Bradley Manning treatment in 'flagrant violation' of military code –lawyer

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12. Many of us see the harsh treatment Manning has received as

A deplorable thing, but to each his own.

Some people in Nazi Germany saw the concentration camps as resettlement camps.

I guess it all depends on whether you ever think the government will come fer you or not.

I tend to think I could be someone that "they" might come for. Especially given that a recent Secretary of Defense, one Rumsfeld, stated that over zealous environmentalists and religious "fanatics" could be viewed as a problem for the Federal Government.

My fatalistic mood has not brightened with word that just this week,
a protester in Philadelphia was charged with bank robbery for his holding up a sign that said "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world."

These are very strange times we are living in. After all, those of us who understand politics and economics also understand that to have corporate control of a government is fascism. Period.