{"id":785,"date":"2018-05-28T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/susanwright\/?p=785"},"modified":"2018-05-28T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T22:23:33","slug":"infamous-military-leaker-tweets-possible-suicide-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/susanwright\/2018\/05\/infamous-military-leaker-tweets-possible-suicide-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Infamous Military Leaker Tweets Possible Suicide Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

He\u2019s got a problem.<\/p>\n

And the \u201che\u201d I\u2019m referring to is Bradley Manning, and the problems he has go further than the obvious.<\/p>\n

For those who need a refresher, Manning is a former Army intelligence analyst, who leaked the largest cache of classified documents in U.S. history to WikiLeaks, a site named by U.S. intelligence as just nonstate-actors in service to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Along with aiding our nation\u2019s enemies, Pfc. Bradley Manning was found guilty of violating the Espionage Act, after copying and disseminating classified military field reports, State Department cables, and assessments of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<\/p>\n

In other words, Pfc. Manning was a traitor.<\/p>\n

Of course, the far left loved him for it.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t keep a military judge back in August 2013 from sentencing him to 35 years in prison.<\/p>\n

He deserved every day, but because he had the ingenious plan of claiming gender dysphoria while in prison, it ramped up the traitor-love of the left to astronomical heights, and the social justice president, Barack Obama, commuted Manning\u2019s sentence on the last day of his presidency.<\/p>\n

It was a slap in the face of every service member whose life was threatened by Manning\u2019s treacherous actions.<\/p>\n

Manning attempted to capitalize on the lefty love and publicity surrounding his case by launching a bid for the Senate in Maryland.<\/p>\n

It has not worked out the way he\u2019d hoped, and his campaign has struggled to gain traction.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the troubled whistleblower took to social media with what appeared to be a suicide threat.<\/p>\n

He tweeted out an image of himself standing on a ledge, with the words, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1000956172231430145<\/a><\/p>\n

The image was only up about ten minutes, before it was taken down.<\/a><\/p>\n

It was sent shortly after a separate tweet that said: \u201cI\u2019m not really cut out for this world.\u201d The tweets did not make clear where the photo was taken, and Manning\u2019s friends declined to say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s not stable.<\/p>\n

The communications director for Manning\u2019s Senate bid, Kelly Wright, said on Monday that he needed \u201cspace to heal.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also needs a therapist more than a Senate campaign, but Wright failed to address that.<\/p>\n

Wright also went on to talk about how tough Manning has had it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen firsthand and up close the violence inflicted on her by years of imprisonment, solitary confinement and torture,\u201d Wright said. \u201cThis is made worse by the impossibly high expectations our society sets for public figures, especially on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manning, who twice tried to kill herself while in a U.S. military lockup, recently told attendees at a Berlin tech conference that she felt a \u201ckind of cult of personality\u201d foisted upon her that she found really intimidating\u201d and \u201coverwhelming.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s the thing: If you don\u2019t want high expectations that come from widespread attention, stop with the desperate attention grabs. If you don\u2019t want to catch it rough in prison, don\u2019t break the law.<\/p>\n

Betraying your nation, forcing taxpayers to pay for your plastic surgery and asking them to call you by a different name, having activists work to have your punishment for betraying your nation cut short, then spending all your time on social media, tweetstorming, inserting yourself into high profile issues, and even starting a run for political office \u2013 all of this tends to draw scrutiny. What\u2019s more, social media tends to bring out the worst in people. You wade in at your own peril.<\/p>\n

Manning thought he\u2019d be seen as a conquering hero and a leftwing social icon. He thought it was enough that he\u2019d be handed a Senate seat. What a shock that he wasn\u2019t the celebrity draw he had envisioned for himself.<\/p>\n

When you are mentally unwell, being confronted with reality is often jarring.<\/p>\n

Still, Manning\u2019s defenders would have us believe his problems come from being imprisoned.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with the AP at her Maryland apartment, Manning was emotionally raw, her eyes welling up at times when discussing her motivations. When asked about her lengthy stints in solitary confinement, Manning said she occasionally wakes up panicked that she\u2019s back in the cage in Kuwait where she was first jailed, or incarcerated at the Marine base at Quantico, Virginia, where a U.N. official concluded she\u2019d been subjected to \u201ccruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she had to work hard to overcome anxiety and told AP that it was \u201cbecoming increasingly clear\u201d to her \u201cjust how deep the wounds are\u201d from her years behind bars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take note of the fact that I do not refer to Manning as \u201cher\u201d or \u201cshe.\u201d There will be no female pronouns used to refer to someone whose biology is male.<\/p>\n

Catering to unrealistic fantasies and manifestations of mental illness is not healthy. Have compassion enough for this person to be honest about who he is. Coddling him, allowing him to believe that not only were his crimes not that bad, but that he\u2019s also a woman and super-popular outside of the social experimentation bubble has harmed his mental state.<\/p>\n

It would appear that even after Barack Obama rewarded his treachery, that little liberal bubble is the real prison for Manning. He\u2019s unprepared to handle real life.<\/p>\n

For his sake, I hope he gets some real friends around him, and not just clingers and hangers-on, pushing him to put himself out of his element.<\/p>\n

Even if this latest \u201csuicide attempt\u201d was for attention, people that actually do care about Bradley, the person, instead of \u201cChelsea,\u201d the social justice punchline need to press in close now, and help him out.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re considering suicide, there are resources available and people to talk to.<\/p>\n

Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline<\/a> at 1-800-273-8255.<\/p>\n

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