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Newspaper: Wisconsin prison guard suspended for Obama post
AP ^ | 7/6/15

Posted on 07/06/2015 2:57:09 AM PDT by markomalley

Documents show that a Wisconsin prison guard was ordered to serve a one-day suspension for a joke he posted on Facebook about President Barack Obama and lynching, according to a newspaper report published Sunday.

Collin Visser posted in December a photo of Christmas tree ornaments depicting Obama and the text: "Look guys. Obama Christmas ornaments. Suddenly it's legal to hang a black man from a tree again!" the Wisconsin State Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1H0kn2U ). The newspaper said it obtained documents last week revealing his punishment months after first requesting them under the state's open records law.

Visser, who has worked at the Dodge County Correctional Institution in Waupun since April 2014, shared the image in the comments section of a newspaper's Facebook post about a Black Lives Matter rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The documents show that Warden Marc Clements told Visser in January that he would be suspended for one day and required to attend diversity training for what the warden called a "serious act of misconduct."

(Excerpt) Read more at journaltimes.com ...


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I have no idea why this is in the news now. It appears that this was done during his off-duty time and on his personal social media account.
1 posted on 07/06/2015 2:57:09 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

“I have no idea why this is in the news now. “

The punishment and humiliation must be public or it has no control value over the rest of us. It is a Soviet Show Trial but in miniature and in today’s context.


2 posted on 07/06/2015 3:01:12 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: markomalley

Facebook. The crack candy for idiots......might just as well go stand on the corner downtown on the square and yell whatever it is you want to say.


3 posted on 07/06/2015 3:04:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: markomalley

Got him in trouble, but it’s a clever line.


4 posted on 07/06/2015 3:07:56 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: markomalley

>>I have no idea why this is in the news now. It appears that this was done during his off-duty time and on his personal social media account.

That’s why its news. It is giving us all notice that in the Progressive America, even an hourly employee is the property of his employer at all times.


5 posted on 07/06/2015 4:29:59 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: markomalley

There are still plenty of “kill Bush” jokes floating around, but I don’t remember anyone being disciplined over them. Not even for the overt death threats.


6 posted on 07/06/2015 4:36:01 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since Nov '07. Soon to be colon cancer free. ~ Þ)
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To: markomalley

Nothing is private on facebook. This guy was an idiot for thinking so. He shouldve made his joke about Christians then nothing would happen


7 posted on 07/06/2015 4:39:56 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: markomalley

That’s an old joke already.


8 posted on 07/06/2015 4:41:50 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: markomalley

Can you at least admit that this man is as dumb as a box of rocks?


9 posted on 07/06/2015 4:57:50 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Rastus

it is an ugly line....some things may be funny this is not


10 posted on 07/06/2015 4:58:23 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: markomalley

There’s no such thing as “off-duty” time anymore. Same with “personal social media account”.

Ve are vatching your posts and you vill comply with the prevailing orthodoxy.

Or else.


11 posted on 07/06/2015 5:12:13 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Gaffer
Facebook. The crack candy for idiots......

Worse than that. It is overrun with pedophiles and criminal trolls. And their "security" department is geared not towards catching them, but towards stiff-arming complaints and hoping they just go away. Can't stop the money machine, ya know.


12 posted on 07/06/2015 6:05:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: markomalley
Anybody who posts racist jokes on facboob is an idiot...they track everything

I can't tell the number of times I walked into a retail establishment and low and behold, an ad pops up on my faceboob account later that day for that retailer...

I was web surfing for lawn furniture...ad pops up

I stayed at a particular hotel last week....ad for the same hotel pops up...

I walk into Wal-Mart...Wal-Mart ad pops up...

13 posted on 07/06/2015 6:12:15 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Gen.Blather

Funny how when it’s a Dem the records are off limits because they are concerning personel matters.


14 posted on 07/06/2015 6:15:11 AM PDT by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: markomalley

How can the actually prove he typed on the computer?
Didn’t some Baltimore figure recently claim that her account was hacked and message was typed..


15 posted on 07/06/2015 6:33:01 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: markomalley

Northerners are so rasis!


16 posted on 07/06/2015 7:40:51 AM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: markomalley

Unfortunately, the Facebook account is one the first things a defense attorney subpoenas on law enforcement or corrections personnel who have to testify. This kind of stuff makes them impeachable in a heartbeat.


17 posted on 07/06/2015 8:04:58 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: markomalley; onyx; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; ...

Prison guard suspended for 1 day over Obama joke on Facebook.

Fs Wisconsin interest ping list.Reep Mail me if you want on, or off, thi


18 posted on 07/06/2015 10:22:28 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: markomalley

Anyone tired of the leeches in the Criminal/Social worker/Corrupt Guard Industrial Complex? Also known as the Prison system...

Answers?

Expand the death penalty... contract with Mexico to take our prisoners... Mexico OWES us ...


19 posted on 07/06/2015 10:28:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Allowing illegals to stay in the United States is like allowing bank robbers to keep the loot.)
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To: Gen.Blather

The left loves this crap as Obama loves the Race card. He pulls it out every time he screws up. In fact, Holder, Sharpton, Obama and pals rate the Race card better then AMEX, VISA, and MC combined.


20 posted on 07/06/2015 10:57:37 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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