Happy Birthday Bradley Manning, And Thank You !!! - We Have So Few Profiles In Courage These Days...

[WillyT]

A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
Michael Moore - Huff Po
Posted: 12/18/11 11:28 AM ET

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It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I posted this note to you.

One year ago today (December 17th), Mohamed Bouazizi, a man who had a simple produce stand in Tunisia, set himself on fire to protest his government's repression. His singular sacrifice ignited a revolution that toppled Tunisia's dictator and launched revolts in regimes across the Middle East.

Three months ago today, Occupy Wall Street began with a takeover of New York's Zuccotti Park. This movement against the greed of corporate America and its banks -- and the money that now controls most of our democratic institutions -- has quickly spread to hundreds of towns and cities across America. The majority of Americans now agree that a nation where 400 billionaires have more wealth than 160 million Americans combined is not the country they want America to be. The 99% are rising up against the 1% -- and now there is no turning back.

Twenty-four years ago today, U.S. Army Spc. Bradley Manning was born. He has now spent 570 days in a military prison without a trial -- simply because he allegedly blew the whistle on the illegal and immoral war in Iraq. He exposed what the Pentagon and the Bush administration did in creating this evil and he did so by allegedly leaking documents and footage to WikiLeaks. Many of these documents dealt not only with Iraq but with how we prop up dictators around the world and how our corporations exploit the poor on this planet. (There were even cables with crazy stuff on them, like one detailing Bush's State Department trying to stop a government minister in another country from holding a screening of Fahrenheit 9/11.)

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More Moore: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/bradley-manning-occupy-wall-street_b_1156128.html

[tblue]

1. I could cry when I think of how he's treated.

I thought we elected someone who protected whistleblowers.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Truly a hero for our times. He exposed murderers and is standing trial for doing so.

[Scuba]

7. Yep. Done it my name and I'm ashamed of it. Still proud to be American, but ashamed of this. n/t

[Pachamama]

3. I cry for him too...

...and soon our country if Pres. obama signs the NDOAA....

Then any of us could become Bradley Mannings for far less....

[William769]

4. Proudly record this.

[OwnedByFerrets]

5. Agreed

[T S Justly]

6. And may there be many more! K&R (nt)