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If they throw the book at Bradley Manning, there are others who should then be prosecuted under the Espionage Act 18 USC § 793(f) to wit: Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint , plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both....

On a post by the Guardian on Tweeter, I learned about Godwin's law and how bringing up Nazism as an argument point is indicative that the discussion has degraded to the point where no one has anything logical to add. Mr. Godwin himself says that he created the meme as a means of getting people to think more about the holocaust. The Guardian ‏ @ guardian 55m Why humans are programmed to argue in comment threads http:// t.gu.com/npvUW I disagree with Mr. Godwin on treating Nazism and the holocaust as synonyms. No, I'm not a denier. However, when I have used Nazism in past arguments online, it has always been as a synonym for  nationalism-on-steroids. I was referring to the despotic, the ipse dixit of authority, the fervor that blinded Christian people into toeing the government line.  The holocaust was enabled by a despotic government but it was not a sine qua non of Nazism. To prevent future holocausts, we ne...