While freedom of speech is an amazing thing that makes us in America very different from many other parts of the world, it can also prove unnerving. While I was deployed to the Middle East one of the boys (I refuse to say he is a man after I found out what he was doing) was telling his mother by way of email and posting in his blog when and where our ship would be. Things like that should be taken a step above and be looked at by authorities higher than a ships chain of command. He was putting the lives of many in danger - mine included. We need to find some sort of middle ground that regulates a fair portion of that freedom - where it becomes a danger to those around you. This includes those who have a knowledge of where about of dangerous persons (child molesters, rapists ect) The government should be allowed to contact those people with out question.
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While freedom of speech is an amazing thing that makes us in America very different from many other parts of the world, it can also prove unnerving. While I was deployed to the Middle East one of the boys (I refuse to say he is a man after I found out what he was doing) was telling his mother by way of email and posting in his blog when and where our ship would be. Things like that should be taken a step above and be looked at by authorities higher than a ships chain of command. He was putting the lives of many in danger - mine included. We need to find some sort of middle ground that regulates a fair portion of that freedom - where it becomes a danger to those around you. This includes those who have a knowledge of where about of dangerous persons (child molesters, rapists ect) The government should be allowed to contact those people with out question.