The base actions aren't surprising. I remember the mid-90s case the article mentions-it involved anti-Clinton bumper stickers. There is a poll too if you are so inclined.
Posted on 12/08/2008 9:06:33 AM PST by GATOR NAVY
For more than six years, Jesse Nieto drove to work at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in a car that left no doubt about his views.
"Islam = terrorism" asserted one sticker on the back window of his maroon Scion. Another decal showed a cartoon boy urinating on the image of a turban-wearing man. A third, paraphrased to eliminate a curse word, said, Disgrace my flag, and I will defecate on your Quran.
His feelings stem from a personal tragedy: His son died in a terrorist attack on the Norfolk-based destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000.
In August, base officials told Nieto, a retired Marine and civilian employee, to remove those stickers. He did.
Two weeks later, Nieto was ordered to remove two other decals critical of Islam on his car, or stop driving it onto base altogether.
Nieto refused to get rid of two sets of stickers, both of which show a star and a crescent moon - symbolic of Islam - with a red circle and line through them. One says, "We died they rejoiced." The other reads, "No quarter Islamic terrorist."
In November, Nieto filed a federal lawsuit contending that base officials violated his free speech and equal protection rights. If decals of Confederate flags and silhouettes of busty ladies are permitted on private vehicles at the base, the suit reasons, Nieto's political sentiments should be, too.
"It's political correctness run amok," said Robert Muise, an attorney with the Thomas More Law Center in Michigan, who is working for free on Nieto's case. "It's remarkable that given the situation we're in today, the wars we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, that our own military would prohibit this speech."
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The base actions aren't surprising. I remember the mid-90s case the article mentions-it involved anti-Clinton bumper stickers. There is a poll too if you are so inclined.
I see anti-Christian bumperstickers and slogans every day...
but, I guess that’s OK.
This just affirms my belief that Christianity is the ONLY real threat to Satan, because it’s the only religion that is allowed by the world to be attacked and degraded.
Freedom of speech shall not be abridged!....
Yeah, I thought it was poorly worded also. It should have been specific to this case.
Some of the most gutless humans in the world are military bureaucrats. Odd that they should be in the same organization where the bravest in the world exist.
Mr. Nieto is right, and I would support this man if he needed funds/petitions.
“I see anti-Christian bumperstickers and slogans every day...”
Such as?
“A third, paraphrased to eliminate a curse word, said, Disgrace my flag, and I will defecate on your Quran.”
Can’t say as I approve of this one any more than I approve of any other bumper sticker or t-shirt with this word on it. Which is to say I approve not at all. Same with the urination one.
OBAMA for President
I guess someone forgot to tell that to this guy (US Army, not a Marine)
I wonder how many of them are American bred "Black Muslims".
I done been manisfested by a miracle, I doun eat no swine, I doun drink no wine."
What kind of anti-Christian bumperstickers do you see? I’ve never seen anything anti-Christian on a bumpersticker, and I go to LA all the time!
Not my fight, but the “Jesus fish” with “sushi” in the middle and/or legs and “Darwin” come to mind.
Such as:
The Darwin Fish symbol
"Keep Your Religion Off My Body"
"Dear Lord Protect Me From Your Followers"
"Christianity: Intolerance since 32 AD"
There are tons of them. But I'm not surprised that you would doubt it, since you are devoted to agitation every time you post.
Where can we get these excellent bumper stickers?
Gack.
Don’t flame me! Friendly, Friendly
:)
Wrong place in Queue-—following the Anti Christian bumper stickers.
I want the anti-terrorist bumper stickers.
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