Some good points being raised, on sl1shd()t no less: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/09/18/2023216/assange-agrees-to-us-prison-if-obama-pardons-chelsea-manning
What is a traitor? When is it appropriate to label someone a traitor? When is doing so, an attempt at manipulative propaganda? This reply, amongst others, is on point: > 1. Loyalty to country / oath = precisely not ignoring illegal actions. > > 2. Doesn't really matter what her initial motivation was - she could > have done it because she was a dirty racist who didn't like the > President's color, for all I care. > > 2. Give evidence that she did it "deliberately, willfully to hurt > [her] nation" please. > > She didn't seriously injure her country or try to destabilise it > or encourage war against it. She did not cooperate with a foreign > nation. She was acquitted of "aiding the enemy". To stick the > "traitor" label on her is ridiculous. > > (Also, to stubbornly stick with "him" suggests you're not really > interested in facts and are emtionally clouded.)
