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Frasi di Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning è un'attivista ed ex militare statunitense.

Accusata di aver trafugato decine di migliaia di documenti riservati mentre svolgeva il suo incarico di analista di intelligence durante le operazioni militari in Iraq, e di averli consegnati all'organizzazione WikiLeaks, è stata arrestata, imputata di svariati reati contro la sicurezza nazionale, e detenuta in condizioni considerate lesive dei diritti umani. Il suo caso ha suscitato un acceso dibattito in quanto quei dossier riguardavano l'omicidio di diversi civili disarmati da parte dell'esercito americano. Nell'agosto 2013 è stata condannata a 35 anni di carcere.

Immediatamente dopo la condanna, Manning ha pubblicamente reso noto di non riconoscersi nel genere maschile e di avere una percezione di sé femminile. Ha quindi intrapreso un percorso di transizione e cominciato un trattamento ormonale utile per il cambio di genere, scegliendo quale nome Chelsea Elizabeth. È stata candidata per tre volte al premio Nobel per la Pace, nel 2011, 2012 e 2014.Il 17 gennaio 2017 il presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America, Barack Obama, ha commutato la sentenza, riducendone la durata e spostandone il termine all'anno 2017, rispetto al 2045 del verdetto. La sua scarcerazione è avvenuta il 17 maggio 2017.

✵ 17. Dicembre 1987
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Chelsea Manning: Frasi in inglese

“If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.”

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Chelsea Manning

Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

“As the late Howard Zinn once said, "There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."”

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Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

“The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war. We've been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional battlefield, and due to this fact we've had to alter our methods of combating the risks posed to us and our way of life.”

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Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

“Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.”

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Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

“In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.”

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Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

“Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy -- the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps -- to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.”

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Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

“I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability.”

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Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

“I understand that my actions violated the law; I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.”

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Letter to Barack Obama (2013)

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