Why is there silence over Bradley Manning?

[Barrex]

He was tortured for years (no sheets, naked, without windows 23h a day....).

There were few protests and few sparks on internet but that was it. I expected a lot more. I dont get it.

 

[WarAnonymous]

First they came for the whistle blowers, but I wasn't one so I said nothing.
Then they came for the Freedom lovers and constitutionalists but I wasn't one so I said nothing.
After that they came for the ones that would not easily conform, but I conformed so I said nothing.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to help me.

 

[WarAnonymous]

Whoops

 

[DonovanJames]

I was enlisted in 2006 to enter the Air Force in an intelligence position, a month before my shipment and through circumstances completely in my control, I was convicted of a few things which disqualified me from entering. After hearing about Bradley Manning I could not help but draw a parallel to my own life thinking it could of possibly been me. I don't know if I would of had the courage to do what he did and to never submit despite the charges he faced.

I tried to talk to my family and friends about him, I brought it up at our Central Committee meeting, I brought it up at Lincoln Days -- No one knew and few cared. It hurts immensely to be talking to people I've known for years or a lifetime yet feel so distant and alienated. I can't even begin to imagine how hurt Bradley must feel knowing America for a lifetime and now being forgotten.