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Some of those that Wikileaks exposed should be in jail not Manning.

ONE WORD: JOSE PADILLA.

The government will drive him crazy... one uncomfortable position, one unreasonable rule at a time...torture? Death by a thousand cuts... until he's insane, like JOSE PADILLA.

What about case law precedents? There is more than ample case law, all the way up to Supreme Court decisions, that all accused people who have not been tried, convicted and sentenced yet, have the right(s) to conditions approximating, as much as possible, release from incarceration, if they are not granted bail or "own recognizance" release, and they remain under incarceration. But, of course, these Constitutional rights have been violated all the way down to the county jails in the U.S. for decades. Far too many, if not most, accused prisoners are denied reasonable bail or release on their own recognizance for non-violent crimes, in violation of both the state and federal constitutions.

When you consider the case(s) of people like Bradley Manning, Jose Padilla, etc., who are being treated like "unprivileged enemy belligerents", or "unlawful enemy combatants", who have little or no rights whatsoever, although they do have such inalienable and immutable rights which are violated and denied to them more and more, what they are put through before any charges and/or cases have been proven against them, definitely amounts to presumption of guilt and pre-trial conviction and/or punishment, cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment, and all of it is unconstitutional. But we have entered an era of all government in the U.S. being supposedly above the law.

This is what the U.S. has degenerated to the level of; yet, because most "Americans", from Bill "Fascist" O'Reilly on down, don't want to be seen as "soft on crime", and DO want to be seen as completely trusting the government to "do the right thing" even when it is completely wrong and/or unconstitutional, this insanity is allowed and supported by the "American people", most of whom have little or no, by intentional design, understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. By that intentional design, most "Americans'" thinking is completely backwards, just as the powers-that-be want things to be, so the latter can more and more do and get away with whatever they want with immunity and impunity.

If people in the also trusted mainstream media (MSM) like corporate-fascist-enablers like Bill O'Reilly say that true journalism, expecting government transparency, and the duty to report violations of law are supposedly "treason", and/or supposedly make whistleblowers "traitors", most "Americans" are going to believe it; or, even if they don't believe or agree with it, they aren't going to do anything about it, and are content to allow the U.S. to become less and less about self-governance and/or government "of the People, by the People, for the People", allowing this country to deteriorate into deeper and deeper, and worse and worse, tyranny, despotism, authoritarianism, oppression, totalitarianism and repression.

The people have by and large been indoctrinated, conditioned and programmed to have no spine, courage and/or desire to take any responsibility for taking this country and government back. They don't even see it as their responsibility; but, as a direct result, will allow things to degenerate further and further, go along with the disintegration of freedom and liberty, and be complicit in the greater and greater oppression and repression against the American people as a whole. We have got to reverse this pattern or we are screwed, and very soon vast swaths of True Americans who do realize their responsibility, and the duty of all of us, to stand up against all of this madness, will be imprisoned like Bradley Manning.

As I've read above, many are unaware that Pvt. Manning is in the US Army, not the Marines. Although it seems for some reason he's being held in the Marine Corp brig at Quantico, VA. The Army has its own jails so why is he not being held there?