Ernesto Perez Castillo Now that an Egyptian military court has sentenced the blogger Maikel Nabil to three years in prison, the U.S. government has lost the opportunity to exercise again his tremendous capacity to mourn crocodile tears . Nabil was charged with publishing false information about the use of military force against demonstrators during the protests against Mubarak, and Mark Toner, State Department spokesman, has immediately face time on camera and under the moving lights flashes said: "We are deeply concerned and disappointed by the sentence and ask the Egyptian government that allows all citizens the right to express their universal rights. " Those three years are a bargain compared to the fifty-two to at least hang on the soldier's head Bradley Manning, just believe that these "universal rights" that his government claims to the rest of the world also worth to U.S. citizens. Manning has spent more than two hundred days and nights in a cell of one of four meters, where he stayed 23 hours a day, practically without any furniture, no personal items, no pillows and even without a blanket. For an hour each day, you can afford to go out and walk but it is strictly forbidden to ride. Each Dawn receives standing at five o'clock, and must stand naked as God brought the world and hell are now their days, in view of their jailers. Why size cruelty? Because Mannig has been accused of leaking, among other atrocities, the video where you see how a U.S. helicopter fires on media personnel in Iraq, and then also fired on other civilians who came to help the victims. He said: "It was very vulnerable information. And, well, I sent to Wikileaks. God knows what will happen from now. I hope you have a great global debate, debates, reforms. If not, we are doomed as a species. " The soldier was an intelligence analyst of the Second Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York, where he was sent to the forward operating base Hammer, 60 kilometers east of Baghdad, and had the temerity to make public outrages with which the occupation forces were entertained. The attitude of the State Department spokesman is a mirror of the hypocritical attitude of its president, because although Obama filled his mouth to condemn the repression in Syria and Yemen, amen to require a change of government in Libya and organizing the bombing runs which have claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, however maintained silence on the situation in Bahrain, where at least two dozen people dead, four others are arrested or disappeared, three detainees died in custody, including one with evidence of torture, while the press criticism has been silenced, bloggers have been arrested, prosecuted journalists and many foreign journalists were expelled. Neither the football stars were saved, because by participating in the protests have been expelled from the national team and put behind bars. And is that the tiny kingdom of Bahrain hosts the headquarters of the naval base Fifth Fleet, reason enough for Obama to keep his mouth firmly closed to these events. While naval forces are well received there, Obama will blind, deaf and dumb. All that the soldier could not be Mannig.
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