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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday, Bradley Manning Apologized. In a Just World, the U.S. Would Be Apologizing to Manning.
I want to be a better person, to go to college to get a degree and to have a meaningful relationship with my sister, my sisters family and my family, he said.
He shared that he wanted to be a positive influence in their lives just as his aunt, has been to him.
I know that I can and will be a better person, Manning concluded. I hope you can give me the opportunity to prove not through words but through conduct that I am a good person and can return to a productive place in society.
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/08/14/bradley-manning-pleads-with-judge-to-allow-him-to-return-to-productive-place-in-society/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/14/1231292/-Today-Bradley-Manning-Apologized-In-a-Just-World-the-U-S-Would-Be-Apologizing-to-Manning
xocet
(3,871 posts)Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)A quote that explains why things are FUBAR: "Money trumps peace." -- George Walker Bush, Feb. 14, 2007
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)...
Navy Capt. David Moulton, a forensic psychiatrist, said Bradley Manning exhibited symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome. His sister Casey described their mother's drinking through her pregnancy with Bradley and their harsh family life on a five-acre plot in rural Crescent, Okla.
Their father was a "functional alcoholic," Casey said, yet he was the more stable parent. Their mother would start drinking a rum-and-Coke around noon and keep drinking through the night.
When the father decided to leave the family, the mother swallowed a bottle of Valium pills. As Casey drove to the emergency room, she recalled, she asked her father to move to the back seat to make sure her mother was still breathing, but he refused. So, Casey said, "unfortunately, my 12-year-old brother had to go back there."
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Moulton testified that at the time of his document disclosures, Manning was grappling with gender dysphoria -- severe discomfort with one's apparent gender. Manning was considering transitioning to be a woman even as he remained within the hostile environment of the military, which still bans transgender people from serving openly. That, combined with a "post-adolescent idealistic phase," Moulton said, "impaired his ability to really rationally think through the consequences of what he was doing."
"He underestimated what the consequences would be, for sure. He thought he would be separated from the military, worst case scenario," Moulton said.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/14/bradley-manning-sorry_n_3757490.html
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)and I hope the judge will grant him leniency by sentencing him to time served.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)dennis4868
(9,774 posts)He admitted that he hurt the United States.
tiny elvis
(979 posts)john mccain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Trials
dennis4868
(9,774 posts)what an idiotic response....this place is full of nutcases.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Solitary confinement? Sleep deprivation? Standing naked for 18 hours at a stretch?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
dennis4868
(9,774 posts)have anything to do with him acknowledging sincerely that he committed a crime and hurt our great country....
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)what an idiotic response....this place is full of nutcases."
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Occupy Raleigh ?@OccupyRaleigh
That's the statement of a person who has been broken beyond all repair by his country with over 1100 days in solitary confinement.
on point
(2,506 posts)annm4peace
(6,119 posts)Bradley Manning, family, and doctors take stand: report and analysis: trial day 34
http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/bradley-manning-family-and-doctors-take-stand-report-and-analysis
the article reminds me how vulnerable, fragil, and young he is and was. and to think how the Marines tortured him at Quantico.
It is amazing he didn't commit suicide. I'm glad so many support him.
Please click on the link to the Bradley Manning Support Network and click "like" so the powers that be can see how many care about Bradley Manning and care about what happens to him
burrowowl
(17,644 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Pat Tillman wasn't so lucky. What a difference an election makes eh?
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)This is just sad.
Good Luck to Bradley Manning.
In my book, Bradley Manning will ALWAYS be a patriot.
"Political Language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."--- George Orwell
Hydra
(14,459 posts)And torture works great...if you want to destroy a person and replace him/her with a shadow of what they were.
peace13
(11,076 posts)This is an upside down world! But sadly, nothing new! Remember,it all changed with 9/11!