Manning is the criminal

A traitorous bastard, PFC Bradley Manning, hands over hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information to some cyber terrorist and the people in Berkley want to honor Bradley. I think I noted below that, until you shoot a few traitors you’re going to have this kind of stuff.


Oddly, I don’t think ASSange should be arrested for publishing the leaks any more than the people at the NY Times, who publish classified information all the time. Unless ASSange asked Manning to steal the stuff and paid him in advance for the info, ASSange is no worse a scumbag than the people at the NY Times who ran harmful report after harmful report about the war effort and Abu Grahab. He’s certainly no worse than the @$$bags at Newsweak who ran with the false koran flushing non-sense. So unless we’re willing to round up all of those usual suspects, we should find another way to deal with the ASSanges of the world.

ASSange should not have been arrested. He should have been dealt with the old fashion way. ASSange, like a nit wit’s favorite T-shirt figure Che, should just quietly disappear, hold a press conference one day, gone the next. 30 or so years from now when the next PFC Manning type shows up, the papers that @$$bag releases will reveal that ASSange’s dismembered body is buried under the front porches of several houses in a Rio slum. Or even better, ASSange’s dismembered body was ground up and used for chum by a Green Peace group studying the mating rituals of Great White Sharks. But even those papers do not reveal how it happened or who did it.

But I don’t think it is useful for “free” governments to be grabbing people off the streets because they have run across papers that embarrass that government. We need to be more Machiavellian. Proclaim ASSange’s right to publish publicly and order him to stop privately. If he doesn’t, well the next headline is, ASSange disappears!

Manning on the other hand is a traitorous freak. He should be quickly tried and if found guilty, shot. Manning is the culprit that has caused all of the trouble. Oh, and PFC Manning’s 4 or 5 supervisors up the chain of command ought to be given a choice of doing the rest of their careers in Afghanistan and/or Iraq or getting out of the service in the next week.

I cannot let this pass.

The first line in the Heisman Trophy mission statement reads:

“The Heisman Memorial Trophy annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.”

This year’s recipient, Cam Newton, was booted out of the University of Florida for cheating on at least two tests and stealing another student’s computer (Allegedly).

Notice it doesn’t say the “most outstanding” as is often repeated by sports writer dopes. It says “the outstanding” player who pursues excellence with integrity. Under that criteria Newton is not a deserving recipient of the award. If you want to scratch or ignore the last two words of the mission statement Newton, as an overwhelming majority of voters apparently were comfortable with, Newton is a fine choice. But for Lex, awarding this trophy to Newton is succumbing to the tyranny of low expectations.

Here’s the Griffin on Newton juxtaposed against the Army Navy football game:

I don’t recall the last time one of these teams had a football player arrested for robbery, rape, or attempted murder. I don’t recall either football coach requesting reinstatement of a player because “the girl looked older than 15” while his player’s GPA was hovering around a 0.25. There will not be a riot or fight breakout in the parking lot such as was the case at USC last week. Neither team is headed to a BCS game but both will go to a bowl game. I will watch both games. The Army-Navy game is played by like minded players that will not play professional football. It is a fun game to watch. The pre-game is always good. They play with discipline and when they score you see unrehearsed happiness. As Lou Holtz says about scoring a touchdown,” Act as though you have been there before”. They do.

Shortly after the Army-Navy game the Heisman Trophy will be awarded. The winner’s father illegally solicited money as part of his college selection process. He wanted Old Miss to pay $200,000. Old Miss did not pay. The player says he had no idea his father was soliciting and it cannot be proven differently. No one believes it. I highly suspect the father did not approach West Point or Annapolis and present a pay-to-play scenario. The Army-Navy football game provides credibility to the NCAA Football organization. It provides a platform for showcasing patriotism and college football in the same broadcast. The NCAA must love it. They should have scheduled the game until after the Heisman Award was presented. It would have been a better way to end the day.