Australia is a great American ally, but also a nation partly defined by its sense of humor. That bears noting alongside its decision this week to deny entry to the American traitor-turned-celebrity-in-vogue-turned Senate candidate, Chelsea Manning.
It’s good news that the land down under gave Manning a late notice warning that she wouldn’t be welcome in their fine nation. Because while Manning is seen by many on the far-left as some kind of hero, she is anything but. On the contrary, she is a traitor who provided national defense information to a Russian intelligence cutout, WikiLeaks, which then manipulated that information to present a false picture of U.S. military operations and to disrupt U.S. foreign policy.
Manning is now free, thanks to a commutation from former President Barack Obama but that doesn’t mean Manning deserves the right to travel among America’s closest allies. Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer described Manning best when I asked him for his thoughts on Manning’s Senate run.
“I think it’s a joke. I don’t think it’s true. I mean, who cares about the transgender stuff? That’s not the issue here. I have a lot of respect for Chief Beck [a former Navy SEAL senior chief petty officer who came out as a transgender woman in 2013]. What matters is – and there’s no question about this – that our system gave Manning a fair trial, and she was found guilty. How does this make sense? Didn’t she already have a chance to serve the nation? She did, and she failed miserably. All she is about is serving herself, but her track record should make her fit in as a politician.”
To their credit, most Democrats seem to agree with Meyer’s sentiment. After all, Manning was annihilated in the June primary, winning just 5.8 percent of the votes cast. Perhaps, the best punishment is the repudiation Manning now receives from mainstream America, and Australia as well.
