LibertyMinute July 30 2013

Private First Class Bradley Manning exposed war crimes. For this he has been convicted of 19 criminal counts, including five espionage charges. He was acquitted on a charge of aiding the enemy, which carried a life sentence. He still faces the prospect of years in prison.

Prior to his trial, Manning was held for nine months in an especially severe form of solitary confinement that involved forced nudity, sleep deprivation, and persistent abuse. His treatment was found by a judge to be illegal.

Like Private Manning, Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins served inIraq. He committed war crimes of the kind Manning helped expose to the public. He led an eight-man squad that kidnapped an innocent Iraqi man from his home, took him to a ditch and shot him in the face. They then planted a gun and a shovel and claimed that the Iraqi, a retired police officer, was a suspected insurgent.

Hutchins was sentenced to 15 years for murder. A military appeals court has overturned that conviction, claiming that the Sergeant was unlawfully detained without a lawyer for seven days.

Under the Regime that rules us committing war crimes is a duty ? but reporting them is a felony.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.