Barack Obama betrays the USA by freeing the traitor Chelsea Manning just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington
O, the repulsive Chelsea Manning is to be released from prison more than 30 years early.
President Obama has commuted the sentence of this traitor — just about his last act before he leaves office.
It’s a fitting final act for Obama. Hypocritical and wrong. Never has a US President promised so much and delivered so little. He got worse and worse as the years went by.
Manning handed over more than 700,000 top secret files and emails to WikiLeaks. It unquestionably endangered the lives of US servicemen and women and those of the intelligence staff.
It also embarrassed the USA and gave support to its enemies — especially in the Islamic world and in Russia. It is hard to think of a more treacherous act.
Manning — once Bradley Manning until the US army paid for him to “transition” — whined at her trial: “I am sorry that my actions hurt people. I’m sorry that they hurt the United States. I am sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions.
“When I made these decisions I believed I was going to help people, not hurt people. At the time of my decisions I was dealing with a lot of issues.”
Yep, no kidding, poppet.
But those actions did hurt people and they did hurt the USA.
Frankly, I’d have got old Sparkie wired up. That’s a suitable sentence for traitors. As it was, she copped 35 years.
Of course, the lefties have been demanding she be released from prison. Just as they campaign for those other traitors, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
They support anything that undermines the West. Anything which gives succour to our enemies. Anything which hurts the country they live in.
And it seems President Obama agrees with them.
This is where the hypocrisy comes in. Obama and the lefties were furious about Russia having allegedly influenced the US election in favour of Donald Trump. By hacking emails. Criminal action!
A huge investigation has been launched. But the Ruskies didn’t hack into any state secrets. Manning, right, DID. Yet Obama has now given a green light to other traitors to do the same thing.
And then there’s Manning’s vile supporters over here. Take The Guardian newspaper, for example. Beside itself with outrage when tabloid newspapers were found to have hacked the phones of celebrities. But happy to connive when state secrets were hacked — and to put the lives of Britons in danger.
I was against the Iraq War. But it is never right, no matter how strongly you feel, to be a traitor to your country. That’s what Manning was.
And I condemn utterly hacking the phones of celebrities. It’s illegal and morally wrong.
But how much worse is it to illegally obtain top secret emails which, when published, could cause the deaths of loyal citizens, working for our country?
Manning should have been left to rot in prison.
— STUFF you won’t hear from the Remainers.
The UK jobless rate has fallen, again — by 52,000. Pay has picked up. The economy is the strongest in the developed world.
The Pound has risen. Investment is up, overseas trade is booming. Yeah, leaving the EU has been a catastrophe, huh?
Hitting a new Chlo
AAARGH. Nastiest TV scene of the year so far has to be Chloe Ferry rubbing her fat, naked bum on one half of Jedward.
This was on Celebrity Big Brother. I thought for a moment she was trying to poo on him. For which I wouldn’t blame her entirely.
As it was, it was just one a**e rubbing up against another.
Incidentally, I didn’t actually watch CBB. Someone told me about it, OK?
Vlad's the way to do it
RESPECT to Vladimir Putin. The Russian President takes such a lovely pride in his country.
He has just said that Russian whores are the best sex workers in the entire world.
I don’t know if that means he’s personally tried out the whores from every other country on Earth. That would be tiring and expensive.
“Da! Just two left. Mona from Kiribati and Fifi from Ecuador. Bring them in . . . ”
But I have to say, I rather like Russian prostitutes too. I met loads of them when I was doing an article out in horrible Dubai.
At my hotel there were queues of them round the block, all these Svetlanas and Natashas.
They were fun to talk to. They reckoned Irish and British clients were the best lovers and Germans the worst.
“What about the locals, the Arabs?” I asked a bunch of them.
They burst out laughing and one of them spat on the floor. “We wouldn’t have sex with that scum,” they all agreed. Nice.
Anyway, I made my excuses and left, as you would expect.
— AT least one third of people diagnosed as having asthma don’t have asthma.
That’s the finding from a new study. Does it surprise you? It doesn’t surprise me. Take a kid to the doctor’s these days with a slight sniffle and they’ll be diagnosed as asthmatic.
It’s been horribly over-diagnosed. And it’s not just asthma – ADHD and dyslexia are massively over-diagnosed, too.
In the first case a lot of the kids are just nasty little brats. And in the second they’re just a bit thick.
Anyway, if President Putin has asthma could we call him Vlad The Inhaler?
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Secret society a sham
THERE’S to be yet ANOTHER High Court challenge over Brexit.
Four individuals, known only as W, L, T and B, are demanding that the UK stays in the single market.
I can’t tell you anything more about the people who have launched this attack on democracy. Because some idiot of a High Court judge has decided they should remain anonymous, in case people say horrid things about them.
So I can’t reveal if they’re loaded, dim-witted luvvies, agents for some mysterious corporation or foreigners. Only that they don’t understand the meaning of democracy.
All you have to do these days is ask a judge for secrecy and it will be granted.
Their lordships have no commitment any more to the idea that justice must be transparent and must be seen to be done.
There’s a famous bloke about to face very serious criminal charges.
But I can’t tell you his name or even the finer details of the case. Because he whined to a judge that his right to a private family life would be jeopardised if he was named. And the idiotic judge agreed.
This is going too far – especially in the case over Brexit, which affects our constitution.
Won’t any MP stand up in the House of Commons and complain?
Our society becomes more secret by the day.
Pick your holidays wisely
UH-OH. There’s a state of emergency in The Gambia.
Travel company Thomas Cook is flying home loads of Brit holidaymakers.
There’s likely to be riots and bloodshed on the streets of this tiny banana republic. Largely the consequence of the brutal, thick-as-mince leader of the country, Yahya Jammeh.
Here’s a tip, for nowt – if you’re looking for a foreign holiday, choose some- where in the First World.
Yes, it’ll be a bit dearer than Upper Volta or Syria. But you won’t get killed. And you won’t be sunning yourself in someone’s else’s misery.
Veggie meltdown
ANOTHER thing to worry about! There’s a world courgette shortage. Something to do with bad harvests.
How the hell will we cope without these long green things which don’t actually taste of anything? It’s a disaster, I’m telling you.
Next it will be a shortage of chives, and then we’ll really be for it.
It’s almost enough to make you want to smash your head against a wall.
Urgent name change needed
HORRIBLE Plymouth Argyle footballer David Goodwillie has just been branded a rapist.
He and a mate were sued by a woman who claimed they had raped her. And the judge agreed. You have to wonder why there wasn’t a criminal prosecution. Plymouth have done the right thing and said they won’t play the little scrote any more. Good. But shouldn’t Mr Goodwillie also consider altering his surname?