The army is censoring the blogs of its personnel?

No different than how ABC treats their patrons.

By the way, who gave Justin Rood 'Delete Post' permissions?

Whoever did was dumb. It lost you thousands of viewers.

Anybody in the military KNOWS you're not supposed to indicate troop movement, or any other sensitive information that could jeopardize the execution of the mission and the safety of personnel (especially in combat). Most soldiers in combat would kick your a** if you put them in danger...whoop dee doo...big story...

Vietnam redux. We need new civilian _and_ military leaders.

Aftergood also pointed out to the Army that their "regulation" was, by law, not copyrighted. It was, therefore, a public document with absolutely no restriction of any kind.

The Army guys need to thank their lucky stars that Aftergood isn't an attorney. Getting a temporary injunction against them would have been about 5 minutes worth of work. A permanent injunction against the entire U.S. Army would have taken just a bit longer. But usually when you file a complaint that refers to a Federal Statute, it's not complicated.

Judges usually have no problem at all issuing an injunction which requires the respondent to abide by the law.

Mike

I am so freaking tired of our stupid government and its desire to morph into the old Soviet Union. Are we seriously supposed to support such idiocy with the blind zeal Bush and his lap dogs demand? Stories like this are becoming all to frequent.

Clint, this country is a LONG WAY OFF from being anything like the USSR..."I'm so tired of our stupid government" might have gotten you imprisoned under Breshnev...

Jazz, it's not as LONG WAY OFF as you think - here's questions to answer: Which country imprisons more people than any other? In which country is prison-building, maintenance etc. a multi-billion dollar industry and growing? And, who are the people in the prisons of that country? Are they the wealthy and powerful? Why do you think there is so much crime in that country? Is it because people are content and satisfied with their life there? Take a hard look, my friend - we're on the eve of . . . .

The document is not secret and it's not protected by copyright. If the Army didn't want it published, they shouldn't have published it.

The Army is not only wrong, but stupid. No wonder the Iraq War is lost. These people can't find their ass with both hands.

St Ann, gotta disagree with you...we're on the eve of...what...tomorrow? uhh, anybody comparing the USSR (Soviet Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, etc) with the US today doesn't have any clear idea of what life in the Soviet Union and is just ignorant of the truth.

The Soviet government established its economic priorities through central planning, a system under which administrative decisions rather than the market determine resource allocation and prices, UNLIKE the capitalist system of the US.

Yes, the US has a big prison industrial complex - the biggest in the world. That still doesn't equate our system with the Soviets. The PIC is built on capitalism...capitalism, not hard line communism.

There's so much crime in the US because we live in a free society. You know that people are in prison mostly because of drugs...I've spent a HUGE part of my life in poverty and in the hood...it's really not necessary to take the criminal route out. It is a choice. Our system (as opposed to the closed system of the Soviet Union) allows for options...mobility...opportunity. You can take what you have and run with it, if you want to. Many people in the hood living on public assistance (socialized living - the second "S" in USSR) do not know how to live otherwise. They are the ones who think they have to be dependent on government in order to survive. THAT is a socialist model.

Anyway, the article above is about the military, not the exclusive private sector...

get a clue, kids...

Jazz, StAnn is much closer to having truth than you. Most people could say things against government. In certain places, maybe KGB is nastier, but most places was not a problem to talk.

Captailism and Communism are not so different. People at top get everything they want, people at bottom get only enough to survive. That is important part. Everything else is like color of paint. You must be loyal to OUR color of paint, or we punish you. But still it is only color of paint.

People at the bottom CAN get to the top in this country. Of course 95% of the wealth is owned by 5% of the population (or a close approximation thereof). You gonna take that lying down? Or are you going to fight for your life to aquire wealth (if that's what you're into)? It's your choice...you can get with this or you can get with that...

And I don't buy into the paint color analogy; I'm loyal to myself...

Interesting discussion comparing Eastern European countries to the US. As under the USSR era, you were only allowed to pledge a belief in their government. Our ACLU will make that become a reality before long. That society paid a dear price with no moral basis for their country. Now in Eastern Eupropean countries like the Ukraine, they teach the bible in PUBLIC CLASSROOMS because they now know you can't live without God. I pray the US doesn't have to find that out the hard way as well.

In light of the fact that the fort dix six were going to use a pizza delivery guy to attack a base, perhaps it isn't so "stupid" to restrict posts about "...innocuous details like...the frequency of orders from a pizza restaurant..." I was in the army and know that all this just comes with the territory. If you don't like it, go find yourself another job where you can post all you want. God Bless America!

Ah, freedom of speech.
You can kill for it.
You can die for it.
But heaven help using your right to exercise it.

what a sad world we live in when people are asked to die for something when they cant even use it themselves.... another example of how fear driven this government/administration is... all critics will be silenced. all we need now is someone like Joe Stalin in government... oh we have him... its dick cheyney.... the next administration needs to clean house through every single branch of government including the military.