Look at the sort of people that rule society. We had the imbecile Bush who was so stupid and disconnected from the world around him that he said the French don't have a word for "entrepreneur". This was supposed to insult the French because they didn't emulate the war criminal Blair and lick Bush's boots. What difference is Bush to Gaddafi? If Gaddafi is supposed to tried by a world court, Bush certainly should, and Rumsfeld, Powell and Wolfowitz. Of course its no real court as it is the big thugs charging the little thugs who get out of control.
Now, the US State Department spokesperson P.J. Crowley has been forced to resign after he publicly said that the US government's treatment of Bradley Manning, the heroic young soldier they have charged with leaking documents to Wikileaks is "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid". The media calls this a "gaffe". In other words, he told the truth in public. Manning is being tortured by the US government for allegedly revealing truths to the US population and the world about the dirty dealings and phony diplomacy of the capitalist class. So his treatment may well be considered "stupid" and "counterproductive" by a representative of his jailers but it is more than that, it is inhumane and a crime.
The reason for Manning's treatment is to serve as a warning to those young men and women in the military to keep their mouths shut.
But we can see that while Bush was an imbecile, and an imbecile with power can be very destructive as the millions of deaths he is responsible for shows, Obama is just as much a representative of the same forces as Bush, a somewhat slicker mouthed smarter version.
Manning's treatment is inhumane by any standards and many have accused the US government of torturing him. So what does Obama do? He asks the generals and warmongers at the Pentagon and tells us he has "received assurances that the terms of Pte Manning's confinement were appropriate." Imagine the sort of character you have to be to rise to these positions. The bourgeois have to trust you completely, trust you to steal, kill maim and lie about it with a strait face. Their propaganda machine churns out all sorts of garbage about what fine upstanding characters they are. How they have morals and go to church and pray for peace while waging war and all that phony stuff. How they serve their country, as opposed to looting it which is what they actually do. As a Union steward I had to represent some characters in my time but no worker was as immoral as these people. A worker could steal off the boss every day of their lives and not steal as much and cause the misery to humanity and the planet that the capitalist class do.
We live in a society where the war criminals are rich and walk free and the person that exposes them is in jail. That's not freedom and its not civilization. This is the only known "evidence" against Bradley Manning, it is from an on-line conversation:
"God knows what happens now. Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates and reforms-if not, we're doomed as a species. I will officially give up on the society we have if nothing happens. I want people to see the truth....because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public."
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