The leaked video.....Actual footage of the American Apache Helicopter Shooting the civilians
Private Bradley Manning
On July 27, the Bradley Manning Support Network (www.bradleymanning.org) will begin accepting online donations for the legal defense of Private First Class Bradley Manning. The Network, a grassroots initiative formed to defend and support accused whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning, has partnered with Courage to Resist, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting military objectors.
Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, stands accused of disclosing a classified video depicting American troops shooting civilians from an Apache helicopter in 2007. Eleven adults are killed in the video, including two Reuters employees, and two children critically injured. The video, available at www.collateralmurder.com, was published by WikiLeaks on April 5, 2010. No charges have been filed against the soldiers in the video.Bradley Manning faces up to 52 years in prison if convicted of the charges against him.
While news sources have speculated about Manning’s involvement in a new leak of over 90,000 secret documents (collectively known as the Afghanistan “war logs”) made public by WikiLeaks on Sunday, no charges regarding this recent breach have been filed. As of this writing, Manning has not yet chosen a civilian attorney to defend him in the expected trial. While several news sources had previously indicated that funding for Manning’s legal counsel was already arranged, the Bradley Manning Support Network states that there is an immediate need for donations to his legal defense.
Legal defense in this case will be particularly expensive because any legal team will most likely need a background in military law and the flexibility to travel overseas for the trial as well as secret security clearance.
“We have heard from the family and the military lawyers assigned to Bradley that the cost of his defense will be significant,” said Mike Gogulski, an online activist and founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network. “We are also concerned that Bradley may choose his legal counsel based on his available funds. If he fears his family will absorb the cost of the trial, he might choose a less experienced, less expensive attorney. We’re very concerned about the ramifications of such a decision.”
The Bradley Manning Support Network passed a resolution on July 12, 2010 to begin fundraising for Manning’s legal defense. At this time, the Network estimates between $50,000 and $200,000 in legal fees and expenses will be needed to mount a vigorous defense on behalf of Manning. They have also indicated that WikiLeaks, who published and promoted the Collateral Murder video, has promised a significant donation to Manning’s defense.
“If Manning is the source of the video, then he did what he had to do to expose a possible war crime. So regardless, he’s wrongly imprisoned and we want to do everything possible to support him,” said Jeff Paterson, Project Director of Courage to Resist. “I know from past experience working with military objectors that public support and the right civilian defense team can be the difference between an administrative separation and years in the stockade.”
PIC...leave me a note where you will be...see you later.
ReplyDeleteThey you to come forward with information and whan you do they get caught with their panties in a twisted bunch and throw you to the wolves and that's why people don't come forward to tell what they know.
Hi cutie...don't have any cookies, but I got funnel cakes/strawberries.
ReplyDeleteHow's everyone and is Nana up to her tricks...Brain will give you a great jiggly dance tonight.
The jiggly dance was quite good tonight. He added a little butt wiggle.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're making lots of funnel cakes. I happen to like them.
ReplyDeleteHi sweetie
ReplyDeleteI meant to make Brian some muffins today but I ran out of time .very busy day and so hot, hard to function. Moving in slo-mo.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wants them...I had 4 extra people for breakfast , I'm going to start charging them.
ReplyDeleteBrian not only sound like a prince he's a darling.
ReplyDeleteI bet you know Ansel Adams the photographer is???
ReplyDeleteMaybe they would sell ar your bake sales.
ReplyDeleteWe had thunderstorms today and they say the weather will be hot and sticky.
ReplyDeleteI love that people are showing up at breakfast to eat your cooking...HA!That's funny.You must be some fine cook. Gil must be a very patient easy-going guy to come to a table full of relatives that don't live with you first thing in the morning.
ReplyDeleteBrian would kick them all out
Thankyou...I do have a warmer. They are good if I do say so myself....my folks are spoiled rotten.
ReplyDeleteYes, I know Ansel Adams. Why do you ask??
ReplyDeleteGil put Chris to work and Sis and aunt Mae got their's and went home, Chris wife had to go to work ...so that just left Dad, me and my babies.
ReplyDeleteI have a great post in drafts about him and you know what to do with it...Huh..
ReplyDeleteWhen I get a really good post for FTBB, I always want you to edit and post it for me.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting post.
ReplyDeleteThe guy got them at a garage sale and they may sell up $200 million.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't I ever find things like that at a garage sale??
ReplyDeleteWhy don't I ever find things like that at a garage sale??
ReplyDeleteYou like garage sales ?? I do too, Nan/I say we will find something of valued...we watch the antique shows and go to estate sales. It's a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteJ/P and twins came home tonight. They had a fabulous time. Loved the condo, loved the area and the boys loved the pool, the water slides,the mini-golf and the tube ride.They want to go back as soon as possible. Barrie is a nice little town right on the lake.They all came back in a great mood and went straight up to the lake.
ReplyDeleteI love estate sales. You can find great antiques, art, antique jewellry. It is so fun.
ReplyDeleteI like stopping at a garage sale if it looks interesting. You never know what people will pull out of their attics.
That is so good to hear, just what the twins needed, something they can njoy as a family...I bet Jake wasn't overtired.
ReplyDeleteA lady asked me once why we went to garage/estate sales.
ReplyDeleteI told her it was more fun than telling her hubby to stay out our face , because he had mold on his dick....oh that woman made me so mad.
I'm sending you mail.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing that Peter owns his own little company and can make his own hours and take holidays whenever he wants.
ReplyDeleteThe guy is very laid back and has very little ambition.He went to university but made ittle use of his education. However he makes J happy and he is a fun dad.
J said the boys especially Jakey were very tired when they got home from Bio's. I don't know why he tires Jakey out so.He should know better.
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ReplyDeleteResend my mail plase...the mail was just blank .
ReplyDeleteHave you heard the old saying, he just don't care.
ReplyDeleteMoney is not everything, P supports his family and have time to do things with them and he makes J happy ...sweetie that's all that matter.
Did you get your mail???
Don't forget Obama is on the View tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI got my mail and I agree with you. I sent you an answer, but I think the joke I sent you did not go through.No matter, just look on FTBB. I put it on the blog.
ReplyDeleteI intend to watch BamBam. I think Whoopie will drool over him.
ReplyDeleteI like the hot picture...that's what my mail said hot, it's really hot.
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ReplyDeleteSweetie , do you think Dave and Larry King brothers they look alike ??? I wonder do dave fart also.
Whoopi's ugly ass will drool over anything...
ReplyDeleteAll old men fart. Bless em.
ReplyDeleteI don't have much use for Dave any more. He should never have got married if he never planned to be faithful..
ReplyDeleteThey think he has slept with 20 or 30 women in the last few years.And he had the audacity to poke fun at Tiger.
ReplyDeleteAt least Tiger got women from different places and wasn't banging his staff. When the news went off I had to change the station and wonder was they kin.
ReplyDeletehahaha..little men can fart too, just ask my little man , that boy caught his butt and haul ass to his daddy and looked back to see if the fart was there .
ReplyDeleteThat must have been so funny to see. I think I would have laughed till I peed my knickers. Poor Gilly, he thought it was chasing him.
ReplyDeleteI love those fat pictures on SH's and left a note on it.
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I have a sad post on SH's about Lindsay, well I think it's sad, I could kick her parents sorry asses.
ReplyDeleteI am an older woman with small children and I will be there for my babies, if they fall, I will pick them up, if they are wrong, I wouldn't turn my back, I just see how I could help.
Cutie...the post on Lilo is in drafts.
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The young soldier on this post is going to be put away for fifty years for treason if they can swing it. They want to discourage others from leaking information to the public.
ReplyDeleteI think the public should be informed of the truth instead of the military propaganda they are fed in the media.
The guys in the helicopter slaughtered eleven adults, men and women and injured children. They were innocent people and they included two reporters for Reuters.
They were not punished at all.
My first note on the post was about the young soldier..
ReplyDeleteJust like BP and the coast gaurd didn't tell the truth about how bad the spill and look where we are now... like you I rather know the truth so I will know how to plan my next move.
Friendly fire my ass, we are killing each other and our government is coving it up.
The young man did the right thing and he may go to prison but he will able to rest at night. I see you put the address for donations , that's a good thing, a lot of people are like you/I.
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My young grandaughter S got herself preggie and she is under
ReplyDelete20,I think. Brian is very displeased about it and does not want to go the party her mom is giving. We have never been very close to S and she has never paid much attention to us. We have never met or even heard of the father.
They don't intend to get married and now I hear this guy has done this before. He has a son by another young girl. He is in his thirties.He still lives with his parents.
We think S wants us at the party so we will give money or expensive gifts.
Even though that is most likely true, I feel that the baby is innocent and I would like to send some very nice gifts and some money but I don't know how Brian will feel. I won't go to the party.
ReplyDeleteI heard today that it was a little boy.
I'm on Brian's side, count the horses teeth before you buy the horse.
ReplyDeleteIf you go you will not be comfortable and Brian will get upset and at this time in his life...that he don't need.
I wouldn't give her money, if anything I would give her a set of sheets or towels...but not both.
A lot of people want you to feel guilty and just give...give...give. If I give a person something it comes from the heart and I don't look for a payback.
Not getting married...well just send a baby bundle , diapers/bottles...etc...just for the baby.
ReplyDeleteIf I was you I would just follow Brians lead.
Thankyou very much for the good advice. I needed that. I wanted your input.
ReplyDeleteI don't expect you to solve all my problems but any ideas are sure welcome. You have good instincts.
ReplyDeleteI should do an update on Ian. There have been a lot of developments in his life.
Do you think Brian and I are related in some way...we have the same feeling about things sometime.
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JEANNIE...this is from the heart, i don't know how I would have got through the last couple of years without you and sis, just having someone to listen means a lot...THANKYOU
ReplyDeleteYou and Brian do seem to think along the same lines.More of a practical thinker than I am.
ReplyDeleteYou both deal with the situation at hand while I get mad at the whole universe.
I think you should do an update on Ian , who knows who is visiting us, look what happen last time.
ReplyDeleteI looked up J's and I cried, maybe you can do one on his also in a way no one know who you are talking about.
It may just be someone out there listening.
Brian and I reminded each other tonight about the happy times that we have also had.Life is such a patchwork quilt.A good patch, then a few bad ones and then a brilliant patch.We must be a hardy bunch of people because we keep plodding on and we do have a bunch of laughs.
ReplyDeleteWE just keep each other balanced.
ReplyDeleteDo you miss my rants???
There is a very funny movie just come out with Steve Carell. I don't remember the name but his co-star is on Craig. I will look it up and get the trailer for SH.
ReplyDeleteYou are a hardy bunch of people. That's what true love will do for you.
ReplyDeleteI am going to take all my good patches and make a life quilt and the bad patches I will put in a box until I figure out how to make them good patches too.
The one thing I intended to ask you about was the pool. Did you put it together and fill it?? was it warm enough to swim today??
ReplyDeleteDid Gilly like it?? Did you go in??
ReplyDeleteI'm watching Craig.
ReplyDeleteI have a note from dad to answer. I hope he doesn't think my little picture jokes are too juvenile.
ReplyDeleteDo you want the post put up tonight??
Will you post Ansel Adams for me,it has a couple og good pictures, one is in B/W .
ReplyDeleteYes please...Dad love your posts and now he knows how to find one that has nothing on it.
ReplyDeleteHe says he still have some questions to answer ...he loves it..it will leave you one and come back the next day.
Sure I will. Sounds interesting . I have an astronomy post to write.I like throwing a scare into the human race now and then to wake them up to reality. Most of them live in an artificial life and don't have a clue about what is really going on, ice caps meltng, species disappearing, the earth slipping off it's axis. They are not even aware that there is a huge fucking Asteroid not too far away that could blow us all away.
ReplyDeleteThe pool is up and time the guys got it together it started raining reall hard, and my babies had a ball this evening.
ReplyDeleteIt's only 2 feet tall but I'm out there whit my little man.
On that merry note I will leave you to have horrible nightmares about the end of the world. It's really not as bad as all that. The heat is frying my brain. I should wear an ice pack on my head 24/7 to keep my brain functioning normally and cheerfully.
ReplyDeleteI remember the plastic post you did.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how they think an ocean is forming in the middle of Africa, If they follow us they will learn something...
I know I have since meeting you and very thankful and humble.
And so I sure wish I could eat one of you funnel cakes before I go to bed. I'll be at the table tomorrow. I'll be the little lady at the other end who is stuffing funnel cakes in her pockets and purse and sneaking out.
ReplyDeleteHave a good night.I have a feeling the next few days are going to be very nice.We are having a party for P's birthday at the lake and it will be a lot of fun.I intend to push him in, clothed or not.
see you tomorrow Sweetie...take care...luv.PIC
Sweetie ...have a great night and we may not save the world...but we will put a dent int what people know.
ReplyDeleteGoodnight cutie and pleasent dreams and I will ckeck you later.
GOODNITE...HUGS & KISSES...PIC
Kiss the Rock....nite
PS : Now that's a party you will enjoy ...have fun...PIC
ReplyDeletePS: So glad you got the pool up. I can just see you all lounging in the cool water and Gilly splashing up a storm. It will be a lot of fun...Night friend...hugs
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