SOLDIER MANNING, accused of leaking the documents, ABUSE IN MILITARY PRISON WHERE YOU LIVE, isolated from seven months ago, in inhuman conditions
detention conditions Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of leaking to WikiLeaks thousands of secret documents from the State Department are "inhumane " and his mental and physical health are deteriorating.
"It seems clear that the physical and mental health is deteriorating Manning" , David House wrote on the blog Firedoglake . According to House , a computer that visits twice a month, the terms of Manning incarceration in a prison Marines in Quantico, Virginia are " rigorous and inhuman, "despite what the Pentagon says .
The Department of Defense says former analyst, 23, is being held under maximum security arrangements, but does not receive different treatment from other prisoners. This scheme only allows the inmate to leave his cell one hour a day for exercise.
Manning has two sheets and blankets can not be broken to prevent suicide, a measure that is taken for "precautionary " although it has no special watch for it.
House said the ministry statements are "clearly contradictory " with which Manning has done, after visiting him on Saturday and Sunday. According to his version, the detainee could not leave the yard of the prison for four weeks, so was unable to perform physical exercises. "When I mentioned the Pentagon statement that says you can do exercises, he replied that is true as walking in chains as a way of exercising" , House writes on the blog.
Manning is isolated from May in a cell 3.6 meters long by 1.8 wide, according to the site description provided by his lawyer, David Coombs . Its isolation is broken only on holidays, when you can get approved visitors, no contact for three hours.
In one of the recent statements of counsel, you specify the " harsh conditions" of life of the soldier. Of it only has pictures, almost always smiling, his previous life of a young man who at age 21 he joined the army and then was sent to Iraq , where it is believed that began copying the material disclosed. Wikileads leader , Julian Assange , repeat do not know if Manning was the filter. The technology, he argues, makes encrypt the sender's identity.
The punishment of the soldier, under consideration by the founder of Assange , does not serve anything but push him to incriminate him for accusing him of conspiracy. He says he fears that the U.S. carried and kill him.
"It seems clear that the physical and mental health is deteriorating Manning" , David House wrote on the blog Firedoglake . According to House , a computer that visits twice a month, the terms of Manning incarceration in a prison Marines in Quantico, Virginia are " rigorous and inhuman, "despite what the Pentagon says .
The Department of Defense says former analyst, 23, is being held under maximum security arrangements, but does not receive different treatment from other prisoners. This scheme only allows the inmate to leave his cell one hour a day for exercise.
Manning has two sheets and blankets can not be broken to prevent suicide, a measure that is taken for "precautionary " although it has no special watch for it.
House said the ministry statements are "clearly contradictory " with which Manning has done, after visiting him on Saturday and Sunday. According to his version, the detainee could not leave the yard of the prison for four weeks, so was unable to perform physical exercises. "When I mentioned the Pentagon statement that says you can do exercises, he replied that is true as walking in chains as a way of exercising" , House writes on the blog.
Manning is isolated from May in a cell 3.6 meters long by 1.8 wide, according to the site description provided by his lawyer, David Coombs . Its isolation is broken only on holidays, when you can get approved visitors, no contact for three hours.
In one of the recent statements of counsel, you specify the " harsh conditions" of life of the soldier. Of it only has pictures, almost always smiling, his previous life of a young man who at age 21 he joined the army and then was sent to Iraq , where it is believed that began copying the material disclosed. Wikileads leader , Julian Assange , repeat do not know if Manning was the filter. The technology, he argues, makes encrypt the sender's identity.
The punishment of the soldier, under consideration by the founder of Assange , does not serve anything but push him to incriminate him for accusing him of conspiracy. He says he fears that the U.S. carried and kill him.
household furniture Manning is a bed, a water fountain and a toilet. Lets not have personal possession whatsoever. Is prohibited from exercising it-now fun with yoga-in that room where you spend 23 hours a day. The other time he let out, with shackles on their feet, to an empty room to walk.
rose at five in the morning, except weekends and holidays, when the target is at seven. Between the time you awaken and eight in the evening keeps you from sleeping. If they find that it is, and there are checks every five minutes, the guards "forced him to sit or stand" as long as the lawyer. Not offer pillows or blankets, because it could endanger his life. To give a blanket to sleep. Arouse if wrapped to her head, "and the light is on permanently" , says journalist House.
rose at five in the morning, except weekends and holidays, when the target is at seven. Between the time you awaken and eight in the evening keeps you from sleeping. If they find that it is, and there are checks every five minutes, the guards "forced him to sit or stand" as long as the lawyer. Not offer pillows or blankets, because it could endanger his life. To give a blanket to sleep. Arouse if wrapped to her head, "and the light is on permanently" , says journalist House.
" The guards are professionals," adds Coombs -. At no time trying to harass. But by the nature of their work, do not talk with him " .
Every night you have 15 minutes to shower. They allow you to watch TV-channels limited, as long day, one to three hours on working days and three to six in the festivities. It is also provided books, one by one, of which he has in a list. In this set Decision point of George W. Bush , two titles Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Pure Reason -; The Art of War of Sun Tzu ; The Good Soldier, by David Finkel or In war, General Von Clausewitz .
From seven in the evening at nine is the time of mailing. Give pen and paper and is authorized to write to family, friends and his lawyer. Letters were also received to correspond with people on the list, or destroyed.
" These traumatize anyone," says Coombs told the portal The Daily Beast, one of the few interviews.
Every night you have 15 minutes to shower. They allow you to watch TV-channels limited, as long day, one to three hours on working days and three to six in the festivities. It is also provided books, one by one, of which he has in a list. In this set Decision point of George W. Bush , two titles Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Pure Reason -; The Art of War of Sun Tzu ; The Good Soldier, by David Finkel or In war, General Von Clausewitz .
From seven in the evening at nine is the time of mailing. Give pen and paper and is authorized to write to family, friends and his lawyer. Letters were also received to correspond with people on the list, or destroyed.
" These traumatize anyone," says Coombs told the portal The Daily Beast, one of the few interviews.
A Manning, who is to judge a military court, was administered to input a system of suicidal potential. Soon changed this provision and reclassified as a candidate for self-harm. " is already a sentence before trial " says the defender.
Jeff Paterson, director of the office Courage to Resist, a nonprofit organization, has already raised $ 100,000 in support of Manning. Patterson tells the The New York Times that Wikileaks not support the soldier, although " he gave them all the information ." Manning A hacker turned him Adrian Lamo. Courage to Resist calls for end of "inhuman treatment " Private.
Jeff Paterson, director of the office Courage to Resist, a nonprofit organization, has already raised $ 100,000 in support of Manning. Patterson tells the The New York Times that Wikileaks not support the soldier, although " he gave them all the information ." Manning A hacker turned him Adrian Lamo. Courage to Resist calls for end of "inhuman treatment " Private.
Bradley Manning, through his attorney, sent a message this Christmas thanks to all who support him. He reminded "to fellow deployment in Iraq and other detention in Quantico, who spend this time without the family " .
Wikileaks: not just the secrecy, but an entire culture of impunity which is at issue
By Sam Smith (*)
Although Wikileaks has begun to reveal some important state secrets, that's not the only thing that is getting extremely nervous at the establishment. Cyclopean Another problem faced is that these documents are providing a whole chain of evidence illustrating that the people who run our government is not only usually stupid, corrupt and / or dishonest, but in certain sectors, such as foreign policy, this behavior is more the norm than the exception. It is not just the secrecy, but an entire culture of impunity is in question.
Although it is a vision and spread among many citizens, from the point of view of the dominant classes, the evidence is much more dangerous than mere opinion. The paperwork is truly terrible.
If all this sounds vaguely familiar to you, the description of an old film can help us: "In his triumphant return to the Emerald City, Toto exposes the Wizard of Oz as a fraud, the curtain aside to reveal a man is nothing magical about running a huge control console consists of wheels and levers."
No a bad description of how Washington works today. Sure
Wikileaks also reveals how some honest people trying to do things honest. But the game's power and honesty are not mutually exclusive, a modest contribution of the Independent to describe the conversion of the former drug czar British legalization: "Mr. Ainworth said that his departure from office now gives you the freedom to express his view that 'the war on drugs has been nothing short of a disaster'. "
In other words, while occupying a public office was not allowed to disclose that the war against drugs was almost a disaster. It is difficult for a standard fit within the definition of a functioning democracy.
To make such a ban to be truly effective you need relatively few people who knows the secret and not to two million people in military personnel with appropriate Internet passwords.
This is the long-term damage caused Wikileaks. A soldier Satin in Iraq can learn more states secret that many members of the club known as the Washington establishment. All those years in the Ivy League, all those lunches at the Metropolitan Club, all those boring lectures at think tanks is coming down with a few CDs and memory sticks.
Washington culture has been based for a long time in a small group of people who shared power, lunch and secrets, they planned with the help of the sycophantic scribes of the media-an aura of competence and wisdom.
This culture is what makes a head stuck to his eyebrows in the establishment as the Daily Beast open a story with the following sentence: "As the world expressed their grief by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke ..."
imagine that "the world" is expressing his grief by Richard Holbrooke requires a global perspective that borders the microscopic, but this is how does the U.S. ruling class. The idea that a mere soldier in the army and an eccentric Australian could remove the clothing of them look comfortable thrills like few other things.
So, Wikileaks has not only exposed to state secrets, but also to the Washington Wizards, and is probably this is what these magicians hate more.
(*) Sam Smith is the editor of Progressive Review . This article was published in Counterpunch.org on 21 December.
(Sources: AFP, La Vanguardia, Barcelona and SINPERMISO)
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