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2011-02-04 Fifth Column

Amnesty calls on Britain to help Bradley Manning

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 ..."spends 23 hours a day alone in a six foot (1.8 metre) by 12 foot cell, with one hour's exercise in which he walks figures-of-eight in an empty room."

Hundreds of thousands of Americans do that voluntarily for weeks, just after the newest release of Halo or Gears of War or the latest patch to WoW, and it's not considered punishment. How is that torture? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-04 03:09|| 2011-02-04 03:09|| Front Page Top

#2 How about a compromise?
Release the Private;
Keep his "privates".

Posted by GK 2011-02-04 03:15|| 2011-02-04 03:15|| Front Page Top

#3 ....Little Brad's lawyers should be careful what they wish for - IIRC, the old English treason laws (with some spectacularly vicious penalties) have never actually been repealed, and even the modern ones are taken far more seriously than ours. If I were little Brad, I'd hope like hell that nobody finds a single Tommy or other subject of Her Majesty has been harmed in any possible way by his actions.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-02-04 11:36|| 2011-02-04 11:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Both Manning and Assange have private rooms already assigned to them in ADX Florence. And instant promotion to any of the 94 U.S. Marshals, or 3,324 Deputy U.S. Marshals and Criminal Investigators in the Service, if they can get their hands on Assange.

I would even hazard to guess that there are at least a half dozen such folks within eye shot of where he is right now. Watching and waiting.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-02-04 18:20|| 2011-02-04 18:20|| Front Page Top

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