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SCOTLAND SHOULD NOT BE COMPLICIT IN WAR CRIMES, GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: THE INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY ADJECTIVE...!

http://fideiius.blogspot.com/2011/06/scotland-should-not-be-complicit-in-war.html

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IF BRADLEY MANNING HAD ACTED EARLIER, HE COULD HAVE PREVENTED MANY CRIMES, INJURIES AND DEATHS IN CERTAIN LATITUDES...

http://fideiius.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-bradley-manning-had-acted-before.html

"THE NSA'S METASTASISED INTELLIGENCE-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS RIPE FOR ABUSE"

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"Bradley Manning attorney: Analyst had humanitarian motives"

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/bradley-manning-attorney-analyst-had-humanitarian-motives-94818.html

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Statement by Julian Assange on Verdict in Bradley Manning Court-Martial

30 July 2013, 19:30 UTC

Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with information, including five counts of ’espionage’. He now faces a maximum sentence of 136 years.

The ’aiding the enemy’ charge has fallen away. It was only included, it seems, to make calling journalism ’espionage’ seem reasonable. It is not.

Bradley Manning’s alleged disclosures have exposed war crimes, sparked revolutions, and induced democratic reform. He is the quintessential whistleblower.

This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent and an example of national security extremism. It is a short sighted judgment that can not be tolerated and must be reversed. It can never be that conveying true information to the public is ’espionage’.

President Obama has initiated more espionage proceedings against whistleblowers and publishers than all previous presidents combined.

In 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama ran on a platform that praised whistleblowing as an act of courage and patriotism. That platform has been comprehensively betrayed. His campaign document described whistleblowers as watchdogs when government abuses its authority. It was removed from the internet last week.

Throughout the proceedings there has been a conspicuous absence: the absence of any victim. The prosecution did not present evidence that - or even claim that - a single person came to harm as a result of Bradley Manning’s disclosures. The government never claimed Mr. Manning was working for a foreign power.

The only ’victim’ was the US government’s wounded pride, but the abuse of this fine young man was never the way to restore it. Rather, the abuse of Bradley Manning has left the world with a sense of disgust at how low the Obama administration has fallen. It is not a sign of strength, but of weakness.

The judge has allowed the prosecution to substantially alter the charges after both the defense and the prosecution had rested their cases, permitted the prosecution 141 witnesses and extensive secret testimony. The government kept Bradley Manning in a cage, stripped him naked and isolated him in order to crack him, an act formally condemned by the United Nations Special Rapporteur for torture. This was never a fair trial.

The Obama administration has been chipping away democratic freedoms in the United States. With today’s verdict, Obama has hacked off much more. The administration is intent on deterring and silencing whistleblowers, intent on weakening freedom of the press.

The US first amendment states that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". What part of ’no’ does Barack Obama fail to comprehend?"

http://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Julian-Assange-on.html

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“Snowden debería ser premiado”; no amenaza la seguridad: Chomsky

Assange: es un héroe; EU aplica extremismo en seguridad nacional

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2013/07/31/

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"¿A quién ayudó Bradley Manning?

Publicado en 31 julio, 2013de Iroel Sánchez

Iroel Sánchez

Cartel en solidaridad con Bradley Manning

La noticia de ayer: “Bradley Manning no es culpable de ayudar al enemigo pero sí de robar y espiar”. Más de tres años ha demorado la justicia militar -¿un oxímoron?- de Estados Unidos para, luego de hacerlo permanecer desnudo, retirarle sus espejuelos y someterlo a todo tipo de presiones, presentar a este soldado ante una jueza que antes trabajó en Europa, Irak, Afganistán y Kuwait al servicio de fuerzas ocupantes, la Coronel Denise Lind.

Pero si “no ayudó al enemigo”, ¿a quién ayudó este joven que entregó a la organización Wikileaks cientos de miles de documentos que prueban crimenes de guerra y acciones de desestabilización política cometidas por Estados Unidos en todo el mundo?

La acusación de ayuda al enemigo era tan absurda que se basó en el hecho de que miembros del mismo ejército que juzga a Manning encontraron, al asesinar a Osama bin Laden, documentos filtrados por Wikileaks como podían haberlos hallado en la casa de cualquiera que lea un periódico o tenga acceso a Internet. Tan seria es la justicia que se le aplicó a Manning que aunque su defensa pidió desestimar ese cargo, la jueza -tal vez en prueba de la irracionalidad del caso- lo admitió hasta el final. ¿Sería para que los medios pudieran tener su noticia de lunes mientras esperamos la cantidad de años de cárcel que se anunciará este martes?

Bradley Manning ayudó a mucha gente. A los ciudadanos norteamericanos a enterarse de cómo su gobierno asesina, tortura y conspira fuera de sus fronteras con el dinero de sus impuestos. A los torturados de Guantánamo a que se conozca lo injusto de su prisión y a los familiares de los asesinados de Irak y Afganistán a pedir justicia, cosa que la jueza Denise Lind no les pudo garantizar cuando ejerció allí.

Pero declarar a Manning culpable del cargo de ayudar al enemigo hubiera hecho otra cosa demasiado evidente. Porque si gran parte de la opinión pública planetaria considera a Bradley Manning un héroe, entonces EE.UU. es enemigo de la humanidad. (Publicado en CubAhora)"

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