from the site, Mass Resistance
What the media leaves out: Army staffer who leaked thousands of documents
to WikiLeaks website
is homosexual activist - angry at ban on gays in military.
The US Army intelligence analyst who has been arrested for disclosing more
than more than 90,000 intelligence reports and more than 150,000 diplomatic
cables to the Wikileaks website is a homosexual activist enraged at the
military's "anti-gay" policies.
The massive publication of top-secret documents has been called one of the
greatest security breeches in US history and has reportedly endangered the
lives of US personnel around the world.
Bradley Manning, who is now awaiting court-marshal at a military stockade
in Quantico, VA, was arrested last May for giving a classified video to the
Wikileaks website, and later it became clear that he had given them
thousands of other military documents. He is an open homosexual, and his anger
at
the military's rejection of homosexuality appears to be the major reason
for his actions.
While in the Army, Manning has openly participated in gay rights marches,
even publicly demonstrating against the military. In addition:
* His Facebook page reportedly included a photo of him marching in a
gay pride parade. His big interest was to "Repeal the Ban" on homosexuals
serving openly in the military. He proclaimed his support for the National
Center for Transgender Equality. He also talked about going to gay bars.
* According to newspaper reports, he was prone to fits of rage. At
one point Manning was demoted for assaulting an officer. He also wore custom
dog tags labeling himself as "Humanist" (as his religious affiliation). And
like many male homosexuals, Manning reportedly had a terrible relationship
with his father, who had also been in the military and was divorced from
his mother.
* Manning was very upset over a breakup earlier this year with his
homosexual lover, a student at Brandeis University who according to the _New
York Times_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09manning.html?_r=1)
described himself on his blog as a "drag queen."
* The _Montreal Gazette_
(http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Young+soldier+center+WikiLeaks+probe/3902100/story.html)
reported that "Manning
could 'identify' with Iraqis and Afghans who he believed had suffered as a
result of U.S. policies, especially because he himself was a "a member of a
minority" treated unfairly by the military."
Manning said he spent 14-hour days copying the classified documents to send
to the Wikileaks website.
As the Montreal Gazette reported,
Private Manning described how he downloaded the video and lip-synched to
Lady Gaga as he copied hundreds of thousand of diplomatic cables.
"Hillary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going
to have a heart attack," he boasted. But even as he professed a perhaps
inflated sense of purpose, he called himself "emotionally fractured" and a
"wreck" and said he was "self-medicating like crazy."
Not surprisingly, Manning has since been applauded on homosexual blogs and
websites across the country.
General media blackout on Manning's "gay" issue
Except for a few newspaper accounts, the mainstream media in the US has
completely ignored any "gay" aspect to this story, and especially his
anti-military homosexual activism. To our knowledge, none of the major TV or
cable
network news programs have discussed it. (Though _Glenn Beck did mention_
(http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/48627/) "he was
jilted by a boyfriend or something." That's the same Glenn Beck that doesn't
have a problem with homosexuality.)
For example, on Monday The Atlantic posted an article, _"WikiLeaks: One
Analyst, So Many Documents"._
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/11/wikileaks-one-analyst-so-many-documents/67181/)
It discusses Manning
in some detail, but simply describes him as "a disaffected young man".
It's pretty strange, to say the least. One wonders what else the media
refuse to report.
Army ignored its own policy
Ironically, a major issue with the Manning case is that the Army was
ignoring its own policy on homosexuals serving openly.
Jonah Knox (a pseudonym used by a US Army analyst) points this out in _a
great article on the Accuracy in Media website_
(http://www.aim.org/aim-column/treason-bradley-manning-and-army-pc/) this
week:
Army regulation restricts leaders from determining (officially) if a
soldier is a homosexual and therefore someone who should be discharged. For
instance, AR 600-20, Paragraph 4-19, Subparagraph d(3) ("Noncredible
information") details instances that are not considered grounds for Army
leaders to
open an inquiry to determine whether someone is a homosexual and therefore
should be discharged. The Army regulation states that "noncredible
information" includes, "The only information known is an associational
activity,
such as going to a gay bar, possessing or reading homosexual publications,
associating with known homosexuals, or marching in a gay rights rally in
civilian clothes."
In Manning's case, he had a Facebook page devoted to homosexual causes
that included a photo of him marching in a gay pride parade. His associates
said he went to gay bars and he talked openly about his homosexuality to
others. Several have said that he was angry with the military because of the
failure to repeal the homosexual exclusion policy. Incredibly, however, the
Army may not have considered any of the credible evidence that he was a
homosexual.
It is true that Army regulations on homosexuality create a lot of
confusion. And that may be intentional based on current Department of Defense
policy. The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) _says this in its analysis of
current Department of Defense policy._
(http://cmrlink.org/CMRDocuments/CMR%20Policy%20Analysis%20April%202010.pdf)
In other words, had the Army been following the law (rather than the
Clinton "Don't Ask" policy regulations), this would not have happened.
Incident reiterates reasons for excluding homosexuals from military
Most public health organizations (including the _Massachusetts Dept. of
Public Health)_
(http://www.massresistance.org/docs/g_news/08c/em08_1203.html#dph_report) have
observed that homosexuals are far more susceptible to
mental illness, alcoholism, drug abuse, and violence than the general
population.
The inherent emotional weakness and moral instability of people involved
in homosexual behaviors and its resulting possible damage to the military
have been documented going back over 100 years
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