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DESCRIPTION:Free Bradley Manning\n\nDemonstration Monday June 10th, 6:00 PM, Monterey 
 Conference Center (outside)\n\nThis is the evening of the last Leon Panetta 
 2013 Lecture Series event at 6:30 pm, and so the demonstration will be 
 visible to the people attending the lecture as they arrive at the 
 Conference Center. The topic is “Middle East Turmoil: Chaos or Reform?” 
 with Secretary Panetta as moderator.  Guests for the final event are  Ehud 
 Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister and former Minister of Defense; Joe 
 Lieberman, former United States Senator  from Connecticut; and Richard 
 Lugar, former United States Senator from Indiana and former chairman of the 
 Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.\n        \nPlease read the article 
 at the site below:\n 
 \nhttp://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/17814-focus-as-bradley-manning-trial-begins-press-predictably-misses-the-point\n\nHere 
 is an excerpt from the article:\n \nIf I was working for the Pentagon’s 
 PR department, …  I  would beat it into the head of every hack on this 
 beat that the court-martial is about a troubled young man with gender 
 identity problems, that the key issue of law here rests inside the mind of 
 young PFC Manning, that the only important issue of fact for both a jury 
 and the American people to decide is exactly the question in [the current] 
 headlines.\nIs Manning a hero, or a traitor? Did he give thousands of files 
 to WikiLeaks out of a sense of justice and moral horror, or did he do it 
 because he had interpersonal problems, because he couldn’t keep his job, 
 because he was a woman trapped in a man’s body, because he was a 
 fame-seeker, because he was lonely?\n\nYou get the press and the rest of 
 America following that bouncing ball, and the game’s over. Almost no 
 matter what the outcome of the trial is, if you can convince the American 
 people that this case is about mental state of a single troubled kid from 
 Crescent, Oklahoma, then the propaganda war has been won 
 already.\n\nBecause in reality, this case does not have anything to do with 
 who Bradley Manning is, or even, really, what his motives were. This case 
 is entirely about the “classified” materials Manning had access to, and 
 whether or not they contained widespread evidence of war crimes.\n\nThis 
 whole thing, this trial, it all comes down to one simple equation. If you 
 can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the 
 punishing is itself criminal.\n\nManning, by whatever means, stumbled into 
 a massive archive of evidence of state-sponsored murder and torture, and 
 for whatever reason, he released it. The debate we should be having is over 
 whether as a people we approve of the acts he uncovered that were being 
 done in our names.\n\n___________________________________\n\nWhat the 
 WikiLeaks articles 
 revealed:\n\nhttp://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/WhatWLRevealed.pdf\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/09/18738178.php
SUMMARY:Support Bradley Manning Demonstration in Monterey
LOCATION:Monterey Conference Center\nOne Portola Plaza\nMonterey, CA 93940
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/09/18738178.php
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