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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by clairity on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:08PM (#22562401)
> "Maybe I don’t understand this system..."

sounds like you understand the system pretty well. the US is grounded in a limited federal government and the right to vigorously oppose it (short of, say, revolt) without persecution (see: bill of rights).

holding manning in jail for so long was persecutory and unjust.

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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by cultus on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:08PM (#22562991)
It's common practice to hold even low level offenders for a year or more to extract a confession. NYC has been particularly infamous for this.
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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by atoav on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:16PM (#22570520)
Doesn't make it right tho.
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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by sudoaza on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:31PM (#22562618)
Manning and Assange must eat the stick so the rest of the people learn not to mess with the Authority. Must make sure that no journalist dares to even touch any future leak. Dare I remind that Greenwald has a capture order in Brasil.
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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by FpUser on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:52PM (#22564018)
Really? I thought the whole idea of free "free" was that people do mess with the Authority to keep it in check.
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Re:Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf] by CiPHPerCoder on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:02PM (#22564340)
That is the idea. They're saying that, in practice, the Authority is anti-freedom, and freedom is the enemy.
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