"Hundreds of times a day, Facebook users would email Losse and the support team to ask, “What does poking mean?"

"Man’s arrogance, man’s wretched laws, and no nice dogs allowed to sit on the bench with dog judge hats and doggy robes."

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Would you have pressed the same charges if Manning had given the documents not to WikiLeaks but directly to the New York Times?

The prosecutor’s answer was simple: “Yes Ma’am.”

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"In an interesting survival from medieval times, these warrants abate (lose their force) on the death of the sovereign if they have not already been executed. This particularly applied to death warrants in the days when England authorized capital punishment. Perhaps the most celebrated example of this occurred on 17 November 1558 when several Protestant heretics were tied to their stakes in Smithfield, and the firewood bundles were about to be lit when a royal messenger rode up to announce that Queen Mary had died and that the warrants had lost their force. The first formal act of Mary’s successor, Elizabeth I, was to decline to re-issue the warrants, and the heretics were released a few weeks later."