Robert Novack

The government is holding Bradley Manning prisoner for allegedly leaking videos and files of the American Military in Iraq abusing their power and basically killing people and terrorizing people, and he is being held without charge and will be executed if the White House does not get enough push back from the American people.  If this man is executed and never taken to trial, I will feel that yet again this country has fallen victim to their utter laziness and self centered attitudes.  It will be, yet again, disgusted with the people of this country as I was when Bush became president a second time knowing that he had already caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.  The democrats are just as guilty as the republicans in the sense that they have rolled over at every chance to fight back.  They have allowed the republicans to lie their faces off and rarely ever corrected them with actual facts.  The reason this country has no idea what's going on, is that those in power are allowing the lies into our homes by either being the liars, or by not correcting them.

So the point here is that if Bradley Manning, who has never been charged, is actually guilty of anything he should be tried by a jury.  If he is not, and this is a practice we are implementing, why are those who have committed heinous crimes before, not being held in the same conditions (conditions which constitute torture) and with the same rules (held without proof of guilt.)

One example I can give, would be Robert Novack.  When the Valerie Plame thing happened (google it if you really don't know what I'm talking about) Robert Novack is directly linked to this outing of a CIA agent.  We suspect that her name was leaked by Dick Cheney.  With the evidence we have Robert Novack would be able to held as we know he was involved, and Dick Cheney would be held as we suspect he was involved, and guess what?  This is a much more heinous crime than whistle blowing.  This is an actual crime of treason, which is not whistle blowing, it is something that has put the lives of many people in danger because when she was outed, the front company she worked for was outed as a front company and we will never ever know who was killed or tortured as a result because it's all classified.  But at the very least, every single person in the company was put in the position of being killed, by Dick Cheney.  So why isn't he being tortured and held without a trial or proof?  Because we just don't do that.  I'm glad we don't do that.  But apparently we do.  We do actually do that.  Just not to republicans and not to war mongers.