bblastie on Nostr: I was having a conversation with a family member who is an officer in the Navy at a ...

I was having a conversation with a family member who is an officer in the Navy at a very prominent naval base. He’s involved in some wild stuff.

Most notably, he described the process of going from top secret intel to firing on a target. Because only a handful of people have a TS, usually the actual reason a ship is being ordered to fire on a target is completely concealed from the people on the ship.

I can’t help but think that the entire concept of classifying information is a huge reason the war machine beats on. If you’re just a pleb on a boat that can fire missiles, you have no idea of what you’re being ordered to do is justifiable.

This is how atrocities get carried out, by segregating information to the point only a few people actually know what’s happening. I found it quite unnerving, to be honest. He’s a good dude and I don’t have any judgement against him, but wow is that system absolutely terrifying.

Tucker Carlson recently had a rant about classification and how unconstitutional it is. I am starting to think there’s a lot of truth in that. That whole system has been weaponized.