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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But like most liberals, he thinks he's a genius.
When this assessment discrepancy comes home to roost, they blame reality and call a lawyer.
Don’t underestimate the lethality of a flip-flop. They killed John Kerry’s campaign.
Ouuch...I know the feeling. ha.
ROFLMAO!!!
WOW, THAT WAS FAST!!
I would like to see him hanged,but can you imagine he will
have to live like this for some 40 years!
Double thumbs up!
He should be sleeping without breathing.
Sometimes you get just what you ask for.
As far as the lawyer is concerned, the brig commander can't win here. If Manning did try to hurt himself, the lawyer would be screaming and yelling and jumping up and down because he was not protected from himself. The lawyer is always going to have something to complain about.
Maybe they should post Bubba in his cell on suicide watch (while he watches his naked body..)
First off, who wears FLIP FLOPS while in prison?
Second, I suppose you could eat them, and choke to death.
Given enough paper, one can make a rope and hang their self with it.
(ex: the Obamacare Health Bill)
I heard he is writing a book, "How I killed a grizzly bear with the toothpick from a Swiss Army Knife".
So, he wears a PAPER DRESS to bed.
How ironic.
Indeed. The paper tiger wears paper clothes.
The Washington Postule rag.
Somebody please come salve my breaking heart.
With boxers is not “without clothing.”
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