I AM BRADLEY MANNING--REALLY!

We are all Bradley Manning: sure. If the government can ignore his constitutional rights by imprisoning him for a full year without charging him with a crime, and can torture him every day for a year in violation of international law, none of us is safe.

So why don't we all change our names--to Bradley Manning. We can do so, legally, in our local communities and with our employers. And of course, we will all have to apply for new Social Security cards, because of our new names. And we will have to notify the Internal Revenue Service.

And we will need new passports, and new driving licenses. And new voter registrations.

And new names on our bank accounts and credit cards.

And then, when this sleazy, law-dodging, two-faced government tries to charge Bradley Manning with disclosing their crimes, they will have thousands of us, all claiming to be Bradley Manning, to arraign.

And we will all insist on being arraigned. And we will all plead not guilty. And we will all demand trial by jury. And we will accept the government's dismissing of all charges ONLY if the dismissal applies to ALL Bradley Mannings.

And all of us will reserve the right to file charges against the United States government and Barack Obama for felony crimes against the United States Constitution.

And then? If we want to, we can reclaim our old names easily enough. But many of us, surely, will want to retain our new names, and in honor of our hero continue to be known as Bradley Manning.

Bert Hornback, a.k.a. Bradley Manning