Remember: While Manning's treatment may not be "medieval" in nature, there is absolutely no good reason for treating him this way. There is no reason for it other than as psychological abuse to break down and destroy a human life -- in this case a human life many of us hold in high regard for the moral actions he allegedly took.
The US government is counting on the American people to be as morally obtuse and frightened as citizens of a totalitarian culture who look the other way while atrocities go down -- lest they be noticed and flagged as "one of them." We are in danger of becoming a nation of "good Germans," people like Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes: People who "see nah-thing!"
Many of us do see it, and we don"t plan to shut up. Plus, we have good memories. Breytenbach again: "It is incumbent upon all of us who are concerned to provoke a public exposition and debate of the issue."
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