Thursday, May 16, 2013

Lets consider Bradly....

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Bradley Edward Manning (born December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website WikiLeaks. He was charged with a number of offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy, a capital offense, though prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.[1] He was arraigned in February 2012 at Fort Meade, Maryland, where he declined to enter a plea. The trial is expected to begin in June 2013.[2]
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( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning)


During world war 1 an apparently new breed of individuals who were against war became the focus of a propaganda hate campaign jeered on by government officials. These people were ordinary people who refused to be conscripted to join the military and bear arms, this could be on the grounds of religious or political objections, because they were pacifists, or a combination of these reason.
They were officially labeled conscientious objectors, and as such they were subjected to discrimination and a public humiliation.

It strikes me that these people were, given the realities of war, very brave men, because if we consider the reality of war, its difficult to justify it as anything other than barbaric& inhumane.

People, men, women and children are killed, in the most brutal manner, property is destroyed and other than making governments & their "brothers in arms" of the corporate variety, wealthy & apparently powerful in regard of flexing their political or religious muscles, in the name of power and glory.
War serves no purpose whatsoever of any good or rational variety to the ordinary people that make up the masses, in fact quite the opposite. 

War causes misery, economic and social deprivation ,hunger, and displacement, not to mention all the physiological and sociological issues that come in the progress and wake of war. 

Soldiers who are fortunate enough to make it home intact, suffer from trauma,(PTS), depression, and often,if not always,have problems readjusting back into civilian life. 

Then there are those who don't make it home, & the affects that has on their families friends and loved one. Wife's and mothers, & fathers & sons,  & children, who experience short or long term emotional problems, problems that can result in more serious mental health issues developing, as it can with the soldier themselves. 

And of course, there are those who are right there in the midst of war, existing as best they can, in war zones, where fear and hatred is within and without them and everywhere they turn around them...

War is undeniabley horrific for all concerned and I suggest the biggest contributor to mental health problems on earth out numbering any possible  genetically transferred mental health issue.

So, whats the point of it? cos no one like it,  noone wants it apparently, certainly the ordinary people living with it and who's taxes fund it don't want it.Its doesn't do them any good not one iotta. 

It could be suggested that those who benefit most ,apart from the arms producers & dealers is the construction industry,all these infrastructure that need to be rebuilt.... eventually...
OH, and of course the chemical companies and drug producers do ok out it too, cos the drugs producers supply the chemical & pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs for all the poor fucked up people that need medications to deal with the consequences of war, are those in government & the hierarchy. 


Now I shall address the Issue of Brady Manning, a very brave young soldier who awaits trial for allegedly passing information to the Wikileaks organization that revealed corruption, conspiracy, war crimes corporate crime and every which whatnot type of behaviors that big government and big corporate organizations are not supposed to be doing with our taxes, or indeed without. 

The charges against Manning are because he was a soldier of conscience, because he had a conscience and because he could not bear what he had discovered , he was indeed, a conscientious objector to the improprieties that he saw , issues that he believed were wrong and a risk to public safety, not just to his own comrades and nation but to those in other nations where people , soldiers and civilians were being barbarically and unlawfully killed.

Bradly Manning did the right thing, and we the masses of the world should be grateful to him for his honesty,  for telling us what was going on, as with Jullian Assange, for bringing the news to us as a journalist , cos is that not what we expect of our journalist and soldiers to do? bring us the news and  work in the best interest of global safety and peace.

Since these two men accused of  serious criminality and espionage reveled to us the truth ,with documented evidence,  those they exposed, who were responsible for the criminality, have been on a propaganda and hate campaigns against them that are beyond believe. 

Their personalities and personal lives and habits have been the focus of slanderous allegations,
They have been defiled and subjected to personal attacks and accused of mental instability and megalomania, and  their lives threatened, with calls from "so called pillars of society" for their assassination & death .
WHY? because they had the  integrity and concern for public safety,to disclose issues related to war crimes & crimes against humanity, for telling the truth.

Indeed Bradly Manning has been reported as having been subjected to treatment that is tantamount to torture ,physical emotional and mental abuse , for fuck sake, he is a 23 year old man, the treatment he has received is barbaric.

These men have not lost their liberty because of alleged crimes they committed they have lost their liberty because of the crimes they discovered & reviled governments were committing. 

Julian Assange is not in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London because of trumped up sexual abuse allegations resulting from interactions with a politically motivated honey trap, and a silly fan who was cheating on her partner when she invited him to her bed.

 Documented evidence  from the case suggests it would crumble  in a fair and just trail in court.
 No, Jullian Assange is in the Ecuadorian Embassy in political asylum because his live is in danger of reprisals from those who were overseeing and propagating war crimes & other wrong doings that he exposed, the sort of crimes and governmental errors and misdoing that put lives in danger & at risk, not just from aggravated violent wars on foreign shores, but from economically motivated global corruption that endangers the masses via political and economic crisis, the war at home so to speak , that plunges economies into crisis, and ordinary people into poverty and deprivation that affects their physical , emotional  financial & mental health & destroys their spiritual well being.




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