Chelsea Evening

Last night.

GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin

Human rights activists and TDs, including Mick Wallace and Catherine Murphy wishing Chelsea Manning a happy 28th birthday.

Ms Manning is a transgender women who was a soldier convicted in July 2013 of violations of the espionage act and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Happy Birthday Chelsea: An Icon of Bravery And Integrity (Clare Daly)

(Sam Boal/Rollingnews)

19 thoughts on “Chelsea Evening”

Prop Joe December 18, 2015 at 11:37 am

Edit:
Traitor

Nothing else for it. Traitor. Gender/orientation irrelevant.

Clampers Outside! December 18, 2015 at 11:51 am

Traitor to what… the corporations that run America?

Better a hero of moral conscience and humanity than a cog in America’s corporate kill machine.

Fair play and all to Chelsea!
1. Bob December 18, 2015 at 11:57 am
  
  Well a traitor to her nation by the definition of the term traitor. She committed treason. She did it for the right reasons and I personally think she should be set free, but she still committed treason.
  1. Prop Joe December 18, 2015 at 12:01 pm
    
    Exactamundo.
    
    And no, no traitor should be set free for moral reasons.
    1. Prop Joe December 18, 2015 at 12:01 pm
      
      Prisoner of conscience.
    2. Mr. T. December 18, 2015 at 12:43 pm
      
      You need to live in deepest Leitrim with your collection of guns and some nasty dogs on chains.
  2. Clampers Outside! December 18, 2015 at 12:10 pm
    
    Nah…. those that wrote the proclamation for America’s independence can be found to have said that the people of America should ward off the incursions of the banking system and the arms industry behind the scenes in the running America.
    
    Banks, oil and the arms industry run America. That’s who Manning blew the whistle on.
    
    And so considering how the founders viewed things, I’m sure they’d praise him for it… and so, IMO and that of many others, he ain’t no traitor.
    
    My tuppence.
    1. ahjayzis December 18, 2015 at 12:15 pm
      
      *She
      
      In fairness.
    2. Clampers Outside! December 18, 2015 at 12:35 pm
      
      Yes… sorry… takes gettin’ used ta….
    3. ahjayzis December 18, 2015 at 8:10 pm
      
      I’m super sensitive to it. I mistook a trans woman for a drag queen before and asked her what time she was on at. Still cringe thinking about it.
      
      #imana$$hole.
2. Starina December 18, 2015 at 11:57 am
  
  +1
phil December 18, 2015 at 11:55 am

A relax would you, I certainly admire people who make extremely difficult decisions/choices of conscience , no matter how misguided they are …
Formerly known as @ireland.com December 18, 2015 at 11:57 am

You can argue about being a traitor to the USA, but definitely a friend of freedom for the rest of us.

Hank December 18, 2015 at 11:45 am

Was Mourinho there?

Mikeyfex December 18, 2015 at 12:03 pm

No but Terry showed up in an orange jumpsuit

The florist December 18, 2015 at 12:54 pm

protest! Where’s mick and clare? oh hang on, yep see them now…

f_lawless December 18, 2015 at 1:26 pm

I know, right?! No doubt you wouldn’t catch most of that shower in the Oireachtas ever making a stand with the “plebs”! Probably sipping on their subsidised xmas drinks at the Dail bar.