Stop The War On Whistleblowers - Bradley Manning / Edward Snowden - I Am Bradley Manning — Transcript

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1. 0:01in the words of bradley manning
2. 0:04yes your honor
3. 0:05i wrote this statement in confinement
4. 0:08i was deployed to baghdad
5. 0:11i want people
6. 0:12to see the truth
7. 0:16manning was someone who signed up to be
8. 0:18a soldier he volunteered to be in iraq
9. 0:20he was deeply disturbed by what he was
10. 0:22seen as an intelligence analyst in iraq
11. 0:24the shooting of the reuters reporters
12. 0:26civilians by helicopter
13. 0:37he leaked documents during the war and
14. 0:39they were enormously helpful for people
15. 0:41on the outside to understand what the
16. 0:42government was thinking about on the
17. 0:44inside if you join the armed forces
18. 0:47are you accepting on that day when you
19. 0:49sign the paper
20. 0:51and you join up
21. 0:52that you will turn a blind eye to any
22. 0:55war crime that you witness
23. 0:57particularly in the uniform of our
24. 0:58country
25. 0:59if you don't have truth then we have to
26. 1:02ask ourselves why do we risk anything
27. 1:04and what are we fighting for to begin
28. 1:06with he is asking us to
29. 1:09look at
30. 1:10the consequences of war the damage that
31. 1:13war produces there is a protocol for
32. 1:17for torture the army reports listed some
33. 1:1960 000 civilians dead hillary clinton
34. 1:22was ordering state department employees
35. 1:24to spy on diplomats he's a man who's
36. 1:27done things that the mainstream media
37. 1:30should have done a long time ago he
38. 1:32ignited
39. 1:33this chain of social
40. 1:35action we saw very clearly
41. 1:38the discrepancies between what we were
42. 1:40being told and what was actually
43. 1:41happening he's a whistleblower and the
44. 1:44whole concept of whistleblower laws and
45. 1:46whistleblower protections are you cannot
46. 1:48get into trouble for reporting about
47. 1:50illegal or improper activity it's
48. 1:52enshrined in our constitution that an
49. 1:54individual has the right to release
50. 1:56information and disseminate information
51. 1:58that makes the powers that be
52. 2:00uncomfortable it's an absurd charge to
53. 2:02be charging him with giving aid and
54. 2:05comfort to the enemy the attempt is to
55. 2:07shut down any free flow of information
56. 2:09they want to shut him up lock him up to
57. 2:12take a risk and to take a stand knowing
58. 2:14that in all likelihoods you will be
59. 2:16persecuted penalized demonized and
60. 2:19punished for it that's
61. 2:20incredibly bold how are you going to act
62. 2:23on your conscience when you know if you
63. 2:25do so that you could be subject to the
64. 2:27death penalty for aiding the enemy for
65. 2:30simply being a whistleblower of
66. 2:32criminality could possibly lead to
67. 2:34lifetime imprisonment or even death
68. 2:39i heard his testimony on the day he
69. 2:40talked about the torture it was the most
70. 2:42moving dive ever spent in a courtroom
71. 2:44and i spent 40 years listening to people
72. 2:46talk about how they were tortured when
73. 2:48he first got arrested and was put into a
74. 2:49wire cage in a tent and was stripped
75. 2:52naked and paraded around he drew the
76. 2:54cell that he was in on the floor and how
77. 2:57he had to lay in the cell and how the
78. 2:59light was on him 24 hours forced to
79. 3:01sleep without cover condition is far
80. 3:03worse than
81. 3:04soldiers who have been convicted of
82. 3:06cold-blooded murder every single
83. 3:08newspaper in this country ought to be
84. 3:10screaming screaming about bradley
85. 3:12manning the whole concept of freedom of
86. 3:15speech and the freedom of the press
87. 3:17these are this is under direct threat in
88. 3:19this in this one case it's important
89. 3:21that we do have those people who stand
90. 3:23up and expose what's really going on
91. 3:25they take enormous risks on our behalf
92. 3:28and we need more like him and now that i
93. 3:29know it i cannot unknow it
94. 3:32so the question for all of us
95. 3:35when you see atrocities like those that
96. 3:37bradley manning saw
97. 3:39is the question he asked if you saw
98. 3:42incredible things awful things things
99. 3:44that belonged in the public domain and
100. 3:47not on certain servers stored in a dark
101. 3:49room in washington dc what would you do
102. 3:52what would you do what would you do what
103. 3:54would you do i was bradley manning
104. 3:56i am bradley manning i am bradley
105. 3:59manning i am bradley manning i am
106. 4:01bradley bradley manning bradley manning
107. 4:03bradley i hope that we are all bradley
108. 4:06manning if it happens to him it is
109. 4:08happening to us god knows what happens
110. 4:10now hopefully worldwide discussion
111. 4:13debates and reforms i want people to see
112. 4:16the truth i want people to see the truth
113. 4:17i want people to see the truth because
114. 4:20without information
115. 4:23you cannot make informed decisions as a
116. 4:26public