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Soldiers Can't Blog Without Approval
denebian devil writes "Wired.com has obtained a copy of updated US Army rules (pdf) that force soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages without first clearing the content with a superior officer. Previous editions of the rules asked Army personnel to "consult with their immediate supervisor" before posting a document "that might contain sensitive and/or critical information in a public forum." The new version, in contrast, requires "an OPSEC review prior to publishing" anything — from "web log (blog) postings" to comments on internet message boards, from resumes to letters home. Under the strictest reading of the rule, a soldier must check with his or her superior officer before every blog entry posted and every email sent, though the method of enforcing these regulations is subject to choices made by the unit commanders. According to Wired, active-duty troops aren't the only ones affected by the new guidelines. Civilians working for the military, Army contractors — even soldiers' families — are all subject to the directive as well, though many of the people affected by these new regulations can't even access them because they are being kept on the military's restricted Army Knowledge Online intranet. Wired also interviewed Major Ray Ceralde, author of the new regulations, about why this change has been made."
Haven't you heard of Catch-22?
What war and what soldiers? You mean that illegal mercenary total looting expedition based on lies, and conducted by clueless order followers, lead by a deranged moronic mouth breather who wouldn't know a constitutionally legal war if it bit him in the ass? That's not a war, it's a large scale organized crime racket. Those aren't soldiers, they are mercenaries working for some transnational corporations. This so called "war", which by all credible accounts/polls/elections, etc, that a majority of US people want us out of, yet the order followers still keep conducting it, and their dictator in chief keeps telling the US people to go to hell, that he and his mercenaries will do whatever they want to do? That place, that situation?
Ya, "opsec" is needed there all right, too bad it is TOO LATE and the entire rest of the planet knows what is going on. Ya'all are in deep kimchi, because you invaded some other poor saps nation, and now collateral damage rules, creating ten pissed off "natives" for every one you kill, and they went from 1% of the population being in peril to 99%, they went from a marginal infrastructure to now one that is mostly destroyed, and your puppets are going to be selling off their one resource, oil, to a slew of already rich jerks from outside the nation.
The word "nuremberg" mean anything? It should.
Now is every base security oroficer gonna follow every Tom, Dick, and Jane down every path they take every day. Many troops must own their OWN laptops by now, along with their cars, bikes, scoots that are parked outside every barracks in the country. Really go look at your nearest friendly military base. Don't worry about gettin on base. All the local whores know how to get on bases and have known, like forever! Go take a look at how many cars belong to servicemen and women. Every one of those cars can make it off base to the nearest friendly internet cafe or coffee house wi-fi hotspot. Betcha many of them are /. posters. Here is another silly rule that only a dumb-ass brain dead numb from the belt down 'chicken colonel' could love from the safety of his local Officer's club where he/she would be free to brag about how he is controlling his eager loyal troops. Look again colonel. Been out of 'Nam too long to remember about how many of his older 'brethren' got fragged. There is no way the military is gonna enforce this set of rules as they are made to be broken. Contrary to colonel speak, GI's do not lose the protection of the Constitution when they enter the service. They can write their Congressman, the local newspapers, the 'Stars and Stripes' military papers, or even to the the Inspector General with complaints of unfairness. This is not a war as it was never declared by Congress. Only Congress can declare a war. Bush refrained from asking for a Declaration of War back in 2001, and when he finally did get around to asking congress in 2004, the opportunity to get it passed...had passed. Even his fellow crooked republicans turned him down flatter than all the girls at his college. Because of this, so called wartime rules are not legal. It still takes a formal Congress declared war to make these kinds of constitutional suspensions legal. Repeat, there is no 'war', and all the balderdash by all the bushies in the world will not make it so as long as Congress has not formally passed a formal 'Declaration of War'. Besides, there is no country called 'Al Kayyyda' nor will there ever be.