A Reminder: Michael Moore On PFC Manning

From the live audience interview Dec. 21, 2010.

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And in this case, as an American, you have to believe that that person has a right to be heard, a right to a trial and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Now, I know nothing about what happened between Mr. Assange and these two women. And I have to say quite clearly - and I have been a huge advocate of this. When I was 19 years old, I helped start the first rape crisis center in Flint, Michigan. So this has been a very serious issue for me -

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For a very long time. Every woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted or raped has to be, must be taken seriously and those charges have to be investigated to the fullest extent possible.

And for too long, too many women have been abused in our society because they weren‘t listened to. And they just got shoved aside or whatever. And it‘s just - it was not - the older people here remember the way it used to be. It‘s not that much better now. It got a little better because of the women‘s movement made that happen.

So I think these two alleged victims have to be treated very seriously and Mr. Assange has to answer the questions. That‘s not what‘s at issue here. I‘m much more concerned about that there is a concerted attempt to stop Wikileaks.

And I think Wikileaks, OpenLeaks - anybody that is trying to do the job of telling us the truth and how about - I mean, poor Bradley Manning, the soldier who sits in Quantico tonight. He‘s been in solitary confinement for seven months - seven months.

And his crime is - his crime is that he did what they said at Nuremberg were to do. If you see something happening, especially during wartime, that is illegal, immoral, you have a responsibility as a human being to stand up and say something.

And he came across, allegedly, a video of our soldiers firing from a helicopter and murdering two reporters from Reuters along with a bunch of Iraqi civilians.

That is being done in my name and with my tax dollars. I want to know when that‘s going on. And I admire anybody who stands up and tells us that‘s going on. He should be rewarded, not be imprisoned.

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40898769/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

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Let freedom ring!

FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!

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