{"id":81517,"date":"2018-08-31T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T11:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81517"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:11","slug":"chelsea-manning-bloke-or-a-sheila-we-may-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81517","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Manning &#8230; Bloke or Sheila?  We may never know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bradley_Manning_US_Army.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bradley_Manning_US_Army-266x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bradley_Manning_US_Army-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bradley_Manning_US_Army-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bradley_Manning_US_Army-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Bradley_Manning_US_Army.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Broad Born as Bradley&#8221; seems to be having a bit of difficulty going down under.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chelsea Manning won&#8217;t be permitted to enter Australia for a speaking tour scheduled to kick off at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday after that country&#8217;s Department of Home Affairs deemed the American classified document leaker failed to meet character requirements. While the Australian government won&#8217;t address Manning&#8217;s case specifically, per the\u00a0AP, a person having a criminal record could cause them to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-08-29\/chelsea-manning-visa-letter\/10180284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fail the character test<\/a>. Manning, a former US Army intelligence officer, was convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks and served seven years in prison. Manning also has speaking dates scheduled in New Zealand. That country&#8217;s government is still considering whether to grant her a &#8220;special direction&#8221; visa, which she would need due to her conviction. In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/press-releases\/government-must-allow-human-rights-defender-chelsea-manning-to-come-to-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>, Amnesty International says Australia&#8217;s decision sends a &#8220;chilling message that freedom of speech is not valued.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bradley might not have what it takes to blow my skirt up, but it seems a bit much to deny what&#8217;s its name into a Westernized country.\u00a0 What&#8217;s good for the goose is good for the gander as they say.\u00a0 Bar silly girls like Bradly and they can bar people like me for not fearing a God.\u00a0 They will use the criminal aspect of what this idiot has done in the past, but I betcha there are people who have done far worse that have been let into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the whole damn country populated by the malaize\u00a0of genetic stew from a bloody lot of criminals?\u00a0 Who is next, Candace Owens because she is too white? The &#8220;Broad Born as Bradley&#8221; will do about anything for a headline, he does not need to be encouraged.\u00a0 I have been rather proud of the fact that some thought I failed to meet character requirements&#8230;I ain&#8217;t\u00a0the only low life around here either&#8230;you know who you are.\u00a0 \u00a0Give a girl a chance&#8230; to stay in another country.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chlsea-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chlsea-2-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chlsea-2-400x333.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chlsea-2-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chlsea-2-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/chlsea-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Broad Born as Bradley&#8221; seems to be having a bit of difficulty going down under. &hellip; <a title=\"Chelsea Manning &#8230; Bloke or Sheila?  We may never know.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81517\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chelsea Manning &#8230; Bloke or Sheila?  We may never know.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,131,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-i-hate-hippies","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}