Category: Shitbags

Since we have two shit bags on trial today, I thought I’d combine the news. First on Hasan. He opened his trial with this statement, according to NBC;

“The evidence will clearly show that I am the shooter,” Hasan, an American-born Muslim accused of killing 13 soldiers and wounding 32 others on Nov. 5, 2009, told jurors in a less than two-minute-long opening statement, according to The Associated Press.

However, he added: “Witnesses will testify that war is an ugly thing. Death, destruction and devastation are felt from both sides, from friend and foe. Evidence from this trial will only show one side. I was on the wrong side, but I switched sides,” reported Reuters.

Well, this shouldn’t take long.

On Breanna Manning, ABC is saying that they heard a rumor that Colonel Denise Lind, the judge has combined some of the charges against him and reduced his maximum possible sentence to 90 years;

A military judge has reduced Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s maximum possible sentence in the WikiLeaks case to 90 years in prison.
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Manning had faced up to 136 years in prison after he was convicted of charges related to his disclosure of classified information to the anti-secrecy website. But the judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, found during his sentencing hearing Tuesday that a number of the charges refer to the same actions and therefore were duplicative for sentencing purposes.

But that rumor comes from those doinks at the Bradley Manning Defense network, so I’m not sure how reliable it is.

Meanwhile the Huffington Post reports that 1500 morons have signed a petition volunteering to serve out Breanna’s sentence for her.

So many have signed the petition at this point, Zeese noted, that if each took an equal part of Manning’s potential maximum sentence they would serve less than a month.

“There’s a lot of safety in numbers,” he said. “We obviously recognize that the military is unlikely to let us serve his sentence, but the people who are signing up are really committed, so it’s up to them whether this is more a symbol than a reality. From our perspective we are really offering to do this.”

I love the thought of 1500 morons being off the street for few weeks, but I doubt any of them could last a day or two, so the Army ought to go and round up the volunteers and let them collectively serve five years or so of Manning’s sentence just for the entertainment value. It could be like a reality show or something. 1500 of them would fill up a couple of seasons with chuckles and belly laughs while the hippies deal with the consequences of their symbolism.

Thanks to Preston and Ex-PH2 for the links.

According to CNN, Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy (even though the prosecution proved it to me) but he was found guilty of most of the other charges;

A military court has found Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, not guilty of aiding the enemy — a charge that would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison. He was found guilty of most of the remaining charges against him, with the judge accepting some of the guilty pleas he made previously to lesser charges.

But I want to hear a number.

509th Bob sends a link to Politico which reports;

If convicted on all charges apart from aiding the enemy, Manning faced a potential sentence of up to 154 years.

I guess, at this point, that’s too much to ask for.

You’ve probably read elsewhere about the several instances of vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial and the Smithsonian castle. Well, it seems that the vandal went one instance too far, according to DC’s local NBC affiliate;

Jiamei Tian, 58, was arrested Monday afternoon after allegedly covering the National Cathedral’s organ inside the historic Bethlehem Chapel, as well as the Children’s Chapel on the main level, with green paint. That evening, the Cathedral reopened to the public, but the Children’s Chapel remained closed as crews repaired the damage.

The cathedral is one of four Washington landmarks vandalized with green paint in recent days, NBCWashington has learned. Just three days after paint was found splattered at the Lincoln Memorial, a similar substance was discovered Monday on a statue memorializing Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Luther Place Memorial Church at Thomas Circle.

Video at the link.

Chief Tango sends us a link to the news that Army Col. Denise Lind, the judge in the Breanna Manning hissy fit trial, has given her promised 24-hour notice that she has reached a decision in the case;

The judge in the court martial of Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, accused of spilling secrets to Wikileaks, said the verdict will be read on Tuesday.

From CBS News;

Manning has already pleaded guilty to reduced versions of 10 of the 22 charges he faces, which could land him in prison for up to 20 years. [Judge] Lind previously refused to dismiss the accusation that Manning had aided the enemy, saying prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence to justify the charge.

Now if we can just get Hasan in a court room….

A number of Hollywood sh1tbags and political whores have called for a boycott of Florida for their “Stand Your Ground” laws in regards to self defense in the wake of the Zimmerman acquittal. Jesse Jackson just called for a boycott of Florida.

“We can boycott Florida, cut conventions in Florida, for its ‘stand your ground’ laws,” said Jackson, speaking on a panel at the National Urban League’s annual conference in Philadelphia. “If we can boycott South Africa and bring it down, we should boycott Florida and bring it down.”

I want to know why they’re targeting just Florida because 30 other states have those laws, too. That’s nearly half of the country, and the list of states includes Jackson’s own Illinois. Atlantic lists the states;

Alabama, Alaska, California,Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts (though the term is used very loosely there), Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming

In addition, Alaska’s SYG law takes effect in September. President Obama even sponsored a SYG bill when he was in the Illinois legislature, despite the fact that he opposes it now when it’s politically expedient to do so.

So look, why don’t you anti-SYG idiots boycott the rest of us, too? We need a break from your presence in our states, too. By the way, that’s half of the country you should be boycotting not just Florida. Put up or shut up.

The Associated Press reports that the defense has rested in the Breanna Manning spy trial and now the judge will deliberate the outcome in her mind, since Breanna chose to not have a jury;

Army Col. Denise Lind began deliberating Friday after nearly two months of conflicting evidence and arguments about the 25-year-old intelligence analyst. A military judge, not a jury, is hearing the case at Manning’s request.

Lind said she will give a day’s public notice before reconvening the court-martial to announce her findings. The most serious charge is aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence in prison.

Meanwhile, the New York Times frets over the prosecutor’s closing argument that Manning is guilty of “aiding the enemy”.

That charge has never been brought in a leak case, and the theory behind it could establish a precedent with implications for investigative journalism in the Internet era. But Major Fein said it was justified in Private Manning’s case. Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence.

“Pfc. Manning was not a humanist; he was a hacker,” Major Fein said, adding: “He was not a whistle-blower. He was a traitor, a traitor who understood the value of compromised information in the hands of the enemy and took deliberate steps to ensure that they, along with the world, received it.”

So, the Times is worried that, if Manning is found guilty, it will have a chilling effect on the people that the New York Times depends upon to excoriate political entities the Times doesn’t like – disloyal traitors. As well they should be.

As with Eddie Snowden, my dislike of Manning stems from the fact that he took an oath and broke the oath, it doesn’t matter what the information was that either of them released to the public, it’s that we can’t have a precedence set that low level intelligence operatives get to declassify and release information to whomever and where ever they see fit. Immature little princesses don’t get to decide what information gets released to our enemies.

If Manning and Snowden get away with their treachery, it devalues the oaths, and if we can’t take each other at our words, what is left of society?