I don't know how to fix America and quite frankly, I don't even know if it's possible at this point. It's the 21st century and we still have a problem with discrimination. Innocent policemen are being murdered. Our presidential election is hopeless. We're allowing terrorist and illegal immigrants to enter our borders. 46.7 million Americans are impoverished, but hey at least we are enabling our Army to pay for hormone treatment for a imprisoned, transgender soldier! Like I said, I really do not have the answer to fix our broken America but I do know one thing: prisoners should not be living such a lavish lifestyle.
Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, was convicted of violating the Espionage Act, for leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks in August 2013. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison and could be eligible for parole in the eighth year. The day following sentencing, Manning stated how he had always felt like a woman and would seek hormone treatment to live out his dream of being one.
Luckily for America, in 2015 the US Army agreed to provide Manning hormone treatment! Now in my opinion, being transgender is one thing, you do you, but being a convicted felon for betraying your country and then proceeding to ask its taxpayers to fund your hormone treatment is absolutely insane. So in addition to taxes being put towards giving felons three meals a day, a comfortable living arrangement, education, and healthcare, we are now supplying them treatment so they can reach their lifelong dream of being transgender.
Now you're probably sitting there thinking, it's been a year, just let it go-- well catch this, Manning recently made headlines again for attempting suicide on July 5, luckily her attempt did fail. However, she was able to tweet she was doing just fine a week after her attempt. That's right a convicted felon was able to tweet on her personal Twitter account. Although Manning doesn't have internet access, she is able to use a voice phone to dictate her tweets to a communications firm, which posts them on her behalf instead. I don't know about you but 'having three hots and a cot' and being able to tweet doesn't really sound like such a bad punishment to me.
So the next time you're grounded and get your phone taken away or you're sent to bed without dinner, just think Chelsea Manning, a convicted felon for betraying our great nation is still eating her free, hot dinner and can still tweet.
Oh and one more thing, check your paycheck -- some of those tax deductions are paying for a convicted felon's hormone treatment!
