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Participation and Recognition
by judd Tuesday, Apr 15 2014, 1:22pm
international / prose / post

Participation in the institutions of a system reinforces that system whether that participation is in opposition or conformity.

Prior to the brazen, hypocritical and absurdist stance of Washington in relation to its criminal involvement in the Ukraine, a much larger inversion of law, order and REASON occurred in the illegal (show) ‘trial’ of Pfc Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning during which Manning was sentenced to 35 years incarceration for revealing US military war crimes and other US crimes against humanity. Notwithstanding Manning’s supremely heroic service to civilised humanity and culture, he was nevertheless railroaded by a CLEARLY CRIMINAL REGIME with the participatory assistance of his own defence team which failed to vigorously protest the OBVIOUS LEGAL ABSURDITY of the criminally ACCUSED sitting in JUDGEMENT of the moral ACCUSER!

Manning’s case should have been heard in an international court as the accused was a State military; failing that -- the Hague is now widely known to be a politicised and highly partial court system that CLEARLY favours western interests -- Manning should have been tried in a non-military jurisdiction. The failure of Manning’s military defence to remove him from an obviously predetermined outcome was clearly built into the proceedings -- Manning was a goner before the ‘trial’ began, indeed, the legally trained president of the United States is on record for stating plainly in a media interview that Manning "broke the law," before a decision had been reached; a mistrial should have been declared immediately!

The monumental corruption and miscarriage of JUSTICE that Manning’s defence participated in served to LEGITIMISE THE PROCESS and REINFORCE an existing PERVERSE SYSTEM not highlight its criminality.

Manning’s case was designed from the start to make an example of him in order to deter all future (genuine) whistle-blowers and demonstrate that a criminal State is able to overrule the legal process and civilised convention in order to accomplish its dastardly deeds with impunity.

With the above reality firmly established we are shocked to learn (see link) that more participation in the perversity has recently occurred in the form of a request for clemency -- the correct and most effective approach, given the criminal nature of the US military, is to make repeated representations to international legal bodies and insist that Manning be re-tried in an IMPARTIAL COURT and that the war criminals Manning exposed be held accountable for their heinous crimes -- simple, but it requires support from influential groups/people and the population at large. Manning’s case has the potential to restore justice and law to a lost nation.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/15-3