The Military is at Least Honest

The US Air Force has released regulations and work flow process charts on how to deal with postings on blogs that are not complementary if the USAF. Now I can understand that the USAF needs to be looking out for people that are either confused or just plain lying about the honor of the air force. It is just very stereotypical of military mindset to have a flow chart of what a soldier is to when they find a post that they do not agree with.



It is actually a rather well done, if simple, flow chart with, I am sure, quite detailed and voluminous regulations to go with it. I feel bad that the AF has released that just to help their image, but they are open with it. The US government is significantly better than others on how it handles criticism and the rights of citizens to criticize it. The AF wants its people to tell the truth in a polite fashion with full disclosure of who they are.

Other organizations will either hide who they are or just lie about it. My Wife's third mother sent things to her from the Obama campaign that were criticizing other candidates (including the Libertarian FairTax). It turned out that all of the emails were a lie and the supposedly "third-party" website was owned by someone on the Obama campaign.

I am thankful that the USAF is far more honorable and honest in their press work than most countries and almost all politicians. I just find it sad that they seem to think that they will have people looking for blog posts that are defamatory to them. Perhaps they have a staff of hundreds of airmen checking all the blogs 24 hours a day. That is just a sad and pathetic waste of money.