Berzerkley vs. America, Part 99,999
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Sigh. The moonbats in Berkeley are seeking another 15 minutes of anti-American infamy again.
Look:
An Army private jailed for allegedly leaking sensitive military data is a hero and should be freed, according to a resolution under consideration by the Berkeley City Council.
The council is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to declare its support for Pfc. Bradley Manning, who’s suspected of providing WikiLeaks with classified military documents and a video depicting an Army helicopter attack in Baghdad in which 11 civilians were killed.
Manning, 22, currently in the brig in Quantico, Va., faces 52 years in prison if convicted. Manning has not commented on his guilt or innocence.
“If he did what he’s accused of doing, he’s a patriot and should get a medal,” said Bob Meola, the Berkeley peace and justice commissioner who authored the resolution. “I think the war criminals should be the ones prosecuted, not the whistle-blowers.”
This is the same commission that declared war on Marine recruiters (go here, here, and here for blood-boiling refreshers).
The SF Chronicle reports that, believe it or not, there was some actual dissent among the lefty-bots. The resolution passed 7-3 and heads to the Berkeley City Council.
Commissioner Thyme Siegel was one of the three “no” votes.
“We’re just sitting here in Berkeley – we don’t know that Afghani informants aren’t being murdered because of these leaks,” she said. “Bradley Manning sounds like a very sincere person, but I’m sorry, we really do have enemies, and it’s not clear at all what the effects of these WikiLeaks are.”
Anthropocon tweets: “I’m more offended that they think their city council is relevant to national issues than by their crazy resolutions.”
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Memo to all Leftists: Your hero will be spending the rest of his natural life in SuperMax.
Dang. Wanted to be first in.
Peace and waaahh? Does this mean taxpayers know they are paying this idiot a salary?
His job title alone is proof positive that Berkeley is an official member of the International Communist Current.
My sympathies are with the honest citizens who, due to circumstances perhaps not of their making and beyond their control who are obliged to live in the city of Berserkeley. There have been several of them who have commented on this forum in the past.
For those of you who do not live in the Bay Area, understand this: the antics of the city government in Berkeley make the antics of the city government of San Francisco seem normal and reasonable.
KPFA, Socialist Radio in Berkeley, is now an Al Jazeera outlet.
Al Jazeera radio station comes to Berkeley airwaves
http://bit.ly/hrCjoW
Well, it’s the only time you’ll find them supporting a American solider I guess.
Keep in mind that California, like a rebellious child, believes that whatever happens mom and dad will bail them out when their sh*thole state implodes. They are in for a rude awakening. Reality bites.
Not since the last draft card burning in ’74.
Amazing that the socialists don’t understand that when sharia law is in place, all of the women holding teaching jobs at Cal will be removed. But they still support it like it wouldn’t happen.
Morons.
“Berkeley peace and justice commissioner“?!?
‘Scuse me for a moment…
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that a paid position? Really? Must be a lot of medical marijuana smoked in those meetings.
“We think it is a good news program that offers a slightly different perspective that the U.S. media,” (emphasis mine)
True, dat!
Liberals are fond of saying of themselves, “A liberal is someone so open-minded that he won’t even take his own side in a fight.”
But it’s worse than that: there are too many of them for whom eschewing their own country’s position is not good enough, they’re compelled to express their solidarity with whoever or whatever’s on the other side.
Doesn’t matter who it is; as long as they’re against America, it’s good.
Parasites.
Manning was in no position to judge what potential damage would occur if the information became public. I served in US Army military intelligence for 4 years during Vietnam. Even with a top secret clearance, access to anything and everything was determined on a need-to-know basis. What this idiot did has endangered the lives of 300 million US citizens and countless more foreign allies around the world. He’s no hero. He’s a degerate puke. He deserves to be summarily executed, preferably by hanging or firing squad, for his treachery.
So all of the pot holes have been filled, the street lights are all lit, the traffic lights all work, the water and sewer systems have no problems…
Yeah. I thought so.
Roger that. I am aghast that one soldier so low on the totem pole had access to that much intelligence.
Whereas I have a saying that “Liberals are so open-minded their brains have all leaked out”.
well, Manning is a war criminal, sh@#-fer-brains.
I recall pulling into Alameda back in ’79. Before liberty went down, the Old Man told us we were encouraged to wear our uniforms while on liberty, but don’t do it in Berkeley.
Two of our torpedomen got lost coming back to the boat. A few peace-loving citizens in the People’s Republic of Berkeley beat them severely. Our Captain put Berkeley off-limits unless you had family there, and then only in civvies.
Maybe the FBI down loaded the files for Manning and he’s just a patsy.
Do CA residence have any skills other than the protest de jour? Do they even have jobs other than professional protester or eco-terrorist?
Re: Manning. A quick glance at the UCMJ, which will be the guiding light in his prosecution shows this(emphasis added):
ART. 104. AIDING THE ENEMY
Any person who–
(1) aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or
(2) without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly;
shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.
ART. 106a. ESPIONAGE
(A) (1) Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to communicate, deliver, or transmit, to any entity described in paragraph (2), either directly or indirectly, anything described in paragraph (3) shall be punished as a court-martial may direct, except that if the accused is found guilty of an offense that directly concerns (A) nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, early warning systems, or other means of defense or retaliation against large scale attack, (B) war plans, (C) communications intelligence or cryptographic information, or (D) any other major weapons system or major element of defense strategy, the accused shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court- martial may direct.
(2) An entity referred to in paragraph (1) is–
(A) a foreign government;
(B) a faction or party or military force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States
(C) a representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen of such government, faction, party, or force.
(3) A thing refereed to in paragraph (1) is a document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance or information relating to the national defense.
(b) (1) No person may be sentenced by court-martial to suffer death for an offense under this section (article) unless–
(A) the members of the court-martial unanimously find at least one of the aggravating factors set out in subsection (c); and
(B) the members unanimously determine that any extenuating or mitigating circumstances are substantially outweighed by any aggravating circumstances, including the aggravating factors set out under subsection (c).
(2) Findings under this subsection may be based on–
(A) evidence introduced on the issue of guilt or innocence;
(B) evidence introduced during the sentencing proceeding; or
(C) all such evidence.
(3) The accused shall be given broad latitude to present matters in extenuation and mitigation.
(c) A sentence of death may be adjudged by a court-martial for an offense under this section (article) only if the members unanimously find, beyond a reasonable doubt, one or more of the following aggravating factors:
(1) The accused has been convicted of another offense involving espionage or treason for which either a sentence of death or imprisonment for life was authorized by statute.
(2) In the commission of the offense, the accused knowingly created a grave risk of substantial damage to the national security.
(3) In the commission of the offense, the accused knowingly created a grave risk of death to another person.
(4) Any other factor that may be prescribed by the President by regulations under section 836 of this title (Article 36).
I’m sure that somehow this is Texas’ fault.
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. I has a secret clearance and had access to every manner of data for every project just by virtue of being a computer operator. Had I been of such a mind, I could easily have made off with every defense secret my employer possessed.
Of course, that is why we have background checks and clearances. This person’s immediate supervisor or a co-worker had to suspect that Manning was not quite right and neglected to say anything. Somebody somewhere had to know.
but even if they did, I thought it was ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’?
It isn’t unusual for the military. What’s new is the capability to disseminate it without controls. I had at least as much access as he did, but it would have been difficult to impossible to have stolen classified documents in quantity even if somebody had the inclination, which as far as I know, nobody did. Also, you should note that none of the documents was classified above “Secret”, which means that access is much more widespread and controls are much laxer than for Top Secret, mainly because the perceived risk of damage is less.
If you want to deal just with potential damage to the country, the documents that what’s-his-name smuggled out in his pants were more highly classified and therefore potentially more damaging than anything this guy Manning handled.
I was always told bezerkley was a school of higher learning, I must have been misinformed.
And in my time, any indication of homosexuality in those background checks would have been a disqualifier.
Now, now, let’s not get Phil started. He’s been a good boy lately (well, most of the time).
Funny you should mention the UCMJ, Chief.
People demanding that DADT be repealed need to remind Congress that the UCMJ needs to be amended to allow sodomy and carnal knowledge.
“Penetration, however slight,……”
Hmmm…FWIW I just saw a photo of this Bob Meola character and he fits the title of the Berkeley peace and justice commissioner as well as Jerry Garcia wanna-be.
Our governments illegal collecting of diplomats’ DNA and credit card info of must be guarded with extreme secrecy. No one must know what we do.
Please, for the love of God, can these jackwagons in Berkley go get some kind of job and contribute something of value to the society! I held a Top Secret clearance and worked in a unit whose missions were highly classified. We signed documents swearing that we would not divulge ANYTHING we saw or heard while serving, and we were DEBRIEFED about not saying anything for any reason unless informed that the information was DECLASSIFIED even if we left that unit. There are good reasons for calling information SECRET, etc. This soldier has violated the UCMJ and should be executed should it be found that he turned over classified information to Wikileaks. And, as far as I’m concerned anyone who publicized this information is culpable of treason.
So what if some whistle-blower leaked congressional data that showed global warming was a hoax. Would he be treated to the same exalted status by the Berzerklians? Bet not.
Finally, a civilian criminal trial for a terrorist that I can support! He might get off, but Bradley Manning in a high-security state penal institution is too much fun to think about. Young effeminate white boys like him get daily doses of “justice” in the state pen’. Also, am I the only one that thinks Manning looks like Alfred E Newman?
Is anyone aware that the army private, Pfc. Bradley Manning, is a homosexual?
Don’t ask; don’t tell.
Don’t hold your breath waiting, First.
For those of you who might not understand what some of us are talking about, here’s a quick primer:
There are, in the Military, four classes of information: Unclassified, Confidential, Secret and Top Secret.
Within the classifications(other than UNCLAS) there are various levels of access – the basic rules(as we used to understand them, anyhow) governed by a simple “need-to-know” principle – if you didn’t need to know it to do your job, you didn’t have access to it.
While I retired well over 20 years ago(almost 30 years now), because of the particular type of clearance and access I had, to this day my family does not know exactly what it was I did, other than the fact that I was away from home for six to eight months at a time. I take my oaths seriously, as you do, First.
I guess because I did retire so long ago, it seems strange to me that someone so young and new to the service would have access to such material.
It used to be that simply by enlisting, you could be granted access to Confidential material, if it was necessary for the performance of your job.
If, for some reason, you needed access to Secret material, you had to have a completed NAC(National Agency Check)- a fingerprint and arrest records check.
Anything higher would require some kind of Background Investigation or Special Background Investigation, which included not only an NAC, but also a check of your school records, associations, neighbors, financial records, etc., etc. These could take many months to complete and, because of the expense involved, weren’t performed for every member of the service. And it really didn’t take much for the BI to come back negative.
They remind me of this Megadeth song:
Symphony Of Destruction lyrics
Songwriters: Mustaine, Dave;
You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a ‘roll
A ‘roll, a ‘roll
Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony of destruction
Acting like a robot
It’s metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
Before the head explodes
Explodes, explodes
Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Swaying to the symphony of destruction
The earth starts to rumble
World powers fall
A warring for the heavens
A peaceful man stands tall
Tall, tall
Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony
Swaying to the symphony of destruction
Johnny Walker was an RM. He had TS and also control of the vault. I’m sure he had an SBI.
Hangfire – he did
William–yes. We are aware (see my #24)
Johnny Walker betrayed his country for money, which is a time-honored tradition.
Betraying your country because you’re a frustrated fruitcake is not time-honored.
CPODUG#36: Thank you for the excellent post! You have clearly defined the types and access restrictions imposed on classified material. Not only am I p.o.’d about Manning, I’m ticked off about everyone involved who helped put this information out there!
Exactly. What I believe this shows is that there are some serious flaws in the DoD computer security policy (at least at this location). My question is why was the copy function, as well as the USB ports, not disabled on a computer terminal that has access to secret documents?
When I say copy function I meant to say the CD/DVD writer’s copy ability disabled.
I live right next to Berkeley. I make a point of wearing my “I’d Rather be Waterboarding” shirt when I need to do business there. It absolutely freaks them out.
Outstanding!
I wear mine whenever.
A few months ago, I wore mine over at the Hickam A.F.B. exchange. An AF Capt (of cleft genitalia) informed me that she thought I shouldn’t wear the shirt, as some might find it offensive.
Not two minutes later, a full bird Colonel saw my shirt and said he loved it. Shook my hand. Go figure.
Remember, where there is a hole there is a bung. Somebody “knew” alright and in the biblical sense.
Clearly she is on the fast track to the Pentagon. She will likely leave a trail of ruined careers in her wake also. Not to read too much into this, but the Pentagon is infested with Liberal careerists.
How about taking a stand for a true hero, Lieutenant Colonel Terrence (“Terry”) Lakin?
You know, if we want the Obama administration to keep data secret, we just have to convince them that it contains Barry’s certificate of live birth and his college transcripts.
Errah, Will Oliver Stone be shooting Wikileaks the Movie in Bezerkley?
If so my casting is as follows:
George Clooney as Pfc. Bradley Manning
Sean Penn as Julian Assange
Jane Fonda and Jeanene Garafalo as his two hos
Joy Behar as Janet Napolitano
Jon Stewart as David Axlerod
Alec Baldwin as Joe Biden
A box of old dog sheite at Robert Gibbs
A sack and a half of cat crap squeezed into a yellow pants suit as Hillary Rodham Clinton
Oh, and Dave Chapelle as The One!
…And, the number one reason Berzerkly would even consider having a vote in support of the traitor Manning is…he’s G-A-Y!
He should have a fair trial, then lined up in front of a firing squad. His cremated remains scattered above the City of Berzerkly, by a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter…at least in a just world!
..providing that the same helicopter had never been used to transport U.S. wounded or KIA troops.
a daisy cutter or MOAB.
Nah, Leonardo di Caprio. Work William Ayers into the script for George Clooney.
I agree he should get a medal! 125 grains should be enough!
And there in lies the flaw in Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
No you were not misinformed, you just misunderstood, Higher is the state in which you are learning not the level of education
I too am shocked at the level of access he had, with seemingly no controls.
When I was PFC, I had to get a Secret clearance because of the unit I was detailed to for about 6 months. It took some time for it to be done, and I was told later by my mother that investigators had questioned staff where I went to high school, among others.
It was a little irritating when I was first assigned there. I didn’t have the clearance yet, so I could not even go in the facility where I would work. Pulling two weeks straight of guard duty was not fun…but they had nothing more for me to do.
There was one time where we had to shred some documents…and the requirement was for three of us to go do it.
I still think whoever did the background check on Manning needs to answer a few questions.
I also think whoever supervised this traitor needs to answer why he still had a clearance given he was busted a rank for assault on another soldier, and why there were so little controls in place allowing him to walk out with so much…with NOBODY aware until he bragged about it.
Yet.
If the left gets their way….
Traitor — and a gay one at that.
If in Berkley do NOT drink the water or eat any local food. Something is terribly wrong there. It is only 15 miles from Sodom By The Bay so I guess that explains it.
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Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Resistance is mandatory
I hope there are people out there who can get their hands on private information about these 7 lunatic council members, especially Bob Meola. I encourage posting that information on-line to make it cystal clear to all lunatics why the First Amendment does not give anyone the right to blab information that was illegally obtained.
How about a contest? What prize can we come up with for the first person to find out Bob’s SS number? Does anyone know who his doctor is? Maybe Bob has some health concerns the public has a ‘right’ to know about?
Danial Ellsberg was charged under the “Espionage Act of 1917” and he would have been convicted if not for some idiots in the FBI who didn’t bother to get a court order to wire tap Ellsberg’s phone.
Ellsberg is a traitor who got off on a technicality just like Bill Ayers. If Manning is acquitted on the same basis it will prove beyond all doubt that our government is infested with vermin.
Berkeley should become a military weapon testing range.
No advance notice.
Imagine if only one traitor like Manning had worked at Bletchley Park, England in 1940 and blabbed merely that they were in possession of an Enigma machine? If the Nazis had abandoned Enigma back then – England probably could have been brought to such a desperate point of starvation that capitulating to Hitler would have been their only option left for survial.
With the western front sealed off and the English out of northern Africa it would have been goodbye Stalingrad cutting off Russia at the knees which likely would have encouraged Japan to hold off attacking the USA in order to keep us out of the war until the Nazis completed their long range bomber program.
We’d all be speaking German.
I hope Berkeley doesn’t get any Federal money. I couldn’t stand the thought of a fraction of a cent of my money going to that nest of anti-American whack-jobs.
I’d vote for Sean Penn as Ayers and have Cloony play Rahm Emanuel.
See this is why we need a time machine, so we can bring back a barbarian horde and just let them have there own way with the town. I would suggest doing it ourselves but we are..too far “civil” for that, violence is below us and all that crap, America can’t handle its affairs at home nevermind around the world, even a nerd and a rapist one at that has proven able to kick us where it counts. Then when crap like this happens it makes me wonder just where all our balls are. The only answer I have for it is in the Army fighting and dying for the needs of so called “allies” and for STUPID goverment policies.
And I could care less if this sounds un-american or not, but alot of people on this site hark on the Chinese and Russians and think we should defend Europe. Europe needs to be thrown under the bus. They are not our friends and those who want war with the Eastern Powers look at Katrina, Chinese and Russian Aid came in BOATLOADS, while our European “Allies” would send small amounts of supplies and stipulate what it could and could not be used for. Top it off look at the instanity of this country how the idiots of Berkly and elsewhere make a mockery of our nation and all we do is moan, in Europe they would be in jail, though if we did it Europe would break all ties, blah why do I even bother…Point is I would LOVE to leave the US but other nations are worse or do not WANT You there, well unless your rich.
There seems to be some misunderstanding about the relationship between Cal and the city of Berkeley. I’m not defending either one of them, but I’d just like to point out some facts:
1. The University of California at Berkeley(Cal) is a land-grant college, and as such has an active ROTC program. It also runs the Lawrence Livermore Labs, working under the DOE to produce nuclear weapons and various other goodies. It runs the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and several other high-tech centers around the country. It is no better or worse than any other overly-large institute of higher learning, i.e., the lecturing professors do tend to err on the side of Marxism/Leninism, but on the strictly scientific side, they generally do good work, although some of the crap they study would make you cringe(just look at some of the study and laboratory programs). The real problem Cal has is where it is located. I also understand that many of the students at Cal don’t necessarily buy the bilge they are forced to listen to every day, and there is an active Young Republicans group on campus.
2. Berkeley, CA prides itself in being the home of the “Free-Speech Movement.” That is, free speech for me but not for thee. This came into prominence during the Vietnam Era. True, much of the demonstration was on the Cal campus, but the city itself, because of the perverseness of many of its citizens, took an unjustified pride in the anti-war clowns and allowed many of them to settle there and become “civic leaders.” To their everlasting shame, the honest citizens stood by and allowed it to happen.
It’s gold,
JerryDanceswithdachshunds , gold!Berkeley will use their elevating of the traitor Manning to hero status as evidence that they “support the troops”.