He Said:
“The more I read the cables
[720,000 of them]
the more I came to the conclusion
that this type of information
should become public • • .
I thought that these cables
were a prime example
of the need for more open diplomacy”
At his court martial trial the presiding judge u.s. army Colonel Denise Lind found Bradley was not guilty of aiding the enemy, but he was so of passing thousands of classified documents to the Wikileaks site, as well as five counts under the 1916 Espionage Act.
His lawyer said:
“Manning was a young man who was naive
but good-intentioned.”
The more he read, the more he felt the need for more open diplomacy, the more those who’d written what he had read bawled for his head, his demise, his burial in prison, away for their shameful communications the record of what this U.S. country denied itself and its principles.
Bradley Manning you, Bradley me, were awarded thirty-five years in prison for his good-intentioned conclusion. Thus the rest of us best beware what we say might cause us incarceration and the wrath of the nation we hope to save.