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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 09:38 AM
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Interesting Soldier's blog
Course, they're attempting to control the flow of information, to control perceptions. There seems to be some other subterfuge, trying to smoke us out, shut us down, but you know what? It's a big-ass Internet... and my grasp of language is disproportionate to my ambition. Bottom line is, basically if you ain't passing out Teddy Bears or soccer balls to war orphans, DOD doesn't want to hear about it.


http://americanshort-timer.blogspot.com/
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 09:47 AM
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1. Whoa. He's reliving Catch-22.
Ot at least his LT thinks he is.

Disturbing.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 09:48 AM
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2. Odd
His posts are written in a realtime voice, as if he's posting from Iraq. But the sidebar says he's not in Iraq, not in the Army, not getting shot at.
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 09:51 AM
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3. I saw that, and assume it's a disclaimer to attempt to stop them
from tracking him down or something, given that there are comments like this in the blog:

I'm on one of these late night hacking binges, bent over my keyboard and thrashing away as silently yet as quickly as I know how, and it strikes me. The absurdity of it. Here I am, a thousand miles from the 21st century, shouting into the future as it were, ducking and dodging and weaving, applying all manner of subterfuge and plausible deniability and pseudonyms and cutouts and middlemen and intermediaries to do my dirty work for me, flying across the wires, around the globe and back again across time and space... not even censoring enlisted men's letters. Censoring my very existence.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 10:03 AM
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5. Yes, I think that's the case.
He'd better use some encryption to CYA. Accessing a friendly webmail account through HTTPS could do the trick. PGP mail would be better.

I very much doubt he registered himself at blogspot.com.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 10:03 AM
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4. "the federal prison system known colloquially among the inmates,...
,...as us arhhhhhhhhme,..."

Wow! His writing reflects a feeling of torment, to me.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 10:07 AM
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6. Check this I found in the comments:
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 10:56 AM
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7. incredible animation
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 11:06 AM
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8. This should have it's own thread.....wow
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 11:14 AM
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9. Your wish is my command
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-18-05 11:55 AM
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10. Thank you
:toast:
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