I heart Dennis. He should have been president.

agreed anon!

thank gawd there is a patriot in the house!

Why can’t they get the media in there to interview him?
They can’t.
Why isn’t he allowed to communicate to the outside world? Why did Bradley Manning do it?

Cruel and unusual punishment… why not? They don’t respect the Constitution anymore anyway. Go Dennis!

Nobody is ever going to release Bradley Manning. He was exploited as an asset by Julian Assange who is going to leave him to die in 23 hour lockdown under torturous conditions in a secret prison.

Exposing “war criminals” accomplishes nothing. It only makes them declare war on the American citizens who now they can’t trust. Exposing the “war criminals” only makes them paranoid enough to start assassinating, torturing, and locking up American citizens.

You think Bradley Manning is the first or the last? Anyone who becomes a subversive will be locked up, and if that doesn’t work then any subversive can be killed off. Cointelpro 2 http://www.cointelpro2.com/
http://www.targetedindividuals.com/
is what we can expect to happen. And if you fight against the government you can expect the stuff in the video to happen to you. And no it doesn’t matter which government you live under, they all have secret police.

Where are all you “Bradley Manning is a hero” types when people are complaining about being targeted and harassed by the government? Thats right, you aren’t around and don’t care about that.

Watch the videos below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJaDLhuNxi8
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2967542171184509301

Is Bradley Manning really a hero? What did he really accomplish? I don’t think he accomplished much at all, but his life is officially destroyed. Along with a lot of other people associated with anonymous, and hacking, and a lot of random civilians not associated with any of that who just get targeted.
http://www.targetedindividuals.com/

I wish he would change his mind and run in 2012. He has a good track record of standing up for whats right.

There is a “Draft Dennis” thing online but I don’t have the link right now. I signed it a couple of months ago, but I don’t think he’ll run again.

I read on here somewhere about the possibility of drafting Alan Grayson. If anyone knows a petition, PLEASE post it! Someone with heart needs to take on the current Liar-In-Chief.
Check this out: http://www.draftgraysonforpresident.com/
Or this: http://tinyurl.com/49fcwez

Hello? Are you insane? How can Julian Assange exploit someone he has never met or had contact with? Manning allegedly sent Assange the files unprompted. And Assange is going to leave him to die in prison? Get a grip dude. Like the authorities are going to release him if only Assange would give the okay? While we’re at it, how is Quantico a “secret prison?”

It ain’t just Manning that is being tortured by the US prison system.

“Human Rights Watch condemns US prison system”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/hrwr-j28.shtml

Cool. Sounds like DK is back.

Subpoena Manning for Congressional testimony. Lets hear what he has to say. Lets see how he looks. Lets put him in front of the media.

i hear what you’re saying if you’re addressing your frustration at the lack of patriotism in this “greatest country in the world”, red, white and blue dildo.

but i can’t tell if you’re waving with both arms to get our attention or that you want us see you are in total surrender mode …

Standing up for whats right instantly disqualifies any candidate. Duhhh

Sarcasm? (-:) But mainly true, I’m afraid.

There’s Dennis again–fighting on the side of what used to be former American ideals.

David House has been visiting Bradley Manning weekly and has been filing regular reports.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/01/31/video-david-house-says-bradley-mannings-spirits-down-but-excited-about-egypt/

Why did Bradley Manning do it? He did it for reasons that selfish people aren’t capable of wrapping their brains around.

innocent until…guess not…there are hundreds of traitors who should be behind bars…this man is a hero for trying to expose them…

That olive pit was planted on purpose…

Obama continues to be a Piece of Shit President for letting Outrage like this to Go On!!!!

Once again, Mr. Kucinich shows not only that he is a true democrat and public servant, but also an exemplary human being.

Wonder if the chef was the same one that prepared Assange’s rice and beans dish.

Mr Assange lost a tooth after chewing on a metal object in plate of rice and beans during his incarceration.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340173/I-locked-paedophiles-child-killers-WikiLeaks-boss-Julian-Assange-tells-prison-hell.html#ixzz1D2ln9kqV

After Manning’s brains have been turned to mush after months of solitary confinement? Not sure what that would prove except for ranking America’s Inquisitors with the most barbarous in history.

If DK is denied access, then the United States HAS become the new Soviet Union, with Quantico, Gitmo and numerous other prison sites being no different from a Soviet gulag, with detainees maltreated and denied basic human rights, besides having their Constitutional protections violated, making a mockery of our democracy.

This was bound to happen once conservative Republicans in the previous Bush/Cheney administration got away with committing so many crimes, with no one being held accountable. President Obama, unfortunately, along with certain conservative-leaning Democrats have continued some of the most heinous of Bush/Cheney policies. (Forget about the Republicans. They’re so mesmerized by lying propagandist talking points, along with faux displays of “patriotism,” that they can only be counted on to continue the insane right-wing policies that can only further erode freedoms and the strength of our nation, a process that began under Ronald Reagan but reached its peak under the run amok criminal Bush/Cheney administration).

President Obama, as commander-in-chief, could stop this maltreatment of Manning…right now. And the Washington Post’s revelations about Manning’s mental condition before being deployed overseas in Bush’s war indicates one of the reasons he first copied and then released these secret cables…payback. At least he didn’t pull a stunt like the Fort Hood shooter.

He’s one of the few things that make me proud to be from Ohio!

It would let all of Congress see the effect of long-term solitary. They’re the ones with the power to end the practice.

It doesn’t disqualify him for candidacy, just for president. The important thing is when he runs he forces candidates to talk about things they wouldn’t normally.

Should have been president? He aint’ dead yet, he still can be. He’s always my first choice among democrats.

Bravo to Mr. Kucinich. Manning is an American citizen who has not been convicted of any crime whatsoever. If he were a civilian, he would be out on bail. The conditions of pre-trial detention under which he is being held violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Lt. William Calley, after having been convicted of murdering 350+ civilians, served his entire sentence in his own bachelor quarters on a US military base. Apparently whistle-blowing is a more serious crime than mass murder.

Indeed, The torturers . . . Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld . . . walk free and receive generous pensions of OUR fucking money. Is this a great country or what . . .?

We need an army of Kucinichs.

Would be nice to see THEM in solitary and water-boarded for sport.

It’s called Patriotism, I believe, for the greater good.

some times i just love this guy…..

Dennis and Bernie Sanders are the two shining bright lights in Congress. Most of the rest of them either don’t get what is going on in the U.S. or they just don’t care. Probably more the latter than the former. I hope he is successful in getting to see him and that he can effect some sort of release. This business of ignoring habeus corpus (sp?) has got to stop. The rule of law in the U.S. is applied selectively.

Is the proper reaction to political repression to keep your mouth shut and not endanger yourself? Sounds like cowardice to me.

Total agreement. He was shut out of the debates; he would have spoken truth, which cannot be allowed. We should look at the Egyptians and follow suit. Our aristocracy is not so different from Mubarak.

Dennis! Dennis! Dennis!

Gawd, I wish there were one of him in the WH, 9 of him on the bench, and a Congress full of them.

Of course it is. It’s much more career-ending.

in front to the media – bingo, maybe that will do it.

As the previous Nazi pres W used to say: “make no mistake”
The US imprisons and tortures, without even a trial, political prisoners abroad and at home…

And is my memory playing tricks or did Obama not once upon a time promise protections for whistle-blowers?

Probably not the same cook – but perhaps the same ‘cooking school’?

Progressive hero Dennis Kucinich, the voice of reason. The reason he won’t be president is because the media focuses on the UFOs and the olive pit, and his base (us) doesn’t fight back.

If you liked what the Democratic ‘leadership’ did to him in the last primaries, you’d love what they would do to him if he went up against their precious Obama.

Finally…at least someone with a faint vague hint of clout has noticed what everyone outside the beltway has been muttering for months…a guy who hasn’t been formally charged under the UCMJ is being subjected to flat out mental torture and no one seems to give a shit. The treatment Manning has received has been illegal…even under the UCMJ. The pretense that he’s a ‘threat to himself’ is a joke, and no one…absolutely no one…even the people saying the words out loud…actually believes it. If he’s to be held…charge him and hold him like any other prisoner…or get the fuck over it and let him go. This indefinite detention for Americans bullsh*t needs to be clamped down on and done away with once and for all.

Yayas: “The reason he won’t be president is because the media focuses on the UFOs and the olive pit, and his base (us) doesn’t fight back.”

Half right: the msm obviously has an agenda, and we all know what it is and by whom. So you are correct: they attempt to frame him with the select coverage.

However….I stopped “supporting” Dennis when he decided it was more important to stay in the Democratic party then to follow his values and run as an independent against Kerry. Like Ron Paul, he prefers the comfort of the Establishment when push comes to shove. I don’t forget his changing his tune on the bogus and flawed health care “reform” bill which he properly described as useless…until he took a ride on AF1 with Obama…then voted for it.

We ‘don’t fight back” because he has shown he has no gravitas, no commitment other than political survival.

However…stories like this resurrects his creds a tad, in my opinion.

Manning must go FREE NOW.

Kucinich is perhaps the only Congressman possessed of not only a heart but also true convictions. The only one who really believes in Truth, Justice, and the American Way. God bless the man.

We are rapidly approaching totalitarian conditions when people can be imprisoned for extended periods of time without charges being brought forth. The Executive branch uses this as a tool to exert political control. They weren’t originally meant to have that tool but somehow the Judicial branch got thrown in the back seat during W. Bush. Giving up the newfound “unitary executive” power of indefinite detention would be too altruistic an act for the ever-pragmatic Obama to take on, so don’t expect him to stop using it any time soon. A convenient way to get rid of trouble makers, that.

With Manning it’s very curious that he’s obviously broken espionage laws for which he could be charged, yet they charge him with no crime and continue a seemingly endless interrogation. Why? Does the US not have evidence against him?

I agree the Republican’s are too self-serving so no justice can be found there. Most Democrats are too squeamish to touch this for risk of being seen as soft on terrorism and defense. So there you have it: It’s Justice in America. Just like Morning in America, but much more sinister and creepy.

Yes, that’s the Academe de Espionage Cuisine in Paris…

If you want to survive and live a long prosperous life thats basically all you can do. If you want to die for a revolution then you can take on the US government which just happens to be the most militarily mighty government in the world.

It’s all just so odd. Maybe Bradley Manning knows too much and they’re trying to turn him into a human vegetable before he talks. Or perhaps they’re trying to use Manning to get to Assange. They don’t want to play their hand prematurely least Assange escape the trap. And so they wait….

Yes, the problem is systemic. We’re not looking at an isolated incident with Manning. Rather we’re seeing a high profile case of something that happens to people every day.

This is the BEST FUCKING News I’ve heard all day !

You have the option to try and survive, if you care about survival, or you can be treated like Bradley Manning or worse.

You side with Bradley Manning and the government has made it clear that they intend to treat you like Bradley Manning. So are you willing to be locked up in Quantico somewhere for 23 hours a day? Are you willing to get people you care about killed or willing to risk your own life for these political agendas?

Personally I’m not willing, but some people are. If you are then you should know the life typically isn’t very long for a revolutionary and that most revolutionaries end up in prison.

Where were you when all the family members of the civil rights movement and black panthers were targeted and locked up in prison? The police called them gang members and locked millions up, and continues to target gang members. Gang members are revolutionaries, are subversives, but the government calls them criminals.

And the Bush government says you only have the option to either be with them or be with the terrorists.The people who are pretending to support Bradley Manning and revolution will be the first ones to turn on the revolutionary movement, rat out or inform on each other, so no I don’t think that a revolution is possible in the USA.

The USA is filled with cowards who would rather inform for the government than fight a revolution. The whole revolution talk is just agent provocateurs probably working for the FBI, just like those anonymous volunteers who told everyone to download that DDOS software and run it, and like predicted, a few months later, you hear about dozens of raids.

You think any of this is by accident?

I agree with what you say. To sum it up, the corporations that run this country would never let Kucinich become more influential than he is. They will allow some guy on the outter fringes shout into the wind, but that’s about it. For us to regain our democracy, we would have to take inspiration from the Egyptians in the street.Are we willing to put out lives on the live like they are?

How is the greater good determined and who determines it?

I do agree to some extent that Assange may have exploited others in his mission to expose the world’s corruption. But I don’t think we can say for sure with the information available today that he personally exploited Manning. It’s likely Manning saw the release of the information as a duty of social responsibility, he had the capacity to carry out the act and a window of opportunity to do so and that, in a sense, he exploited Assange to get the secrets published.

Thanks! I couldn’t for the life of me recall the name.

The goal of enhanced interrogation is to break a person psychologically, physically, totally and completely.

When you go against the government you risk everything. People like Julian Assange and Bradley Manning seem to us to be reckless and irrational because they risk it all to expose corruption. Others in our history have done so too and many have paid the ultimate price. People are giving their lives all over the globe today for causes they deeply believe in. Like you I question their judgment when they take such personal risk and make such sacrifices for the release of information. But I’m also thankful for those whose convictions and conscience speak to the higher order of social justice over personal safety. Because of them we now know a lot more about what world governments and mega-corporations have been doing behind our backs.

If this is how they treat him before a trial, I wonder how they will treat him if they find him guilty.
And why is it taking so long to put him on trial?
If this were happening in a foreign country we would call it barbaric.

The only one who really believes in Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

Isn’t that from really old Superman?

Kucinich/Paul 2012!!!!!!!!!!!

Um, we ARE in “totalitarian conditions.” Don’t be in denial or try to soften the blow. This is a police state and a fascist oligarchy.

And let’s thank the people of Cleveland OH and Vermont for electing these brave men to Congress year after year. I wish my districts voted in such progressives!

If everyone held your political philosophy we would all be living under feudalism. Try being a peasant farmer and see how long and prosperous your life would be.

The little guy’s got his heart in the right place and some serious evidence he’s got some brass ones to get the job done. Well done Kucinich.

Manning in jail for providing transparency, which a democratic government should do on principle, while the corporate boys who scammed the country get a pass. The USA is a poor example for the world, and all the jingoist right-wing political rhetoric sounds more and more self delusional.

There is a big difference when both sides clashing in the streets are throwing lead instead of rocks and bottles. I love the idea of hitting the streets but the powers that be have done such an extraordinary job of polarizing its citizens that when those who support the thugs in charge and those who oppose them clash, it will make Gettysburg look like a quail hunt. And which side do you think the military will be protecting if it happens here?

It’s way past “if” and “then” comrade. We HAVE become the country we were taught to fear not so many years ago. And just like that other country, our conquering of Afghanistan will hasten our demise.

Kucinich exemplifies everything that a leader should be.

Obama and Biden, a couple of billion
Romney and Palin, maybe a billion or so more
Kucinich and Sanders, priceless