Military porn case shrinks barracks privacy

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/04/187764/military-porn-case-shrinks-barracks.html



Air Force Academy cadets in 2000

Military porn case shrinks barracks privacy
by Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013

WASHINGTON — A newly upheld conviction of a former Fort Bragg soldier on charges of possessing computer-animated child porn offers several key lessons for military men and woman well beyond the sprawling North Carolina Army base.

One is child pornography is dangerous even if the kids depicted aren’t real. The second is privacy rights diminish in the barracks.

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“The real question left now is by how much does privacy shrink in the barracks room?” attorney Michael J. Navarre, a former lieutenant commander in the Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps, said in an interview Thursday.

For Bowersox, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces’ decision is important because it upholds the bad-conduct discharge likely to shadow him the rest of his life. For others still in the military, the 4-1 decision issued Tuesday matters because it clarifies, at least somewhat, the rules that govern them.

[Scuba]

1. I seem to recall something about foregoing all my rights when I enlisted.

[JayhawkSD]

2. Then you weren't paying attention.

For instance:
You surrendered a portion of your right to free speech.
You surrendered absolutely none of your right to freedom of worship.

[Scuba]

3. Well I don't worship, so I may have overlooked that one.

I recall my right to free speech being severely curtailed, enough so that I considered it gone.