Actually, there is one lobbyist in that mix. Dunno who he is, but you'll get one angry word while he tries with a lot of effort to discredit a position.
The gay marriage bill is already going through a LOT of states. And electoral reform is right behind campaign finance reform. It might be sooner than you think.
Do you know what snipers do? They i.d. the enemy and kill them.
Snipers are much closer to the enemy than that chopper was. Your comparison makes no sense. There was no apparent danger to the chopper considering the guys were up ~ a mile away from their devastation. Then when you have the Army come in and see what they killed, there was NOTHING justifying how they tried not to help the children that the chopper had taken out.
What they said happened is that there were "nine insurgents" with different weapons. When you look at the edits, none had anything but the bags or small arms from earlier. Further, the Pentagon confiscated any video and blocked the video through a FOIA request. So that video that Wikileaks put out is the first that anyone actually saw of the incident in a grandiose scale. Still, that doesn't justify the Hellfire attack on the building. The army didn't clear the building and the Heli-crew seems to have merely wanted to kill people. I'd have put them up on war crimes. But it seems quite evident that the Pentagon is lightly punishing those that break these laws and heavily punishing whistleblowers (ie Manning).
No, the way I usually refer to is by making the system more ineffective to lobbying. This means that we would find a form of governance that allows parties to be punished. For congress in particular, a mixed proportional system works best. Register your party, them have people vote for that party into congress. It would make lobbying work much harder since it is difficult for lobbyists to campaign so many parties and hope for effective results.
For presidential campaigns, I would propose an alternative voting system. We abolish the electoral college and implement these two systems and it would fix our republic, nominate judges that represent people's interests instead of corporate and make the Democratic/Republican party campaign that much harder to appease the public instead of special interests.
The deck is still heavily stacked against him. Admittedly, it was based on the pretrial and not the current hearings which I'll have to look up eventually.
2) Yes, tortured. Having him barred from working out, forcing him to strip naked, keeping him in solitude for 23 hours a day on suicide watch despite NO reason for such behavior, causing him to lose sleep by using bright lights to force him to a confession of a link to Assange are forms of torture that don't pass the test of basic human dignity. No, he wasn't waterboarded, but there are other forms of torture that should have been checked out.
4) Yes, Ellsberg. The only other person who would know what it's like to leak documents of a classified nature and be prosecuted. So when he speaks about a similar issue and how it's important for others to be able to blow the whistle on bad behavior, I tend to err on the side of transparency.
5) No, not lazy. I just haven't followed the Manning case with everything else going on.
Nice to know you're still as disingenuous and condescending as ever.
"-lets see... a dozen Iraqi males in a combat zone armed with at least one AK 47 and an RPG. Others carrying camera bags mistaken for weapons. And you're surprised they took fire? No shit you were never in the military. A better question is who were the guys with the weapons and why were the journalists reckless enough to be part of an armed group in broad daylight?"
The concept of a fog of war is lost on you.
The heli was a mile away, the screen is less than 7' high and it's in black and white. They couldn't tell the difference between a camera bag or an RPG on a screen so small.
Soldiers kill opposing combatants. That is their job. You pussies have been cowering behind other nations for the last 200 years so you're excused for your lack of familiarity with the duties of a soldier. They had weapons, they are clearly visible and no one denies that... except perhaps you. There were no kids visible on the video, which you know. The bit about "on their way to school" is laughable. The guys in the van appeared to be evacuating wounded combatants and recovering guns. The minivan wasn't a yellow painted school bus
That's a war crime. There was no way to discern if they were terrorists, there were no weapons, and the people weren't engaging the chopper from so far away.
Right. Maybe they should have landed the helicopter and introduced themselves to the motherfucker with the AK.
If they engage in hostile activities, then you shoot. The pilot was gearing up for engagement, not the victims who were killed.
1) This coming from the same guy that said SOPA was a slam dunk, I highly doubt you're an authority on military proceedings.
2) Right... Because having him tortured and having less human rights than Gitmo detainees is working so well for our (supposed) deomcratic principles in the US.
3) No, Obama broke presidential protocols as a superior officer. And when the Pentagon states they want to indefinitely detain him, I find it highly doubtful that the trial will be fair.
4) Glad we agree that he did higher documents and faced no jail time. So why Obama has to punish so many whistleblowers is beyond me when they were the ones that unlocked the Enron scandal or found other wrongdoings.
5) I was talking about Lt Col Paul Almanza, who denied the request. He denied the pretrial request. Last I was looking up the case it was based on that information.
$M = Actual cost
$T = Actual cost * 2
$P = Actual cost + $T
$I = $M + $T + $P
Simple way for people to understand this:
The more effort and time you put into making the game inconvenient and more of a pain in the ass, the less actual money that people will spend on you as your integrity is known. Just a thought...
1) He hasn't said anything about the 19 months of imprisonment without formal charges. Drug traffickers get more warning and better trials than that.
2) Human rights activists have not had access to Bradley Manning.
3) Nothing has been said of Obama already declaring Manning guilty. That shows how much of a truly fair trial it is.
4) Even Daniel Ellsberg has said he won't get a fair trial. If Ellsberg (who leaked higher documents) is saying this, I'm more inclined to believe that instead of the rhetoric you spew.
5) The judge has an obvious bias against Manning since he works as a part of the criminal division of the Justice Department.
I have no idea what the hell you're talking about in regards to "prosecutor prosecutes... etc" but you might want to look at what a hearing officer does in a military trial. Funny how you're going around this thread as if you're a military expert and don't know the differences in positions.
It's a kangaroo court. The judge is a "lackey" of the Obama administration and has already shown that he's going to prosecute Manning to the full extent of the law.
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He was rebuffed. He tried to bring it up with command. They told him to shut up and don't rock the boat. He (allegedly) went to Wikileaks.
I don't have to make excuses for him. When I read the logs, I saw what he was trying to do. Maybe you don't agree, but the fact that Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all presidents before him combined says a lot to how the government feels about the First Amendment.
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He did it because he wanted dialogue top be created about what he saw as wrong, namely the "collateral murder" video. If he had wanted to sell these low level documents and profit, he could have. When he talked to Llamo, he said words to that effect. He is a whistleblower, not a traitor.
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He did it because he wanted dialogue top be created about what he saw as wrong, namely the "collateral murder" video. If he had wanted to sell these low level documents and profit, he could have. When he talked to Llamo, he said words to that effect. He is a whistleblower, not a traitor.
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I'll name one company in all four industries that have made money competing against piracy and link to articles proving it:
Gaming - Valve - "Piracy is a service problem"
Music - Spotify - "We're an alternative to piracy"
Movies - Vodo - "Vodo is Netflix-Meets-Kickstarter for Indie Film Fans"
Publishing - - "How publishers gave Amazon a stick to beat them with"
By the way, how's that bottled water you have near your desktop? Is it proving worth the price over the free goods you can get at a river?
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Snipers are much closer to the enemy than that chopper was. Your comparison makes no sense. There was no apparent danger to the chopper considering the guys were up ~ a mile away from their devastation. Then when you have the Army come in and see what they killed, there was NOTHING justifying how they tried not to help the children that the chopper had taken out.
What they said happened is that there were "nine insurgents" with different weapons. When you look at the edits, none had anything but the bags or small arms from earlier. Further, the Pentagon confiscated any video and blocked the video through a FOIA request. So that video that Wikileaks put out is the first that anyone actually saw of the incident in a grandiose scale. Still, that doesn't justify the Hellfire attack on the building. The army didn't clear the building and the Heli-crew seems to have merely wanted to kill people. I'd have put them up on war crimes. But it seems quite evident that the Pentagon is lightly punishing those that break these laws and heavily punishing whistleblowers (ie Manning).
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For presidential campaigns, I would propose an alternative voting system. We abolish the electoral college and implement these two systems and it would fix our republic, nominate judges that represent people's interests instead of corporate and make the Democratic/Republican party campaign that much harder to appease the public instead of special interests.
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2) Yes, tortured. Having him barred from working out, forcing him to strip naked, keeping him in solitude for 23 hours a day on suicide watch despite NO reason for such behavior, causing him to lose sleep by using bright lights to force him to a confession of a link to Assange are forms of torture that don't pass the test of basic human dignity. No, he wasn't waterboarded, but there are other forms of torture that should have been checked out.
3) Cache version.
Then, after all of this, you can't admit that the damage was limited as the US has already stated.
4) Yes, Ellsberg. The only other person who would know what it's like to leak documents of a classified nature and be prosecuted. So when he speaks about a similar issue and how it's important for others to be able to blow the whistle on bad behavior, I tend to err on the side of transparency.
5) No, not lazy. I just haven't followed the Manning case with everything else going on.
Nice to know you're still as disingenuous and condescending as ever.
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AT&T is screwed at least
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The concept of a fog of war is lost on you.
The heli was a mile away, the screen is less than 7' high and it's in black and white. They couldn't tell the difference between a camera bag or an RPG on a screen so small.
Soldiers kill opposing combatants. That is their job. You pussies have been cowering behind other nations for the last 200 years so you're excused for your lack of familiarity with the duties of a soldier. They had weapons, they are clearly visible and no one denies that... except perhaps you. There were no kids visible on the video, which you know. The bit about "on their way to school" is laughable. The guys in the van appeared to be evacuating wounded combatants and recovering guns. The minivan wasn't a yellow painted school bus
That's a war crime. There was no way to discern if they were terrorists, there were no weapons, and the people weren't engaging the chopper from so far away.
Right. Maybe they should have landed the helicopter and introduced themselves to the motherfucker with the AK.
If they engage in hostile activities, then you shoot. The pilot was gearing up for engagement, not the victims who were killed.
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2) Right... Because having him tortured and having less human rights than Gitmo detainees is working so well for our (supposed) deomcratic principles in the US.
3) No, Obama broke presidential protocols as a superior officer. And when the Pentagon states they want to indefinitely detain him, I find it highly doubtful that the trial will be fair.
4) Glad we agree that he did higher documents and faced no jail time. So why Obama has to punish so many whistleblowers is beyond me when they were the ones that unlocked the Enron scandal or found other wrongdoings.
5) I was talking about Lt Col Paul Almanza, who denied the request. He denied the pretrial request. Last I was looking up the case it was based on that information.
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($M) Money-dollars
($T) Time-dollars
($P) Pain-in-the-butt-dollars
($I) Integrity-dollars
$M = Actual cost
$T = Actual cost * 2
$P = Actual cost + $T
$I = $M + $T + $P
Simple way for people to understand this:
The more effort and time you put into making the game inconvenient and more of a pain in the ass, the less actual money that people will spend on you as your integrity is known. Just a thought...
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2) Human rights activists have not had access to Bradley Manning.
3) Nothing has been said of Obama already declaring Manning guilty. That shows how much of a truly fair trial it is.
4) Even Daniel Ellsberg has said he won't get a fair trial. If Ellsberg (who leaked higher documents) is saying this, I'm more inclined to believe that instead of the rhetoric you spew.
5) The judge has an obvious bias against Manning since he works as a part of the criminal division of the Justice Department.
I have no idea what the hell you're talking about in regards to "prosecutor prosecutes... etc" but you might want to look at what a hearing officer does in a military trial. Funny how you're going around this thread as if you're a military expert and don't know the differences in positions.
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The US lied about the damage to go after Assange. Not one single person was harmed because of a link to a Wikileaks.
That's totally reckless for anyone- much less someone serving in an intelligence unit of the US Army; to do something like this.
No, it's to open dialogue and get the US to admit that warcrimes were being covered up. What part of whistleblower do you not understand?
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I don't have to make excuses for him. When I read the logs, I saw what he was trying to do. Maybe you don't agree, but the fact that Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all presidents before him combined says a lot to how the government feels about the First Amendment.
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