12 people who should be in prison instead of Bradley Manning

Source:  Liberation News

Who are the real criminals? Here's a preliminary list

 On July 30, a judge in a military court found Bradley Manning guilty of 19 of the 21 charges brought against him. Although he was acquitted of “aiding the enemy,” the most serious he faced, Manning could still face a sentence of well over 100 years' imprisonment.

It is absurd that the U.S. government would prosecute Manning, a whistleblower who exposed crimes and secrets that were being covered up by the Pentagon and State Department. It is equally absurd that the so-called justice system allows the real criminals in society—Wall Street drug launderers, CEOs responsible for willful and deadly negligence, racist murderers, killer cops and war criminals—to walk free. Below is a list of a dozen people, in no particular order, who should rightfully be sitting in prison cells instead of Bradley Manning.

1. George Zimmerman

Racist vigilante George Zimmerman murdered 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford, Fla., as Martin walked home from a convenience store. Although Zimmerman got out of his car with a handgun and stalked the totally unarmed Trayvon, while muttering racist insults about “punks” who “always get away,” he was found not guilty by an overwhelmingly white jury. Zimmerman has shown no remorse and expressed "no regrets" for his cold-blooded crime, going so far as to ask the Black community to apologize to him following his outrageous acquittal.

2. Don Blankenship

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is responsible for the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion that killed 29 coal miners in Raleigh County, W. Va. His insatiable drive for greater and greater profit led him to blatantly ignore safety regulations—the mine was cited for 57 infractions the month of the disaster, including two the very day of the explosion

3. George W. Bush

President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 despite losing the popular vote in the dubious 2000 election, George W. Bush is a war criminal notorious for the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In addition to the deaths of well over 1 million civilians who were killed as a result of these wars, Bush supported the failed 2002 coup in Venezuela, the 2004 coup and subsequent occupation of Haiti, and the criminally negligent response to Hurricane Katrina, in which hundreds of mostly Black residents of New Orleans died after being totally abandoned by government “relief” agencies.

4. Johannes Mehserle

Bay Area Rapid Transit cop Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant, a Black man who had a 4-year-old daughter, on a train in Oakland, Calif., on New Year’s Day, 2009. Mehserle attacked Grant, who was trying to break up a fight, threw him on the ground and, while Grant was restrained and lying face down, fatally shot him in the back. Although Mehserle’s shocking crime was caught on video, he served less than eight months in prison and walks free today.

5. Joe Arpaio

Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a symbol of racism and anti-immigrant hate, who has waged a campaign of terror against undocumented workers and all oppressed people since taking office in 1993. He regularly subjects prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment, was an outspoken backer of the SB1070 “show me your papers” law and has taken his department’s policy of racial profiling to such extremes that even the Department of Justice filed suit against him last year.

6. Ken Thompson

Money launderer of choice for a range of drug cartels, Ken Thompson served as CEO of Wachovia Corporation from 2000 until 2008—the sixth largest bank in the country until the financial crash led to its taxpayer-funded acquisition by Wells Fargo. He helped brutal narcotics trafficking syndicates embezzle an estimated $378 billion between 2004 and 2007, but unlike most victims of the racist war on drugs, his organization was able to settle out of court. They paid just a fraction of a percent of what they earned from their drug dealings.

7. Henry Kissinger

National security adviser from 1969-1975 and secretary of state from 1973 to 1977, Henry Kissinger played a key role in the genocidal Vietnam War and orchestrated the 1973 coup in Chile that led to 17 years of blood-soaked military dictatorship. For his distinguished service to world imperialism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

8. Richard Haste

On Feb. 2, 2012, Officer Richard Haste kicked down the door into 18-year-old Ramarley Graham’s home in the oppressed South Bronx neighborhood of New York City, and then ran upstairs and fatally shot Graham in his bathroom based on the suspicion that he was in possession of a bag of marijuana. Graham was completely unarmed.

9. Dick Cheney

A key figure in the notorious Bush administration, former Vice-President Dick Cheney played a central role in the murderous invasion of Iraq and the adoption of torture as an official government policy. The CEO of energy conglomerate Halliburton immediately prior to taking office, he used the brutal occupation of Iraq as an opportunity to reward his business connections.

10. Luis Posada Carriles

International terrorist Luis Posada Carriles began his career as a torturer for Venezuela’s now-defunct DISIP secret police, but soon became a central figure in the CIA-backed campaign of counter-revolutionary terrorism against Cuba. Along with his accomplice Orlando Bosch, he carried out the bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455 in 1976, killing all 73 people on board. He now lives in Miami.

11. Oliver North

Current TV personality and author, Ret. Col. Oliver North was in charge of the Iran-Contra scheme in which he illegally funneled money to the “Contra” death squads attempting to undo the historic 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. Working closely with cocaine traffickers, this arrangement was an important component of a broader reign of terror imposed by the U.S. government aimed at repressing revolutionary movements throughout Central America in the 1980s that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

12. Lamar McKay

As president of BP America, Lamar McKay is responsible for the 2010 BP oil spill following an explosion on the inadequately constructed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 workers. Hundreds of millions of gallons of oil filled the Gulf of Mexico over the course of nearly three months, destroying the environment and devastating communities along the Gulf Coast. Currently, McKay is head of BP’s Upstream unit, which is tasked with oil and natural gas exploration.

Israel Is A Rogue Nation That's Committing War Crimes

By George Bisharat from The Wallstreet Journal:

Israel's current assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. Senior Israeli political and military leaders may bear personal liability for their offenses, and they could be prosecuted by an international tribunal, or by nations practicing universal jurisdiction over grave international crimes. Hamas fighters have also violated the laws of warfare, but their misdeeds do not justify Israel's acts.

You know it makes me sick to my stomach the way the American Media and the American Politician takes Israel side no matter what they do. You have politicians from both sides of the isle from the so called liberals to moderates and conservatives lining up to express their support for Israel's actions in Gaza. WTF do the Zionist control the American government?

Israel had not suffered an "armed attack" immediately prior to its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Since firing the first Kassam rocket into Israel in 2002, Hamas and other Palestinian groups have loosed thousands of rockets and mortar shells into Israel, causing about two dozen Israeli deaths and widespread fear. As indiscriminate attacks on civilians, these were war crimes. During roughly the same period, Israeli forces killed about 2,700 Palestinians in Gaza by targeted killings, aerial bombings, in raids, etc., according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.

But on June 19, 2008, Hamas and Israel commenced a six-month truce. Neither side complied perfectly. Israel refused to substantially ease the suffocating siege of Gaza imposed in June 2007. Hamas permitted sporadic rocket fire -- typically after Israel killed or seized Hamas members in the West Bank, where the truce did not apply. Either one or no Israelis were killed (reports differ) by rockets in the half year leading up to the current attack.

Israel then broke the truce on Nov. 4, raiding the Gaza Strip and killing a Palestinian. Hamas retaliated with rocket fire; Israel then killed five more Palestinians. In the following days, Hamas continued rocket fire -- yet still no Israelis died. Israel cannot claim self-defense against this escalation, because it was provoked by Israel's own violation.

An armed attack that is not justified by self-defense is a war of aggression. Under the Nuremberg Principles affirmed by U.N. Resolution 95, aggression is a crime against peace.

Israel has also failed to adequately discriminate between military and nonmilitary targets. Israel's American-made F-16s and Apache helicopters have destroyed mosques, the education and justice ministries, a university, prisons, courts and police stations. These institutions were part of Gaza's civilian infrastructure. And when nonmilitary institutions are targeted, civilians die. Many killed in the last week were young police recruits with no military roles. Civilian employees in the Hamas-led government deserve the protections of international law like all others. Hamas's ideology -- which employees may or may not share -- is abhorrent, but civilized nations do not kill people merely for what they think.

Deliberate attacks on civilians that lack strict military necessity are war crimes. Israel's current violations of international law extend a long pattern of abuse of the rights of Gaza Palestinians. Eighty percent of Gaza's 1.5 million residents are Palestinian refugees who were forced from their homes or fled in fear of Jewish terrorist attacks in 1948. For 60 years, Israel has denied the internationally recognized rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes -- because they are not Jews.

Although Israel withdrew its settlers and soldiers from Gaza in 2005, it continues to tightly regulate Gaza's coast, airspace and borders. Thus, Israel remains an occupying power with a legal duty to protect Gaza's civilian population. But Israel's 18-month siege of the Gaza Strip preceding the current crisis violated this obligation egregiously. It brought economic activity to a near standstill, left children hungry and malnourished, and denied Palestinian students opportunities to study abroad.

Israel should be held accountable for its crimes, and the U.S. should stop abetting it with unconditional military and diplomatic support.

It would be nice to see some members of the US government get tried for aiding and abetting the criminal regime in Israel. When is the fucking International Community going to stand up and enforce international law on all leaders that violate the law?

The Juice Got Squeezed For Up To 33 Years, Was It Payback?

From The Huffington Post:

A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."

The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced as Judge Jackie Glass rattled off the punishment. Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions.

He choked back tears as he told her: "I didn't want to steal anything from anyone. ... I'm sorry, sorry."

Simpson said he was simply trying to retrieve sports memorabilia and other mementos, including his first wife's wedding ring, from two dealers when he stormed a Las Vegas hotel room on Sept. 13, 2007.

But the judge emphasized that it was a violent confrontation in which at least one gun was drawn, and she said someone could have been shot. She said the evidence was overwhelming, with the planning, the confrontation itself and the aftermath all recorded on audio or videotape.

Glass, a no-nonsense judge known for her tough sentences, imposed such a complex series of consecutive and concurrent sentences that even many attorneys watching the case were confused as to how much time Simpson got.

Simpson could serve up to 33 years but could be eligible for parole after nine years, according to Elana Roberto, the judge's clerk.

I think OJ Simpson got the correct verdict in his murder trial, and I don't think he should have had to tip around for the rest of his life so people didn't perceive him to be arrogant or rubbing their faces in it because he wanted to go golfing. He is the poster child for "Don't mess with our white girls!" every since that day, and black men have carried this weight since the days of slavery when blacks were hung for looking at a white woman. This is why a lot of black mothers tell their sons to "leave those white girls alone" because "white society" will not treat you the same if things go wrong. OJ is the one black man who is perceived to have gotten away with something against a white woman. Had he been married to a black woman, nobody would care if he was found not guilty. His life would have gone on. But because she was white, he deserves to rot in hell, or die in jail, EVEN IF he was proved to be innocent in a court of law.

George Bush Should Be Prosecuted After Leaving Office

Electing Barack Obama president was the first step in redeeming American democracy. The second step must be indicting ex-president George W. Bush, giving him a fair trial, finding him guilty of many criminal acts and putting him in prison. Forget revenge. Think rule of law and justice.

I want President Obama soon after taking office to go on television and announce the formation of a special group of outstanding jurists and attorneys to make a recommendation whether or not the US Justice Department should bring criminal charges against George W. Bush. Based on earlier analyses, including work by the American Bar Association, I have no doubt they will recommend indictment.

If moral honesty and courage have any meaning, then the nation must take seriously the concept that no president can ever be allowed to be above the law. How can President Obama not strongly support this? Surely no president must be allowed to disrespect and dishonor the US Constitution. George W. Bush broke his oath of office. His behavior was treasonous. Instead of defending the Constitution he disgraced it. Instead of protecting constitutional rights, including privacy, he sullied them. He asserted his right to ignore or not enforce laws so he could break them. Respect for the office of the presidency must never be allowed to trump truth and justice.

Millions and millions of Americans and people worldwide know that George W. Bush made 9/11 the trigger for initiating an illegal war in Iraq that has killed and maimed so many thousands of people. What Vincent Bugliosi, author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" called "the most serious crime ever committed in American history." I say convict Bush of myriad counts of criminally negligent homicide related to both Iraq and the Katrina disaster and put him in prison. A former president in prison would not disgrace the presidency. It would restore honor to the office and the Constitution.

Surely millions more people now understand that George W. Bush bears responsibility for creating the conditions that encouraged greed-driven capitalism to rape and murder the middle class and push us into the current global economic meltdown. By removing government oversight and regulation he committed the greatest acts of fraud in the history of mankind. After he made American democracy delusional he made prosperity delusional.

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I agree one hundred percent, Bush need to be punished. You shouldn't be allowed to get away with the mess he have put this country through. Wether his actions were criminal or incompetence or both he need to face a judge.

Brother-In-Law Arrested In Hudson Family Murders

From The Huffington Post:

Police arrested the estranged brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson on Monday in the deaths of the entertainer's mother, brother and young nephew, taking him from a prison where he had been held on a suspected parole violation.

William Balfour was arrested at Stateville Correctional Center and released to detectives as he awaited formal charges in the shooting deaths of the singer and Oscar-winning actress' relatives, said Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond.

Until Monday, police had identified Balfour, 27, only as a "person of interest" in the investigation. He had not been charged by late Monday afternoon, said Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.

The bodies of Jennifer Hudson's mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson, and brother, Jason Hudson, were discovered Oct. 24 at the family's home on the South Side of Chicago. The body of 7-year-old Julian King was found three days later in a sport utility vehicle on the West Side. All three had been shot.

I hope this William Balfour character get a fair trial, and if he is indeed guilty I hope they throw the book at his ass. I don't like to judge a person before they have had their time in court but if he is guilty of murdering that little 7 year old child and Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother then he need to get the maximum sentence. I'm not an advocate of capital punishment but this crime was just senseless and just foul. This negro murdering his own relative like he's some psycho Norman Bates.

Black Man Posing As White Racist Arrested

From The Sun Herald:

A black man from Mississippi has been arrested and accused of sending racist death threats over the Internet to three black students at Louisiana's Nicholls State University.

The FBI in New Orleans said Dyron Hart, 19, was arrested Wednesday. He is accused of sending the messages by way of the students' Facebook accounts. The messages contained racial epithets and death threats and were sent to two black women and a black man at Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La.

The author of those messages cast himself as a white man who intended to kill blacks because Barack Obama was elected president.

Hart told an FBI agent that he sent the messages to "get a reaction," according to the agent's sworn statement.

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An FBI news release said Hart, if convicted, would face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Repeatedly using an obscenity and the N-word, the author of the message threatens to kill more than 3,000 black people in a month because of Obama's election and warns the recipient of a pending attack from "a random white man," according to the agent's affidavit.

All I can say is this Dyron Hart character is one dumb ass. I'm glad the authorities are taking these racial threats serious because there are some real racist out there that would like to do real harm. So the prankster like Mr. Hart should be taught a lesson. They should throw the book at this clown.

8 Year Old Boy Kills Father And Friend

What is going on in this country? I just came across this story out of St. Johns, Arizona. From CNN:

An 8-year-old boy is scheduled in court Monday to face two counts of premeditated murder in the shooting death of his father and a friend. The hearing comes on the same day mourners were to gather for a funeral.

Police say the boy, a third-grader, confessed to planning and carrying out the shooting deaths of his father, Vincent Romero, 29, and a co-worker who rented a room from him.

The men were found dead inside Romero's home northeast of Phoenix on Wednesday.
Authorities had no motive for the shootings.

"That's what's puzzling to us," Police Chief Roy Melnick said Monday on NBC's "Today" show. "There's no record of any problems in school, no reported abuse."

Romero came from a family of hunters and wanted to make sure the boy wasn't afraid of guns, said the Rev. John Paul Sauter of St. Johns Catholic Church. He said the father taught his son how to use a rifle to kill prairie dogs.

Police say the boy used a .22-caliber rifle to kill his father and the other man, Timothy Romans, 39, of San Carlos.

St. Johns police are hoping a judge will agree to try the boy as an adult, but they admit it's unlikely.

The boy's attorney says police questioned his client without representation from a parent or attorney and didn't advise the child of his rights.

The killings took place in the St. Johns, a town of about 4,000 people located roughly 170 miles northeast of Phoenix.

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Stories like this is like the America's chickens come home to roost. America is still clinging to her ancient and out dated gun laws. You have evil organizations like the National Rifle Association (NRA) who want to see more guns on America's streets including automatic assault rifles. I bet if Mr. Romero had it do all over again he would have never taught his young son about guns.