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In reply to the discussion: Pfc Bradley Manning Must Be Pilloried to Maintain the USofA’s Authoritarian Rule [View all]usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)shoot all of our lawmakers do that almost EVERYDAY to, get this, MAKE OUR LAWS.
So, there is that, not to mention they worked routinely 14 hour days, and probably often longer.
Be that as it may, he had ample time to get the gist of what was in those documents, and his conscience said that it was better that the citizenry be informed on these important matters of life and death, and did not consider it to be damaging to the U.S. nor that it would put anyone in harms way.
So that was what he was thinking, right or wrong, and what motivated him, and that makes him a whistle blower, in the same spirit of Daniel Ellsberg and his release of the 47 volumes of the "Pentagon Papers" on the U.S. history of involvement in Vietnam since WWII till 1967.
Whistle blowers deserve our respect and protection, not persecution by the same people he blow the whistle on. But, as has been demonstrated time and again by this administration, they have no respect for our patriot whistle-blowers.
and it is also obvious that neither do you, so good day sir.