Posted on 11/20/2012 2:43:44 PM PST by jessduntno
BOSTON (CBS) – Two women have been placed on unpaid leave from their jobs after their photo at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia angered thousands of people on Facebook.
An edited version of the controversial Lindsey Stone Facebook photo. Lindsey Stone was visiting the Tomb of the Unknowns last month on a business trip when she posed for a picture next to a sign that reads “silence and respect.”
In the photo, Stone is pretending to yell and she’s showing her middle finger.
The photo, taken by co-worker Jamie Schuh, went viral and sparked thousands of angry comments.
Some of those comments were posted on the Facebook page of their employer, Living Independently Forever, Inc.,(LIFE) a non-profit organization in Hyannis that helps adults with disabilities on Cape Cod.
>>I’m going to go out on a limb here and assert that the two in question can do what they please. Part of freedom is the freedom to show your fellow American that you are a stupid asshole. And that they did.<<
And society (not Government) has both the right and obligation to express its collective outrage.
Loss of job (now and forever) should be the very beginning. Shunning of them should be mandatory for all right-thinking people. Businesses should not allow them to purchase their wares. Expressions of disgust should follow them for all their days.
She needs one way ticket to a Muslim country so she can repeat your
act there, and really see how free speech is....
If you are on company time and dime, not so much...
Would you want your loved ones cared by such a person of disrespect? Elder abuse would come to mind.
Another pig! America is just filled with pigs. When did this happen??
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Well....I can faintly remember the 60’s as a young girl. Hippies trying to run my family off the road while on the way to vacation and them constantly stealing our bathing suits at the beach.
“They can do as they please, as can their employer.”
Yep. So can we.
That’s the first ‘blurred’ photo I have seen...it should be shown in all its glory...let the Nation see what Obama supporters think of our military.
How about a butt stroke to that b!tches ugly head delivered by a Tomb Guard with his M-14?
I was there just last month. Grrrr!!!!!
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Yeah, real clever. She would sing a different tune if someone near and dear to her gave up their life.
They can call people the vilest names, yet they have to edit her finger? Why clean it up, wasn’t her intent to be obnoxious?
These ignorant trash went out of their way to do this. Not some accidental thing they did that the “stupid card” could be used as a defense.
This is Bill Ayers style malevolence.
I see it was the BOSTON media that is blurring the photo...the state that teaches fisting to school children doesn’t want to offend anyone by showing her extended middle finger. The Blaze has the uncensored photo...
Never say or do anything in public that you don’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times.
yup they sure can and just like the ahole at Chic Filet a while back they can go find another job.The work place is not a democracy and management can evaluate your actions when on a paid buisness trip how ever they like anf if mgmnt feels you cast a crappy light on the company than guess what..Yer out a here
My comment shouldn’t be construed to mean I agree with them. On the contrary, I think of them as mental defectives and one of those things we put up with as a society, similar to homeless people defecating in the street for example.
“That’s the first ‘blurred’ photo I have seen...it should be shown in all its glory...let the Nation see what Obama supporters think of our military.”
She’ll be offered a role as Mamie Eisenhower on a made-for-tv biopic, with Russell Brand as Ike, before this is over.
IT IS REQUESTED THAT... Ahh, never mind...
Buttstroke
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