I work in a psychiatric hospital, in which we regularly treat people who are truly suicidal. But listening to the conditions under which Bradley Manning is being confined smacks not of protection from self-harm, but of cruel and unusual punishment. He spent numerous nights completely naked, allegedly for fear that he would harm himself with his clothing, before eventually being given a smock of some kind. He's being awakened regularly, he is in his cell for 23 hours a day with nobody to talk to, and his reading glasses have been confiscated. And remember, he has not been convicted of any crime (not that that even matters- we don't do this to convicted people either).
If my hospital did any of this stuff to our suicidal patients, the state regulatory agency would sanction us severely and people would be fired. And Manning hasn't made any suicidal threats.
The military is literally trying to drive Manning insane. It's obscene. And it's completely on Obama.
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