Bradley Manning Exposed War Crimes & Helped End The Iraq War

"If Bradley Manning had committed war crimes, not exposed them, he would be a free man today." - Marjorie Cohn

Saturday, December 17, 2011 - San Diego, CA - Activists marched and held a rally in support of the release of "Wikileaker" Bradley Manning on his 24th birthday.

Professor of Law Marjorie Cohn addressed the crowd at Civic Center Plaza. She explained the charges and possible life sentence Bradley faces, the impartiality of the judge and limiting of witnesses for the defense. She also discusses the treatment & torture of Bradley Manning in solitary confinement, U.S. war crimes exposed by the leaks, and Obama's public pronouncement of guilt.

"By exposing some of the worst atrocities committed by the U.S. Forces in Iraq, the documents prevented the Iraqi Government from agreeing to give our soldiers immunity, which is what Obama wanted, to continue the war rather than end the war, and therefore... If Bradley Manning is guilty of what he is accused of, he is also guilty of helping to end the Iraq War." - Marjorie Cohn

Marjorie Cohn is a professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, and immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild. She lectures worldwide on international human rights and U.S. foreign policy.

http://www.marjoriecohn.com

Bradley Manning Support Network
http://www.bradleymanning.org

Occupy San Diego - Civic Center "Freedom Plaza" 3rd & B
http://www.occupysandiego.org

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[HectorVII]

so its legal to kill innocent civilians in the thousands, but its illegal for the civilians of the country who are perpetrating these murders to know about it. bullshit

[Texan2525]

High treason+manning = death

[TylerDurden424]

ARABS WILL BE FREE!!!!!

THEY WILL BE LIBERATED!!!!

EVEN IF IT MEANS AMERICA MUST KILL EVERY LAST MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD IN THOSE FILTHY LANDS TO DO IT!!!!!

[jhunted7667]

@338sniper1 so if the army started shooting unarmed citizens here , they should be able to keep that secret too ?? no Hitlerian actions no matter where they are done should be held up to the light

[eethry]

First we're they're for 9/11, and then democracy for them, but democracy for them while shooting all your people up. It doesn't make any sense at all.

People ask why they hate us? It's war what are you suppose to do they say. As if they had to feel the brutality war.

[338sniper1]

Treason is treason. He is a trader.

[PkmnTrainerJason001]

@SuperJazz4444 I don't really care about the people dying, whether they had rpg's or phones doesn't really matter. I don't like the idea of a government who can accidentally kill people then not tell the people it governs that they did. Then when someone leaks the information that it did happen, they get a life-time sentence in jail, maybe even solitary confinement, treating m=him like he is the one who murdered the people.

[cwhatch1]

@devourerofbabies Multe tasking like a boss

[SuperJazz4444]

@PkmnTrainerJason001 Question for you: Why aren't you more concerned about the 100s of thousands of innocent Iraqis that have been killed/maimed due to our war there and have been reported on many many times, and staring you in the face? Is it because it doesn't have the same allure as possibly catching the govt in a 'gotcha' moment?

[SuperJazz4444]

@PkmnTrainerJason001 You may want to realize the ugliness of war and that it is the systematic killing of others. War always kills innocents. Again, it is not right to go to war stupidly. A "democracy" does not mean the govt is an open-book. That is one opinion. The media are responsible for reporting on the govt. Keep in mind that the pilots thought these people had RPGs. War is kill or be killed. They had no idea they weren't RPGs.