Today an injustice was perpetrated on a brave young soul, Bradley Manning, whose courageous act of whistleblowing revealed untold truths about the US war machine. Prosecuting him under the Espionage Act despite his guilty pleas for leaking information was a government attempt to “intimidate anyone who might consider revealing valuable information in the future,” according to Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. In other words, the injustice perpetrated against Manning was perpetrated against all of us, stifling truth, justice, and democracy in one fell swoop. Send a message to our latest War President and shameful Nobel Peace Prize laureate by signing the petition to award Manning the Nobel Peace Prize. For special coverage of the verdict from Democracy Now! click here.
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It is time for a new public outcry — based on civil liberties and collective rights, beyond left and right, beyond ideology. It is time for all Obama supporters who once passionately stood up against the abuses of the Bush II administration to stand up once again. It is time for those who are afraid to speak out against an overzealous national security apparatus to begin to raise our voices together. In the face of the naked persecution of two prominent whistleblowers Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks activist Julian Assange, as well as dozens of other people trying to shine a light on the wrongdoing of unaccountable government forces, it is time to take the security establishment up on its suggestion to SAY SOMETHING upon seeing something.
I believe that President Obama crossed a line on his recent appearance on Charlie Rose, spewing outright lies in an effort to protect his administration from growing criticism:
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