Outside of an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom, Chelsea Manning explained to reporters why she would refuse to testify before a second grand jury investigating Wikileaks' Julian Assange, and as a result, face jail time once again. On May 9, Manning was released from jail because the term of the last grand jury she refused to testify before expired. She was immediately subpoenaed once again—for May 16.
Her following words clearly depict that Chelsea Manning is a person with strong and solid principles and a real hero:
I will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury, so it doesn’t matter what it is, or what the case is. I’m just not going to comply or cooperate. Facing jail again, potentially today, doesn’t change my stance. The prosecutors are deliberately placing me in an impossible position: go to jail and face the prospect of being held in contempt again, or, in the alternative, foregoing my principles, the strong positions that I have, that I hold dear. And the latter is a far worse prison or jail than the government could ever produce. The truth is, that no matter what happens today, whether I’m placed in confinement or not, I’m not going to comply with this grand jury.
In a move press freedom advocates and progressive critics decried as an "outrageous" and "unprecedented" escalation of a prolonged government harassment campaign, a federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail for refusing to testify before a secretive grand jury and imposed a $500 fine for every day she is in custody after 30 days.
If Manning refuses to comply with the grand jury subpoena after 60 days, the fine will increase to $1,000 per day. During a court hearing on Thursday, Manning told Judge Anthony Trenga that she has no intention of giving in to government pressure.
"I would rather starve to death than to change my opinion in this regard," said Manning. "And when I say that, I mean that quite literally."
“A federal judge on Thursday ordered US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail for refusing to testify before a secretive grand jury & imposed a $500 fine for every day she’s in custody after 30 days.”
She did nothing wrong! #FreeChelseaManninghttps://t.co/SxHadR0n1e
— CODEPINK (@codepink) May 17, 2019
And you are SURPRISED...? Remember, america at this point is a failed state...the
ReplyDeleterule of law does NOT EXIST... The "Just Us" system is a weapon to be used on
those who do not please the Oligarchs or Deep State... Remember, what Manning
exposed were War Crimes...you have a DUTY to expose these... Its an amazing
irony that we have come to this...
Hard to believe indeed.
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