meta thoughts re: USpol, SignalGate, Trump
This interviewer tried so hard to bait Chelsea but failed. Chelsea knows what she wants to say.
"Chelsea Manning, legendary whistleblower and activist, interviewed by BBC’s Rebecca Kesby about her attendance at a hearing for accused United Healthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione in Manhattan on February 21st, 2025. Manning explains her attendance as focused on “very grave concerns about how [the criminal justice system] is handling this case [of Mangione’s].”
“You have a very simple crime that’s being treated as a political crime, as terrorism,” Manning told the BBC. “It’s being treated as terrorism, which is unusual. I don’t recall a case like this rising to the level of terrorism; how they’ve turned it into a spectacle, how they have carted this person around in front of television cameras… It feels like there is a protected class of certain individuals who are treated differently by the criminal justice system: the mayor of New York, Donald Trump—“
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHUsMFst5et/?igsh=MWpiZGFnajVvNXhlMw%3D%3D
"Arrestees – organizers from LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive justice organizations, as well as individuals like activist Chelsea Manning – chanted: “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace: Our bodies are not a debate!”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trans-activists-arrested-bathroom-outside-mike-johnsons-office
Today in Labor History June 15, 1917: President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act into law. The law targeted leftist, anti-war and labor organizations, especially the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which was virtually destroyed because of the arrests and deportations of its members. When Eugene Debs spoke against the draft in Canton, Ohio, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He ran for president from prison in 1920, winning nearly 1 million votes (3.4%). The government used the law to arrest anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and depart them to the Soviet Union. They used the law against the Rosenbergs, whom they executed. They also used it against Daniel Ellsberg, whose “Pentagon Papers” were published by the NY Times 51 years ago. The Espionage Act is still on the books and was used recently to prosecute Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.
#Biden says he’s considering Australia’s request to drop prosecution of #Wikileaks founder #Assange
“By dropping the charges against Julian he will be protecting freedom of expression and the rights of #journalists and #publishers globally. We urge him to end this legal process; to free Julian; and to recognize that #journalism is not a crime.” - #KristinnHrafnsson, Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief
April 10, 2024
"President #JoeBiden said Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder #JulianAssange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.
"For years, Australia has called on the U.S. to drop its prosecution against Assange, an Australian citizen who has fought U.S. extradition efforts from prison in the U.K. Asked about the request on Wednesday, as he hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for an official visit, Biden said, 'We’re considering it.'
"Assange has been indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website’s publication of a trove of classified U.S. documents almost 15 years ago. American prosecutors allege that Assange, 52, encouraged and helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst #ChelseaManning steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks published, putting lives at risk.
"Australia argues there is a disconnect between the U.S. treatment of Assange and #Manning. Then-U.S. President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/biden-australia-assange-wikileaks-2cd31cf5a9983f3523a7c3de72b5078e
Chelsea Manning for U.S. Senate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAXo1Y7AK_I
#ChelseaManning Date of birth
December 17, 1987
Long thread/5
#OTD in 2006 Julian #Assange created #Wikileaks
In 2010 WikiLeaks published the video "Collateral Murder" https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/, leading to many legal troubles for Assange.
The video shows the US army killing a dozen civilians, including two Reuters employees on assignment and the rescuers who stopped to help the wounded. The Pentagon refused to hand over the video to Reuters. The evidence of what had happened remained on US military servers until #ChelseaManning sent it to WikiLeaks.