Officers of the United States Government should be on trial -- not PFC Bradley Manning.

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204. We are better off, although it may take a while for this country to acknowledge that.

It took a while to give credit to Ellsberg for what he did. History has already recorded the value of his courageous actions. We are worse off today and may have to wait a while longer, as we do not have a free press and the current SC would not do what the SC did back then, but there is no doubt that WE are better off since knowledge can never be bad for the people. What we learned, those who cared enough to actually read what was revealed, know that we cannot trust our government and that means something must be done about that.

The Government is not better off. The record now shows some of what they were doing in our name. If in the end this country wants to remain a democracy, and that is the critical question, do we want that, then Mannings revelations make us far better off.

However, at the moment in this dark period of our history, it doesn't seem as though we do like democracy very much. However, in the end, I think the people will want to preserve democracy over what Bush et al have created and some democrats appear to agree with.