Comments on: Army Threatens Critic Over Blog Policy

By: sk8boardgrind

sk8boardgrind — Thu, 17 May 2007 01:09:03 +0000

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.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:53:20 +0000

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

By: luis

luis — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:33:17 +0000

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!

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:09:01 +0000

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.

By: Jazz

Jazz — Fri, 11 May 2007 13:52:03 +0000

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…

By: Natalya Pozdnyakova

Natalya Pozdnyakova — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:54:00 +0000

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.

By: Jazz

Jazz — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:09:23 +0000

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…

By: William Wilson

William Wilson — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:16:28 +0000

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.

By: St Ann

St Ann — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:13:42 +0000

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 . . . .

By: Jazz

Jazz — Thu, 10 May 2007 02:08:33 +0000

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…