[John H K]

I believe there was a request that NO MILITARY INFORMATION BE POSTED, Dude. What part of that did you NOT understand?

You don't understand ANY of it, apparently; the original FR "Loose Lips" concept dealt with people PERSONALLY reporting info, like "I just saw X take off from X"

Personally, I've never seen any info even along THOSE lines on FR that ever would be remotely useful to an enemy, but it's not all that unreasonable a request.

Following your warped thinking we need to shut down FR for the next week, as I don't think you can stop people posting major media articles containing military information.

Nothing about reposting other already public stories. Once it's out there, it's out there, and I assure you that Iraq is watching BBC, MSNBC, CNN, etc. directly, not prowling FR to find what people watching the news are seeing.

LOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.

Err, it's "Loose" of course, and actually, they didn't; the "LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS" campaign was basically a US Government propaganda move in 1942 to distract the public from the abject failure of the US Navy to defend against U-boat attacks along the East Coast; as it turned out, intelligence from ports played NO ROLE whatsoever in the German success. It was bumbling by the Navy, and a failure to order coastal communities to turn their lights off; they were afraid of "hurting tourism."

Unfortunately the whole "LOOSE LIPS" thing on FR has mutated into clueless busybodies making themselves feel self-righteous and important and feel like they're "doing something" by wandering around chastising people for reposting info from the media here.

[PhiKapMom]

It all started on a night around here when people were reporting the number of planes taking off, number of people called up and deployed, and a lot of inside information that just kept getting worse. At the time we were building up to go into Afghanistan and what was being reported wasn't public information. That made me post what I did and the thought police have now become active.

[Ford Fairlane]

clueless busybodies making themselves feel self-righteous and important

Amen!!

I have gotten sick of people saying things about loose lips every time someone post a publicly reported story.

A couple of days ago the Pentagon put out a news release & a half dozen people chastized the person who posted it

[steveo]

Unfortunately the whole "LOOSE LIPS" thing on FR has mutated into clueless busybodies making themselves feel self-righteous and important and feel like they're "doing something" by wandering around chastising people for reposting info from the media here.

Yeah, what loosers!

[jayef]

Exactly. Some moron chastized me for posting that plans called for simultaneous ground and air assault. Something that was WIDELY reported in the media. Not only that, but what possible freking use would this information be to our enemies.

GET SERIOUS PEOPLE.