Manning’s Art. 32 hearing is a clown car ride
That’s the scene outside the gate of Fort Meade, MD yesterday while the Article 32 hearing of Brad Manning, the fellow who released our military secrets to some albino Scandi because his boyfriend dumped him. I know you don’t recognize him without his uniform, but that’s Dan Choi along side VFP/Code Pink member Ann Wright.
Inside the hearing, Associated Press reports that the Army prosecutors will prove that the Wikileaks material came from Manning’s computers;
Monday’s testimony will focus on a forensic examination of Manning’s two workplace computers. In the most potentially damaging evidence so far, an investigator testified Sunday that he found more than 10,000 downloaded diplomatic cables and other sensitive information on a computer Manning used.
He says the other computer was used to conduct scores of online searches for WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. The witness says that seemed odd, since Manning was supposed to be analyzing intelligence about Iraqi terrorist threats.
So not only did he release information that endangered people, he was neglecting his duties and endangering the lives of soldiers who were currently engaged with our enemies.
As Zero wrote the other day, Manning’s defense is that he’s gay so he’s innocent;
The defense revealed that Manning had written to one of his supervisors in Baghdad before his arrest, saying he was suffering from gender-identity disorder. He included a picture of himself dressed as a woman and talked about how it was affecting his ability to do his job and even think clearly.
Maj. Matthew Kemkes, one of Manning’s lawyers, asked Special Agent Toni Graham, an Army criminal investigator, whether she had talked to people who believed Manning was gay or found evidence among his belongings relating to gender-identity disorder. The condition often is described as a mental diagnosis in which people believe they were born the wrong sex.
Graham said such questions were irrelevant to the investigation.
Yeah, either gays are just like the rest of us or they’re not. They can’t have it both ways. If this defense works, the Army can just fire all of the gays who are working in intelligence and be justified. I can’t believe that Choi, the gay activist, is supporting someone who says that being gay justifies being a criminal.
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In the 20+ years I was in the Army and the Nat Guard, there were many soldiers, male and female, that we were pretty sure were gay.
But nobody gave ashit because, in those cases, they all did their jobs very well and were good soliders first.
This kid just has mental problems and should see if the VA will provide a brain transplant.
I want to know why he’s not up on murder charges. He released the names of a couple hundred informants, who by the way, are now missing!! These morons actually think that’s ok?
So just dress like Cpl Klinger from MASH and get your Section 8
These miscreants and malcontents are like ticks, attaching themselves to whatever leftist cause passes by. And like ticks, they couldn’t care less about their host, in this instance, Manning. Well, maybe Bok Choi thinks he’s cute. Perhaps they’ll share a room in the Leavenworth Inn one day. Here’s hoping, anyway. Jeez what an unsightly crew.
The mental picture I am getting from your description of the hearing as a clown car ride has me ROFLMAO! I can’t wait to see how it ends. Probably downgraded to a company grade letter of reprimand that will be withdrawn after appeal. What a freakin joke!
Why is it I go through these posts of Choi, Manning, et al, and all I hear is an Erasure soundtrack playing in my head?
Memo to teh ghey lobby–you wanted “equal”, now you got it. Manning was a bad boy, and he’s gonna be ass-plowed with a pineapple by Bubba, just like a straight guy would have been. The difference being is that Manning might actually enjoy it a tad more.
Thanks for reminding me to use the back gate tonight to avoid these yahoos when I go to class.
This is such a circus, but great job to point out the fallacies in the defense. No matter how hostile the work environment, it doesn’t ever justify one turning over classified information and directly contributing to others being killed. People who trusted the U.S. to protect them.
This guy is a scumbag and shame on those idiots out there who are walking contradictions- demanding peace and goodwill toward fellow men, but all to happy to whistle past the graveyard of the grisly results of Manning’s actions.
I saw firsthand what happened to Iraqis who helped us, but whose covers were blown and al Qaeda got to them. Those images will forever be seared into my mind.
Manning gets and deserves no sympathy and these “people” should be ashamed of themselves for supporting a coward and murderer by proxy.
So here’s my question, how many people probably thought his “gender identity issues” were made up. How many people tried stupid shit to get out of going to Iraq. One guy in 1st Cav (1/8 cav if I remember correctly) tried to do Coke amphetamines AND Meth (which is also a great way to kill yourself) the day he was going to deploy. They pumped him full of fluids and sent him anyway (probably out of spite)
It doesn’t matter what you want, you gave your word, and in the Army your word is still binding. Not that everywhere else its only a suggestion so long as it doesn’t cause any personal hardship.
Side note: If the gay lobby holds up Manning or Choi, they’re sending the wrong message to people. In essence that they CAN’T BE TRUSTED which I’m pretty sure they’ve been trying to say otherwise.
Times were (mostly before DADT) that you were asked if you had “gender identity issues” as part of the screening process to get a clearance. Why? Because that was an area that could be used to blackmail you into giving up state secrets. Gee, I guess the military wasn’t so dumb before Clinton came along after all.
There’s no school like the old school.
I do not see any real defence here for Brad Manning…only pathetically weak attempts to put as much shit explinations between him and a life sentence as possible. I can’t even imagine the logic here…’Boo-hoo I’m having gender identity issues…better download hundreds of thousands of classified documents and give them to the enemy.’ Does not fucking compute! I think the defence is just trying to turn the trial into a circuis in an all but vain attempt to play for sympathy and less prison time.
Is it just me or do those three look like the receiving line at a glory hole buffet?
“Inside the hearing, Associated Press reports that the Army prosecutors will prove that the Wikileaks material came from Manning’s computers;” proving this in a court of law is awesome. That piece of shit Assage as denied this off and on for awhile.
Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is still recognized as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association. It’s become very politically incorrect to talk about it as if it’s a disease, but that’s basically what it is. The next time the APA releases a new edition their Bible of mental disorders, the DSM, it probably won’t be in there because they’re under a lot of pressure to remove it. You see, mental disorders have stigmas attached. So let’s pretend that batshit crazy people are just fine.
Until that time, it will still be considered a disorder, which I guess means that Manning will still be able to use it as a defense.
Same sex attraction disorder (SSAD) used to be a disorder too, until the wailing homosexuals assaulted the conferences of the APA, shouted down dissenting voices, and threatened the shrinks with violence if they didn’t affirm them in their sickness. They crashed three seperate conventions and the APA eventually relented by 1973, voting to remove SSAD from their manual.
Interestingly, homosexual activists love to quote the “experts” at the APA who say that homosexuality is just fine, and certainly not a mental disorder. Two inconvenient points always fluster them.
1) If the experts at the APA were wrong until 1973, could they be wrong now? Are they only experts when they agree with you? Did they become experts only after 1973?
2) The APA still considers the ‘trangendered community” to be disordered. Are they correct in this assessment? If homosexuality is normal because “the experts” say so, does that mean that their assessment of transgendereds is also correct?
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