Manning supporters under surveillance

The folks who are supporting the traitor Private Bradley Manning, currently sitting in prison at Quantico, VA awaiting trial, the guy who turned over classified documents to the peace movement caricatures at Wikileaks are being watched by the FBI, they tell the media. From Associated Press;

The Bradley Manning Support Network said Wednesday that David House of Cambridge, Mass., was detained Nov. 3 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and questioned extensively about his support for the Army private. Manning is being held at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va., awaiting trial.

According to Glen Greenwald, this is the second time it’s happened;

In July of this year, U.S. citizen Jacob Appelbaum, a researcher and spokesman for WikiLeaks, was detained for several hours at the Newark airport after returning from a trip to Holland, and had his laptop, cellphones and other electronic products seized — all without a search warrant, without being charged with a crime, and without even being under investigation, at least to his knowledge.

Yeah, well, the “at least to his knowledge” is shit we NCOs all heard from our privates right before they got their asses thrown in the lock up.

He was interrogated at length about WikiLeaks, and was told by the detaining agents that he could expect to be subjected to the same treatment every time he left the country and attempted to return to the U.S.

Of course, the anti-war Left disillusioned with the “Hope and Change” they got a long time ago, are convinced that they’re being intimidated by government forces. They don’t mention Obama’s name out of fear of being accused of being racists;

The Federal Government has the authority to conduct border searches of people entering the country that are far broader than for those inside the country, and such searches require no search warrant. The Government has that power in order to prevent security threats from entering the country, but here, they are clearly exploiting and abusing it

So it’s Bush-era policy that’s oppressing them. If it was me (and it wouldn’t be), I’d just behave myself. David House has visited Manning three times since Manning’s detention at Quantico – I guess it only makes sense to make sure House isn’t acting as a courier when he leaves the country.

If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Usual Suspects