Is this the treatment one should expect in Obama's America...?

PFC Bradley Manning, suspected of having transferred troves of classified material to WikiLeaks, can no longer be trusted to sleep with any clothes on at all, according to officials at the Marine Brig at Quantico, Virginia, where he has been held for ten months...
As a result, he has been compelled to surrender his underwear lest he injure himself…
How he could possibly manage that feat, the authorities did not care to explain.
This new regulation is for his own good, a simple precautionary measure, according to the military authorities detaining him…
Consequently, he will have to undergo morning inspections stark naked as well, to prevent being injured, presumably, by a potentially lethal piece of  under clothing…
Why has this new procedure been put in place?
The military authorities will not elaborate, because to discuss the details would be violating the detainee’s privacy, they claimed.
For the Obama administration, stripping a detainee on a regular basis and subjecting him to daily inspections without any clothes on, does not qualify as a violation of Manning’s privacy, however…
Coincidentally, this precautionary measure, taken, naturally, for the detainee’s own good, came one day after the Army charged Manning with 22 additional counts, including aiding the enemy. That is a capitol offense.
The prosecution announced that it would not seek the death penalty, however.
Should that be the case, Manning could still face life in prison…
The Obama administration's strategy is clear: it is increasing the pressure on Manning, who has been held under harsh conditions since June of last year.
This type of degrading treatment is inexcusable and without justification. It is an embarrassment to our military justice system and should not be tolerated, David Coombs, Manning’s lawyer declared.
Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell characterized Manning’s behavior at Quantico as exemplary.
Yet, this clearly does not matter since it is administration policy, evidently, to humiliate and intimidate Manning, now matter how he behaves.
He remains in his cell 23 hours a day.
Because of his Prevention of Injury status, the guards check up on him every five minutes.
At night, they can wake him up at any time if they cannot ascertain that all is well…
Yet, Manning is steadfastly refusing to cooperate with the prosecution and reach some kind of plea agreement conditioned on incriminating Julian Assange, editor in chief of WikiLeaks, as a co-conspirator, the real target of this case.
The increasingly abusive and disgraceful treatment inflicted on Manning suggests the authorities have no elements against Assange, and thus must obtain incriminating evidence from Manning
The young soldier is now accused of aiding the enemy, thus…
Yet, who, in fact, is the enemy? WikiLeaks, for releasing the classified material, or the Taliban, al-Qaeda or similar parties?
If the former, then since when has a media organization been considered an enemy for simply publishing information?
If the prosecution is referring to the Taliban, al-Qaeda, then traditional media organizations such as The New York Times should be prosecuted as well, for they were intimately involved in the vetting and publication of the classified material, which, the authorities claim, aided the enemy…
They also published the material before WikiLeaks actually did....
This charge of aiding the enemy may prove difficult to establish in court, thus the administration’s current efforts to extort a plea agreement from Manning.
So, this is the treatment that one should expect in Obama’s America?
Bush and Cheney could have done no better, and are surely pleased with this administration’s approach to civil and constitutional rights….
How frightening that, today, in America, there should no longer be a major political party to condemn such practices…Who now represents those who still believe in justice and individual rights?
Not only US, and international laws demand that human beings be treated in a dignified manner, particularly when they are in detention, and thus at the government’s mercy, but simple, common decency does as well.
Is that now also extinct in Washington?
One would have hoped that someone in the capital learned something from the despicable Abu Ghraib events.
Imagine the outcry in Washington and on the sets of 24-hour cable news networks if a US citizen held abroad was subjected to such degrading treatment?
Alas, it seems that abuse and humiliation are now standard procedure in US-controlled facilities, when detainees are deemed to hold potentially significant information, regardless of who is in the White House….
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