Discharge for Sgt. Gary Stein, board recommends

  • by:
  • 09/21/2022

 

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a three-member panel has requested an other-than-honorable discharge from the Corps for Sgt. Gary Stein. The recommendation was made around 11p.m. Pacific Time (that's 2a.m. here) and followed a full day of testimony about Stein's activities on his Facebook page, Armed Forces Tea Party.

Prosecution argued that Stein's posts on the site, which included angry and critical comments about President Obama. They also testified that Stein also sold bumper stickers reading NOBAMA 2012 on another website. 

The Marine's defense team maintained that he was exercising his First Amendment right and acting as an individual, not as a Marine, when he made the comments. They said Stein did not enjoy full citizenship if he was barred from entering political discussion.

Stein's case will now go to Brig. Gen. Daniel Yoo, the general officer who convened the hearing, for a decision on whether or not to accent the board's recommendation. 

Read more here.

 

Image:
ADVERTISEMENT

Opinion

View All

SHOCKING: UK officials lost contact with thousands of migrants they intended to deport to Rwanda

“Law enforcement have a variety of measures to find people, they will be found and they will be remov...

JACK POSOBIEC and TANYA TAY: The USSR tricked its students into believing that communists were 'for the people'

"So of course, all the literature, all the books, they were written praising the communists."...

Man slashes, kills 14-year-old with sword, injures multiple others after crashing car into London home

"At this time we understand the suspect went on to attack other members of the public and two police ...