If You Were Bradley Manning, What Would You Do?
from the put-yourself-in-his-shoes dept
Some Bradley Manning supporters have put together a very compelling campaign, called I Am Bradley Manning, asking the government to drop the "aiding the enemy" charge against Bradley Manning and noting the chilling effects it has on whistleblowers. The key part of the campaign is a five minute video of various well-known people talking about Bradley Manning and asking what would you do if you were in his shoes, and saw that your government was lying to the public, and doing things that you believed went against the very values and principles you were supposed to be fighting for.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I would like to say I would have done the same thing...
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I'd simply escape all the torture and psychological harm by hiding inside myself.
I wonder what kind of person Bradley will be if somehow people manage to make to free him from the dictatorship.
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if I was bradley manning
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I'll probably never know if I have the strength necessary that I doubt I have, but I appreciate knowing that Manning does have it.
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BRADLEY MANNING AND EDWARD SNOWDEN
What were their crimes even??
The right to exercise FREE EXPRESSION, only to be subdued, chastened the worst possible way, ruthlessly brutal and painful to which the government itself makes the country such partnership, to be a greater control of nationals of the U.S. and the world and thus be targeted only the information that interests and convenient to own U.S. government and Israel. What is missing now. Put a camera in my bathroom?
Thank hacker American government, and the president of this country, Barack Obama (I trusted him), you helped me a lot in the exercise of my individual freedom and you also "never" persecuted those who think different from you.
"DESIRE" total progress for all intellectuals throughout the world from this discovery;
THANK YOU;
+ + May God forever and BRADLEY MANNING EDWARD SNOWDEN.
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The fact is that nothing he told was harmful to the US, though some of it was certainly uncomfortable to specific individuals within said US. Of course that hardly counts since those individuals are the greatest existing threat to the nation - far greater than any terrorists, real or imagined.
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WWBMD
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Snowden has the right idea, but he's far too trusting and naive as well.
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I thought
NOT sitting in jail for 2 years..
is the military court so busy that it cant do him justice?
if it is...WOW, what are we doing wrong.
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Just wondering... when he is convicted, can he still get a book deal?
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I would have taken the information, scrubbed it of anything that could directly endanger lives (names of informants, etc), removed anything that could identify me, made multiple copies while wearing rubber gloves and then covertly mailed them from another city to various news outlets and/or Wikileaks, all while doing my job and keeping my head down.
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Re: I would like to say I would have done the same thing...
However, this is one of those "easy to say when you aren't actually facing it" kinds of situations. So, to be 100% honest with myself, I don't really know what I'd do.
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funny, that, eh...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Re: I would like to say I would have done the same thing...
What did I do? Well, I was pretty junior at the time and I knew the job looked good on my resume, so I rode it out, kept my head down, and once I had enough experience to get something better, left and did so. Honestly, I can't imagine doing it any differently. That company is still in business and I know is never going to change (even if I blew a whistle to someone, I watched them weasel out of enough to know it wouldn't affect much), so all I could do was stay on guard, get something out of it, and move on. I still have a good reference and quite a bit of experience from there.
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