Posted on Nov 9, 2015
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https://www.yahoo.com/politics/chelsea-manning-feels-like-a [login to see] 078454.html
Posted 9 y ago
Responses: 15
A few thoughts:
- The UCMJ is administered for the following reasons: punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, and good order/discipline.
- Bradley/Chelsea Manning received due process and was convicted of violations of the Espionage Act.
- PVT Manning's motives for his/her actions may be matters of extenuation and mitigation but are not a matter of guilt or innocence of the charges and therefore should not be the grounds for any appeal that he/she may initiate.
- If PVT Manning does not like the treatment that he/she is receiving while in prison then he/she should not have committed the crime in the first place.
- Therefore I recommend that PVT Manning sit down, shut up, and do his/her time. Any negative feelings that he/she has about his/her treatment while in prison are exactly that. His/her feelings. Grow up.
- The UCMJ is administered for the following reasons: punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, and good order/discipline.
- Bradley/Chelsea Manning received due process and was convicted of violations of the Espionage Act.
- PVT Manning's motives for his/her actions may be matters of extenuation and mitigation but are not a matter of guilt or innocence of the charges and therefore should not be the grounds for any appeal that he/she may initiate.
- If PVT Manning does not like the treatment that he/she is receiving while in prison then he/she should not have committed the crime in the first place.
- Therefore I recommend that PVT Manning sit down, shut up, and do his/her time. Any negative feelings that he/she has about his/her treatment while in prison are exactly that. His/her feelings. Grow up.
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COL Jason Smallfield, PMP, CFM, CM, Here! Here!, sir, Here! Here! I concur completely.
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MCPO Roger Collins
I really like your style, Col. Kind of like the military communications I was used to years ago, where my specialty was telecommunications/electronics. Just the facts, with a bit of opinion. Keep up the good input. BTW, I particularly like the Manning name for a transgendered whatever.
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Cpl Jeff N.
COL Jason Smallfield, PMP, CFM, CM . Agreed except he is a he, not a he/she. You are succumbing to the political correct language of the day. He is a man, always will be a man, even if at some point he is allowed to self mutilate.
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Oh boo, hoo. I am so sad.
The prison is so mean to me for enforcing rules and confiscating contraband.
I will expose their inhumanities to the world on the internet!
Yes... that is the ticket.
Because being convicted of illegally copying and distributing classified materials is not the issue at all.
What a schmuck.
The prison is so mean to me for enforcing rules and confiscating contraband.
I will expose their inhumanities to the world on the internet!
Yes... that is the ticket.
Because being convicted of illegally copying and distributing classified materials is not the issue at all.
What a schmuck.
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2LT Earl Dean To this I can only say, "quit your cryin'. You did the crime, and now you are going to do the time !!" What did he think was going to happen, that he was going to a salon and spa for 35 years?
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