Posted on 01/16/2018 9:34:21 AM PST by detective
Transgender Chelsea Manning was convicted in a 2013 court martial of 20 counts, including violations of the Espionage Act, for illegally leaking more than 700,000 classified government documents to WikiLeaks. Chelsea Manning, known as Private Bradley Manning at the time of the crime, received a 35-year sentence, right after which she came out as a transgender and demanded that the army pay for sex change hormone treatment. Former President Barack Obama went one step further. Obama gave Manning a free get of jail card just days before the end of his term in office, granting clemency to the felon of all but 4 months of her 35-year sentence. She was released from prison last May, after serving only 7 years. In his last press conference as president, Obama doubled down on his clemency decision, declaring that "I feel very comfortable that justice has been served."
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Maryland used to be known as “The Free State.”
Now it’s “The Freak State.”
I agree that the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.
However, I think Mr. Manning would have a better chance of being elected Senator by the state legislature of Maryland than he does of being elected by a majority of the voters of Maryland.
Manning did not give his country 'humane treatment'....at taxpayer expense and demands made as if by right is stunning. Manning is now He-she-it". How sick to think He-She-It can mess with our government...even the LGBTQ should be leery of this sick person.
Has MD had anyone good since Spiro T. Agnew? He does look a little better in retrospect, and he fooled Nixon for a while.
Milo at least knows who he is; doesn’t demand the government pay his medical bills.
I'd say we're in for a book soon....and that's what this is really about.
“Cardin is running for re-election. Anyone who thinks Manning has a chance is crazy, and that includes Manning itself.”
Maryland Democrats are very leftist. Manning is a favorite of Obama and other influential Democrats. Cardin is in his mid 70’s. Cardin is a Clinton stooge with no career achievements and no strong support. Some Soros money and leftist organizing could give Manning the nomination.
Cardin is definitely the favorite, but stranger things have happened among Maryland Democrats.
At least Benedict Arnold was a Patriot before he wasn’t.
Anyone who runs against this IT had better use the word Traitor in the same sentence every time they mention IT’s name.
I think you may be right.
The Republicans need to paint Manning as “the face of the democrat party”
Did I say the Constitution says that?
(besides, I didn’t hear anything)
But there's this:
18 U.S. Code § 2071 States That A Violator Of This Statute:
"Shall Forfeit His Office And Be Disqualified From Holding Any Office Under The United States."
Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
(18 U.S. Code § 2071)
The Constitution lays out the qualifications for a U.S. Senator. Felony convictions aren't included and states can't ban candidates because of them.
This is why patriots need to get state lawmakers up to speed with the major constitutional problem that the corrupt feds are stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." me
The state legislatures need to elect federal senators who will kill appropriations bills that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional, Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
It is NOT a "her". nor a "she". It is a mutilated, chemically altered male.
Why are you referring to a man as “it”?
There are two sexes. He’s a man. Is that confusing?
Is a US Senator an "office under the United States"?
Who signs their paychecks?
Is the only reason Manning wasn’t executed was because of mental illness?
5.56mm
No. It was because of Obama. Obama set him free and restored his military pension and other benefits.
Statutory law cannot override the Constitution.
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