2011/3/19 P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>: > > Once again, you are postulating torture for torture sake. There's no > percentage in it. The Government gains nothing and can lose everything. > Rational beings don't risk that. Manning is a known prisoner. Even the > most repressive government would think twice about the public relations > disaster actually torturing such a prisoner would be. You are exhibiting a > fairly paranoid attitude about this. No officer in the US military that > cared about his career would allow this to happen, because eventually > someone will have to be punished, and they know it wouldn't be a politician.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20029688-503543.html even the UN are investigating it. the brig commander at quantico was replaced following a complaint by coombs. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365493/Pentagon-tells-Obama-Bradley-Mannings-prison-treatment-appropriate--gets-just-hour-outside-cell.html oh and this quote says it all: "Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told ABC News: ‘Assertions by liberal bloggers, or network reporters or others that he is being mistreated, or somehow treated differently than others, in isolation, are just not accurate.’" liberal seems to be the new communist. mccarthy rears his ugly head if you ask me... can't agree with you at all about my attitude being paranoid - what makes Manning so dangerous that he is on 23 hour lockdown with all of his clothes and his prescription eyeglasses taken away from him? but hey I guess anythingshort of extraordinary rendition is fair treatment if you're a liberal... obama should return his nobel peace prize - it was an advance payment and he didn't deliver -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
