The recently publicized measures (http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/07/anonymous-hackers-targe...) being taken by the group "Anonymous" are far beyond what I have been recommending in recent online posts and comments regarding the inhumane order givers and enforcers of those orders directed at Bradley Manning. My twitlonger of March 5 http://tl.gd/94ijbk contains a link to the one online photo of CWO Denise Barnes, Quantico Brig Commander I was able to find at the time.

My purpose is to simply put the name/photo/location information out in the public sphere to enable others to treat these order givers and enforcers as repulsive. The details of what is being done to Bradley Manning needs to be common knowledge, at whose direction and, most importantly, who is doing it! Everyone who comes in contact with CWO Denise Barnes needs to be aware of the details of the orders she has issued; those who disagree with her actions will be repulsed and want nothing to do with her if she fails to respond to their reasoned logic to alter those orders to ones that are humane.
The same photo/name/location information is needed for the same purpose for all those who enforce CWO Barnes' order since the enforcers are truly the key! Without the enforcers of her orders (which must surely come from higher up) , those words would be nothing but sounds in the air or markings on physical media (even when then electronically transmitted).

Holding others responsible for their actions and being responsible for one's own actions are necessities in an orderly society. Much of that has gone by the wayside in the current one even for those who are well known and for whom actions can be directly related to their direction/order - the current and previous President are prime examples. I have written in general on this subject, one is "Tax/Regulation Protests are Not Enough: Relationship of Self-Responsibility and Social Order" - http://selfsip.org/focus/protestsnotenough.html

My concern with "Operation Bradical" as it is described is that it may tend to make "victims" of the issuers and enforcers of the inhumane orders focused on Bradley Manning in the eyes of very many. It also does not bring into action these many others who disapprove of the inhumane treatment but rather enables them to remain passive viewers of "Anonymous". This is part of the problem - the lack of personal evaluation and accountability by the vast majority in the population.

What a strange conjunction of events we are seeing.
We have Mr Obama and Ms Clinton et al pontificating about how dreadful Mr Gadaffi is for attacking "his own people", and making all of us wonder whether that is indeed worse than bombing the hell out of someone else's people. But it gets even more confusingn when we are reminded yet again, if we needed reminding, about how that government is committing Human Rights crimes and breaching the rules laid down by the Convention on Civil and Political Rights etc by depriving dissidents and others who are United Sstates citzens of thos same rights that now others can have- even Libyans- but Manning cannot.
Us is Us and Them is Them and never the twain shall meet. I guess Bradley Manning once thought he was an "Us": now surely he knows he is a "Them". That ought to put the fear of God into every American, including Mr Manning, because they know now, since Abu Ghraib and since Guantanamo what happens in USA run federal prisons and gulags.
My last question is that which all those who defend human rights should be asking. When are the real war criminals and those who have committed Human Rights crimes going to face their people? And I am not onoly talking about the Libyan leader.

We all fell for Obama's schmultz. He essentially won the Nobel Prize for Public Speaking. Geoffrey Robertson should stop swooning at Assange and actually defend the real victim of truthtelling: Bradley Manning.

I can't help comparing the mental torture that Bradley Manning is now suffering from the American military, i.e. his own countrymen to that suffered by Louis Zamperini (and thousands of others) by the hands of the Japanese during WW2 (re: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand).

To the Blogger to whom I bestow the name of "Kitty Litter" to:
You want the infor of Brig Guards? I was a Brig Guard at Quantico. I'll be happy to give you MY information. Come to my house and let's see if your First Amendment outweighs my Second Amendment.

Hello Kitty Litter. I too was a Brig Guard at Quantico and can honestly tell you Detainee Manning is receiving no harsher treatment than any other person that conducts his/herself in the manner he has. If a prisoner/detainee enters the facility and even makes the slightest hint about harming his/herself, whether joking or not, they are listed as a suicide risk and put in solitary confinement indefinitely.
There is also protective solitary confinement for those high profile prisoner/detainees who may be harmed if put in general population. I assure you Detainee Manning is one such case.
Marines are professional warriors that take and enforce orders better than any other service out there. There is nothing personal with these people. They are trained to follow policy and follow orders.

I think it's just easy for others to demonize them and sympathize with someone who has a very creative lawyer. When your client has committed the crime and you basically have no case it is the oldest trick in the book to try and get their sentence reduced by showing they are being mistreated in the confinement facility. You and everybody on this blog are having the wool pulled over your eyes and now you want to attack the people enforcing the law and ensuring your freedom. To complain about treatment is one thing but to call to action the harassment and maltreatment of a warrior and their family is just plain disgusting. If you think a Marine who has dedicated their life to the service of YOU and all other FREE PEOPLE in the WORLD should be attacked because he/she is doing what is required of them, then you are plain disgusting as well. Shame on you.
I personally don't care what Detainee Manning did or why. The deification of Detainee Manning is simply a result of misinformation. He took an oath and violated the trust which was bestowed upon him for taking that oath. He should be punished accordingly.

Finally I will say this: If you think attacking CWO Denise Barnes and her family will cause her or any Marine in that facility to second guess their decisions you are dead wrong. If nothing else it will force them to maintain the fair, firm and impartial treatment of all prisoners/detainees they have sworn to uphold. Think of it this way...did the Marines at Belleau Woods back down in the face of certain death? Did the Marines on Iwo Jima stop pushing up the hills when their brothers were being blown to pieces next to them? You hopefully know the answer to those questions. Now do you think Marines are going to back down or dig in deeper when some sniveling puke sleeping under the blanket of freedom they provide starts trying to harass them? The thought is laughable. I will pray for you because that is who I am. I will pray for Detainee Manning as well. But rest assured I will pray much harder for my brothers and sisters enforcing the UCMJ and ensuring my freedom.

As an Honorably discharged Naval Petty Officer I believe that every Officer found complicit in Mannings detention treatment should be Court Martialed publickly because an explanation is in order. Here that Chief of Naval Operations??

Realize this, Kitty Litter: The Brig Guards of Quantico who SERVED with CWO Denise Barnes back in the days are standing by her side and ready to attest to her high level of professionalism and dedication to our Corps. Not to mention that she is a Veteran of Iraq, herself. She has been in this field for many years and is fully aware of what the policies and procedures of the brig are. You're going to have to get through a whole lot of us to get to her or any of her Marines.

I'm pretty sure he signed the contract. So whether he did the right thing or not, he still knowingly broke the ucmj. What did he think was gonna happen? And then he starts being a punk to his Marine gaurds. Real smart lol. AD Marine

Bradley Manning suffers harsh inhuman treatment whilst the real criminals with the blood of over a million people on their hands - Bush and Blair - walk about the world free men and are receive millions of pounds for very little.

There is no justice in this world.