Last Wednesday I visit your Army Live ” A Message to MilBloggers site ,I have a special experience after reading your live stock quote site/blog….

This whole crackdown on CJ’s freedom of speech occured when he simply said what is on the minds of most Active Duty and retired Soldiers; Obama’s an unfit, socialist idiot who’s destroying our economy and national security.

Then, civilian PTA members tried to bully him via his chain of command, because he discussed their arrogance.

Give ‘em hell CJ.

HOOAH!

Blogs are an odd beast altogether. They all share elements of personal diary, reporter, opinion, with faint whiff of P.T. Barnum. They can be read by a large audience, and blogs document what’s going on at the time in the mind of the writer. Social networking –whether it’s a 140 character tweet, a status change on Facebook, or a 300 word blog post, is intensely personal.

It’s for this reason that I find myself disagreeing with Ms. Kyzer on almost every single point. While I understand the well-intentioned suggestion were to help make self-preservation possible, each goes against the grain of the writer’s craft and also that one thing we hold sacrosanct: freedom of expression.

If one wants to cause dissent, start putting down all sorts of rules! Tell people to use a nom de plume, avoid politics, tell us that little bro is watching, not to dis the boss and people take it as a personal affront. As an aside, through history, great struggles have been brought to life in the form of novels, stories, operas, epic poems, movies, music and plays. They have inspired people in a myriad of ways –both positive and not. Well-written blogs that articulately convey the writer’s struggle can also serve to enlighten and move. That’s why I think it’s important to remember this before setting down a bunch of rules.

This doesn’t mean that the writer throws caution to the wind. But, I happen to think the person who doesn’t blog anonymously holds themselves to a high standard of how they frame what they’re writing. What I write is done so with great deliberation, and I understand that I’m responsible for everything on it. So if I say something that irks someone, maybe for one second (or two or three or four), they ought to put stock into the fact that I’ve considered not publishing it. But the fact that I have means I’ve framed it, edited it. I’ve hit the “publish” button because I want those I’m criticizing to pay attention!

In regards to the rest of your suggestions, go back to remembering that blogs are a direct reflection of what’s going on in the mindset of the person writing the blog. All sorts of emotions are going to come out. It’s inescapable.

In regards to the silence, we were successful. How do we know? Because you noticed.
Like I’ve said, this has been one heck of a long ride but I wouldn’t have missed a single bit of it …even the bumpy parts.
Best,
Kanani Fong

If this kind of injustice and discrimination is the norm, then I would recommend that military service personal NOT have children, don’t have a life out side the military, heck, don’t even fall in love and get married! If you do, someone in the civilian world may not like it and go to your command. If that happens you can kiss you military career goodbye, because they will not stand up for you!