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"Suicide Watch" imposed by

SleepinJeezus — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:26:24 +0000

"Suicide Watch" imposed by the Brig Commander as punishment for failing to follow orders from his Marine guards?

What's next? Perhaps a "watched suicide" imposed by the brig commander for failing to cooperate?

There's a reason we decided long ago that it is necessary for all in authority to follow the Rule of Law. The longer this "security trumps the Constitution" bullshit is allowed to continue, the more apparent it becomes that we were right in the first place in declaring that human rights are to remain inviolate under any circumstances.

I thought the Cheney/Bush abuses were aberrations that would most certainly be corrected by a civil society. How distressing it is to see the ways that Obama has instead legitimized them and, in fact, has doubled-down on this abuse of authority. Shameful.

Also, it should be noted

kgb999 — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:24:03 +0000

In reply to Wikileaks: U.S. finds no link between Manning and Assange; Manning suicide watch ordered as punishment.

Also, it should be noted again that they are talking about "tens of thousands" of documents. Not hundreds of thousands of documents.

In the evidence disclosed to the public, charges actually filed and now confirmed through leaks - all of it centers around a document count significantly less than the number in either the War Diaraies or the recent State Department leaks ... let alone both. To date, the only thing we can honestly say of Manning is that he appears to have been the source of the "Collateral Murder" video. There is no other Wikileaks release where the data records materially match the descriptions (as publicly disclosed) of data Manning is charged with acquiring and passing on.