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- Path: sparky!uunet!optilink!cramer
- From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: Gays, the military and "privacy"
- Message-ID: <13738@optilink.COM>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 00:56:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.113059.1409@netcom.com> <13729@optilink.COM>
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- In article <13729@optilink.COM>, walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
- > From article <1992Dec28.113059.1409@netcom.com>, by phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone):
- > > In article <44026@zygot.ati.com> john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:
- >
- > #> [Story about a gay man's military career ending prematurely...]
- # ##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 ...
- #
- # Phil makes an excellent point here. If there were no discrimination
- # against gays in the military, then the potential for this sort of
- # blackmail would go by the wayside. Why is it that the chiefs
-
- Not quite. A person might still be subject to blackmail because
- of fear of family or friends finding out.
-
- # continue to argue that gays should be barred from military service
- # because they are vulnerable to blackmail when we all know that the
- # reason for this is because the fact that such activity is banned?
- # --
- # Mark Walsh (walsh@optilink) -- UUCP: uunet!optilink!walsh
-
- James Bamford's _The Puzzle Palace_ (a history of the National
- Security Agency) describes what NSA did when one of its civilian
- employees who was gay sought promotion. They required him, as a
- condition of remaining employed by NSA, to write letters to his
- family, friends, and neighbors, informing them that he was gay.
- This made him essentially unblackmailable for his sexual preferences.
-
-
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- C++ is to C, as lung cancer is to lung.
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