Bradley Manning: MEPs' open letter to the US government(wikileaks-forum.com)

22 pointsby asto15 anni fa5 comments

Bradley Manning: MEPs' open letter to the US government

http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,6479.msg25280.html#msg25280

5 comments

asto15 anni fa

It's amazing what the US has turned into. US citizens are subjected to torture by the government and its agencies, citizens are put through hell and treated like criminals by the TSA just to fly, the rich and the powerful are bailed out of their own mistakes while citizens are left with nothing.

To someone looking in from the outside (like me), it looks like the US is slowly devolving into a third world state going by the shabby treatment of its own citizens.

Edit: I forgot to mention the atrocious debt!

click17015 anni fa

I'm not amazed at what the US has turned into, but I am surprised by the complacency demonstrated by the majority of Americans. As long as nobody tries to take away TV and our creature comforts, to hell with the people the government is openly torturing, surely they deserve it, right?

As someone looking in from Canada, it looks to me like America is going the way of the Soviet Union, and muchly due to the same problem, exessive corruption and greed sprinkled with some good old homegrown American apathy.

nodata15 anni fa

I think we need to redefine what the "first world" means.

America by many measures doesn't seem first world to me: the most vulnerable people do not have an acceptable quality of life.

mistermustard15 anni fa

Just link to the letter as published by The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/29/bradley-manning-...

click17015 anni fa

Better than the headline link which takes you to a page with an annoying floating box telling you how easy it is to join their forum and that you should join their forum because it's so easy to join.