arthunter
08-21-2013, 02:27 PM
I grew up loving my country ... as a child I often said "it's a free country, I'll say what I want" ... I think we all said that .... I am and always will be a non-violent pacifist but there are others who are greatly alarmed by what's happening to our country and they're ready to fight ... they're on FaceBook forming militias and making plans ... I'm expecting civil unrest in this country, but I hope that I'm wrong ...
I understand security issues and I understand why government secrets must be kept, but throughout history we have discovered again and again that these secrets, when finally revealed, were concealing abuse and torture. So on it goes ... the government, by trying to silence it's domestic critics, create activists ... by indiscriminate murder in foreign countries ( it's called "collateral damage" ) they create terrorists ... and by torture and inhumane treatment of it's own citizens, regardless of the reason, they create revolutionaries ... this is just the natural reaction to aggression and no amount of military strength can counteract this reality forever ... people can only take so much before they stop playing along ...
Anyway, this is a Democracy Now interview with Julian Assange regarding Bradley Manning ...
This is one quote by Julian Assange that stands out in the story ...
"Mr Manning’s treatment has been intended to send a signal to people of conscience in the US government who might seek to bring wrongdoing to light. This strategy has spectacularly backfired, as recent months have proven. Instead, the Obama administration is demonstrating that there is no place in its system for people of conscience and principle. As a result, there will be a thousand more Bradley Mannings."
https://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/8/21/julian_assange_bradley_manning_sentence_is_an_affront_to_basic_concepts_of_western_justice
I understand security issues and I understand why government secrets must be kept, but throughout history we have discovered again and again that these secrets, when finally revealed, were concealing abuse and torture. So on it goes ... the government, by trying to silence it's domestic critics, create activists ... by indiscriminate murder in foreign countries ( it's called "collateral damage" ) they create terrorists ... and by torture and inhumane treatment of it's own citizens, regardless of the reason, they create revolutionaries ... this is just the natural reaction to aggression and no amount of military strength can counteract this reality forever ... people can only take so much before they stop playing along ...
Anyway, this is a Democracy Now interview with Julian Assange regarding Bradley Manning ...
This is one quote by Julian Assange that stands out in the story ...
"Mr Manning’s treatment has been intended to send a signal to people of conscience in the US government who might seek to bring wrongdoing to light. This strategy has spectacularly backfired, as recent months have proven. Instead, the Obama administration is demonstrating that there is no place in its system for people of conscience and principle. As a result, there will be a thousand more Bradley Mannings."
https://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/8/21/julian_assange_bradley_manning_sentence_is_an_affront_to_basic_concepts_of_western_justice