Greg Cohn's (Other) Blog

Photo
iambradleymanning: Daniel Ellsberg: I was the Bradley Manning of my day. In 1971 I too faced life (115 years) in prison for exposing classified government lies and crimes.  President Obama says “the Ellsberg material was classified on a different basis.”  True. The Pentagon Papers were not Secret like the Wikileaks revelations, they were all marked Top Secret—Sensitive. Ultimately all charges in my case were dropped because of criminal governmental misconduct toward me during my proceedings.  Exactly the same outcome should occur now, in light of the criminal conditions of Manning’s confinement for the last six months. It’s interesting that the digital generation is having the same debate (or perhaps not having enough of it, but certainly suffering through the same philosophical dialectics) as our parents’ generation.   Via DON'T GO OUTSIDE Zoom

iambradleymanning:

Daniel Ellsberg:

I was the Bradley Manning of my day. In 1971 I too faced life (115 years) in prison for exposing classified government lies and crimes.  President Obama says “the Ellsberg material was classified on a different basis.”  True. The Pentagon Papers were not Secret like the Wikileaks revelations, they were all marked Top Secret—Sensitive.


Ultimately all charges in my case were dropped because of criminal governmental misconduct toward me during my proceedings.  Exactly the same outcome should occur now, in light of the criminal conditions of Manning’s confinement for the last six months.

It’s interesting that the digital generation is having the same debate (or perhaps not having enough of it, but certainly suffering through the same philosophical dialectics) as our parents’ generation.  


  1. thelibertarianclarion reblogged this from iambradleymanning
  2. missabbasunabashed reblogged this from iambradleymanning and added:
    / http://www.ellsberg.net/
  3. faith-lane reblogged this from neverminding
  4. treesspeakinlatin reblogged this from eva-unitxvx
  5. eva-unitxvx reblogged this from dallianceofapostasy
  6. ldp reblogged this from dallianceofapostasy and added:
    watched his documentary in my free speech class. one of the best things i’ve ever done.
  7. dallianceofapostasy reblogged this from laprincesseperdue
  8. laprincesseperdue reblogged this from iambradleymanning
  9. dizzypam reblogged this from iambradleymanning
  10. lemonsandmushrooms reblogged this from iambradleymanning
  11. imtakingtwo reblogged this from iambradleymanning
  12. jafafahots reblogged this from mangiaratti
  13. mangiaratti reblogged this from iambradleymanning and added:
    bit off-topic but I found this very powerful…
  14. malomematome reblogged this from ghettomanifesto
  15. amplifieddamage reblogged this from iambradleymanning
  16. nealcrosby reblogged this from wilwheaton
  17. voicesinthevoid reblogged this from londonbones
  18. londonbones reblogged this from nourishedmisanthropy
  19. nourishedmisanthropy reblogged this from iambradleymanning
  20. This was featured in #News
  21. This was featured in #Politics
  22. iambradleymanning posted this
To Tumblr, Love PixelUnion

We're updating Fluid!

Soon, we'll be updating the look and feel of this theme. Read about the changes here. You can easily turn off this notification in the theme customization panel.

Close