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I'm sure he will get some ridiculous 2,000 year prison sentence, no need to torture him to make the point.
by feintruled 11y ago
I'm sure he will get some ridiculous 2,000 year prison sentence, no need to torture him to make the point.
- RobertoG 11y agoManning has been tortured. As a member of the army I suppose there are some differences but it's not so difficult to think that the same could happen.
- pekk 11y agoManning was convicted of espionage, imprisoned, and put into solitary confinement under the legal authority of UCMJ. Unfortunately, this is all legal, backed by the popular view that sentencing should be punitive and serve as a deterrent. Think of all the people in solitary confinement who, unlike Manning, were never in the public eye.
- RobertoG 11y agoManning was: imprisoned in solitary confinement, barred from exercising even in his cell, under constant surveillance, without pillows or sheets, all this, before the trial. http://www.salon.com/2010/12/15/manning_3/ http://www.salon.com/2010/12/15/manning_3/ http://www.mintpressnews.com/chelsea-manning-chronicles-her-incarceration-140-characters-at-a-time/204554/ http://www.mintpressnews.com/chelsea-manning-chronicles-her-... I agree with you about all the other people in solitary confinement.
- kafkaesq 11y agoManning was ... put into solitary confinement. That's what we man by "tortured". Though "living death" might be a better description.
- tremon 11y agoA rose by any other name is still a rose, whether it's legal or not.
- jellicle 11y agoPermanent solitary confinement in ADX Florence (which is assuredly what Snowden and Assange will receive if they are ever in U.S. hands) IS torture. There is no metaphor or exaggeration or hyperbole in the above sentence.