[maggief]

Full title: Navy veteran FIRED and branded a terrorist for taking pictures of scores of Homeland Security SUVs parked at Ferguson hotel where he works

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Here's a close-up.. My, my.. "If it walks like a duck.."

[Nachum]

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[TexasCajun]

Is Obama about to shut down the National Guard in Ferguson?

[editor-surveyor]

There appears to be a distinct echo in the heading of this thread.

[mad_as_he$$]

WTF is “Federal Protection Services”?

[olezip]

A Navy veteran has been fired and branded a terrorist for posting Facebook pictures of scores of Homeland Security SUVs parked at a hotel near Ferguson where he works.

What happened to freedom of speech?

What happened to transparency?

If the taxpayers are paying for this, do they not have the right to know what is being done with their money?

Where are the Republicans on this issue?

[sphinx]

Was the firing justified? IMHO, that would depend on whether the hotel had a pre-existing, formal, disclosed policy prohibiting the photographing of guests' vehicles (and probably prohibiting the photographing of said guests as well). I would not be surprised if such a policy existed. If it did, the firing was kosher.

If not, the guy has a beef, and maybe a case. Accusing him of being a terrorist is just weird. It would be interesting to know if DHS or someone in the administration demanded the firing. Since the dismissal came a day later, after he had complied with his employer's request to take down the pictures, I suspect some calls were made. If so, inquiring minds want to know by whom, and what rationale was given.

That said, guest privacy should be respected. Richard Cohen (yes, that Richard Cohen) wrote one of his occasional sensible columns a number of years ago about his career as "Cohen of claims." Apparently he worked his way through college as a claims apparatchik for one of the insurance companies. He recounted the time a guy had a minor automobile accident; nothing serious, but the woman in the car with him was not his wife. Oops. He asked that Cohen falsify the report. Then there was the guy who had a minor fender bender in the company car, the problem being that the accident happened at the track at a time when he was supposed to be at work. Could Cohen doctor the record? Etc. Cohen eventually decided he could not play God, and he had to report honestly and let the chips fall where they may.

The point is, sticky complications can arise in any number of unpredictable, sometimes bizarre, ways. I would not be at all surprised if the hotel had a strict rule against employees making public any information about guests.

[Jane Long]

The Navy vet is a terrorist for posting pics of LOTS of DHS vehicles parked in a hotel garage.

Rioting thugs threatening local individuals and businesses with theft and violence are not.

The thugs have 1st Amendment rights, the Navy vet does not.

Got it.

[JimRed]

He endangered their $150,000 contract with HS? Why were the employees not made aware that it would be a security issue to publicize the presence of the vehicles?

[Pajamajan]

WTH?

[Mike Darancette]

What jurisdiction does DHS have in a local riot?