Brad Manning: These blankets are scratchy like torture or something
Like I wrote several months ago, the organization which calls itself “Courage to Resist” is raising money for Bradley Manning, the former PFC who released several hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks. From the New York Times;
Bradley Manning T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers — even whistles — are for sale.
Jeff Paterson, the project director of the organization, which has supported dozens of service members who have refused deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan, said the group began to raise money for Private Manning’s legal defense after he was arrested in May.
WikiLeaks was not supporting the 23-year-old private first class “who gave them all this information,” said Mr. Paterson, 42, a lanky former Marine, who was himself jailed for refusing to board a plane bound for Saudi Arabia after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Yeah, a guy who refused to deploy to Kuwait for the Gulf War would belong to an organization called Courage to Resist, wouldn’t he?
How about this doofus;
“He has supporters all over the world,” said Adam Seibert-Szyper, 39, a staff member who deserted the Marine Corps in 1996.
In 1996? Really? What was the Marine Corps doing in 1996 that would cause this courageous soul to desert? Toys for Tots?
BBC gets right to the torture aspect of Manning’s imprisonment;
[Manning] complained to Mr House last week that the blankets he is given are so heavy and uncomfortable they feel like carpet squares.
“He said he would frequently wake up in the morning with carpet burn, a problem exacerbated by the fact that he is required to sleep in his boxers,” the journalist said.
Ay, Dios mio – pobrecito…it’s just like Guantanamo. I sleepin my boxers, so am I torturing myself?
Of course, Salon’s resident drama queen, Glen Greenwald is still apoplectic over the tortuous descriptions coming from Guantanamo del Norte en Quantico;
In addition to confirming the facts I reported, Maj. Coombs added several disturbing new ones, including the paltry, isolated terms of Manning’s one-hour-a-day so-called “exercise” time (he’s “taken to an empty room and only allowed to walk,” “normally just walks figure eights in the room,” “if he indicates that he no long feels like walking, he is immediately returned to his cell”); the bizarre requirement that, despite not being on suicide watch, Manning respond to guards all day, every day, by saying “yes” every 5 minutes (even though guards cannot and “do not engage in conversation with” him); and various sleep-disruptive measures (he is barred from sleeping at any time from 5:00 am – 8:00 pm, and, during the night, “if the guards cannot see PFC Manning clearly, because he has a blanket over his head or is curled up towards the wall, they will wake him”).
So, suppose they ease all of these restrictions and Manning is killed or injured when he attempts suicide or gets his ass assaulted by another prisoner. Will the UN, which is threatening to investigate Manning’s condition, or Greenwald admit that they were responsible? Yeah, that’ll be the day.
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I’m happy to hear that a Marine Brig is still not a place you want to find yourself. This little scumbag was too stupid to think about consequences when he committed his adventure into Treason and is now showing himself to be the
whiney ass sniveler he has always been. He’s lucky they have’nt twisted his head off and taken a giant dump down his neck. This is what happens when mothers breast feed their sons til age 12. As for these other two ass wipes in the article, it pains me that they were Marines a hard earned title that at least they have lost all rights to, due to their cowardice.
“This is what happens when mothers breast feed their sons til age 12″. Bwahahaha, only next time post a spew alert, GruntSgt. Perfect description of the “whiney ass sniveler”, and his two butt-buddies.
As for those two, they aren’t “former Marines”, they’re ex-Marines.
As for the UN “investigating”? They won’t, there aren’t any 14 yr old girls there for the UN members to rape, and I doubt they’d be successful in looting anything from a Marine brig.
I’m sure the boys sleeping on a hillside in Afghanistan running on about four hours sleep a night laying under a woobie really feel his pain.
If he thinks the treatment now is harsh just wait until the trial is over and he’s put into Gen pop and forgotten about. Judging by his looks he’ll be holding a pocket in no time.
With all the help he’s recieved by Assange for his defense I’m quite sure he doesn’t regret a thing. Sorry bud but you screwed the last place that actually takes things like loyalty seriously.
“(he is barred from sleeping at any time from 5:00 am – 8:00 pm..”
Um, sounds like Basic Training all over again.
When he is in General Population, the guards will put sand in his KY Jelly. He will have the right to be issued it, what with DADT repeal and all……… It just won’t have the quality control he would like.
“This is what happens when mothers breast feed their sons til age 12.” Seems so appropriate here.
Matt; that that doesn’t sound like Basic to me. We were up at 0445 and didn’t hit the rack until about 2200.
This whine-tit is pissed because he can’t get a Starbucks every day and a 5 course dinner. Fuck him and the two pussies that are making excuses for him.
I might feel a little sympathy for him if he were getting a nightly blanket party in the brig……..wait a minute; no I wouldn’t. Carry on.
Solitary confinement is now torture. That’s amazing. What can we do these people?
It’s also “sleep deprivation” to prohibit sleeping between 0500 and 2000 hours. Sleep deprivation means that you can’t sleep at all! This little asswipe can sleep nine hours a day, which is a heck of a lot more hours than I get.
such a sniveling little weasel. gah! i am sharing this on fb.
How did the little fuck get into the Army anyway? How did he make it through Basic training?
Well, at least he can eat and sleep and whatever…but what about the folks he got killed when that info got released? What about all the classified info that gave away all our secrets in WAR?
Give the little shit a fair trial, then when he’s found guilty, hang him.
Here he is complaining that he doesn’t like his blanket. In an earlier story it was said he didn’t have a blanket. Did he not have a blanket then and he does now, or are they just making things up to get sympathy?
What happened to the people that Manning “outted” all the informants he gave names to? I remember using “carpet squares” after many drunken nights. I remember going non stop for days on end in Iraq. At no time was this “torture”.
Hearing that inmates on Death Row have it better than the grunts on the line is really galling. I say let manning and his precious self deal with the consequences of his actions.
This is simply gamesmanship by his legal team. The reason is that they know he is guilty, so the only thing they have to fight over is the sentence. Pre-trial confinement in the military system usually gains the defendant additional credit toward the prison sentence. Demonstration of particularly harsh or personally difficult pre-trial confinement adds additional credit toward the sentence. So in the end, they are simply maligning the Marine Corps for tactical gain under UCMJ sentencing rules. The mainstream media has never understood the military system anyway.
Greenwald wouldn’t mind Manning having carpet burns if he gave them to Manning, birds of a feather
CPT Me; how will pre-trial confinement go towards credit on a death penalty?? 🙂
I’m just sayin………….
“the bizarre requirement that, despite not being on suicide watch,”
BTDT as a jail guard, ALL inmates are obseved for suicidal tendencies, suicide watch means that the inmate has threatened or exhibited overt signs of being suicidal. I worked 3rd shift & had to check the inmates on an hourly basis and toted a rescue knife to cut improvised nooses as part of my gear. If I couldn’t see the inmate’s head, I had to wake him to get him to uncover his head so I knew he was alive.
We were trained that our primary job was to ensure the safety of the inmates, from other inmates and themselves.
“He said he would frequently wake up in the morning with carpet burn”- Given his sexual orientation, I think if he woke up with sausage smoke, there would be no complaints from the leaker…
OT… The Manning team will argue “mitigating circumstances,” to include confinement conditions if he is charged with a capital case. But do you really think the commander in chief will ultimately sign off on the death penalty at the end of the day? A cynic would worry more about him being granted a pardon or commutation.
CPT ME: You remember that troop Ackbar? the one that threw a couple of grenades into the command tent right before OIF-1? He’s slated for Death. he may well get the death penalty, and the Pres may not have a choice if he is executed or not unless he does the mass midnight blanket pardons.
Honestly I don’t know why the military doesn’t carry out said executions quick and simple and be done with it.
CPT Me: A guy can dream; can’t he? 🙂
Of course, there are others that did just as much, or worse, during the Cold War and they’re still breathing, so I’m only holding out a glimmer of hope that Manning will take a dirt nap.
Brad Manning to his guards: “And that’s why yellow makes me sad”. Guards: “Tissue?”
Hope he hangs….period.
Honor and Courage
I have an idea. Instead of confinement, lets just drop him off in some remote part of Afghanastan, put a drone overhead and watch the crazyness unfold. Heck we could start paying down the deficit if we put it on pay-per-view…
Bradley Manning singing in his cell:
Falling fairies from the sky.
I broke a nail, Oh I could cry,
Don’t you like how my tushy sways?
We are the fags of the Queen Berets.
Obama’s words upon my ears
“You guys have rights, be proud you’re queer”
I once was scared, now I’m okay.
Cause I’m a fag in the Queen Berets.
Put silver earclips on my nuts.
I love the pain, now spank my butt.
The way you walk is awfully cute.
I sure would love to pack your chute.
This Army stuff is awfully slick.
Free meals and clothes and lots of dick.
When I retire, I’ll still get my pay.
I thank you Barack, from the Queen Berets.”
Considering the fact that purpose of the Wikileaks fiasco was to drive the United States out of Afghanistan…
Manning should have to live there. In the post-American, once-again-Talibanized Afghanistan. I’ve heard that they’re slightly intolerant of men who sleep with men. Just a rumor I heard.
“I’ve heard that they’re slightly intolerant of men who sleep with men.” Not exactly, I think they’d make Manning into a Bacha Bazi most ricki-tic…