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But non-US citizens can liberally have their basic human rights denied. 12 years after 9/11. That's the land of the free for you. (Looking at how Bradley Manni
by epsylon 13y ago
But non-US citizens can liberally have their basic human rights denied. 12 years after 9/11. That's the land of the free for you.
(Looking at how Bradley Manning was treated even shows that US citizens aren't treated much better. Being denied a lawyer and confined to solitary cells for months is not much different from torture.)
- DannoHung 13y agoManning was a member of the Army. You give up a significant number of rights and freedoms as a US citizen when you become a member of the armed forces. Which is not to say that it is right, but that it is legal.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoAt this point, American law is completely corrupt. Who gives a damn about it? What they've done to Bradley Manning isn't right, at all.
- jvictor118 13y agoBradley Manning was a member of the Armed Forces who released classified information to the public. What planet are you living on that his prosecution is unwarranted?
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoWhat planning are you living on where physical and psychological torture is a warranted response to breaking military law?
- lhc- 13y agoProsecution would be warranted. Indefinite detainment and torture is never warranted, especially for a US citizen.
- mpyne 13y agoAnd also, Manning wasn't denied a lawyer, even in his first confinement facility. I remember this vividly because Manning's own lawyer was the one who admitted that Manning had joked about killing himself before being placed on prevention-of-suicide status...