Posted on 12/17/2010 6:53:47 AM PST by La Lydia
The last time Bradley Manning saw the world outside of a jail, most Americans had never heard of WikiLeaks. On Friday, Manning, the man whose alleged unauthorized release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents put the website and its controversial leader, Julian Assange, on the map, turns 23 behind bars. Since his arrest in May, Manning has spent most of his 200-plus days in solitary confinement...his attorney, David Coombs, revealed key details about Manning’s imprisonment and kind gestures from his family that provided a bit of comfort in the inmate's otherwise extremely harsh incarceration....
Manning asked for a list of books, which his family bought for him... Decision Points, by George W. Bush Critique of Practical Reason, by Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant Propaganda, by Edward Bernayse The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn The Art of War, by Sun Tzu The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel On War by Gen. Carl von Clausewitz
Manning is being held at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia. He spends 23 hours a day alone in a standard-sized cell, with a sink, a toilet, and a bed. He isn’t allowed sheets or a pillow, though First Lieutenant Brian Villiard, an officer at Quantico, said he is allowed bedding of “non-shreddable” material...
For an hour every day, a television is wheeled in front of his cell and he’s allowed to watch TV, including news...
The conditions under which Bradley Manning is being held would traumatize anyone...He lives alone in a small cell, denied human contact. He is forced to wear shackles when outside of his cell, and when he meets with the few people allowed to visit him, they sit with a glass partition between them...
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
You he’d be a reader of Howard Zinn.
Cry me a river...
Does he get a sock too?
Better conditions than the traitor deserves.
I hope he gets life at Leavenworth though he deserves death.
An oath is a very serious and sacred thing, let this be a lesson to all those who wear the uniform.
Very selective reporting on traitors.
After Ass-ange’s new threats to release more documents only to hurt the U.S., I was hoping to see them both in enjoining cells.
It would be a tragedy if he got “Dahmer-ed”
“The conditions under which Bradley Manning is being held would traumatize anyone...”
Then let him into the general population. I’m sure he’ll be real popular.
>> The conditions under which Bradley Manning is being held would traumatize anyone...
That isn’t trauma.
For a small fee I’ll volunteer to keep him chained up in my garage for a few years.
I could think up some REAL trauma for the scummy little poofter to enjoy.
He’s probably watching and hour of LOGO TV and has requested to be put on the Gay book of the Month Club list.
Him and Julian Sausage should be in the same cell.
He’s still breathing,
He’s still above ground,
all undeserved!
They are right about that traumatizing anyone.
Cruel and unusual punishment...oooohhh the inhumanity of it all.
[and kind gestures from his family that provided a bit of comfort in the inmate’s otherwise extremely harsh incarceration....]
They should have fragged his ass. That’s what’s coming when dadt goes away.
That is nothing like an ‘extremely harsh incarceration’.
Prisons in Ecuador or Cuba are extremely harsh (not to mention unjust). But solitary confinement with books is practically a luxury.
Hell?? Bring him on down to GTMO and let him see how the other half lives.
Don’t care, don’t want to hear or read about him but I hope others do.
He won’t spill our guts anymore and will make others think twice about doing the same.
Maybe we will be a little slower to be inclusive of gay privates with confidential information in the future.
Yep.
sounds about right to me
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