Hollywood stars have recorded videos in support of Bradley Manning The trial of an informant WikiLeaks drew the attention of influential Americans, along with activists from around the world. They have started a campaign called "I - Bradley Manning." The Internet has a short video in which celebrities voicing their support for the U.S. military, as well as offering the audience to think about how they would do in place of the defendant. 25-year-old Bradley Manning could spend the rest of life in prison if found guilty of assisting the enemy by revealing military secrets to WikiLeaks. The prosecution insists that the former soldier put his own gain over national security. According to them, having passed classified material - primarily video showing an American helicopter shooting Iraqi civilians - he posed a threat to U.S. soldiers who were in the hot spot. Actors Russell Brand, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Wallace Shawn joined the Oliver Stone, Tom Morello, Chris Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Daniel Ellsberg (former employee of the Department of Defense, who revealed the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War) and others. "If you saw incredible things, awful things, things that belong to the public and should not be stored on the server in a dark room in Washington, what would you do?" - Asks each participant of the campaign. And then asked to sign a petition to award Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize. By the second day of the trial was already collected 60 thousand signatures. June 3 in the United States, the trial of the young soldiers, the website WikiLeaks secret documents exposing the activities of the U.S. government. Manning went for it, because, in his opinion, people have a right to know that the U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were not considered a human life. On the eve of the hearing all over the world there were demonstrations in support of Manning. Thousands of people gathered in front of the courthouse. Similar rallies were also held in Canada, Germany and even South Korea. russian.rt/article/10195
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:12:23 +0000
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