[MilCom] Milair and Security Issues

[lrk]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:13:38AM -0600, Ted wrote:
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> 2. Having said that, I DO think that sometimes some folks in the military, 
> federal government and even public safety agencies DO need reminding from 
> time to time of what it is they are supposed to be protecting. That is - a 
> free and open democratic society, which includes freedom of the press. 
> People from these agencies who electronically run around trying to suppress 
> information on web sites without higher direction or authority are clearly 
> committing civil rights violations, albeit probably with the best of 
> intentions. The road to hell being so paved, etc. Their efforts serve only 
> to muddy the reputations of their otherwise fine agencies.

It may also be a federal felony. Not that denying you your Constitutionally
protected rights is known to be wrong by most federal employees.

 
> 5. The Amateur Radio service is almost universally a secondary allocation. 
> Hams must accept and avoid interference to/from primary users. 420-440 for 
> instance is actually primarily allocated to military radar. This is or was 
> on the exam question pools so if you are a licensed amateur radio operator 
> you already know this.

Actually the Amateur bands were available to the military all along. Since
WWII, the military has sided with the hams to keep the ham bands in place.
One of the important lessons of WWII was that the group of techies who grew
up to be hams were the people who could actually make things work under the
worst conditions. Almost all military radios cover the adjacent ham bands
but those frequencies are only supposed to be used during wartime. We are
NOT at war now.

 
> Welcome to the new America, where everything is confidential and everyone 
> is suspicious.

Let me pass along a lesson from grade school in the 1950s:

"If you are not willing to stand up and fight for your rights, you won't
have any."



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