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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Wed Mar 13, 2013, 11:31 AM Mar 2013

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Daniel Ellsberg: In Hearing Bradley Manning Acts Out of Conscience = Secret Tape

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Daniel Ellsberg: In Hearing Bradley Manning Acts Out of Conscience = Secret Tape (Original Post) Coyotl Mar 2013 OP

Ellsberg's on Fire. Huge Rec. n/t Smarmie Doofus Mar 2013 #1

+1000 blackspade Mar 2013 #2

A true American hero. DeSwiss Mar 2013 #3

Times have changed. Now we need secret recordings to know what happens in secret courts. Coyotl Mar 2013 #4

Good points, all. n/t Smarmie Doofus Mar 2013 #5

I agree they have changed. DeSwiss Mar 2013 #6

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

1. Ellsberg's on Fire. Huge Rec. n/t

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 12:08 PM

Mar 2013

blackspade

(10,056 posts)

2. +1000

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 03:49 PM

Mar 2013

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

3. A true American hero.

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 06:23 PM

Mar 2013

He (as with Bradley Manning), acted when others would have shrunk at the thought of upbraiding the powers that be for their atrocities against humanity -- all for filthy lucre. He didn't have to. He could have stuck his head in the sand like most. But he answered the call of conscience when it came.

K&R

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

4. Times have changed. Now we need secret recordings to know what happens in secret courts.

Reply to DeSwiss (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 10:27 PM

Mar 2013

How many people disappear into that system without a limelight on their existence?

Also, who risked what to get this secret recording to the public?

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)

5. Good points, all. n/t

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 12:32 AM

Mar 2013

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

6. I agree they have changed.

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 12:41 AM

Mar 2013

Fewer heroes. More atrocities. More sheep. More boot.

- But you have to realize you're a slave, before you'll try to escape the plantation.....

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