Posted on 05/09/2017 1:32:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former Army soldier Chelsea Manning will be released from prison next week, her attorneys announced Tuesday.
Former President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s prison sentence in January, cutting short a sentence that would have originally ended in 2045.
Obama said that Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, had served a “very disproportionate” prison sentence for leaking military secrets.
“For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea,” Manning said in a written statement. “I can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and finally be in the outside world.”
“Now, freedom is something that I will again experience with friends and loved ones after nearly seven years of bars and cement, of periods of solitary confinement, and of my health care and autonomy restricted, including through routinely forced haircuts,” she added.
“I hope to take the lessons that I have learned, the love that I have been given, and the hope that I have to work toward making life better for others.”
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Starting the countdown until somebody brings him to the Oscars or some other ‘star studded’ affair.
Maybe a firing squad outside the prison gate could take care of that with a volley or two.
I predict suicide or overdose/alcohol-related death within a decade or so.
The tabloids are full of Richard Simmons stories. He seems to have always been and remains an authentic weirdo; which is refreshing. Never closeted, never married a woman or a man - just was/is himself.
Our society is in a crisis of gender distortion/destruction - where did it begin and where will it end? I fear for my grandchildren that they will never see ‘normal’ again.
God - please save us. We may not deserve Your grace, but our innocent children do.
If somebody was able to get to Jeffrey Dahmer then somebody can get to Manning.
BRADLEY!!!
My guess would be within a year or two. He’s one (mentally) sick puppy.
Not sure if they make the check out to Bradley or Chelsea, but the book deal will get him a big check.
Maybe they’ll have a parade in the Castro District?
I no that Obama commuted his sentence but could he be charged with other crimes.
Didn't he forfeit all pay and benefits as a result of his conviction? Wouldn't that include VA benefits?
I still say that Bradley Manning had help from his boyfriend to access what he did.
There is no way he acted alone.
His accomplice was hushed and waved on.
Being added to the cast of The View.
It is NOT a her!
I just don’t see a bright future for this messed up person.
Soldier turned traitor. Man turned woman. Sounds like the ideal democrat candidate
Hillary/Chelsea 2020
Gee, I hope nothing bad visits the poor misunderstood traitorous degenerate on the outside.
Or maybe Chelsea/Chelsea.
The stuff of nightmares, that.
I’m almost sure that I read that the military will not be responsible for “health care” for him.
If it received disability while in, likely it will have free healthcare for life.
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