[liberationtech] Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth

[LilBambi]

agreed.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org> wrote:
> Thus spake Tom O (winterfilth at gmail.com):
>
>> To be honest, this was probably the best he could have hoped for.
>>
>> He was facing 90. He got 35 with parole after 12.
>>
>> It's shit, but not as shit as the other options.
>>
>> If Snowden gets captured, you can bet he will be getting much much worse.
>
> This would be really unfortunate, especially since by any objective
> measure Snowden has been significantly more careful with what he's
> allowed to be revealed than Manning was. Thankfully, public opinion also
> seems to indicate that most people understand this effort on Snowden's
> part, despite the media circus.
>
> Even still, I am not in the "Snowden would get a fair trial in the US"
> camp, either.
>
> I am also worried by the fact that the lawlessness of the gangster
> governments that most Western democracies have devolved into has
> necessitated this whole insurance file business again. Let's hope at
> least that bit works out better this time, for everyone involved.
>
>
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> Mike Perry
>
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