Pure contempt (From York Press)

Pure contempt

9:54am Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Letters

A court-martial has been ordered for the purpose of imprisoning Bradley Manning for the rest of his life.

This comes just a week after a marine sergeant was awarded a maximum three-month sentence for leading one of many massacres of civilians in Iraq; his co-accused were exonerated.

The US constantly displays utter contempt for human decency and justice, glorying in the subservience and stupidity of its apologists (a few of whom may shortly be contributing to this page).

It knows full well that whatever atrocity or stupidity it proclaims, a billionaire press at home and abroad will support it and deliver a large part of a naïve electorate into the pro-war lobby the moment it implements its next holocaust for oil and influence.

R Westmoreland, The Oval, Pocklington.