MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Ever since Chelsea Manning was revealed as the whistleblower of one of the most important journalistic archives in history, her heroism was manifest. She was the classic leaker of conscience: someone who went at the age of 20 to fight in the Iraq War believing it was noble, only to discover the dark reality not only of that war but of the U.S. government’s role in the world generally: war crimes, indiscriminate slaughter, complicity with high-level official corruption, and systematic deceit of the public.
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There are occasionally ethical leakers, IMO, and there a very many cynical leakers who are playing politics and there are the rare heroic whistleblowers who risk much for the right reason. Chelsea Manning is a hero who has paid a horrific price for her heroic action. She is out of prison today but when in the brig doing “bad time” the clock stops ticking on the term of a soldier’s commitment. Manning is still in the army. They will very likely test her courage more before she is released. I wish her a happy and fulfilling life going forward and I thank her with a phrase I have never spoken to, or about, a soldier before. Thank you Chelsea, for your service.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 05/17/2017 - 12:23pm