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May 12, 2004
GIVE DIGITAL CAMERAS TO ALL SOLDIERS.
Clarence Page has a must read column in today's Chicago Tribune. WEAPONS OF MASS PHOTOGRAPHY
Clarence recapped a Rummy Rant that I missed during his Senate questioning. Seems Rummy doesn't like cameras in the hands of soliders. Rumsfeld: "We're functioning in a- with peactime restraints, with legal requirements in a war time situation, in The Information Age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise, when they had not even arrived at the Pentagon."
I'm with Page, give every soldier a digital camera. It's high time we see an end to this abuse of "command and control". As Page points out in his column Rummy can complain all day about photos getting sent direct to the media but the Pentagon sat on the prisoner abuse report for two months.
As they say, information is power and I feel the power shifting, to the people, where it belongs.
Posted by at May 12, 2004 11:34 AM
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