Woman sparks controvery over photo at Arlington National Cemetery

Sorry if this was posted elsewhere ...

A Massachusetts woman puts a photo on her Facebook page of her flipping the bird and pretending to yell next to a sign about showing silence and respect at Arlington National Cemetery. It gets some attention, gets a lot of people worked up, then it comes out that she was there on a work-funded trip. So there's a new Facebook page calling for her to be fired and she's been placed on unpaid administrative leave as her employer investigates.

Her defense was that her and her friends were acting like "the douchebags that we are, challenging authority in general" and that she meant no disrespect.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/lindsey-stone-facebook-photo-arlington-national-cemetery-unpaid-leave_n_2166842.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

That's a tough sell to me, that she shouldn't be held accountable for her actions when she's basically representing her company on a business trip. If she wants to be a "douchebag", then she can be an unemployed one.

 

"Her defense was that her and her friends were acting like "the douchebags that we are, challenging authority in general" and that she meant no disrespect."

Ummm ... challenging authority is the definition of disrespect. Fail.

 

Didn't all those soldiers buried there fight to protect our freedoms? Freedom of expression is one, I believe, as is the freedom to be disrespectful, distasteful as it may be to some.

 

The government is not firing her, micro.

 

She shouldn't be fired for posing for the picture.

She should be fired for being stupid enough to post it on the Internet.

 

She's become a pariah on fb.

Her life is going to be made a living hell for a while. People have the freedom to express how distasteful they find her.

 

LOOK AT ME, WORLD!!!! NO, WAIT, DON'T LOOK AT ME, WORLD!!!!

God do I love it when idiots find out there are consequences for being an idiot. She works at a nonprofit that assists adults with disabilities. (Over/under on her daily usage of the word "retard": 7 1/2.) I assume that nonprofit depends on fund-raising.

So, she gone.

 

There was some young woman in central California who called Obama an N-word on her fb after the election. Her ass was fired by Coldstone Creamery immediately.

 

I'm a big fan of questioning authority. I prefer it be done with some minimum of intelligence.

 

Love looking at all the hypocrites on the FB page posting their violent thoughts of rape and misogyny toward this woman.

 

That's the hilarious/disgusting part.