Brad Manning goes to Leavenworth
Poor little Bradley Manning the Wikileaker is getting a transfer from the meanies at Quantico to the much more comfortable medium-security facilities at Fort Leavenworth;
The Marines claim they took his clothes to prevent him from injuring himself. Military and Pentagon officials insist the action was punishment for what the Marines considered disrespect from Manning. Such tactics for disciplinary reasons are against military regulations.
Once at Leavenworth, he’ll be placed in a new medium-security facility. Although locked in a cell at night, he’ll have some freedom of movement in an open day room, have contact and take meals with fellow prisoners, shower when he wants and have access to books and TV. He will also have three hours a day of recreation time.
This will make visits with his civilian attorney, family and some friends more difficult, but it’s the nearest such facility for pre-trial confinement the Army has. Manning will have to return to Fort Belvoir in Virginia for any court appearances. Putting him back into Quantico is “out of the question,” according to Pentagon and military officials, so the Army may make arrangements with a civilian detention facility to hold him temporarily as needed.
Apparently, the Army is trying to give the impression that they’re more compassionate than the marines and it seems they think the hippies and lawyers will like the Army when they treat Manning with more humanitarian methods of confinement. I’m sure that will happen.
On the upside, the hippies won’t be able to make a manning protest a side trip when they plan protests in Washington, DC now. It will take some actual effort on their part to protest for Manning in Kansas.
Thanks to ROS for the link.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Terror War
“Apparently, the Army is trying to give the impression that they’re more compassionate than the marines”
Well… aren’t they? 😉
Good cop (Army). Bad cop (Marines). There’s a method to the madness.
As a general rule Marines don’t like
1)traitors
2)gays
3)Soldiers 😉
In that order. So ole Bradly had 3 strikes agains him.
Not to mention the natives in that part of flyover country aren’t particularly receptive to patchouli-smelling shitstains, and I’m guessing Manning’s cause celebre days are pretty much over.
But given the fact that even those in Leavenworth don’t like traitors, well…
I give him less than a month after he gets to Leavenworth before he makes a suicide “attempt.”
Manning’s fellow Leavenworth prisoners do not like traitors either, so he is going to be in a worse situation than he was in Quantico…
Given his sexual preferences, he should be a big hit mixing in with fellow prisoners among the general population at Ft. Leavenworth.
Be careful for what you wish for…
Maybe the guards at Leavenworth won’t be so astute in protecting him and he will choke himself with his underwear. Saving the people the expense and drama of a trial would be a win-win, eh?
Best thing about Leavenworth is that folks tend to get confused between the PB, and the Federal Pen right next door. NHSparky nails this: Quantico is just south of DC, follow 95. But Leavenworth is: 1) smack dab in the middle of flyover country; and 2) takes some land navigation to find.
The PB has the capability, and mission, to execute convicts. Quantico does not.
Not meaning to ask a stupid question, but what does “PB” stand for?
I think that he meant DB, as in disciplinary barracks. The military prison facility on Ft. Leavenworth is officially the United States Disciplinary Barracks, also known as the USDB or DB.
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/usdb/
Aw man,
I live right by the USDB gate at FT Leavenworth.
I guess I’m going to have to put up an electric fence to keep the idiots off my lawn.
Thanks, Bobo.
Lets see how many times he gets his ass beat while interacting with other prisoners.
I do like the fact that it is in my neck of the woods, only forty miles away from my front door (on the Missouri side). At best hippies, media and anyone else would have a hard enough time figuring out where the hell Leavenworth is. I guess he will have some of the support of the loons living in Lawrence.
Daniel, you sharing your front lawn with those buffalo?
I don’t think Manning will like the DB very much either. I give him a week or two before he PC’s up.
I work at a federal prison and the majority of the inmate veteran population take national security seriously.
Of course, it seems oxymoronish as had they taken federal law as seriously, none of them would be there.
Any update on a court martial that I may have missed?
Is it too much to ask that he’ll stumble & fall in the yard breaking his freakin’ neck?
POS. *spit*
Bobo,
Close, the buffalo are diagnal to the house. Since they removed the road that leads directly by the DB.