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[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. Sick, simply sadistic.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Once we allowed the Iraq war criminals to walk

These are the seeds we sowed, and the craps we reap. Crops. Whatever.

[yeoman6987]

33. Throwing food on the floor in the cafeteria probably didn't help

Doesn't mean she deserves solitary though. Mopping dining room floors for a month seems more appropriate to the indiscretion.

[Hydra]

2. And yet the Bushes walk free

Glad to see we destroy people who care about our nation.

[elias49]

3. Toothpaste past its 'sell by' date

Outrageous! Off with her head.

I wish the OP was from The Onion.

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. I would think the prison provided her the toothpaste

How can they hold her responsible for it being out of date?

[catrose]

4. What can we do?

Harassment to the nth degree, yes.

[glinda]

13. I wish some legal team could step in to help her. This is so awful.

[jwirr]

7. An appropriate protest might be that we sent the prison millions of tubes of toothpaste with her

name written on them. Just to let them know how much we despise them. And yes it looks like harassment.

[Mnemosyne]

15. Sadly, if she didn't use those tubes fast enough, they would nail her with misuse, again.

It is heartbreaking.

[jwirr]

16. You are right. No matter what she did - she was trying to help our country understand what was

going on. To be punished this way is horrible. Plus I wonder how much of this is harassment regarding her transition to a woman.

[Mnemosyne]

17. It is beyond heinous, what they have done to her. I think it is partly her transition, but

those that "guard" her are probably even more brain-washed to see her as a traitor.

[Octafish]

8. Fascists and Torturers

Other than that, an Oligarchy of Warmongers and War Criminals.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. I'm glad America doesn't torture

Because if this ain't torture, I can't imagine how bad torture would be.

We. Are. A. Sick. Nation.

[Feeling the Bern]

10. The commander in chief can solve this quickly, but he's more concerned with CYA with

Eric Snowden and making sure whistleblowers are busted than releasing political prisoners.

[glinda]

12. And Assange's charges are reaching statute of limitations now.

[OnyxCollie]

11. K&R. nt

[onecaliberal]

14. :

[Cal Carpenter]

18. She is a political prisoner

and she isn't the only one.

I just read Chris Hedges' Wages of Rebellion and he devotes some space to Manning, her backstory, and so forth. It was very enlightening. (And yes I know, Chris Hedges, folks have issues w/ him, insert disclaimer here. But it was an interesting book.)

[uhnope]

26. respekt2u4that nt

[Autumn]

19. That's just sick

[Dustlawyer]

21. Our country has become the opposite of the way we were portrayed back when I was a kid

in the 60's. We didn't torture like those Soviets did. We had a "Free Press" and wore the white hat! Now they don't even bother trying to portray us that way, even though Soviet propaganda could never approach the level of sophistication and believability that ours has become. Even the most brainwashed Foxbots would not believe that our media tells the truth, well except for Fox!

We were far from perfect, but compared to most world countries we were better than almost all others in many ways. Our media did try to investigate and report the truth and they were allowed to do so. Now the media has as many agenda's as our NSA and CIA combined, none of which are to report the truth. Our standard of living, education, opportunities for advancement (for poor whites) were all there. Now no one poor has much of a chance unless they are a supremely talented entertainer or athlete. Education is only good if your family can afford a good private school or live in an affluent area where the public schools have a large tax base. Even Veterans can no longer get a good college education with their Veterans benefits, we lie to them too!

Yet, many of us idiots cling to the old American exceptionalism of "We are number 1!" Anyone saying different is attacked as un-American. The state I was so proud of now leads the charge in the number of dumbasses too ignorant and stupid to know the difference!

By any of our definitions of Patriot, hero/heroine, and Whistleblower, Chelsea Manning qualifies, as does Edward Snowden. They did what they felt they had to do, at great personal risk, for the good of our country and its people. Too bad a majority of Americans have fallen for the propaganda that made them not only the enemy, but also the bigger story than the terrible truth that their leaks revealed!

[uhnope]

28. oh please. You've swung from one extreme to the other.

Maybe the truth is in the complicated middle somewhere.

Remember, Chelsea pleaded guilty.

[Fast Walker 52]

22. WTF? Simply outrageous. Clearly the most ridiculous sort of harrassment

[SoapBox]

25. This is in, America?

Sounds like Russia or China.

Terrible.

[americannightmare]

27. And some people...

still think Edward Snowden should come home.

[potone]

29. Please tell me that this is a joke.

How did we sink so low?

[uhnope]

30. god what a pile of shit fake news source. NOT LBN

No links at all to any source of this supposed news. WTF GMAB

[Jim Lane]

38. Here's a link for you

"Chelsea Manning may face solitary confinement for having Jenner Vanity Fair issue"

The link is to a report in The Guardian, a highly respected newspaper in England. You can read more about it -- including how it broke news about civil liberties violations by the Obama administration -- in the Wikipedia article about the paper. If you still want links, the Wikipedia article has quite a few, including one to "Obama administration defends massive phone record collection", a Reuters article confirming that it was the Guardian that revealed the secret phone spying.

[stone space]

31. And those who brought us this war walk around freely. (nt)

[WillyT]

32. It's A Two-fer... A Transgendered Traitor...

And no... It's not funny at all.

[MrMickeysMom]

34. Contrast this to free at large Bush and Co...

Bushco never saw the bible come up to submit sworn testimony, so no war crime punishment for them.

Find a patsy, torture a whistleblower, piss on the constitution… plus a get out of jail free card.

What a sick fucking nation the military industrial complex has surrounded us with.

[Faryn Balyncd]

35. Chelsea Manning deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor

Our "justice" system is perversely broken