Posted on 03/06/2011 6:27:27 AM PST by Racehorse
Military jailers are forcing Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old soldier accused of passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.org, to strip naked in his cell at night and sleep without clothing, a requirement his attorney says was imposed after Manning made a "sarcastic quip" about his confinement.
For most of the past eight months, Manning has been required to sleep wearing only boxer shorts, because of his status as a detainee under "prevention of injury watch," said 1st Lt. Brian Villiard, a spokesman for the military detention facility, or "brig," in Quantico. Beginning Wednesday night, the facility commander ordered that Manning turn over his boxers, too.
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In a blog post Saturday, Coombs gave this account of how the boxers were taken away: On Wednesday, Manning was told he would continue to be kept under the restrictions of prevention of injury watch, that there was nothing he could do to change his maximum-custody status and that the brig commander considered him at risk of self-harm. Manning then said that the restrictions were "absurd" and that if he wanted to harm himself using an item of clothing, he could do so "with the elastic waistband of his underwear or with his flip-flops."
Without consulting the facility's mental health provider, the brig commander used Manning's quip as "justification" to increase the restrictions on him, Coombs said. He said Manning was not placed under suicide watch because that would have required a mental health provider's recommendation that the brig commander lacked.
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Manning isn’t too bright.
Yoo hoo, Manning. Military prisons are NO JOKE. You can’t play the system there like you can one of our average civilian prisons.
He sleeps in his boxers. Big deal.
“Boxer shorts” does not equal “without clothing”.
I've always done this voluntarily. :-)
Kill yourself with flip-flops?? Thats a new one.
He doesn’t sleep naked - they issue paper clothes like a paper hospital gown
Why isn´t this scumbag dead yet?
Well, maybe his president will pardon his sins against the country. After all, Louie did call him the new messiah.
Manning mouthed off to his guards. Told them that if he really wanted to harm himself, he could use the elastic in his shorts or his flip flops.
So . . . the Brig commander took away his shorts. He’s sleeping in the raw. :-)
OK i’m trying to figure out how I could kill myself with flip flops? Stubing my little toe on the corner of the coffee table is as close as I can come.
I can’t really say I feel for the guy, considering the dozens of people that he caused to die, the damage to the info-gathering abilities of most Western countries, and the potential for chaos that has resulted in this.
Can you slap yourself to death with flip flop’s?
With enough time and effort, anything is possible.
Thanks. The reporter failed to tell us that.
"Under prevention of injury watch, Manning sleeps on a mattress with a built-in pillow. He has no sheet, only a blanket designed so that it cannot be shredded."
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