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April 25, 2011 The Left's Favorite Traitor Treason Has Become a Fashion Statement <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.192/author_detail.asp> Ralph Peters Print This <javascript:%20printVersion()> E-mail This <javascript:%20emailVersion()> <javascript:void(0);> http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis <javascript:void(0);> Comments (5) <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=9327> http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110112_RALPHPETERSBANNER.jpg The only crime our government has committed against PFC Bradley Manning, the pudgy little arch-traitor adored by America's left, is that the taxpayer is still paying to house, feed and medically treat him. After brazenly committing the worst security breach since the Rosenbergs passed our atomic bomb secrets to Stalin sixty-odd years ago-then bragging about it-Manning should have been tried by military tribunal, convicted based on the impregnable evidence he himself provided, sentenced to death and hanged promptly. Manning should no longer be an issue. But our politically correct military, sunk in ethical mediocrity, declared months ago that it would not seek the death penalty against this poisonous worm. No real surprise: the military's obsession with tolerance protected not just Major Nidal Hasan, the Islamist-terrorist who staged the Ft. Hood massacre, but delayed booting Manning out of the Army because commanders and lawyers were just as conflicted about his sexuality as Manning was himself. Nor did it matter that he had physically assaulted a superior. The self-proclaimed malcontent was allowed continued access to a classified computer work-station from which he stole the hundreds of thousands of secret and confidential documents he provided to WikiLeaks-giving our enemies around the globe the most-detailed picture of how our military operates and how our diplomacy functions that has ever been revealed about any government. Manning's data dump was, and is, a catastrophe. Our government plays it down. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110424_ManningBadge.jpg As a result, Manning has become a hero to the American left, where voices call for his freedom and accuse our military of "torturing" him because he was deprived of clothing items with which he might have committed suicide. Worse, this blithe and monstrous traitor was kept in solitary confinement while under evaluation. To the left's even greater mortification, Manning gained weight in the Marine Corps brig at Quantico. Force-feeding? Naw. The pig just ate too much. Sound like torture to you? Of course, Manning's just a symptom of how far off the moral rails doctrinaire leftists have plunged in the country that protects their right to be idiots. The real problem is that, for the American left, treason is no more than a minor social misstep, like breaking wind at a wine tasting. Indeed, for the most iron-clad ideologues on the left, treason against our country is a duty-and has been since the 1960s, if not longer. The hangover from mid-century Soviet propaganda efforts has been far more profound than popular "analysts" can admit: Communism is dead, but treason's become a political fashion statement. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110424_ManningCodePink.jpg >From Attorney General Eric Holder down to Code Pink, from George Soros to the spring-butt arch-liberals of Hollywood, nobody takes treason seriously anymore. Oh, our Justice Department may go after a leaker who embarrasses President Obama. But those who steal hundreds of thousands of classified documents, accept the stolen goods, publicize them-and then print them in newspapers "in the public interest" are safe from serious consequences. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110424_ManningPoster.jpg PFC Bradley Manning, who has been transferred to the military prison at Ft. Leavenworth--where he'll soon enjoy more privileges--is going to get a mild sentence (compared to the damage he's done), will serve part of it, then will emerge a subsidized darling of the left, with a book deal and a tasty income from touring campuses to explain to our children how unjust this country has become. Meanwhile, he's a welcome rallying point for leftists who daren't say much about Guantanamo, now that their ideal president has decided to keep it open (anti-war protests are now a no-no, too). And at a time when murderous regimes around the world slaughter freedom protesters; when the mafia regime in Moscow murders lawyers and journalists; when China "disappears" incredibly brave dissidents; when North Korea starves its population; when lawless imprisonment, authentic torture and political assassinations stretch from Pakistan to Venezuela, the United Nations has taken up the American left's call for an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of (now-porcine) Bradley Manning. Apparently, he's depressed. Isn't that sad? And just you wait: A fawning film about Manning is inevitable-who will probably be portrayed by teen-idol Justin Bieber. (After all, a man of genuine conscience but lazy intellect, Robert Redford, just made a film championing those involved in President Lincoln's assassination and comparing the Union government, which had just ended slavery, with that nasty George W. Bush administration.). Note that, for all the big-budget Hollywood films (and flops) decrying our supposed evil behavior in Iraq (such as ridding the world of Saddam) and our imaginary mistreatment of the world's deadliest terrorists (who receive better medical care at Guantanamo than the average American worker gets), the "men and women of conscience" in our film industry have never made a major studio film about the victims of 9/11.with innocent human beings leaping to their deaths from blazing skyscrapers, or burning to death or suffocating, or living a last instant of terror as the Twin Towers collapsed around them. Portraying the humanity and horrific end of the victims of 9/11 would be a much worse social faux pas than mere treason. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110424_ManningProtestSong.jpg But what does our president think of PFC Manning? We found out this week. At a Thursday morning breakfast fundraiser at the St. Regis in San Francisco-part of Obama's nationwide wealth-redistribution effort-Manning's fan club paid $76,000 for one table, according to the Washington Post. In the middle of the president's remarks, the We-Love-Bradley-Manning gals rose and sang a song they had written in his defense, with lyrics insisting that a nutty pastor burning a Koran was much worse than anything PFC Manning did. Now, burning a Koran was an ugly publicity stunt by a shabby hustler. But it wasn't a massive security breach that will kill our troops and innocent civilians for many years to come. How did our president react to the serenade? Calmly. "That was a nice song," he told them. Asked about the incident later, Obama's press secretary said the president thought it was "funny." Kind of like breaking wind at a wine-tasting. I guarantee you that the free-Bradley-Manning bunch can't name a single decorated hero from our recent wars, that they've never visited our wounded warriors or sincerely mourned our dead. But they put a traitor's fat face on a t-shirt. How fashionable. <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/> Family Security Matters Contributing Editor <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.192/author_detail.asp> Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer, a former enlisted man, a journalist and a bestselling author. He has experience in seventy countries on six continents. His latest books are " <http://www.amazon.com/Officers-Club-Ralph-Peters/dp/0765326809> The Officers' Club," a novel of the post-Vietnam military, and " <http://www.amazon.com/Endless-War-Middle-Eastern-Western-Civilization/dp/08 11705501> Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization." 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