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What kind of world is this, where Bradley Manning gets a heavier jail sentence than Anders Breivik?
by cstross 13y ago
What kind of world is this, where Bradley Manning gets a heavier jail sentence than Anders Breivik?
- jonstewart 13y agoOne where different countries have different criminal justice systems? (Do I win the pedantic literalist prize?)
- anigbrowl 13y agoOh, it's false equivalence time! What kind of world is this, where a soldier in a war zone indiscriminately dumps data into the hands of foreign actors and receives a full public trial and a jail sentence, while a teenage girl gets shot in the head for going to school? I feel bad for Manning, but he at least opted to join an organization with a conspicuously poor human rights record at a time when it was many years into a bloody moral and legal quagmire.