Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, most serious of 21 charges

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18 points·ceejayoz··4 comments

The Guardian is reporting he's been found guilty on five counts of violating the espionage act.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/bradley-manning...

This sets an awesome legal precedent since it basically upholds journalism and the freedom of the press. However, it's a step in the same direction for whistleblower policies. I wish we could get some leadership that would recognize the value of having people who can expose injustices so they can be corrected.

I read a great article yesterday that talked about the difference between Wikileaks and the NY Times. Why should they be treated differently? They're both just publishing information for people to consume.

We should be linking to the video he sacrificed his life for, where they are mowing down civilians and journalists in the streets.

We're busy shopping at the mall, he's going to be rotting in a freezing tiny cell for 50+ years for exposing the crimes of our government.

In all seriousness, do we get the edited version where it looks like they just did it for funzies or the unedited version where it looks like a horrible mistake on the part of the gunner of the Apache?

The second version is actually worse. It shows that despite all the safeguards in place specifically to try and prevent these kinds of things from happening, because it's war, they still happen.

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