What is the reason the GLBT Community doesn't support Bradley Manning?

[AnalystInParadise]

265. I am pretty sure the admins

are ok with people of all opinions on the liberal side of the spectrum posting on this forum as long as the remain mostly civil to each other. I am not going to shut up because you tried to silence me. You see friend that is what autocratic people do, they try to silence criticism of an idea they hold close to their heart. Obviously you believe Manning is innocent of crimes that he is being prosecuted for. You are entitled to your opinion and at no point have I tried to silence anyone for voicing their support of Manning. I am confused and astonished by this support given that most people supporting him have no idea how the regulations and rules concerning the release of classified data are written. All they know is that their pet issue ( hatred of the military, belief in no secrets, support of an LGBT soldier, whatever) is in the public eye and they will push their agenda. BUT, most people are willing to admit that not everyone holds their view and most people are ok with an opinion that is in dissent. YOU, on the other hand seem to be hell bent on shutting me up, I assume it is because I am giving a facts based counter argument to the emotions based argument that many Manning supporters here seem to favor. And your raison d'etre for alerting on me is that there is some "organized military intelligence unit" operating on DU, specifically this thread to alter opinion. Your reasoning is because there are four of us here that joined near each other. Well, here are some counter factual points that I am sure you will dismiss. I joined initially after a long time lurking to counter some of the uninformed opinions around the Boston bombing. If you notice most of my initial posts are about that. I joined because I wanted to add to this community, this place is a facts driven community and I appreciate that in a world full of so much emotional and unintelligent thought. DU stands as a place where I can USUALLY get facts based points on any topic under discussion. This place has it's fair share of cranks and crazies like any community, but I liked lurking around this place for years and enjoyed reading the usually cogent analysis on many topics. The Manning case has had NUMEROUS threads, between my join date and now. The only reason I personally even came to this thread was because I was irritated at once again watching people that knew nothing about the declassification of intelligence defending Bradley Manning. He is no hero and the bast majority of Intelligence Professionals look at him as a criminal worthy of our scorn. You know how I know the majority feels the same way I do? Because no one else has even attempted to leak data the way he did. Even now there are multiple ways to leak data from both the SIPR/Secret side and the JWICS/Top Secret side, and YET no one has done this. Also there seems to be no Facebook page, Twitter page or any other social media page from the Intelligence Community that is behind Bradley Manning. I would like to see such a group if it exists on social media.

So back to my main point, I will not shut up about this issue as long as the case drags on. Once the court martial happens and justice is served and Manning is in prison, I will most likely never post on this issue again. In the meantime, I will continue posting on whatever topics I like, hopefully you will come to your senses and realize that there is no conspiracy here, most military intel people have no respect for Manning because he did things the wrong way. My final note is what problem do you have with the 200,000 Americans who work in the Military Intelligence community in one fashion or another, the vast majority love this country and work hard to protect it, what is your real problem with us?