The US soldier convicted of handing a trove of secret government documents to anti-secrecy website Wikileaks has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
He could be eligible for parole in about 11 years.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
It could have been 70 years... it doesn't matter... there is no way to stop these warriors... Snowden, Manning... whoever... for every one they put in jail there are 10 more combing the data highways looking for the secrets behind the paper leaders.
Sure... he broke the law. But the laws, and the hidden courts and judges who decide what data they are going to mine, laws and decisions that are so classified, that it's against the law to even reveal them.
It's a fun house of mirrors, dead ends, obscure rules, it's become so le dessous des cartes, but we will break their backs, there will be more and more of this, it's only a matter of time.
Do you see any other way of "outing" the these invasions of our privacy and freedom?
