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The political leftists in this country include the culture-dominating N.E.A., the vast, left-wing teachers' union.

That union's membership, is riddled with leftist functionaries who are aiding the enemy. They ridicule the parents of children, before an entire class, to name just one recent example.

What is there to inhibit these "teachers" from copying the school's records of a child whose father is captured by Iraq or by North Korea?

Not much.

Sensitive military information is being posted to FR, but it should not be posted, no matter how much it may be found elsewhere in public. The identification of Allied military units, their whereabouts, and their destination are of great aid to the enemy --- and the enemy is much more than Saddam Hussein's Iraq... The information being posted to FreeRepublic, may be on the Internet and so-called public knowledge, but every instance of a retelling of it, is the reminder to a bad guy who overlooked it.

With all respect and deference to your motives for your post, I have to take issue with your assertion that "sensitive" information is being posted on FreeRepublic. We should not flatter ourselves -- the enemy is not looking here to glean questionable tidbits of information on unit movements. He instead finds voluminous movement and order of battle details already compiled on the websites of several think tanks. For confirmation, he also reads the local papers near major military bases which describe the specific units as they are deploying, and continue with human interest stories about the families of deployed units. Why should he come here to decipher idle chatter when he can so easily get hard facts elsewhere? He does not.

It might make us feel important to think that our rehashing of media-published information constitutes "loose lips" chatter, but that is actually hogwash. All that Saddam's intel can learn from FreeRepublic is that we don't like him very much.

Your heart is in the right place, but it's absurd to say that we shouldn't discuss public information from widely available news sources.

The iron rule is NEVER to talk about matters that Freepers know from personal observation, since so many Freepers are in or involved with the military.

I would also say that one should be careful about what you say concerning the interpretation of the news. But we all know that there's a lot of disinformation out there, and our speculations don't really tell an enemy anything he couldn't figure out for himself.

Most Freepers have pretty good sense about these matters, and in the many years I've visited here I can't remember seeing anyone violate the basic rules of secrecy. Of course I may have missed something, or the Moderators may have removed it. If you think you see something like a genuine security breach, tell the Moderators. Ask them to have a look and remove it if they judge it to be potentially dangerous.