DoD Paper Proposes National Security Through a Culture of Restraint (and Stigma) 182

[DBoon]

From Slashdot (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/27/2324227/DoD-Paper-Proposes-National-Security-Through-a-Culture-of-Restraint-and-Stigma):

"An SAIC analyst has written a paper calling for the 'stigmatization' of the 'unattractive' types who tend to discuss government secrets in public. The plan, described in the Naval Postgraduate School Homeland Security Affairs journal, is to promote self-censorship as a 'civic duty'. Who needs to censor themselves? Amateur enthusiasts who describe satellite orbits, scientists who describe threats to the food supply, graduate students mapping the internet, the Government Accountability Office, which publishes failure reports on the TSA, the US Geologic Survey, which publishes surface water information, newspapers (the New York Times), TV shows, journalism websites, anti-secrecy websites, and even security author Bruce Schneier, to name a few."

link to original paper is http://www.hsaj.org/?fullarticle=7.1.10

Now we are all Bradley Manning

[Hannah Bell]

1. Ordinary people should not know anything or do anything. This is creepy stuff.

[Dawson Leery]

2. This old Soviet/Third Reich model where everyone is a potential

suspect and should remain an ignorant tool of the ruling class.

The DHS needs to be dismantled.

[EFerrari]

3. When Grad Students Go Wildly Wrong.

What an idiot.

[Pholus]

4. Why did I ever buy that cold war propoganda when I was a kid?

We apparently didn't hate the Rooskies for their oppressive government, we hated them because they had what we wanted.

My problem is the disillusionment from finding out we are truly NOT exceptional like we said we were.