Posted on 10/28/2011 1:57:23 PM PDT by markomalley
Marines have been flocking to the social networking/aggregator site Reddit to voice their anger at the life-threatening injury inflicted on 24-year-old Iraqi war veteran Scott Olsen by Oakland police during the recent Occupy protests. Video showed Olsen go down after taking a tear gas canister to the head. As fellow protesters tried to assist him, police lobbed a flash grenade into their midstright next to Olsens already fractured skull.
The picture above, submitted by Reddit user aburger, has generated well over 1,000 comments on the sitemany from fellow Marines who are absolutely livid at the injury to one of their own by police.
Heres one from Reddit user 0311kilo33:
As God is my witness. I will fight tooth and nail to restore the decency this country was founded upon. The politicians, banks and large corporations have ruined this country. I find it difficult to notice any sense of politeness on the streets anymore. But it goes farther. As a Marine and a citizen I am outraged. I am sick to death of the world my children are being raised in.
So I ask all of you, can you too sense the tipping point? When will enough be enough? If not now, when? I feel the problem is that the average Joe citizen is ignorant and comfortable. These, in addition to selfishness have become the standard for the majority of the population. As long as people are comfortable they remain silent. Well, Im really fucking uncomfortable and Im sick of seeing this sort of shit happening. The Occupy protests that are going on are our first glimmer of hope. If we can take this and move it further, get every lazy ass off their rocker and open their eyes; then maybe, just maybe we have a chance.
Semper Fi brothers, and remember who you are. Protectors of a great nation, not politicians or wealthy money grubbing bankers and the like. When it comes time, I know well stand strong.
If online reaction is any indication, its not a stretch to think Olsens injury could be the start of something very big. We have a lot of military combat veterans in this country who havent been treated very well since they left the service. No job prospects. Inadequate medical coverage. If they take their anger offline and into the streets, the OWS movement will become an extremely potent, and WELL TRAINED force.
Love the media trying to blow this up...
They all have dishonorable discharges??
Scott ran a site named www.ihatethemarinecorps.com
http://web.archive.org/web/20100507023132/http://www.ihatethemarinecorps.com/
lol
this idiot didn’t listen to warnings and then got hurt, and now it’s the police’s fault?
lol
Registrant:
Scott Olsen
16524 Hwy 67
Milan, Illinois 61264
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: IHATETHEMARINECORPS.COM
Created on: 28-Jan-09
Expires on: 28-Jan-12
Last Updated on: 29-Jan-11
Administrative Contact:
Olsen, Scott scott@ihatethemarinecorps.com
16524 Hwy 67
Milan, Illinois 61264
United States
+1.9492015284
Technical Contact:
Olsen, Scott scott@ihatethemarinecorps.com
16524 Hwy 67
Milan, Illinois 61264
United States
+1.9492015284
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ONETWORKING.NET
NS2.ONETWORKING.NET
No job prospects. Inadequate medical coverage.
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The kid had a good job.. and I would bet a reasonably priced healthcare package thru his employer..
Yet he chose to take to the streets with a godless horde of disaffected miscreants&cretins shouting fairness,, equality,, corruption ,, greed, .. and can’t wait for the next societal skirmish to drag their tents and bedrolls to and their next paycheck.
I served with dozens of guys that I would not piss on if they were on fire.
To paraphrase: Prior service does not prevent piss poor performance.
I don't know what kind of Marine he was, but based on knowing MANY Marines in my time, I would doubt he was the typical Marine I knew.
That said, you can BET THE FARM that when the first faggots and dykes start leaving the Corps, and one gets in ANY trouble, the first thing that will be mentioned is that they were a Marine (or Soldier, or Sailor, or Airmen, etc.), to try to gain some credibility for their sex deviance.
Sorry, Scott, but you picked the wrong crowd to associate with.
Please see this as I can’t post it...
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_19215536?source=rss
Is it legal under the UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE to appear in uniform? I though that even if you left the service you were prohibited and that you could be court martialed even if you were no longer serving.
So now every bald-headed jerk will try to play “Marine” on the Internet.
Show us the DD214s! We want to see just how good of Marines they were and where they served. If at all.
Of course the LameStreaamMedia is too laZY or Stupid or both to ask for this information.
Wow, he looks really angry. Like “My favorite bath house was just raided by the Health Department” angry.
Is an ‘administrative’ discharge the same as ‘dishonorable’?:
“In 2010, the Marines issued Olsen an “administrative discharge.” Maj. Shawn Haney, a Marines spokesman based in Quantico, Va., declined to discuss Olsens discharge, but said his departure could have been for anything from a medical condition to a punitive measure.”
LOL
It is illegal to wear your uniform at a political event under federal civilian law, the UCMJ, DoD Directive, and Service regulations.
It’s at the point where anyone using a handle that alludes to military service in any way is suspect (pre-2008 Freepers notwithstanding). The phony soldiers are everywhere.
Not surprising though.
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