Do the names McVeigh, Hassan and Manning mean anything to you?
>>Well, I’m a former serviceman... so the government says they _shouldn’t_. (After all, I might be a terrorist.)
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>Do the names McVeigh, Hassan and Manning mean anything to you?
McVeigh — Interesting case: death sentence carried out surprisingly quickly, early reports of middle-eastern [?] man scrubbed.
Hassan — Interesting case: the military refusing to treat him as a spy and executing him for that crime, though IIUC his actions warrant it.
Manning — Interesting case: leaked information /after/ becoming concerned about the possibility of illegal orders and being summarily dismissed from those concerns.
The first and third rather seem to indicate there’s more to the story than is in the common knowledge, the second indicates the possibility of something odd in the military itself.
Apparently they mean to you that you can't trust any mil or ex-mil.
OTOH, apparently the behavior of the police in southern California means that we should all trust every action of any cop implicitly unless they are actually caught shooting at anything that moves in a pickup truck, and even then we should still trust their departments in any incendiary action they take.