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08-23-2013 #81
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08-23-2013 #82
Re: Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
You do realize that the rules of war override military rules. She saw war crimes, it is her responsibility to report them. If she did not report them she would have been just as guilty as those who committed them. I agree with what seanchai said about the Nazi soldiers just following orders, a good soldier does not just follow orders, a good soldier questions the morality of the orders.
Also she did not commit treason, she released the information to the press for the American public not to the enemy. Unless you believe the American people are the enemy? Also among the information release there was also information about how the US government lobbied other countries to continue to oppress there people. Haiti in particular, we pressured the government to vote down a minimum wage increase just so vacationing there would not become more expensive.
The US has always branded themselves as the "good guys", and we still do. Do the good guys kill children? Do they invade a country illegally? Do they drop bombs on civilians just because they fit a general profile? Do they kill first responders, firefighters, police, EMTs? Do the lie to their own people? We have left the good guy title and have moved into the bullies of the world.
Also in the video that she released people say that the Apache pilots where following the rules of engagement, forgive me if I am wrong, but last I looked that is DO NOT FIRE UNLESS FIRED UPON! Also earlier this year I read an article, not sure when I believe it was in Jan or Feb, where the US changed the definition of military aged male from what it used to be. In 2001 the age was 18, then it was moved down to 16, then 14, then 12, right now the US considers military aged male at the age of 8 years old. How could a soldier not question that?
Also form what I understand is that Chelsea Manning only wants to have hormone treatment not SRS. I may be wrong with that though.
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08-23-2013 #83
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08-23-2013 #84
Re: Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
On the subject of his gender reassignment, I heard Paris Lees (transgendered journalist) saying that as gender dysphoria is a recognised medical condition, he ought to receive hormone treatment whilst in prison, as denying healthcare would be a breach of his human rights. Whether that's a view shared by the US authorities, we'll have to wait and see ...
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08-23-2013 #85
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08-24-2013 #86
Re: Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
Trans Activists Praise Chelsea Manning, Raise Fears over Prison Conditions:
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08-24-2013 #87
Re: Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
I actually agree with Steven?
Mommy, I'm cold! *shiver*
~BB~
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08-24-2013 #88
Re: Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
PS: I still think the timing of the transition announcement is a PR ploy for sympathy. Sorry not sorry.
Visions of Corporal Klinger are dancing in my head.
~BB~
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08-24-2013 #89
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08-24-2013 #90
Re: Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman
... which is the real problem here: it forces the public, half of whom already hate Manning, to instead chalk up this only recently high-profile aspect of the case to mental illness or desperation instead of transsexualism, when in reality the aspect we should be discussing is the extent to which Manning's gender issues made him vulnerable to be used in the first place.
Why would someone who wanted to change their life so badly want to throw it away over a few diplomatic cables to which a PRIVATE had access... unless there were other manipulations or mental health issues at play? He wasn't even on hormones before the incident. Had he been, this would all be a non-issue. It reeks of opportunism and attention whoring.
But inevitably, it's the idea that the mainstream might conflate transexualism with mental illness that forces me to hope that the mainstream media will NOT acquiesce to Manning's request to be called Chelsea.
Talk to me again after he gets a legal name change.
~BB~
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