Doctor Evil criticizes Obama

[Cyrano]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120406-marine-stein-2a.photoblog600.jpg

A US Marine is in trouble for being critical of the Obama administration on Facebook. Maybe he should have skipped the internet, and simply put sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads in the White House swimming pool....

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/06/11050149-military-board-tea-party-marine-who-slammed-obama-on-facebook-should-be-dismissed

[BlairForceDejuan]

So not only are they supposedly putting their lives on the line for shitty pay to "protect our rights", they can't even exercise those rights. LMAO America.

[Cyrano]

Why shouldn't he? So far as I know, there's no regulation prohibiting it. Besides, the Marines should be proud that one of their own can do something with a computer other than chewing on the keyboard, staring at the screen saver, and grunting........ (ok, that's my obligatory wise-ass ex-Army comment).

[BlairForceDejuan]

Stein could face other-than-honorable discharge while seeing his rank reduced to lance corporal and losing his benefits. The nine-year veteran was set to finish his service in four months.

He did a dumbass move, but from the guys I talk to the milt. looks for any way to fk you over benefits wise.

[clambake]

poor thing. put on a desk job without access to a computer.

[mrsmaalox]

He violated the terms of his employment contract. The exact same terms that every military service member has been bound to for the last couple hundred years.

[mrsmaalox]

Yeah but this was on Facebook so it's different?

Why would it be different?

[mrsmaalox]

That's why I used a question mark?

(Facebook's the only reason this is being covered as news)

Nah, the only reason it's being covered is so that it can be spun as just a poor average American citizen, like all of us, minding his own business, trying to exercise his basic rights and being oppressed by an evil power hungry administration :lol

[Bill_Brasky]

I always thought it was wrong to limit someone's speech, but you volunteer for that when you sign the contract. Even I knew that and I fuckin hate the military.

Too bad for that dumbfuck.

[TimmehC]

If he criticized his CO, this wouldn't be a story at all. It's only because it's the president being criticized that it's deemed "newsworthy". If I criticized the CEO of my company publicly(even if it's facebook), I'd expect a pink slip pretty quickly.

[mrsmaalox]

Maybe if these was FoxNews, but this is MSNBC we're talking about. I think MSNBC is going after the 'facebook changes everything/brave new world' paradigm.

Well I didn't mean it was meant to be spun by the news organizations. I suspect the incident was put out to the media by this guy's defense team as an attempt to garner sympathy in the court of public opinion for their client.

[Jeff Leppard]

Perpetuating the stereotype that only dumb people join the military.