Thursday 24 January 2013

FREE WAR HERO, BRADLEY MANNING NOW

Let us spare a minute of our time and pause for thought for just a moment. Imagine if you had said 30-40 years ago that in the future "Truth" and "Human Conscience" would be serious crimes, punishable by imprisonment, vilification and possibly death. The response would most likely have been, "Yeah right. Which horror movie is that in?"

It was the opening sequences of this film, "The War You Don't See" that got Private Bradley Manning a death sentence when he returned home to the U.S. He had a very difficult choice to make. Either way, both would earn him a lifetime sentence of torment. The first was witnessing Iraqi civilians being brutally gunned down on the streets of Baghdad and forced helplessly to look on and suffer a lifetime of tortured conscience. The second was to speak out as a desperate cry for help on behalf of the victims to tell the world what he had seen.

At this point, I should mention that YouTube/Google and now Vimeo has been trying to prevent this film from being seen. YouTube has been issuing false copyright claims without the owners permission. I know this because I spoken to Matt Hird of Dartmouth Films, whose name YouTube had illegally used as the claimant without his authorization:



"In a world of Universal Deceit-telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell