Well, now, it really is Good News Week. \u00a0The Platoon Sergeant appears to be fighting the Good Fight and good news has appeared on the horizon, as follows.<\/p>\n
As a great many people had speculated on what would happened to Mr. Manning, once he\u2019s released from Ft. Leavenworth (or wherever he\u2019s sitting on his bony ass), I am pleased to tell all of you that it\u2019s official now.<\/p>\n
Mr. Manning will, per this USA Today story\u00a0 http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/01\/18\/chelsea-manning-lose-transgender-benefits-dishonorable-discharge\/96742180\/<\/a><\/p>\n receive a Dishonorable Discharge and as a consequence of that, lose ALL his military-related benefits, including VA TG surgery.<\/p>\n He is, in effect, banned for life.\u00a0 You can quit giggling now.<\/p>\n However, as there is always a balance to things, the balance for the good news about Mr. Manning’s loss of benefits and his Dishonorable Discharge is that the soon-t0-be unemployed lame quacker in the White House has commuted 209\u00a0sentences, one of which was Mr. Manning’s, and the other is FALN Oscar Lopez Rivera.<\/p>\n In regard to the commutation of the 55-year sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a former member of the Puerto Rican terrorist group, the FALN, the Chicago Tribune has a brief history of what he and his companeros did in the 1970s and 1980s.\u00a0 They bombed 140+ buildings, killing at least 4 people. Their worst and nastiest episode of bombing was Fraunces Taven, Four people died in that bombing and more than 60 people were injured. 16 of those bombings took place in Chicago in 1977. Four government buildings were bombed by the FALN, severely injuring 3 police officers.\u00a0 Not once has Lopez Rivera expressed any remorse for anything he did, any more than McVeigh or Nichols did.\u00a0 The only difference between him and them is that his headcount of the dead was lower.<\/p>\n The Tribune\u2019s story is here, and there is a video included. http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-faln-leader-sentence-commuted-0118-20170117-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n And I still don’t understand the linkie thingies, so my apologies for the length, but the links do work. \u00a0And no, no photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"