WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning To Receive $15,000 For Defense

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Supporters of the Army private suspected in one of the biggest security breaches in U.S. history say WikiLeaks has fulfilled its pledge to aid in his defense by contributing $15,100.

The Bradley Manning Support Network announced the gift Thursday.

Jeff Paterson of the affiliated group Courage to Resist in Oakland, Calif., says the contribution brings the total raised for Pfc. Manning's defense to more than $100,000 but is still short of the $115,000 needed.

Manning is being held in maximum security at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., awaiting a possible trial.

He has not commented on military charges that he illegally obtained more than 200,000 State Department cables and gave classified material to an unauthorized person.

Comments

[Gordon Soderberg]

06:22 PM on 01/24/2011

Bradley Manning's Friend David House Detained at Quantico VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXJISwiO7Y

[batguano]

12:55 PM on 01/17/2011

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" - Albert Einstein

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it." - Martin Luther King Jr.


"Be the change that you want to see in the world.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history" - Mohandas Gandhi

[batguano]

12:54 PM on 01/17/2011

Continued…
“Manning had to choose between being complicit in these atrocities, or not. At the age of 21, he made a brave choice -- to put human rights before his own interests. He found the classified military documents revealing the US was covering up the deaths of 15,000 Iraqis and had a de facto policy of allowing the Iraqis they had installed in power to carry out torture -- and he decided he had a moral obligation to show them to the American people. To prevent the major crime of torturing and murdering innocents, he committed the minor crime of leaking the evidence. He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement -- a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called "torturous." He is expected to be sentenced to 80 years in jail at least. The people who allowed torture have faced no punishment at all” - Johann Hari
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/lets-hear-it-for-the-unap_b_801025.html

[batguano]

11:50 AM on 01/17/2011

Continued…..
“Manning had to choose between being complicit in these atrocities, or not. At the age of 21, he made a brave choice -- to put human rights before his own interests. He found the classified military documents revealing the US was covering up the deaths of 15,000 Iraqis and had a de facto policy of allowing the Iraqis they had installed in power to carry out torture -- and he decided he had a moral obligation to show them to the American people. To prevent the major crime of torturing and murdering innocents, he committed the minor crime of leaking the evidence. He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement -- a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called "torturous." He is expected to be sentenced to 80 years in jail at least. The people who allowed torture have faced no punishment at all” - Johann Hari
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/lets-hear-it-for-the-unap_b_801025.html

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" - Albert Einstein

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it." - Martin Luther King Jr.

[FreeAmerican7]

03:12 PM on 01/16/2011

$15,000 to his defense will certainly get him the chair!
$15,000,000 will get him few years in prison!
$150,000,000 will set him FREE!
It has to do with the US Court Systems where LAWYERS win LOTTERIES with judges who are Ex-Lawyers!!!!!!!!!

[Leo Bloom]

12:17 PM on 01/16/2011

Trial. 40 years in SuperMax. This would be a fair resolution to this entire Manning debacle.

[ken607]

03:42 PM on 01/21/2011

compared to what? what he did or what bush cheney did.? good for the goose.....

[batguano]

09:04 AM on 01/16/2011

So how's that "queue" moving along where our comments go to languish interminally? What's the malfunction; short handed, comprehension challenged, or are "the usual suspects" comments just shunted into limbo for their past enthusiasm?

[drill95]

08:12 AM on 01/16/2011

He will probally get a military lawyer. No need for a defense fund.

[batguano]

07:09 AM on 01/16/2011

Any possibility of getting my comment posted while I'm still alive? The process of "moderation" is increasingly infuriating in its delay.

[Leo Bloom]

12:13 PM on 01/16/2011

Let's hope not.

[batguano]

06:50 AM on 01/16/2011

Continued…
“Manning had to choose between being complicit in these atrocities, or not. At the age of 21, he made a brave choice -- to put human rights before his own interests. He found the classified military documents revealing the US was covering up the deaths of 15,000 Iraqis and had a de facto policy of allowing the Iraqis they had installed in power to carry out torture -- and he decided he had a moral obligation to show them to the American people. To prevent the major crime of torturing and murdering innocents, he committed the minor crime of leaking the evidence. He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement -- a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called "torturous." He is expected to be sentenced to 80 years in jail at least. The people who allowed torture have faced no punishment at all” - Johann Hari
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/lets-hear-it-for-the-unap_b_801025.html

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" - Albert Einstein

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it." - Martin Luther King Jr.

[batguano]

06:02 PM on 01/15/2011

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" - Albert Einstein

[batguano]

05:52 PM on 01/15/2011

continued.

Manning had to choose between being complicit in these atrocities, or not. At the age of 21, he made a brave choice -- to put human rights before his own interests. He found the classified military documents revealing the US was covering up the deaths of 15,000 Iraqis and had a de facto policy of allowing the Iraqis they had installed in power to carry out torture -- and he decided he had a moral obligation to show them to the American people. To prevent the major crime of torturing and murdering innocents, he committed the minor crime of leaking the evidence. He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement -- a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called "torturous." He is expected to be sentenced to 80 years in jail at least. The people who allowed torture have faced no punishment at all”

– from Let's Hear It for the Unappreciated Heroes of 2010 by Johann Hari

[BKFactor]

03:39 PM on 01/15/2011

Great article by Ida Hartmann at Alternet. Be sure to follow the links in the article.

http://www.alternet.org/story/149545/twitter_is_hero_as_feds_attempt_to_trample_wikileaks%27_free_speech?page=entire

[batguano]

12:10 PM on 01/15/2011

continued...

"Manning had to choose between being complicit in these atrocities, or not. At the age of 21, he made a brave choice -- to put human rights before his own interests. He found the classified military documents revealing the US was covering up the deaths of 15,000 Iraqis and had a de facto policy of allowing the Iraqis they had installed in power to carry out torture -- and he decided he had a moral obligation to show them to the American people. To prevent the major crime of torturing and murdering innocents, he committed the minor crime of leaking the evidence. He has spent the last seven months in solitary confinement -- a punishment that causes many prisoners to go mad and which the US National Commission on Prisons called "torturous." He is expected to be sentenced to 80 years in jail at least. The people who allowed torture have faced no punishment at all”

– from Let's Hear It for the Unappreciated Heroes of 2010 by Johann Hari

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

[batguano]

11:47 AM on 01/15/2011

“While we were all fixated on Julian Assange, the story of the young American soldier who actually leaked the classified documents passed almost unnoticed. If Manning was mentioned at all, it was as to be described an impetuous, angry kid who downloaded the documents onto a CD and leaked them as a result of a "grudge" or "tantrum."

Here's what really happened. Manning signed up when he was just 18 believing him would be protecting and defending his country and the cause of freedom. He soon found himself sent to Iraq, where he was ordered to round up and hand over Iraqi civilians to America's new Iraqi allies, who he could see were then torturing them with electrical drills and other implements. The only "crime" committed by many of these people was to write "scholarly critiques" of the occupation or the new people in charge. He knew torture was a crime under US, Iraqi and international law, so he went to his military supervisor and explained what was going on. He was told to shut up and get back to herding up Iraqis.
– from Let's Hear It for the Unappreciated Heroes of 2010 by Johann Hari
continued....

[MikeNAustin]

06:37 AM on 01/16/2011

I don't believe a word of your post. NOT A SINGLE WORD!

[batguano]

07:43 AM on 01/16/2011

Well, that's what happens to citizens who are uninformed, or misinformed by our co-opted Fourth Estate, the press. We are lied to consistently, and misinformed about what is being done, or allowed, in our names; the killings of tens of thousands. Justice Lewis Brandeis said "sunshine is the best disinfectant"; the free dissemination of accurate unvarnished information and truth, and in this case the abuse and torture of "enemies", that runs counter to everything America is supposed to stand for; what we are ostensibly fighting for. We are all diminished by "classified" policy and actions that violate human rights law and common decency designed to further military policy and hide the truth, as we are by the indefensible and brutal way this principled person, Manning, is being treated.

[batguano]

10:48 AM on 01/16/2011

Awfully sure of yourself and opinions aren’t you? That seems to be the general mindset of the so-called (self-proclaimed) “patriot” and right-wing pundits and their sheep; a divisive “my way or the highway” thought process that seems to rule out either new or accurate/substantiated information on issues, in favor of pronouncements based on a co-opted biased/controlled press, a narrow-minded interpretation of history (or total ignorance), current events, our Constitution, and the nature of for-profit manufactured wars that are costing our nations civilian priorities trillions in wasted/squandered (crony profits for the Military Industrial Complex and well-connected) resources.