Nordic wrote:Also, some of the propaganda around it, the story that Manning was a bed wetter, you know, he "leaked". And "leaking" is very shameful. So's being gay, right?
In this culture of rampant deceit, being gay is almost as shameful as the terrorist act of telling the truth.
Two thoughts:
(1) It's often tough to know who and what is "real" (and who and what isn't) even under the best of circumstances. So the idea of the government and its paid contractors faking something like this — and a whole lot else besides — doesn't seem beyond consideration, certainly.
(2) Personally, I doubt that the Bradley Manning story is a complete fake. (It's "possible" I suppose, but I sincerely doubt it.) After listening to this interview, its breathless tone helps my suspicions lean more in the direction of possible agendas behind this interview story itself. Like, "If the Bradley Manning story is completely fake, then why bother worrying about Bradley Manning?" Manning's torturous solitary confinement (and the government's cruel audacity in doing it) suddenly don't seem to matter so much then. That's one possible agenda; I'm sure I can think of others, if given the time.
Frankly,
The Power Hour interview between Joyce Riley and Ed Chiarini comes off sounding a hell of a lot like numerous interviews on
Coast to Coast AM and Whitley Strieber's
Dreamland that I've wasted too-much time on already in years past. That sort of "Wow! This astonishing information is just unbelievable!"-tone has a special signature all its own that usually indicates to me that what's being said is, in fact, unbelievable. And should be.
But yeah, I suppose it's possible that the Bradley Manning story is a complete fake; I just doubt it. More likely is that our Bill of Rights has become a complete fake, and the Bradley Manning story is illustrative of that sad fact — and somebody wants his story to go away among open-minded people who actually care.
