Bradley Manning can’t be a hero AND a victim
Bradley Manning can’t be a hero AND a victim
By Nicholas Wilbur
December 28th, 2011
Bradley Manning is a ‘true American hero,’ a modern-day Daniel Ellsberg, a brave and selfless patriot and soldier who sacrificed his own freedom in order to fight against the ‘enemies of public liberty’ and awaken the American masses to the realities of war.
Bradley Manning
But even if you believe Manning is a ‘true American traitor,’ a modern-day Benedict Arnold who betrayed his unit and disavowed his oath to country by haphazardly leaking hundreds of thousands of war reports and State Department cables, most of which he didn’t bother reading, Manning is entitled to a fair trial nonetheless.
Unfortunately for the Puritopian emoprogs of the far left who fueled this hero motif by peddling ‘Free Manning’ T-shirts and tweeting ‘Free Bradley’ hashtags, being a hero and getting a fair trial are mutually exclusive, at least as far as his attorneys can tell.