of people who know of the case and of its importance as an individual act of resistance to the unjust and barbaric American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I sleep just a shade bit easier these days knowing that Private Manning may have exposed what we all knew, or should have known- the Iraq war and the Afghan war justifications rested on a house of cards. American imperialism’s gun-toting house of cards, but cards nevertheless.

I am standing in solidarity with Private Bradley Manning because I am outraged by the treatment meted out to Private Manning, presumably an innocent man, by a government who alleges itself to be some “beacon” of the civilized world. Bradley Manning had been held in solidarity at Quantico and other locales for over two years, and has been held without trial for longer, as the government and its military try to glue a case together. The military, and its henchmen in the Justice Department, have gotten more devious although not smarter since I was a soldier in their crosshairs over forty years ago.

These are more than sufficient reasons to stand in solidarity with Private Manning and will be until the day he is freed by his jailers. And I will continue to stand in proud solidarity with Private Manning until that great day.

Immediate Unconditional Withdrawal of All U.S./Allied Troops And Mercenaries From Afghanistan! Hands Off Iran! Free Private Manning Now!