{"id":21637,"date":"2010-12-26T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T14:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21637"},"modified":"2010-12-26T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T14:07:40","slug":"brad-manning-these-blankets-are-scratchy-like-torture-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21637","title":{"rendered":"Brad Manning: These blankets are scratchy like torture or something"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like I wrote several months ago<\/a>, the organization which calls itself “Courage to Resist” is raising money for Bradley Manning, the former PFC who released several hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks. From the New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Bradley Manning T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers \u2014 even whistles \u2014 are for sale.<\/p>\n

Jeff Paterson, the project director of the organization, which has supported dozens of service members who have refused deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan, said the group began to raise money for Private Manning\u2019s legal defense after he was arrested in May.<\/p>\n

WikiLeaks was not supporting the 23-year-old private first class \u201cwho gave them all this information,\u201d said Mr. Paterson, 42, a lanky former Marine, who was himself jailed for refusing to board a plane bound for Saudi Arabia after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, a guy who refused to deploy to Kuwait for the Gulf War would belong to an organization called Courage to Resist, wouldn’t he?<\/p>\n

How about this doofus;<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has supporters all over the world,\u201d said Adam Seibert-Szyper, 39, a staff member who deserted the Marine Corps in 1996.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1996? Really? What was the Marine Corps doing in 1996 that would cause this courageous soul to desert? Toys for Tots?<\/p>\n

BBC gets right to the torture<\/a> aspect of Manning’s imprisonment;<\/p>\n

[Manning] complained to Mr House last week that the blankets he is given are so heavy and uncomfortable they feel like carpet squares.<\/p>\n

“He said he would frequently wake up in the morning with carpet burn, a problem exacerbated by the fact that he is required to sleep in his boxers,” the journalist said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ay, Dios mio – pobrecito…it’s just like Guantanamo. I sleepin my boxers, so am I torturing myself?<\/p>\n

Of course, Salon’s resident drama queen, Glen Greenwald<\/a> is still apoplectic over the tortuous descriptions coming from Guantanamo del Norte en Quantico;<\/p>\n

In addition to confirming the facts I reported, Maj. Coombs added several disturbing new ones, including the paltry, isolated terms of Manning’s one-hour-a-day so-called “exercise” time (he’s “taken to an empty room and only allowed to walk,” “normally just walks figure eights in the room,” “if he indicates that he no long feels like walking, he is immediately returned to his cell”); the bizarre requirement that, despite not being on suicide watch, Manning respond to guards all day, every day, by saying “yes” every 5 minutes (even though guards cannot and “do not engage in conversation with” him); and various sleep-disruptive measures (he is barred from sleeping at any time from 5:00 am – 8:00 pm, and, during the night, “if the guards cannot see PFC Manning clearly, because he has a blanket over his head or is curled up towards the wall, they will wake him”).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, suppose they ease all of these restrictions and Manning is killed or injured when he attempts suicide or gets his ass assaulted by another prisoner. Will the UN, which is threatening to investigate Manning’s condition, or Greenwald admit that they were responsible? Yeah, that’ll be the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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