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- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Path: sparky!uunet!island!guido
- From: guido@island.COM (Guido Marx)
- Subject: Re: Gays, the military and "privacy"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.172215.2424@island.COM>
- Sender: usenet@island.COM (The Usenet mail target)
- Organization: Island Graphics Corp. San Rafael, Ca.
- References: <1992Dec23.063048.15348@netcom.com> <44026@zygot.ati.com> <1992Dec28.113059.1409@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:22:15 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Dec28.113059.1409@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
- >In article <44026@zygot.ati.com> john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:
- > >The long and the short of
- > >it was that this person was discharged from the Air Force
- > >after eighteen years of honorable service. And even though it
- > >was an "honorable discharge", his career was ended before the
- > >twenty-year mark.
- > >
- > >Now perhaps someone can explain why the military should be
- > >allowed to keep such practices in place.
- >
- >Of course, what if Comrade spy had happened upon this fact? What a lovely
- >pressure point for blackmail, eh? 18 years in, 2 to go, just a few satellite
- >pictures please ...
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- You realize of course, that is probably the strongest possible argument for
- abolishing the ban on gays in the military ? We already have enough
- real security risks without creating them for our adversaries. If there
- were no ban on gays in the military, this guy would tell "Comrade spy" to
- take a flying leap.
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- Guido
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