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“[T]he two employees recently involved in the Arlington Cemetery incident are no longer employees of LIFE”
Outrage ensued after Lindsey Stone’s co-worker snapped a picture of Stone raising her middle finger and apparently shouting near an Arlington National Cemetery sign that asked for “Silence and Respect.”
The two took the photo during a paid trip from LIFE, a non-profit organization that provides housing for people with disabilities in the Cape Cod area.
“We wish to announce that the two employees recently involved in the Arlington Cemetery incident are no longer employees of LIFE,” a statement posted to LIFE’s Facebook page said. “Again, we deeply regret any disrespect to members of the military and their families. The incident and publicity has been very upsetting to the learning disabled population we serve.”
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That’s Life!
Shy Guy on November 22, 2012 at 1:26 PM
although the 2 of them might be saying….
…. Life is a bitch!
Shy Guy on November 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM
Yup.
wargamer6 on November 22, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Obama 2012 team , activate!
rob verdi on November 22, 2012 at 1:32 PM
What did she think would happen when posted this on her facebook page? She wanted attention and she got it.
warren on November 22, 2012 at 1:33 PM
A lot of overreacting here.
CW on November 22, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Guess these two found out that there are actually American’s who honor, love, respect, and thank God for all past serving men and women in our military who are buried in Arlington!
I appreciate LIFE for their actions on these two gals!
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letget on November 22, 2012 at 1:37 PM
I sorta thought so too, but if she was on a paid trip from her employer, they have the responsibility to keep their reputation by firing her.
thebrokenrattle on November 22, 2012 at 1:38 PM
That is true but I suspect it was a spur of the moment thing. Write her up and make her apologize.
Too bad she did not think to blur out the name of the cemetary
Though this is the free market at work….right Ernesto??
CW on November 22, 2012 at 1:45 PM
If people are questioning her sentiments … I doubt they had anything to do with it. It was more a play on words, like a pun. Sign says Silence, so she yells. Says Respect so she makes a disrespectful gesture. It was a photographic joke. She didn’t think of where she was.
Paul-Cincy on November 22, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Moronic creeps
Schadenfreude on November 22, 2012 at 1:49 PM
Actually, both of these cretins are incapable of “thinking”, because if they were capable of reason they:
1. Never would have taken the picture in the first place, and
2. Never have posted it.
In addition, they both showed an utter lack of intelligence, because they somehow thought this was “funny”.
Del Dolemonte on November 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM
They certainly deserve public ridicule. Not sure the soldiers at the tomb would agree they deserved to lose their jobs freely expressing their views. The men inside died defending that right.
hawkdriver on November 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM
Fixed.
Del Dolemonte on November 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM
HAW HAW HAW.
Jeddite on November 22, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Even if this was a regular cemetery, I would find this disgraceful and childish. She deserves to be fired, in my opinion, because it was a employer-sponsored trip and she behaved like a moron.
She’s an idiot. Hope she has fun trying to find a new job after being publicly outed like that.
mjk on November 22, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Next time be a moron on your own time, not the company’s.
kim roy on November 22, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Agreed, but only if they had taken the photo on their own time. They took the photo on a work-sponsored trip. I have a friend who used to send out joke newsletters to his coworkers that included a number of jokes that were decidedly off-color and reflected badly on the company. He was fired, and deservedly so. He never made that mistake again.
vermillionsky on November 22, 2012 at 2:06 PM
See, I was all on board with the ‘Firing them isn’t the right thing to do’ camp until I read this.
They were catching all kinds of Hell already…justifiably so, but it seemed just a bit PC overboard to fire them.
But now…I LOL’d…..
Welcome to true Non-Profit you cows….
BigWyo on November 22, 2012 at 2:12 PM
They were acting like idiots, but losing their jobs over it? Come on. Score one for the PC wimps. Next time, maybe they’ll be coming for you. So remember: Never, ever do something harmlessly stupid. Never. Ever.
Rational Thought on November 22, 2012 at 2:13 PM
Today’s lesson.
All freedoms come with responsibilities if you fail to exercise responsibility while exercising your freedoms you then learn about consequences.
Gwillie on November 22, 2012 at 2:21 PM
The wonders of the Interwebs. They took an attitude that would have been perfectly acceptable with the anti-war types in public in 1971, and is likely still considered fine behavior in private in 2012 among those on the left. But it’s the “in private” part that got them, by dumbly posting their cutting-edge late 1960s/early 1970s attitude on Facebook.
Even a Non-Profit has to attract customers, and LIFE probably decided that new senior and/or disabled clients wouldn’t be too happy to see Stone or her co-conspirator knocking at their door (and not just for simple political reasons — if the ladies have that sort of attitude towards the dead at Arlington, you might not want them to be the people you’re relying on to take care of you if you’re old or infirmed).
jon1979 on November 22, 2012 at 2:25 PM
This may have been the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. They may not have been the only complaints received about their work performance.
Blake on November 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM
They were on COMPANY time and their client base included disabled veterans. It isn’t PC for a company to cut its losses with two liabilities. Dumba$$es shouldn’t have posted on Facebook..
Score PC +1 Dumba$$es -2
melle1228 on November 22, 2012 at 2:36 PM
People take insults to our war dead very seriously – as they should. And didn’t some little shite get sent to prison in the UK for pissing on a war memorial?
Blake on November 22, 2012 at 2:38 PM
So they were ‘just’ being …uhmm, jerks. Sounds like she still hasn’t quite grasped the concept of public vulgarity. But that’s where culture is headed, and a lot of people see nothing wrong with it. Even LIFE’s official apology says “any disrespect”, as if they’re not sure whether there was any.
Fenris on November 22, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Ordinarily I’d agree with you-but they are already coming after us. Have been for awhile.
A couple of points:
How many people are fired in this country anymore for “racist”, “sexist” or “homophobic” action or words, ones that usually anything of the sort? Nobody blinks an eye.
I’m happy to see here that someone was called out for actually disrespecting the people who died for their freedoms.
I don’t see this as “PC” at all, quite the opposite, it seems to be PC to act this way, anymore. PC is a leftist concept.
There’s a disturbing trend of disrespect for war memorials of all kind. Coming from the left, of course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHWZIG199rs
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3271873/Student-riots-Cenotaph-yob-is-son-of-Pink-Floyd-star-Dave-Gilmour.html
I think these people know exactly what they are doing-it stems out of a disrespect for traditional Western society, and by extension, the people who died to defend it.
The one stated she is into “challenging authority in general”.
Nonsense. I doubt she challenges the type of authority represented by Obama, or the type of “authority” spewing out of the PC left these days.
I’ll bet she’s pretty cool with the type of “hate speech” laws that are now de rigeur on campus and slowing creeping into our general society, for example.
Too bad for her. She got off easy in my opinion. Even an idiot should have known much better.
Dreadnought on November 22, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Typo up there. It should say “nothing of the sort” not “anything”.
Dreadnought on November 22, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Reminds me of Gilbert Gottfried, who used to be the Aflac duck. Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan. He tweeted a bunch of Japanese “jokes”, some of them tasteless, after the tsunami last year.
He got canned as well.
22044 on November 22, 2012 at 3:18 PM
Buh Bye you disrespectful beyotch.
Something to be thankful for is that you didn’t do that in a country that doesn’t put up with that kind of shyte otherwise you may have been dragged to death behind a motorcycle.
Kuffar on November 22, 2012 at 3:19 PM