Truthful Tweet about Reality Winner's sentence

[ProudLib72]

Link to tweet

Makes you think about about our justice system.

[Jake Stern]

1. You're right, It does make me think about our justice system

Chelsea Manning exposed horrific war crimes which had cost thousands of innocent Iraqi and Afghani men, women and children their lives and was walloped with a 35 year sentence. Some nasty shit was said on here about her.

Reality Winner exposed a much less horrific case of collusion, gets only 5 years and is held up as a travesty of justice.

[ProudLib72]

2. Obama commuted Manning's sentence

What do you suppose Rump's reaction to Winner is? "Off with her head" is what I would expect.

[Jake Stern]

4. That was only after massive outcry.

Even if Reality Winner spends every day of her sentence in prison she'll still have served less time than Manning.

[ProudLib72]

5. True

This is why there needs to be a massive public outcry. However, that won't happen because I doubt that more than 10% of the nation even remember who Reality Winner is and what she did.

[Jake Stern]

6. Don't get me wrong

I don't think she should have received more than probation or community service. Exactly the same way I felt about Manning.

You're absolutely right: There does need to be a hue and cry in Winner's favor and hopefully a Dem president in 2021 will pardon her.

[ProudLib72]

7. We are on the same page

My beef with the situation is that Winner is going to prison for trying to expose the Russian hacking that put Rump in office. Meanwhile, Rump is seemingly untouchable (yes, I'm still pessimistic about him doing any time). If Winner must spend 5 years in prison, then Rump needs to spend 1,000 years at least. It's a travesty of justice.

[wishstar]

3. Mark Warner said he was frustrated that too much info about the election hacking is classified

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Sen. Warner just said yesterday that efforts to safeguard our election systems have been hampered by secretiveness and that more of the reports about hacking into election systems should have been declassified and made public sooner and that too much info is still being withheld from public. So yes, Reality Winner seems to have had good intentions and thought she was a whistleblower trying to provide warning to the public about Russian hacking. But her involvement with Glenn Greenwald and Intercept to release the classified info was serious mistake and she should have known that revealing that info could have compromised our ongoing investigations into Russian interference.

[moondust]

8. "serial child molester" Dennis Hastert

served 13 months in prison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert