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.
Now that there is the statement of what I used to think of as a True American. A whole lotta somebodies oughta be ashamed of themselves, but Chelsea Manning ain’t one of them.
