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At one point, Chelsea Manning was the core of a progressive movement, with aims for positive change and progress. Now, even as an activist myself, it's hard to see her as anything other than a politically driven rogue who's clearly lost their bearings of right and wrong in relation to their original activism.

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Really? What exactly changed? Besides the left being more and more a substitute for GOP-style policies...

Banning entry for a whistle blowing crime when the country where the crime happened wrote off the sentence is more important to me than her movement between progressive hero to outsider.

Calling out her crimes and placing them on the same level of rape, murder speaks to a disinformation campaign that gets unleashed but those in power.

I have no clue what her message is but why is it _so dangerous to those in power that they would try to shut her down?

Despite my comment below critical of Manning's contemporary politics, I agree there is no reason they should be barred from entry to Canada.

From Canada's perspective, it pisses off our auperpower neighbor.

Doing that doesn't go well for canada

If that superpower didn't want Manning in Canada presumably they would have left them in prison.

Commutation is not a pardon. Canada lines up US charges with Canadian ones, we like the US, regard disclosing classified info as a serious crime that bars one from entry.

It’s not a disinformation campaign it’s the law, you and I may not like it but it’s been this way for a long time. They aren’t singling out Manning.

>Calling out her crimes and placing them on the same level of rape, murder speaks to a disinformation campaign that gets unleashed but those in power.

What makes you think she was compared to murderers and rapists? Comments elsewhere in this thread says that people with DWIs get stopped at the border as well.

Manning is not an outlier. The ACLU, and other organizations ostensibly committed to human freedom, have largely gone the same way.

How so?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414920

There are numerous articles that discuss this article in turn. The short version: Many current members of the ACLU are advocating to take up progressively-aligned cases specifically instead of civil liberties causes generally.

It's pretty iconic of the modern far-left movement. They really do earn the term "regressive".

Yup, dig up their pandemic preparedness docs from back before they became pro-life rather than pro-choice.

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