Tagesarchive: Oktober 29, 2022

During sentencing, the prosecution attempted to show that I was a narcissist with a superiority complex. —Chelsea Manning, README.txt, (London: The Bodley Head, 2022), 216.

As the trial began, the courtroom was filled with press; older activists with shaggy beards and tie-dyed shirts; groups like Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Occupy Wall Street; and the Chelsea Manning Support Network, a nonprofit … Weiterlesen →

The prison guards were children. They were soldiers, eighteen or nineteen years old, never having so much as sniffed a deployment but given a badge of authority. —Chelsea Manning, README.txt, (London: The Bodley Head, 2022), 188-189. Interestingly Manning’s longtime partner … Weiterlesen →

I was, and remain, a voracious reader, of all kinds of books, on all subjects, written from disparate, sometimes even abhorrent, perspectives. At that time, I was preoccupied with processing what I had seen in Iraq. I read Sun Tzu’s … Weiterlesen →