Bradley
Manning is not your average old school spy for money or secret foreign intelligence
cell member type traitor. Although ”he” ( Yes I know, I’m breaking the rules of
Political correctness) stole and sent hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks that included battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan,
along with politically embarrassing diplomatic
cables collected from the worlds classified E-mails, along with profiles of
Guantanamo detainees, and not to mention
the real “elephant in the room,” sobering
footage of senseless inhumane and unwarranted American military airstrikes that
have killed hundreds of innocent civilians.
These facts would have otherwise been buried deep in more governmental cover-ups, blatant to the public lies, and other dirty tricks
from our nations generals and politicians if not for Manning’s betrayal. Bradley/Chelsea Manning, according to him/her committed treason out of humanitarian
convictions rather than any apparent ill intent towards the American people.
After receiving 35
years in Leavenworth for “his” ethical and moral convictions, Chelsea
Manning came out to the world as a woman and cast off his constricting male shell
as Bradley Manning, ready to face his impending life at the all-male military prison
as a woman while further prolonging the governments embarrassment
by legally challenging the Pentagons still ongoing aversion to trannies in the
military, let alone in their biggest prison.
When I was in the military being gay was an instant ticket out of the Armed Services, and trannies were something you played jokes on with the new recruits on their first R&R leave in sleazy bars and dirty downtown allies. The military’s views on trannies has not changed much since the early eighties when I served; gays in the military have come a long way but the Armed Forces have not progressed to the point yet where the government is going to grant Manning’s request to have his junk cut off, and then get a pair of hooters implanted in his chest in preparation for basically life in prison. One thing that is very clear in this Tale of the Traitorous Tranny is that unless they put Manning in solitary confinement, someone or everyone is going to get some tail the night Chelsea Manning arrives at Fort Leavenworth.
When I was in the military being gay was an instant ticket out of the Armed Services, and trannies were something you played jokes on with the new recruits on their first R&R leave in sleazy bars and dirty downtown allies. The military’s views on trannies has not changed much since the early eighties when I served; gays in the military have come a long way but the Armed Forces have not progressed to the point yet where the government is going to grant Manning’s request to have his junk cut off, and then get a pair of hooters implanted in his chest in preparation for basically life in prison. One thing that is very clear in this Tale of the Traitorous Tranny is that unless they put Manning in solitary confinement, someone or everyone is going to get some tail the night Chelsea Manning arrives at Fort Leavenworth.
According to the Court House News
Service -Before his detection, Manning confided in Internet chats with ex-hacker
Adrian Lamo, "i wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or
being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility of having pictures of
me... plastered all over the world press... as [a] boy."
Text Copy of Chelsea Manning’s letter to President Obama (the
Washington Post)
The decisions
that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world
that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war.
We’ve been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional
battlefield, and due to this fact we’ve had to alter our methods of combating
the risks posed to us and our way of life.
I initially
agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It
was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily
basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at
this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the
enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human
life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were
the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent
civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to
hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order
to avoid any public accountability.
In our zeal to
kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held
individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned
a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached
countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.
Patriotism is
often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in
power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension,
it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some
ill-conceived mission.
Our nation has
had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy — the Trail of Tears, the
Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps —
to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one
day be viewed in a similar light.
As the late
Howard Zinn once said, “There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of
killing innocent people.”
I understand
that my actions violated the law; I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed
the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help
people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love
for my country and a sense of duty to others.
