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Freedom On the March

Guess what websites are being blocked by the Pentagon to make sure U.S. troops in Iraq don’t get any big ideas?

One hint: Free Republic is coming through loud and clear! A Marine writes Wonkette:
I am currently stationed in Al Taqaddam, Iraq with the Marines…you’ve done a short piece about this before, but this is getting ridiculous.

It seems that every non-conservative politics website has been blocked by our firewall guys…including your site. The reason it is blocked is because it is a “personal page.” Which means they don’t have a reason to block it … but they want to block it, so they do. This was done recently, just in time for mid-term elections. As I said, it was not only your website, I have gone through lists of liberal sites and most of them are blocked. I’ve also taken the time to go to some conservative sites….none of which are blocked.

I don’t have the words to describe how I feel. They have sent me to this desert three times…each time saying that we are defending freedom…which is BS and everyone knows it. And on top of that they have taken away many of the freedoms that we are supposedly fighting for….

I don’t think there is much anyone can do about this, but I just wanted you to know that this was still going on.

5:44 PM on Tue Oct 24 2006
By KLayne
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Comments

  • Don't peek behind the curtain.

  • I hope he doesn't get "ZOT'd" by the "Freepers." I swear that site is the biggest joke I've ever seen. I've joined seven times and been banned for just slightly disagreeing with someone. And when they ban you it's nothing but photos of kittens and mushroom clouds and 1,422 posts of groupspeak idiocy dancing on your grave. It is the quintessential echo chamber and makes me think of fat women with poofy hair wearing Blu Blockers and sitting at a computer in a basement in Kansas. That and men who constantly feel threatened.

    But reading it is a lot like watching reality TV...idiots on display.

    And good job for him sending that in.

  • They said irony died on 9/11 but now I think it really has... when this is what the news looks like day after day after day. Irony just died of exhaustion.

  • if the liberal sites would stop posting pornography (pictures of katherine harris), pedophilia (anything dealing with foley), and racism (george allen), i'm sure the army would gladly unblock them.
    until the blessed day arrives when one can easily surf the web free from its pitfalls, well, by god, we're just going to have to stick our fingers in our ears, close our eyes, and scream "la la la la la i can't hear you."

  • i wish my work would block wonkette so i could get some shit done.

  • I really like military guys, honest, but I wonder what part of their minds just shuts off during the obviously intensive GOP brainwashing phase, and why they seem to wake up--if at all--year later, surprised as hell to find they've just devoted a large part of their life to sporting gang colors for chicken shit republicans who would no more serve in a war than shove a molten hot knitting needle in their eye.

    All the same, I'm wondering if we're going to get the same accounting of military absentee ballots that we were treated to in 200. Odds anyone?

  • This is only peripherally related to the post, but have you noticed that we used to be bombarded by Lee Greenwood's hit single, but they don't seem to play it at as many official functions and White House appearances anymore? Could it be because the lyrics are no longer relevant?

  • This guy should go to Google's translation page and put the URL he wants to read. then translate it from, say, Korean, to English. Since it will not recognize any Korean words on the page, it just passes them through untouched, and voila, you can read wonkette but the download is to Google's server, not yours, so the IP block doesn't work.

    wonkette people, since he won't read this, forward the info on...

  • I am Ethiopian living in the US and was introduced to Wonkette just recently thanks to Mr. Foley, and have been enjoying it ever since. Thank you.

    Anyways, I was reading an article earlier by an under cover American journalist in my country on the repression and you know all that typical tyranny bull. It just reminded me of how tired and sick I am of the current cruel (sorry to say)American foreign policy that cozies up to dictators like Ethiopia's leader and let them get away with their massacres, repression and stuff. I was gonna forward the article to you guys in case you happen to care about such things.

    Now I read what the soldier from Iraq wrote you, goodness gracious, well....I dont really know what to say. Thats happening to Americans, then we in Ethiopia and Sudan are doomed waiting for US pressure to get our governments to do the right thing. No wonder the 'Ethiopian Ambassador' cited the Guantanamo Bay Human Rights issues when questioned by the International Relations Committee in Congress about the Human Rights situations in Ethiopia. I feel helpless.

  • Whoa, good plan:


    It puts pro [li] multi Jew who is in the concentration cam...

    Jesus afterwords the post of kitty nautical mile [su] "previously of the total crazies - Wonkette panda she is order [iss] the angle the drug addiction voluntary energetic rabbit where the Jesus spirit which before the electing nine public opinion which is possible it makes with the donkey of her oneself is strange together. The nautical mile [su] campaign immediately was fixed so the kitty will be able to preach her message of love old Jew from outside at the conference room of the what kind of type anyway Palm Beach 30 names deceived.

    Basically, she the bible "is old" in order for the part in compliance with Jews in compliance with a rumor to come to be bitter she Satan does not think Jew with the total and it talks that, she in the bible is in lower part. With her record anyone boat song boy characteristic [nass] wearing out it was not from the room the announcement which wins the thing, the nautical mile [su] revealed. Oh and the quotation mark where the fruit is many today: "The church so the many time is when it participates crisis because of the church which feels and the nation it holds but, in order that not to regulate legitimate the thing." Oh and her Palm Beach "round the zero that which now it is calling. "At this ratio, until electing day she as the pussy will name Jesus.

  • Yeah, I loved that post from last week!

  • "At this ratio, until electing day she as the pussy will name Jesus."

    And here I thought I wouldn't do anything worthwhile at Wonkette!

  • with any luck the problem will be fixed in a couple weeks.

  • It's 2006 in America but 1984 in Iraq.

  • They could also use proxy servers, couldn't they?

    http://www.unblockthis.com

  • America is 1984. Iraq is 1984 v. 2.0 with torture already in place and a population more or less used to it. Oh well, at least we both have administration-sponsored phony news.

  • As a South African I need someone to decode most of the postings here. Is this site meant for twisted but realistic minds? I must say that the secret letter was different and quite informing. It showed how big shorts are out o touch with events and how global world and the American nation in particular have been and contiue to be misled and misinformed. Why is the world controlled by freaks and the normals allow them to control their (the normal) lives.

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