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 described himself on his blog as a "drag
queen."
- The Montreal
Gazette 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 "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". 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
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.
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) 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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