PFC Manning's dad is really mad at the way his son is being treated at the Marine Brig in Quantico:
"This is someone who has not gone to trial or been convicted of anything," Brian Manning told Frontline. "They worry about people down in a base in Cuba, but here they are, have someone on our own soil, under their own control, and they're treating him this way…. It's shocking enough that I would come out of our silence as a family and say … you've crossed a line. This is wrong."
So, you gotta kinda wonder. The dad raises a son to be a traitor to his country and stays silent. The dad also stays silent when his son is accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to the press endangering hundreds of Iraqis and Afghanis that have worked with the coalition forces to bring stability to their country, not to mention the soldiers who serve in both places. The dad stays silent when it is revealed that his son also leaked thousands of State Department cables that will make diplomacy that much harder for the US (and will likely lead to more involvement of US forces around the world to make up for that lack of diplomacy being able to work in difficult, often immediate situations). But now the dad breaks his silence when his son is required to give up his clothes because he's under a suicide watch, something that is routine in most confinement facilities? And his son releases a presser through his attorney about his "torture"? And the treatment is traitor son is getting is the only thing he's seen fit to call "wrong"?
I don't believe that the dad or the son have actually read the al Queda manual on how to act when detained, but they sure have taken up the exact same advice that's in that manual from somewhere.
I say we take a page from the UCMJ, and put a bullet into this traitor's brain so daddy Manning can sleep better at night knowing his traitor son isn't sleeping naked in some brig. Better yet, let's give the little traitor his clothes, but first make sure they are strong enough to hold his weight.