Chelsea Manning running to abolish ICE, promote universal …

The military whistleblower Chelsea Manning has launched a website outlining her extremely progressive manifesto for the Maryland Democratic Primaries for Senate.

On the Intercepted podcast in April she boldly claimed that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) is a deportation taskforce thats carrying out an ethnic cleansing. Her policies outlined on her website certainly dont water-down this rhetoric, promising not to reform but to abolish I.C.E.

She wants to abolish the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which acts as an illusion of oversight for the rampant NSA surveillance program, and replace it with a system which relies on district courts and courts of appeal in order to increase transparency and accountability of the massive-scale surveillance of American citizens and foreigners.

When it comes to civil liberties she demands an end to police no-knock warrants and a complete repeal of the Controlled Substances Act with a view to diverting the warchest of the War on Drugs toward drug treatment and rehabilitation. She labels the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights a licence to murder and a get out of jail free card, and demands that officers who kill and injure people should be held to the same standard as any other citizen charged with murder or attempted murder.

On the issue of US healthcare, Manning states that Healthcare shouldnt just be affordable, healthcare should be free, demanding to change the current system by replacing our flawed medical insurance system with universal single payer healthcare, making healthcare free for everyone. No exceptions.

Former soldier Manning has no special favours for the hand that once fed her: she accuses the $696 billion appropriated to the Pentagon for 2018 of being a blank check to the military industrial complex and the US of being a the worlds biggest arms dealer. She specifically calls out the Turkish use of US weapons against the Kurds in Rojava, the Israeli slaughter of Palestinian children and Saudi Arabias wholesale massacre of 20,000 Yemeni civilians as examples of the sins of the US military export racket that she vows to end.

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