He got off light, IMO. If this mess over the NSA and Snowden had never happened, I suspect he would have been hammered with treason. But with the world watching and the government wanting to appear tough but fair, they simply put him down for breaking his oath of service.
Yes but without people out there championing the cause even if they were jailed or in the case of MLK killed then who knows where we would be in terms of race relations now. But i also digress.Change has to happen from inside the nation be it by making changes to the laws and holding politicians accountable or slowly changeling the government in its entirety it has to happen from the nation not from Canada or abroad.
I thought that the Geneva conventions & Nuremberg principles compelled Soldiers to not follow orders which were a violation of the laws of War, and to expose war crimes?
The 'collateral murders' documents were clearly war crimes, including allowing medical evacuation of casualties and desecrating the dead, did he just get found guilty due to the amount of Documents released even though they clearly did show evidence of war crimes?
No, but I do think the US government has had the initial 2 parties firmly cemented in place. The media, which controls the minds of millions (maybe not your mind, but millions in the flyovers, for sure), has made almost a joke out of third party candidates.
That and the fact that a third party president doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Remember when Obama was elected and he swore he just couldn't get anything done because he was routinely blocked by the Republicans? Imagine that times two. A third party president in a government represented by the other 2 parties would be laughably ineffectual.
I feel like the definition of "hero" as changed over the years...
So you don't like what happened we get it. But saying something barbaric happens to America? We don't want you then. You certainly aren't very patriotic with that statement. Would you like it if I said "I hope you end up in a car accident for saying something like that?" I bet not. Asking for some other attack or major catastrophy isn't something you should wish on ANYONE. Even someone as cold and heartless as North Korea and their leaders.
They put themselves in that situation voluntarily.
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Did you? Thanks for PRISM and the NSA.
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America needs to finally take what it dished out so generously to other countries for decades. Maybe then, they're be less desire to constantly intervene.
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Change within the system is futile, as has already been explained.
This says it all.
“The government’s priorities are upside down. The US government has refused to investigate credible allegations of torture and other crimes under international law despite overwhelming evidence.
“Yet they decided to prosecute Manning who it seems was trying to do the right thing – reveal credible evidence of unlawful behaviour by the government. You investigate and prosecute those who destroy the credibility of the government by engaging in acts such as torture which are prohibited under the US Constitution and in international law.”
But soon after Mr Xi secured a third term, Apple released a new version of the feature in China, limiting its scope. Now Chinese users of iPhones and other Apple devices are restricted to a 10-minute window when receiving files from people who are not listed as a contact. After 10 minutes, users can only receive files from contacts.
Apple did not explain why the update was first introduced in China, but over the years, the tech giant has been criticised for appeasing Beijing.
You would define him as a hero? Simply because he leaked all the video of the bombing? What about the rest of the quarter of a million classified documents? What if you were an agent in say the CIA and he just blew your cover because you were in those documents listed? Would he still be classified as a hero to you? He put people in harms way. Now if he would have just leaked the video and all the information pertaining to that, that might be a 'hero' move and classified as a whistleblower instead of a traiter.