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Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement

posted by LaminatorX on Friday August 14 2015, @07:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ministry-of-Love dept.

captain_nifty writes:

As reported here

Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private convicted of leaking national security secrets, faces a hearing Tuesday for prison infractions that could result in solitary confinement.

Manning, who was intelligence analyst Bradley Manning when arrested in 2010, is charged with disrespect of a prison officer and is accused having books and magazines including Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, among other offenses.

Noteable from the article, it is apparently "disrespect of an officer" to request a lawyer.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @10:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @10:31AM (#222769)

    As a civilian you can choose who to respect, but military discipline demands automatic respect for the arbitrary chain-of-command. Don't like it? Don't join the military. I know I won't.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @10:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @10:47AM (#222773)

    If it is "disrespect" in the military to request a lawyer to help defend you, then they deserve no respect at all. They want (but don't necessarily get) mindless slaves, which is the exact opposite of what is needed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @12:06PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @12:06PM (#222786)

      You NEED me on that wall!

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 14 2015, @03:09PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 14 2015, @03:09PM (#222853) Journal

      Correction: Bitchly Manning is not in the military. It is a dishonorably discharged felon, subject to the rules and regulations of the penal system. Don't EVER make the mistake of calling that bitch a soldier. It wasn't even a good soldier while it wore the uniform. It was a constant discipline problem.

      All you Manning fanboys have forgotten that he ASSAULTED a senior NCO? A female NCO. A real woman. THE BITCH TRIED TO BITCH SLAP A WOMAN - and apparently was knocked on it's ass.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @06:02PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @06:02PM (#222931)

        What the fuck does any of that have to do with my comment?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:04PM (#222821)

    Any grunt will tell you there are ways and means of making your feelings shown. Some officers get respect, others get 'respect' where it is obvious to all parties they are only going though the motions, but they are doing nothing they could be pulled up on.

    I suspect Chelsea Manning doesn't have the practised skills to do the second type, and may never develop them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @04:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @04:05PM (#222877)

    In the military you have to respect the rank, you do not have to respect the person. Subtle but important difference.