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I read Mark Segal’s column in PGN last week with dismay. He endorsed Obama with laudatory comments and added as his rationale that Gavin Newsom and Elizabeth Birch had also endorsed him. Early endorsements are always dicey, but early endorsements of incumbents who have done little for constituents are a mistake. I voted for Barack [...]
Here is what AI objected to in Manning’s treatment: “23-hour/day solitary confinement; barred even from exercising in his cell; one hour total outside his cell per day where he’s allowed to walk around in circles in a room alone while shackled, and is returned to his cell the minute he stops walking; forced to respond to guards’ inquiries literally every 5 minutes, all day, everyday; and awakened at night each time he is curled up in the corner of his bed or otherwise outside the guards’ full view.”
