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Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by fusiongyro on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @01:20PM (#6251849)
Anybody can point to this outcome and say, "this is unjust/immoral," military or not. In order to say "this outcome is illegal/improper procedure" you have to have some domain knowledge.
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Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by jlgreco on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @01:50PM (#6252099)
> "Anybody can point to this outcome and say, "this is unjust/immoral,""

That is what he was doing (see for clarification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251625(, and that is why a reply of "civilians may not understand" got a strongly negative response.

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