Amnesty petition to release Chelsea Manning
@JonasEggeater wrote: Info please? Read full topic
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@IMB wrote: They get your email and postal address and sell your name to 150 other nonprofits. I would guess that's a positive result for someone. Read full topic
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@BackToYouJim wrote: Until Obama sees millions of disapproving citizens in his front yard nothing will happen. Read full topic
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@Elagie wrote: Please, they are not going to release Manning. Yes, there were reasons, perhaps. But what she did was a huge crime, any way you slice it. She (while still Bradley) knew that it was a...
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@MyopicHumanist wrote: I don't think he'll care, even then. I'm not really surprised there hasn't been a response yet, and I don't honestly expect one. You could get ten million signatures and it'd...
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@PhasmaFelis wrote: Summary of comment thread so far: "Everyone knows petitions don't work, which is all the excuse I need to be smug about sitting around doing nothing." Read full topic
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@samsa wrote: Well, some folks are rightly pointing out that, well, she committed a massive crime, knowingly, and perhaps her release is therefore a little questionable. Read full topic
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@Brainspore wrote: samsa: Well, some folks are rightly pointing out that, well, she committed a massive crime, knowingly, and perhaps her release is therefore a little questionable. Will someone...
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@IMB wrote: I think actual petitions work. Internet petitions, at least up until now, I have seen no success, but maybe you know of some. Read full topic
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@Boundegar wrote: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=white+house+death+star+petition Read full topic
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@JonasEggeater wrote: Haha. To both the response and your link. Read full topic
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@hungryjoe wrote: There's always a response like this. If you really want the petition to work, you also need to like it on Facebook, and forward it to everyone in your address book with a threat of...
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@PhasmaFelis wrote: Signing the petition may well be futile, but it's no more futile than sitting around jeering at people who sign petitions, and has the added benefit of not making you a dick....
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@Shane_Simmons wrote: I doubt we'd even find out if there were any victims, or ever will be. The thing is, though, whistleblowers always get shit on. And the thing is, Manning is guilty of leaking...
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@chenille wrote: Shane_Simmons: ...let's not forget that Bradley Manning (for he was Bradley back then) took the Oath of Enlistment and was therefore sworn to protect the country and Constitution. If...
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@FFabian wrote: Elagie: Yes, the terms of confinement were harsh and arguably should garner some sort of benefit It was torture. A practice/human rights violation abhorred by any (apart from the US)...
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@NathanHornby wrote: Didn't the last time one of these reach the right number on an important topic, Obama essentially said, 'Sorry, but we won't be commenting on this'? Up until that point there was...
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@NathanHornby wrote: I'd be happy OK with that assuming they subjected everyone involved in Manning's detainment to international law standards - and tried them as war criminals. Fair's fair. Read...
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@Elagie wrote: I'm not certain if those standards apply to soldiers within their own country's military. (Not being snarky, I really think they kind of own you.) Read full topic
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@FFabian wrote: They're called human rights because they apply to ALL humans. Read full topic
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@NathanHornby wrote: It would be kind of bonkers if the Convention Of Human Rights and the UN's Convention Against Torture applied to your treating of your enemies, but not your peers. Soldiers...
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@AllenGarvin wrote: Not signing petitions makes you dick? Well, I'm doomed. There are countless petitions I've never signed. Read full topic
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@PhasmaFelis wrote: Jesus Christ, man, at least read past my first sentence before trying to snark at me. I only wrote two of 'em, it's not hard. Read full topic
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@eflask wrote: manning isn;t getting any kind of release. john kiriakou is still in prison despite support from a couple of us senators for a transfer to halfway house because, the warden says, he had...
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