Posted on 08/24/2013 7:17:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Soon after being sentenced by a military judge to 35 years behind bars for leaking US diplomatic cables and other evidence of war crimes, the person formerly known as Pfc Bradley Manning announced to the world that she - not he - would from now on like to be referred to as, "Chelsea". After being called everything from hero to traitor, Manning announced she wanted to be called something else: a woman.
"As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female," Manning said in a statement. "Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition."
It's not hard, identifying someone as they wish to be identified. It's actually really easy and it's called politeness. But sometimes bigotry and political partisanship get in the way of good manners and basic decency.
Erick Erickson, a conservative pundit, former CNN contributor and all-American dumbass, chose to react to the news of Manning's transition with the over-compensating masculinity of a 13-year-old bully who wets the bed. "Chelsea," he wrote on Twitter, is "someone who won't man up [ editor's note: do you get it? ] to what they've done and instead goes for a sympathetic distraction in the press". Because as anyone familiar with the corporate press (and the American public) will tell you, nothing garners more sympathy than a recently convicted national security whistle-blower - "traitor" in the parlance of our times - coming out as transgender.
Earlier, because he is a tiny child in a bloated body, Erickson linked to a piece about Manning's gender identity.....
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
If they shoot him first, they can save on the Anesthesia doing the Sex Change Operation later.
I don’t care what he is or what he does in his private life. When you throw out information of military where it is available for even enemies of war to find it, then yes, you are committing treason. I am sorry, but I don’t discriminate. Any traitor, including one who wants a sex change like Bradley Manning, is still a traitor, because you put soldiers’ lives at risk. How much more of this garbage are we going to have to take?
I know, I sometimes wonder why Treason isn’t the capital crime that it used to be. Especially considering that leaked information to the enemy can and has gotten Americans killed. What’s worse, in the era of nuclear weapons, you could potentially get millions of men, women, and children living at home and going about their business in America killed with a nuclear attack, especially given that without all the civil defense drills we used to have, many millions would likely get killed in the pre-nuclear panic that would ensue at the siren and the EMP blackout preceding the holocaust. I am not saying this risk isn’t true for every traitor, but it certainly is possible that if the right information about U.S. National Defense got leaked to Russia and/or China.
Or he’s just trying to use his desire to get the sex change as an excuse for lesser punishment for treason.
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