Bradley Manning wishing he’d just shot an unarmed black teenager
Bradley Manning was today jailed for 35 years for leaking classified documents to the Wikileaks website, before admitting he wished he’d just got his kicks shooting black kids.
Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, was convicted in July of 20 charges against him, including espionage, but was not charged with the far lesser crime of killing an unarmed black teenager.
Manning spoke to reporters after the hearing, to admit his disappointment at the sentence, telling those gathered, “I look back to that fateful day and wish I’d just left those files on my computer and gone out and shot a black kid instead.”
“I tell you now, my life would be a lot less complicated if I’d only taken the life of a young person from a different ethnic background, instead of sending some documents to a website.”
“I am sure that for the rest of my days I will rue the decision to send some emails and not to kill a black teenager.”
Legal experts have expressed support for the 35 year sentence given to Manning, by explaining that members of the public don’t actually understand how the law works.
Former lawyer Simon Williams explained, “Illegally taking information you don’t have the right to access, and using it for your own purposes is only ‘properly’ illegal if you’re not a government agency.”
“Governments can do what they like with information they’re not allowed to have – if nothing else, Prism has taught us that.”
“Whereas absolutely anyone can shoot a black teenager to death, obviously.”
http://newsthump.com/2013/08/21/bradley-manning-wishing-hed-just-shot-an-unarmed-black-teenager/
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guess it's ok to joke about a dead black kid on DU now. 
And every person that rec'd that shit, ought to be a shamed. If Rush or Hannity had made some fucked up joke like that, we'd have burned the house down condemning them.
Fucking disgusting.
Oh yeah, that's fucking hilarious.
Yeah, I know it's satire, but some shit ain't funny.
great, cuz it made me want to puke.
That Trayvon were more dead?
Tweaked the noses..indeed.
You are right it's
It's brutal. It's spot on.
It might make people cringe more than think
This is post worthy!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/ebony-trayvon-covers-sons-photos_n_3715134.html
Unfricking believable along with the recs that got this here.
and/or offended by this..means we have our noses out of joint or don't get the satire or some such fucking nonsense. 
That does not make it amusing.
Did you think Daniel Tosh's jokes about rape were funny? Many did! Guess what. It was not. 
for it to be self deleted and what you said up thread, I really do. Please don't take what I said as a slight against you, it wasn't intended that way. 
I tried to get it hidden.
I alerted, but by the time I did it was already allowed to stand. I asked them to get this foul OP out of here. However, I then started alerting people that I know to come read it. To see the ones that are rec'ing it. I think we should get the word out.
one_voice.
not with how DU has been recently.
I'm not at all surprised by who it rec'ing the thread. They have tunnel vision their cause, their agenda is all they can see.
I thought I'd seen the bottom until this. If nothing else it's far too soon to even think this is ok.
They don't care, they have no shame. They're proud of this shit.
Here's the tell, which one of them would hand this garbage to Trayvon's parents and explain 'sometimes the truth hurts' I'd pay all expenses for the loudest mouth to go personally hand this crap to Trayvons dad. Come out from behind your keyboard and own it.
unarmed black teenager guilty of nothing more than walking while black (as did Zimmerman), Manning could have received less of a sentence than did even the self-confessed torturers of Abu Ghraib (not to mention their puppet masters).
Put it this way: had Manning merely tortured a few Iraqi detainees, he would have received a far less lengthy sentence than he received for his offenses. Because everyone in the American imperium knows that copying and pasting files is a far more serious offense than torturing women and children.
That should tell you that something is terribly amiss in late-imperial America. Satire is designed to reveal our blind spots to ourselves.
"My wife is also a black woman."
Again, LMAO!!
Yeah, and my husband's a Klingon!
I guess now you are going to say. "I showed her this post and she said great satire".
First word....
ass 1 (s)
n. pl. ass·es (sz)
1. Any of several hoofed mammals of the genus Equus, resembling and closely related to the horses but having a smaller build and longer ears, and including the domesticated donkey.
2. A vain, self-important, silly, or aggressively stupid person.
Second word...
hole (hl)
n.
1. A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit: dug a hole in the ground with a shovel.
2.
a. An opening or perforation: a hole in the clouds; had a hole in the elbow of my sweater.
b. Sports An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders.
c. A fault or flaw: There are holes in your argument.
3. A deep place in a body of water.
4. An animal's hollowed-out habitation, such as a burrow.
5. An ugly, squalid, or depressing dwelling.
6. A deep or isolated place of confinement; a dungeon.
That means a lot. I don't want to puke anymore. 
I think that it is refreshing to see so many standing up to the self serving, divisive posts which have no connection whatever to do with anything remotely to current topics or LBN. Please, do us all a favor, troll some where else.
Hhhhmmm, you started this flame war, it was your OP. You reap what you sow. 
Most respect that here at DU. When you try to piggy back on something that has nothing to do with your personal discussion, well maybe you will get flamed.
